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American Horror Story: Cult |OT| Sarah Paulson Suffers In This One, It Must Be Good

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Zoe

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Well, they sure didn't leave us hanging for long on the story behind those bloody gloves.

heh.
 
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OrionX

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Pretty sure no news station would be allowed to show a snuff film on tv. This is less realistic than magical witches and alien abductions.
 
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Korigama

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OrionX said:
Pretty sure no news station would be allowed to show a snuff film on tv. This is less realistic than magical witches and alien abductions.
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Yeah. I was willing to give a pass to the editorializing during her reporting in retrospect, since her boss called her out on it and her being batshit insane as the reason for it is well-established at this point, but airing a recorded murder would never fly.
 
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RedHoodedOwl

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justjim89

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The show being focused on Kai and co. is much more interesting than watching Sarah Paulson cry and freak out for most of every episode. I'm glad it's picking up.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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That was the first episode where I thought Ally was bearable. She's slowly starting to put the pieces together and I feel like from now on she's going to be more proactive and maybe start fighting back a little. Hopefully.

RatskyWatsky said:
Also, looks like everyone was right and Ivy is working with Winter, to some extent, after all! I somewhat doubt she's involved in the gaslighting of Ally...
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Huh. Okay then. Still not sure of her/their motive though - why spend all this time and energy on Ally? Just get a divorce and be done with it if you're so pissed off that she voted for Jill Stein. Ivy has been painted as relatively sane, so I don't know how I'm supposed to buy that she'd terrorize her wife (whom she evidently still loves?), and son, just to get back at the world for Hillary losing.
 
bitbydeath

bitbydeath

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Meadow is still alive?

justjim89 said:
The show being focused on Kai and co. is much more interesting than watching Sarah Paulson cry and freak out for most of every episode. I'm glad it's picking up.
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I think she’ll conquer her fears and start hunting them down at some point.
 
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zeemumu

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I'm a little annoyed at the level of believeability that the writers are trying to get us to jump on board with for a lot of these characters. They hit their breaking points too damn easily. But I guess that's par for the course with AHS? It's not like I wasn't aware since the beginning that every single one of them but Ally was in on it and trying to ruin Ally's life. That's not what I have a problem believing. It's their motivation for doing so, especially Ivy. Reminds a bit of Non-Stop where they hijack a plane to kill hundreds of innocent people because they don't feel like the increased airport security was good enough.


And Ivy you've been committing ritualistic torture for like a year. You were literally about to kill the guy downstairs 5 minutes prior. There was a dead man in your meat locker. How is it that killing the gimp was too much for you to handle? And locking them in coffins is too fucked up but the murder isn't? Don't start this "I'm starting to think Kai might be insane" shit now. I'm not accepting that. They're all in waaaaay too deep for me to accept that.
 
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Korigama

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RatskyWatsky said:
Huh. Okay then. Still not sure of her/their motive though - why spend all this time and energy on Ally? Just get a divorce and be done with it if you're so pissed off that she voted for Jill Stein. Ivy has been painted as relatively sane, so I don't know how I'm supposed to buy that she'd terrorize her wife (whom she evidently still loves?), and son, just to get back at the world for Hillary losing.
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I wonder. She told Winter that she hated her wife, and that only her son matters to her now. Letting the kid get traumatized by the things going on around him, up to and including allowing a plan to have his guinea pig get microwaved right in front of him, is an odd way of trying to convince people that she at least still loves him though.
 
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Taruranto

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Oh shit, I didn't expect tiny eyes to be in the Cult. This is all too obvious for now, it feels like they gave away too much too soon.

Also is everyone but Lana Banana into the cult at this point? Who am I suppose to root for?
 
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zeemumu

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Korigama said:
I wonder. She told Winter that she hated her wife, and that only her son matters to her now. Letting the kid get traumatized by the things going on around him, up to and including allowing a plan to have his guinea pig get microwaved right in front of him, is an odd way of trying to convince people that she at least still loves him though.
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AHS has a weird perception of how separated parents care for their children
 
indigo-cyclops

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zeemumu said:
I'm a little annoyed at the level of believeability that the writers are trying to get us to jump on board with for a lot of these characters. They hit their breaking points too damn easily. But I guess that's par for the course with AHS? It's not like I wasn't aware since the beginning that every single one of them but Ally was in on it and trying to ruin Ally's life. That's not what I have a problem believing. It's their motivation for doing so, especially Ivy. Reminds a bit of Non-Stop where they hijack a plane to kill hundreds of innocent people because they don't feel like the increased airport security was good enough.


