Love Story makes JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s wedding haunting

Episode 6, “The Wedding,” opens with the Battery Park incident and the resulting tabloid headlines, and family figures are furious that John let his guard down. Aunt Ethel offers Carolyn an affectionate but ominous warning — “these men will break your heart” and “make you want to scream” — yet the couple pushes forward with the ceremony despite the pressure of legacy and recent optics.

Director Gillian Robespierre narrowed the episode’s focus to mood and intimacy, aiming for visual poetry with as little dialogue as possible. She leaned into small, lived‑in moments — the night before on the beach, the couple skinny‑dipping, and a sunrise aerial of them afloat in the Atlantic that reads romantic at first and quietly devastating in hindsight; the hour contrasts that fragile closeness with the public image that follows them.

Robespierre admits she approached the wedding with “trepidation and fear” before settling on what she loves most: capturing romance on camera.

United States, Battery Park

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