‘Love Story’ Gives John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy a Wrenching, Wistful Sendoff

By Daniel D'Addario

Daniel D'Addario

Chief TV Critic

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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the finale of FX’s “Love Story.”

We get a glimpse of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in the final moments of the finale of “Love Story.” But it’s only in memory. The pair are shown on a Massachusetts beach, living the life they might have had fate not intervened. 

Fans of the FX series recounting the story of the presidential heir and his fashion-publicist bride have wondered from the first moments of the premiere of “Love Story” how we’d get to its inevitable endpoint. The show begins with a flash-forward to an argument on the tarmac ahead of the real-life 1999 flight to Martha’s Vineyard that killed John, Carolyn, and Carolyn’s sister Lauren; it then backtracks to show the blossoming of John and Carolyn’s relationship, their wedding and their eventual coming to loggerheads over disputes about how much publicity their marriage could withstand.

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