Thanks to Chastain and Shannon (who admirably pull off their own singing), “George & Tammy” provides a warts-and-all window into Wynette and Jones’ lives.

For much of the six episodes, you may feel as if you’re watching a riff on “ A Star Is Born,” with young Tammy on the way up and older George, already an alcoholic, on the way down, the two ...

Wynette was the First Lady of Country, or as biographer Jimmy McDonough dubbed her, the Tragic Country Queen: “In terms of a slow, sad song, nobody could rip it up like Tammy.

“ George & Tammy, ” premiering Dec. 4, tracks the duo’s relationship from their first meeting to their eventual marriage and divorce up through Wynette’s death — in 1998 at the too-young ...

Both Mr. Shannon and Jessica Chastain as Tammy Wynette do their own singing in this six-part, double-sided biopic, but neither attempts an imitation. And it doesn’t matter a bit.