Driving by their deep will of acquiring fame and popularity in acting, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, the most talented and famous actress ever in Hollywood, who hate each other, have to work on the same movie 'What happened to baby Jane? ', through which they have gained fame and success, as they won the Oscar.
Between the horrors of the Baby Jane shoot, Joan's Oscar-night stunt, and her and Bette's natural antipathy, you would think that the last thing either of them would ever do would be team up again. But desperate times call for desperate measures.
Nothing ... can quite compete with Lange - the intricate cigarette-smoking behavior, the shaky inhales, the surges of anger, the desolate collapses. There's humor, too.
It's all a little too déjà vu to make for a compelling episode ... The biggest issue with "Hagsploitation," though, is pulling focus from the premise of the show.
In what will probably be one of the most enduring images from this season of Feud, Joan - glittering with diamonds in a blood-red gown and elbow-length gloves - bursts into the theater from the rear, feebly brandishing an axe.
"Hagsploitation" ignores the glitziness of last week's Oscar episode in order to focus on the characters, their pain, and their crippling legacies. It might not be as explosive or as juicy, but it's a step in the right direction.