Watch New Teasers for 'Versace: American Crime Story,' Which is About Being Gay in the 90s

FX recently released new trailers for the highly anticipated new season of "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story," which will debut in January. The first episode had a screening premiere this week and, according to a report from The Daily Beast, the show "will explore... gay shame in the 90s."

The handful of new teasers highlight the characters in the new "ACS" season, which follows the critically lauded and Emmy Award-winning "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," including Donatella Versace (Penelope Cruz) and Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss).

The first episode of the "Versace," which tells the story of the murder of out fashion designer Gianni Versace in 1997, screened Monday night and Daily Beast reporter Kevin Fallon writes Ryan Murphy's new show is "exactly the grand scale you'd expect from a TV series associated with the doomed fashion icon."

"The camera turns its lens on the ostentatious opulence of Versace's Miami Beach mansion almost as a fetish," Fallon writes. "The fashion is as late-'90s glamorous and decadent as it is garish and tacky. Sex oozes everywhere, from the sweat of the South Florida beach setting to the lingering gaze on star Darren Criss' exceptionally sculpted (briefly nude) body."

Fallon later adds that "Versace" is "more than a murder mystery or a lavish look at the life of a fashion legend," writing the show "will tackle what it was like to be gay in the 1990s."

"Like in O.J., the themes we're tackling in this show seem so modern to me," Murphy told The Daily Beast. "They don't seem like they're frozen in amber. They feel very alive and plucked from today's headlines."

Executive producer Nina Jacobsen echoed Murphy's comments.

"I think what we realized during the first season is that we wanted every season of the show to ultimately be about a crime that America feels guilty of, and find a way to sort of explore what is a cultural crime as well as a specific crime, or in this case a series of crimes," she told The Daily Beast. "In this case, to try to explore and re-conjure what it was to be gay in the '90s."

Check out the teaser trailers below and click here to read The Daily Beast story.