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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 9, 2017 19:12:51 GMT
I still think its ticking along nicely. Episode 5 was definitely not as strong as 3 & 4 were, but it was still a lot better than episodes 1 & 2. I'll reserve judgement on this Season until it is over and done with, as this show has a terrible habit of falling apart in the later stages of a Season. Oh honey, it looks like it's you and me then: I'll keep watching until I pass out or someone pokes me in the eye...
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 10, 2017 11:59:50 GMT
So Roanoke just landed on Netflix, and that’s the one I really need to give a watch (it’s part of a Horror Nights maze). Am I missing any callbacks or plot points by jumping straight to that, and coming back to Freak Show and Hotel at my own leisure? No definitely not. It's an anthology so they stand on their own. Also Roanoke is much better than those two. I'd defnitely agree that Roanoke is safe enough to watch without seeing Freak Show and Hotel first, but their is this really interesting article on what is linked up between the stories so far (post Roanoke). linkA couple of the things are stretches in terms of whether they will ever be relevant to an overall picture. Also, we may never have any Season linking everything, but if that is being planned, then you can see they are setting some groundwork for it.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 11, 2017 19:59:41 GMT
Oh honeys, I'm scared! I'm looking at my Tivo and I'm very scared to watch the episode six.
Has anyone already seen it and can give me some encouragement?...
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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 12, 2017 7:51:33 GMT
Oh honey, it looks like I'm talking to myself. I knew it would come to this... they say extreme fame is isolating. As you can see I'm not wearing Marchesa... But anyway, I just wanted to pre-warn people that six is OK. It's OK... it's actually quite good again. As a teaser, I'm leaving you with this:- I Mare Winningham!
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 12, 2017 9:27:00 GMT
Oh honey, it looks like I'm talking to myself. I knew it would come to this... they say extreme fame is isolating. As you can see I'm not wearing Marchesa... But anyway, I just wanted to pre-warn people that six is OK. It's OK... it's actually quite good again. As a teaser, I'm leaving you with this:- I Mare Winningham! I usually see it Saturday, as it hits TV here on Friday, but I'm mostly busy then. I'll drop a comment, snarky or otherwise then. Also, I Mare Winningham too! Her and Mary Lynn Rajskub need better careers.
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Post by ibbi on Oct 15, 2017 9:54:12 GMT
I didn't mind this latest one. Thought Pill and Winningham were great in it. Probably my second favourite of the season. Once again, the less Paulson the better.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Oct 18, 2017 5:05:02 GMT
Ok. I decided to leap ahead to Roanoke (I will come back to Freak Show and Hotel eventually), and, yeah, I liked this season. A lot. First of all, I was worried that the re-enactment/reality show dual format was going to be a distracting one, something that more naturally seemed like their own seasons, but I just thought it worked. As much as I enjoy AHS, one of my persisting complaints is that they tend to overextend themselves, when something a couple of episodes shorter would be better. Looking at the content of both formats, there is no way either had enough to justify a thirteen episode season. They only needed ten, they only put ten. Great! And the pacing is all the better for it. But furthermore, I love how the formats don’t just put a halt to the rapidly decaying sanity of the characters. Beyond lampooning the campy and overproduced tropes of the entire “documentary” re-enactment, it also admirably confronts the post-air damage inflicted on those subjects the programs follow, and putting them in the same room with the actors who played them (who “know” them as they so bluntly put it, calling into question if it’s those people we love, or the ones playing an idealized version) was such a hilariously meta idea. Once I got over the initial found footage angle of the second half, and more of my constant “put the camera down” moments, the constant calls of attention and taking the piss made me chuckle quite a few times. And as usual, great cast, though I can’t help but wish some of the roles got switched, with the actors looking older than the subjects they’re playing (and I get that’s a Hollywood thing too is having older actors play young parts, but even if that’s the joke, enough attention wasn’t really brought to it). Mainly, I really wanted to see Paulson and Rabe get switched out, as I thought they may have been better at the other’s job. Don’t get me wrong, I love Sarah Paulson, but would it kill her not to be the center of attention? Also, why does Taissa Farmiga have to die in every season she’s in? And that last episode, what it may lack in cohesion, it makes up for in huge catharsis. Love the subtle jump from found footage back into reality, and the final images were haunting stuff.
