Spectromixer
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That was a good premier. Everything feels so fresh.
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American Horror Story: Cult |OT| Sarah Paulson Suffers In This One, It Must Be Good
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Tounsi_Tag
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Just watched the premiere and absolutely loved it.
It's pretty interesting how Freak Show is the only season I completely watched and now this one is pretty tied to it. I really wonder how they're incorporating it fully.
It did feel fresh and I love how the setting is " normal " and not crazy from the get-go ( ie a creepy freak show, a haunted house or a hotel ". It adds a layer to the unnerving events that are about to follow
It's pretty interesting how Freak Show is the only season I completely watched and now this one is pretty tied to it. I really wonder how they're incorporating it fully.
It did feel fresh and I love how the setting is " normal " and not crazy from the get-go ( ie a creepy freak show, a haunted house or a hotel ". It adds a layer to the unnerving events that are about to follow
RatskyWatsky
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It is the first season to have a grounded setting, which is pretty cool.
Tounsi_Tag
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Exactly. That itself makes me see it from a psychological perspective rather than a ' they're trying too hard to be scary with these freaky-looking characters ' approach
They're self-contained but have connections/cameos as well. I'd recommend watching all seasons at some point.
Terareflection
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I know this is for the latest season, but I just finished E5 of Murder House, and it's amazing stuff.
Haloid1177
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Murder House is as good as it gets for AHS. I'm tempted to give the new season a shot but it just looks too ridiculous even for me. Haven't watched since Freak Show.
MysteryQuesadilla
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Glad to see a more grounded approach. I couldn't get into Hotel at all even though it had all of the things I like (spooky haunted hotel, vampires, looked like a weird neon drenched 80s Lost Boys for TV).
Monocle
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Seasons 1 (Murder House), 2 (Asylum), and 5 (Hotel). The seasons are self-contained but take place in the same interconnected world.
2 is generally agreed to be the best season, with 1 coming in second. 3 (Coven) is divisive and 4 (Freak Show) is widely agreed to be the worst season. 6 (Roanoke) is pretty torture porny and really shakes up the format midway through. You'll appreciate it more if you watch some of the other seasons first. Not sure how well it was received overall but I consider it to be a middling season.
My favorite season by far is 5. The setting, story, characters, and overall style come together in a way no other season has. At this point it's a tradition for AHS to abandon subplots and not quite stick the landing in the end. Hotel is the only season that doesn't suffer from these issues at all. Every main character is developed throughly, nobody gets shortchanged, and all subplots support the main storyline and dovetail into a coherent conclusion.
I will say I have a soft spot for 3. The overall story is a bit of a jumble, but I adore the witch theme and over-the-top characters. Whether or not you'll like it depends on how much you value traditional storytelling above other elements. In any case Coven is a mad ride that's worth your time if you appreciate AHS for its main strengths: namely the right-here-in-the-moment drama and the wild twists.
RatskyWatsky
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New episode tonight!
Gotta bring awareness somehow. I don't mind it.
RedHoodedOwl
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So, Winter's objective is to corrupt Oz into joining Kai's group.
Baroquemantic
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So these two are definitely clowns, right?
They're a little late for what they're trying to do, and everything is hitting the most surface of points, like someone thinking that they're being deep and informative when it just comes off clunky and poorly executed. With all the stuff that they're covering being the main points that were addressed nearly a year ago (weird to think that we're already almost a year in) they're not really adding any more awareness.
RedHoodedOwl
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The clowns killed the racist chef?
Because it makes the Mexican cook look guilty.
Baroquemantic
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Yep
They probably killed the racist chef to pin it on the guy he was fighting with earlier to build up that fear base for Evan Peters, and the people who moved in next door seem to exist purely to drive Sarah Paulson insane with trypophobia and using those barrels to get rid of bodies. Those look like the same barrels that Walter White and John Goodman from 10 Cloverfield Lane used.
RedHoodedOwl
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Of course, this was part of Kai's plan to instill fear towards minorities.
She meant if the door's busted in and the place looks tossed then don't go in. Aside from the body in the meatlocker, everything looked fine. The alarm was just on.
Oh man they're setting Sarah Paulson up to accidentally murder her wife. Drive her insane with her phobias and then give her a gun that they know she'll fire at the slightest sign of anything wrong. Her mental health history will back up the claims that the threat was all in her head and let them off completely free.
Baroquemantic
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Ugh. Fuck these people.
RedHoodedOwl
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This.
Giving any outside party every reason to believe that she could snap at any moment and posed a danger to herself and those around her.
Eh, some people still take AHS way too seriously and don't actually know what they're trying to do, like ever. It will always be an over the top show with an obvious stylistic tone and it's been like this since Season 1 for me.
I can't really say I see enough shows tackling issues like what Kai did to those "illegals." At least the show went there and showed it's entirely possible for a crazy white guy like Kai to shift the public's opinion to his agenda, using secret racism to gain support and become city council over something he fabricated. I don't think it's poorly executed at all.
Still seems a little too on the nose for me. They mentioned North Korea, ISIS, Obama taking the guns, nazis, and global warming in the same episode and most if not all of those were offhand mentions. It feels like they're going down a list.
I get that AHS likes to be over the top with tropes but this is gonna date the hell out of this season.
RedHoodedOwl
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Well, we know where this is going. I'm not going to like it.
Baroquemantic
Member
Oh fuck this show.
RedHoodedOwl
Member
I knew this ending was going to be shit.
It really was. Would've been more interesting if she actually shot one of the clowns and her neighbor took the body and dumped it in a barrel before she could show anyone that she wasn't crazy.
Now the cops are gonna think she did it because she was crazy and her wife is gonna think she's cheating on her with Winter and leave and gain custody of their kid and blah blah blah blah...
I missed this reasoning, too. Was it explained?
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