American Horror Story on FX

Considering that season 2 featured Nazis, aliens and demons...

Exactly! I thought it was some horror show, but then it sounded silly, or campy, or intentionally ridiculous, or just weird, or surreal, or funny, but never scary, so I had/have no idea. It'd be like a new police drama debuting, and then getting confused by people talking about all the singing clowns and Nazis.

Kathy Bates's accent this season is insane! She sounds like Philly Boy Roy.

this "blood bath" ep was a good one, esp dandy & frances conroy

lol @ "i wanted to be rid of them, put them on a bus to tampa, altho for me death would be preferable to tampa"

&

"you're no better than the roosevelts!"

"how dare you say that in this house"

I'm about 4 eps behind but plan to catch up soon

I thought it was some horror show, but then it sounded silly, or campy, or intentionally ridiculous, or just weird, or surreal, or funny, but never scary, so I had/have no idea

That's about right, though it definitely can be disquieting even if it's not exactly scary. I think "horror show by the guy who made Glee" pretty much tells you all you need to know. With all the pros and cons you'd expect from that.

This series has got progressively worse, but still it is the best horror series on tv by a country mile (sure, not much of an accolade) and still has the best cast. I just wish it would return to the highs of the latter part of S1 and the excellent S2.

gf and i will finish season 3 on netflix tonight

for me 1 > 3 > 2

they're all good but season 1 is the only legitimately scary one

i gave up on freakshow

there's something inherently corny about this show that just bugs me constantly

^^^

tried to watch season 2 but it was just too ridiculous to even care about, just a bunch of cliches randomly slapped together and amped up with a camp factor

i gave up on freakshow

Yeah we did too. Just got bored.

SEASON 1 SPOILER

so watch out is what i'm saying

started watching the first season a few days ago. it seems...bad. "watchable" in the manner of so much cruddy television and often quite scary, but plotted almost at random. the other woman is pregnant! but she's having an abortion. or not! and she's crazy! o wait, she's dead.

i liked s1 a lot, even with the silliness...s2 got so stupid & corny it was almost unwatchable. freakshow is not AS bad as s2, bu i'd rather just rewatch carnivale & have zero lols

the other woman is pregnant! but she's having an abortion. or not! and she's crazy! o wait, she's dead.

lol yes exactly. it's like the plotting is done by monkeys with a bunch of file cards with different horror tropes printed on them.

almost everything w/ dandy this season has owned, obv that is a problem tho when hes only tangentially connected to the freakshow, tho maybe they can stick the landing w/ the finale after the development @ the end of the last ep

i thought the introduction of nph's character was kinda a misstep tbh

taissa famiglia is really bad (but also really nice to look at tbf). jessica lange is the only actor who consistently brings it for me. or maybe she's just given the best material

farmiga*

Quite enjoyed S1, got two or three eps into S2 and gave up because it was just so weak and/or predictable.

what a pile of crap this season was, even though the performances were all exceptional. the storylines on this show are just a mess; I wish they'd concentrate one one or two things and see them through the entire season. The whole thing fell apart after they killed off the scary clown.

I think Asylum was probably the best season, but I actually never finished watching it. Maybe I shouldn't because it probably all fell apart after I stopped.

the theme/end-credits music of freakshow sounds insanely familiar to me but i can't place it

https://soundcloud.com/fandomfatale/american-horror-story-freak-show-end-credits

i've watched 2, 3, and just finished 4 and iv'e enjoyed all of them. i got a few eps into the first season and just couldn't go any further, it was way too scary and not campy enough. i'm generally averse to horror movies that involve any kind of gore, but the production of this show is just so gorgeous and the cast is always great. i totally have a crush on sarah paulson, especially her voice.

I only made it halfway through the S5 premiere. I can't imagine how anyone could possibly have enjoyed that.

i didnt hate it but every season I have to go through episodes of ughhh this is so dumb & ott why am i watching this

gaga & bomer are p dope, love paulson's makeup, Denis O Hare is rad as always, and everyone else is whatev

app the hotel is based of the elisa lam hotel, the hotel cecil in LA

loosely, obv

like, barely at all

for some reason my "fuck this" breaking point was Gaga making cunnilingus gestures at the Nosferatu picnic.

lol i liked that

otoh I kinda like Scream Queens, it's just as incoherent as AHS but with some actual laffs

over time it's become increasingly clear that Asylum is/was the only AHS for me

i liked #1 best

asylum veered off into stupid alium town & i was out

S1 was too aimless and repetitive to me. I was OK w/ the alium content of S2 because it added up to that weirdly poignant ending. Also nothing to me in the other seasons has ever been able to match the creepiness of the concept of being declared insane by the state and thrown into a hellhole with no recourse.

Also the fate of Sevigny's character in that season is the ultimate lingering image of the entire series imo

the thing I love is how strongly they commit to a look every season, i freaking adore the production design. so much attention to detail, mwah i love it

but for me stories almost always let me down. on the nose & overbaked & just festooned with stuuuuff, it ends up like one of those giant industrial magnets - like, can we lose a FEW ideas?

Apparently Ryan Murphy has the same taste in men as I do and looooooves horror, but that's still not enough to make me want to watch anything he does.

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12107973_10206019459097787_6792396576028972418_n.jpg?oh=fda590706b5e1b97aea3c27be57af243&oe=56922E2C

With "same taste in men as I do" meaning brunettes, not white dudes exclusively.

... I'll see my way to the door now.

lol

There's something really novel about the indifferent, hateful camp of a ryan Murphy show that even when I'm disgusted there's still this nothing-else-like-it unpredictability. Bret Easton Ellis minus the literary pretension, and somehow more nihilistic while claiming to be less.

good call - it def has a BEE detachment vibe

the sensibility is almost kubrickian (no shock they're ripping off the shining), just without any of the craft

"don't put people down for who they are on the outside...we're all monsters and drips within"

it's REALLY bad at ripping off the stuff it rips off.. like yes i get they are referencing the shining, but they miss the mark entirely.

that's the thing - kubrick thought the world was a cesspool but obv FELT something about it, wanted to carefully construct his portrayals of it, give it some poignancy. murphy & co is like "lol, we're all just bitchy meatbags for the slaughter, fuck it".

really curious about american crime story, cuz on one level reveling in our fascinating grossness is his raison d'etre, but facts seem like they'd be a real chore and burden for those guys

this show is terrible chaki otm

im definitely going to watch the thing and respect it's ambitiousness and gay horror flair. also i hate how EVERYTHING has to be a mystery told in flashback (every character, every plot point). cant there be a central mystery and a bunch of characters we can fall in love with jeeze?

i hate that there's always 25 diff characters & plots at the beginning, like just tell me who you're going to keep so i can just give a shit about them

was gonna watch the pilot until i heard there was an extended schmidt torture porn sequence, will stick to hate-reading recaps for now

"first ep" not "pilot" i guess

Watched first episode of season 5. I think we've failed as a society if this is what passes for camp horror these days.

Coven was my favorite season of this, it was funny and stupid and had Stevie Nicks. Freakshow was by far my least favorite, although all the performances were great the writing was awful.

your boy has jawline for days

swoon