And Ivy you've been committing ritualistic torture for like a year. You were literally about to kill the guy downstairs 5 minutes prior. There was a dead man in your meat locker. How is it that killing the gimp was too much for you to handle? And locking them in coffins is too fucked up but the murder isn't? Don't start this "I'm starting to think Kai might be insane" shit now. I'm not accepting that. They're all in waaaaay too deep for me to accept that.
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Thinking more aboit the episode...this, absolutely this.
 
Astral Dog

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This season so far has been a huge improvment over last year 😆

Its like they finally stopped pretending this was an Horror show and added a little bit of SCREAM QUEENS into the mix, i like it though its not going to work for everyone
 
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Killthee

helped a brotha out on multiple separate occasions!
sir_dany12 said:
Is Meadow still alive? I don't understand that part, I think I'm lost lol
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They’re dragging it out and made it seem like killing R.J. was the first time they kill one of their own, they’re probably just fucking with Ally.
 
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JonnyKong

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Are Kathy Bates and Frances Conroy not in it this year? I feel like this season desperately needs some genuine acting talent because half the people in this cult are terrible at doing so.

I also can't believe it has taken 5 episodes just to basically establish a character has a gang of cult followers and he's using them to do horrible things for his own political benefit. That kind of shit could have easily been done in just a couple episodes.
 
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AlexMeloche

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Meadow reappearing got me kind of confused tbh. Thought she was dead. :/

JonnyKong said:
Are Kathy Bates and Frances Conroy not in it this year? I feel like this season desperately needs some genuine acting talent because half the people in this cult are terrible at doing so.
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Kathy Bates isn't in this one, but I'm pretty sure I read that Frances Conroy was supposed to appear this season.
 
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randome

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Not liking this season at all, it feels like its torture porn. That and Kai is so fucking annoying and his dialogue is cliche trash lol.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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FX said today that the producers of American Horror Story: Cult made “substantial edits” to the episode that airs Tuesday because the opening scene depicts “an occurrence of gun violence that has sadly become all too common in our country.”

The unedited version will available on VOD platforms.
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“In light of the tragedy last week in Las Vegas, Ryan Murphy and the producers of American Horror Story: Cult have chosen to make substantial edits to the opening scene of tomorrow night’s episode,” FX Networks said in a statement. “This opening, which was filmed two months ago and which portrays an occurrence of gun violence that has sadly become all too common in our country, contains a sequence that some viewers might find traumatic. Only the edited version of the episode will air on the FX linear channel, while the unedited version of the episode will be available on the VOD platform of your cable, satellite or telco provider, as well as on the FX Networks non-linear platforms, FXNOW and FX+.”
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Source
 
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SomTervo

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INDIGO_CYCLOPS said:
Same here, wondering if he's bullshitting though?

Still, great episode...knew it was the doc right when he said brother.
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A few episodes back the shrink was fiddling with "smiley" pin badges... Immediately telegraphed he was in on it

The sister/babysitter is still the least believable one. In ep 1 she was a harmless lefty, they played the pinky game, and she immediately became a relentless psychopath.

randome said:
Not liking this season at all, it feels like its torture porn. That and Kai is so fucking annoying and his dialogue is cliche trash lol.
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What? Except the gimp (uh and the nail gun, wow) there's been almost no torture porn. Torture porn is always really violent and bloody - whereas almost everything in this season is totally psychological. Seasons 1 and 2 were WAY more violent.

Which is so refreshing imo.
 
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LaNaranja

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Just caught last weeks episode today. Normally I am ambivalent to the "horror" that happens in this show but holy shit that gimp scene might be the most disturbing thing I have ever seen this show do. The hooks ripping his belly as he fell down was a lot. Like something I would expect to see out of a Saw movie. Don't blame the mother for running out and vomiting.
 
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