And anything that brings Lana back is fine by me. Yeah, I kinda loved this season. Not that American Horror Story is always the best at psychological horror, it’s better at camp horror, but this is easily below Asylum as my favorite season.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 19, 2017 19:51:01 GMT
Oh honey, episode 7 felt really confusing. Valerie Solanas as played by Lena Dunham playing Hannah Horvath in Solanas' clothing... was a real disappointment. She brought nothing to the Solanas story that Lili Taylor hadn't already done in 'I Shot Andy Warhol' and then they threw in a bunch of fictional nonsense totally far-fetched and unrelated to the real Solanas. One thing is for sure Dunham is a better writer than actress, especially with her whiney voice which I always thought was a characterisation of Hannah but clearly it isn't. Frances Conroy finally made an appearance and her role was so superfluous that you wonder why they even bothered. Once again the whole thing felt underdeveloped, unfocussed, and this is possibly the worse season of AHS ever screened. The absence of plot development makes me weep.
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Post by CookiesNCream on Oct 19, 2017 23:41:53 GMT
I thought the twist in end for Episode 7 was decent. But I do have to wonder why would those characters behind that twist would go through all such trouble just to off another character? The Valerie Solanas and Andy Warhol backstory did took up most time, and half of the things are made up for the show. Lena Dunham's character is at least written well for the show even though listening to her shrilly voice for so long can become so obnoxious. It still stuck with the theme about cult since Solanas and her organization is considered 'cult like'. I thought Frances Conroy was okay in her role.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 20, 2017 10:17:38 GMT
Yeah, I kinda loved this season. Not that American Horror Story is always the best at psychological horror, it’s better at camp horror, but this is easily below Asylum as my favorite season. Glad to hear you liked it so much. I really did too and it's also my second favourite after Asylum, which is streets ahead of it.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 24, 2017 12:27:29 GMT
So I caught up on the last two episodes.
I really loved episode 6, I thought it was the best of the Season from start to finish. In terms of episode 7, it took my a little while to jump on board with what they were doing, but by the end I was fully behind it.
So while I do like this new turn of events, I worry that this might be the thing that makes 'Cult' start to take the almost ritual AHS turn for the worse.
Hopefully I'm wrong and this Season carries on keeping me happy, as right now it has the potential to easily become the second best season of the show.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 1, 2017 22:46:25 GMT
Just watched episode 1 of Freak Show. This is gonna be rough.
EDIT: Okay. Wes Bentley has been by far and away my favorite part of this entire season so far. I wish that he had a more central role. We could certainly use more of him and less Finn Wittrock.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Nov 3, 2017 8:37:37 GMT
I caught episode 8 last night, and it was another winner for me. Did it have some small problems, well of course it did; this is AHS after all. I'm just enjoying this Season as a big fun fest, so I'm still happy with it overall. Also, the creepy almost threesome was hilariously weird. That ending, obvious as it was, was a hell of a character leap for Ally; but I'm going to go with it. I'll catch Episode 9 tonight, so I'm excited for it. This and The Deuce have me in a really happy place right now TV wise, but they are both coming to an end soon.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Nov 6, 2017 13:14:47 GMT
Episode 9 may well have been my favourite episode yet. This is the kind of high quality, high camp, high drama that has been missing from this show for years. It really is all so ludicrously fun.
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Post by AKenjiB on Nov 9, 2017 0:23:39 GMT
Oh honey, episode 7 felt really confusing. Valerie Solanas as played by Lena Dunham playing Hannah Horvath in Solanas' clothing... was a real disappointment. She brought nothing to the Solanas story that Lili Taylor hadn't already done in 'I Shot Andy Warhol' and then they threw in a bunch of fictional nonsense totally far-fetched and unrelated to the real Solanas. One thing is for sure Dunham is a better writer than actress, especially with her whiney voice which I always thought was a characterisation of Hannah but clearly it isn't. Frances Conroy finally made an appearance and her role was so superfluous that you wonder why they even bothered. Once again the whole thing felt underdeveloped, unfocussed, and this is possibly the worse season of AHS ever screened. The absence of plot development makes me weep. Yeah the way the show incorporated Valerie Solanas and the Zodiac killings felt really tasteless to me, using actual incidents where people were grievously injured and killed and fitting them into their shock-value show. But even if we just pretend that Solanas and the Zodiac are fictional, Lena Dunham's performance was still godawful. It felt like she was trying so hard to be edgy, but like you said, she just felt like Hannah Horvath.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Nov 16, 2017 13:57:17 GMT
Unless the finale, which I will see on Friday, fucks things up, this will easily be my second favourite season of the show. I never would have thought that would happen after the really poor couple of opening episodes. I fully expected this to be another bad from start to finish 'Freak Show' style season. Thankfully it developed in the the right kind of ludicrous batshit crazy that I want from my American Horror Story.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Nov 18, 2017 23:44:03 GMT
Unless the finale, which I will see on Friday, fucks things up, this will easily be my second favourite season of the show. I never would have thought that would happen after the really poor couple of opening episodes. I fully expected this to be another bad from start to finish 'Freak Show' style season. Thankfully it developed in the the right kind of ludicrous batshit crazy that I want from my American Horror Story. Oh honey, seriously? (Oh honey, I'm so sorry, I shamelessly abandoned you and left you to deal with this mess by yourself). For me, this was my least favorite AHS. What a disjointed mess. The very final scene just didn't add up unless it was to prove that everybody was contradictory and just as bad as each other - which is a lazy way to conclude anything.
