Warning: Small spoilers for Feud below. But lets be honest, can you spoil history?

By the time Joan Crawford and Bette Davis started work together on 1962s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? they were starving for roles.

In the 30s and 40s, they had been Hollywood stars. But by the early 60s, they were in their 50s ancient by Hollywoods standards of women then and still today . Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? represented the best script theyd been offered in ages. Oscar potential, even.

The trouble was, the pair couldnt stand each other. In FXs Feud, which chronicles the real-life rivalry between Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Davis (Susan Sarandon) surrounding production of the film, the two women are forced to reckon with a conflict fueled for years, in large part, by increasingly limited offers for women their age.

You know how it goes, laments a beautician working a thick cream into Joans neck in the first episode. Men age, they get character. Women age, they get lost.