Strangely enough, Adina Porter's performance grew on me as the series went on.
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Post by ibbi on Nov 19, 2017 20:09:54 GMT
Unless the finale, which I will see on Friday, fucks things up, this will easily be my second favourite season of the show. I never would have thought that would happen after the really poor couple of opening episodes. I fully expected this to be another bad from start to finish 'Freak Show' style season. Thankfully it developed in the the right kind of ludicrous batshit crazy that I want from my American Horror Story. Oh honey, seriously? (Oh honey, I'm so sorry, I shamelessly abandoned you and left you to deal with this mess by yourself). For me, this was my least favorite AHS. What a disjointed mess. The very final scene just didn't add up unless it was to prove that everybody was contradictory and just as bad as each other - which is a lazy way to conclude anything.
Strangely enough, Adina Porter's performance grew on me as the series went on.By the end she was just doing a more boring version of Betty Gabriel in Get Out. Also... and maybe I'm forgetting something, but why did she just randomly kill what's his face in the car?
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Post by MsMovieStar on Nov 19, 2017 22:41:08 GMT
Oh honey, seriously? (Oh honey, I'm so sorry, I shamelessly abandoned you and left you to deal with this mess by yourself). For me, this was my least favorite AHS. What a disjointed mess. The very final scene just didn't add up unless it was to prove that everybody was contradictory and just as bad as each other - which is a lazy way to conclude anything.
Strangely enough, Adina Porter's performance grew on me as the series went on.By the end she was just doing a more boring version of Betty Gabriel in Get Out. Also... and maybe I'm forgetting something, but why did she just randomly kill what's his face in the car? Oh honey, another Good point! It was just so confusing. Anyone who knows a little more about Valerie Solanas will know that she was a certified paranoid schizophrenic and while the radfems jumped on her action and writings for their cause, she managed to abuse and alienate most of them who tried to help her! There's an excellent and compassionate biography by Breanne Fahs (if you like reading about batshit crazy characters) that's fascinating and not as socio-political as expected...
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Nov 20, 2017 12:56:09 GMT
Unless the finale, which I will see on Friday, fucks things up, this will easily be my second favourite season of the show. I never would have thought that would happen after the really poor couple of opening episodes. I fully expected this to be another bad from start to finish 'Freak Show' style season. Thankfully it developed in the the right kind of ludicrous batshit crazy that I want from my American Horror Story. Oh honey, seriously? (Oh honey, I'm so sorry, I shamelessly abandoned you and left you to deal with this mess by yourself). For me, this was my least favorite AHS. What a disjointed mess. The very final scene just didn't add up unless it was to prove that everybody was contradictory and just as bad as each other - which is a lazy way to conclude anything.
Strangely enough, Adina Porter's performance grew on me as the series went on. Sad to hear you didn't end up enjoying it overall. I definitely agree with you that it was all disjointed, but AHS always is like that, so I've just accepted it as a general rule and moved on. I ultimately just let myself get caught up in the insanity of the whole thing, so on that level alone I enjoyed the hell out of it. I definitely do consider it the second best Season.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Apr 5, 2018 8:58:03 GMT
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 5, 2018 10:09:46 GMT
Seriously though, if this happens, I'm loving it.
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Post by speeders on Apr 5, 2018 12:51:54 GMT
Ugh, American Horror Story: Radioactive set in the future? I'm over this show. Couldn't finish either Hotel or Cult
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jul 4, 2018 13:00:37 GMT
So apparently Season 8 will be a crossover between previous seasons, related mostly to the Murder House and Coven stories . I'd love to say something like "In Ryan Murphy I trust", but I really don't. The quality of his work is crazy sketchy, so a Season based around a combo of the fourth and sixth best of the previous installments is not something for me to be hyped about. Still, we'll wait and see and hope, cause there's always hope...
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Aug 4, 2018 0:48:00 GMT
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