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* FreezeFrameBonus: Although the camera holds on the scattered tarot card deck on the floor after the reading where every card Fran draws is Death, you need to freeze frame it to realize what the point is: it's just a normal deck with the usual distribution of cards.
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* TheArtifact: The only overt, inexplicable supernatural element in the story is a tarot card reading that flips nothing but Death cards, whereas most of the show's stories have magic and monsters as primary themes.
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* TheEighties: Most of the season is set in 1981, right before the early onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis. [[spoiler: The finale jumps to 1987, then continues on into the early 90s as the AIDS crisis gets bigger and bigger.]]
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* TheEighties: Most of the season is set in 1981, right before the early onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The finale jumps to 1987, then continues on into the early 90s as the AIDS crisis gets bigger and bigger.]]
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: An offscreen variant. Dr. Wells is heard coughing in her recorded notes near the end of the season. Her final recording has her cough so hard that she ends up collapsing in her lab.]]
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: An IncurableCoughOfDeath:
** [[spoiler:An offscreen variant. Dr. Wells is heard coughing in her recorded notes near the end of the season. Her final recording has her cough so hard that she ends up collapsing in her lab.]]
** [[spoiler:An offscreen variant. Dr. Wells is heard coughing in her recorded notes near the end of the season. Her final recording has her cough so hard that she ends up collapsing in her lab.]]
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* Irony: [[spoiler:Adam]] says that he never got an STD. Of course he has AIDS but doesn't know it yet.
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* Irony: {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Adam]] says that he never got an STD. Of course he has AIDS but doesn't know it yet.
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* Irony: [[spoiler:Adam]] says that he never got an STD. Of course he has AIDS but doesn't know it yet.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology[=/=]ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite what the season implies, there was no actual link between humans and deer in the proliferation of HIV/AIDS, and it's merely a symbolic device for the story.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology[=/=]ArtisticLicenseHistory: Despite what ArtisticLicenseBiology: Plenty in how AIDS is shown, such as:
**Red blood cells are not targeted by HIV nor are they immune cells, so [[spoiler:several characters]] having a low red blood cell count doesn't suggest they have AIDS, same goes for platelets later on.
**Cryptosporidium is not an amoeba.
**[[spoiler:Dr. Hannah Wells]] dying of AIDS little after contracting it [[spoiler:via insemination with Adam's sperm]] doesn't fit theseason implies, there usual timeline of AIDS taking years to develop.
**Pneumocystis being a fungus is accurate but at the time of the story it wasno actual link between humans and deer in mistaken for a protozoa.
* CallBack: To [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryDoubleFeature theproliferation previous season's]] first part. Once again, deers are accused of HIV/AIDS, and it's merely a symbolic device transmitting Lyme disease (via ticks), which is Dr. Hannah Wells's first hypothesis for the story.sickness that several characters have, [[spoiler:revealed in the finale to be AIDS and have nothing to do with deers as Hannah states in her tapes.]]
**Red blood cells are not targeted by HIV nor are they immune cells, so [[spoiler:several characters]] having a low red blood cell count doesn't suggest they have AIDS, same goes for platelets later on.
**Cryptosporidium is not an amoeba.
**[[spoiler:Dr. Hannah Wells]] dying of AIDS little after contracting it [[spoiler:via insemination with Adam's sperm]] doesn't fit the
**Pneumocystis being a fungus is accurate but at the time of the story it was
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**[[spoiler:Also onscreen: Theo is seen coughing in Fire Island, he is dead by the end of the episode]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Adam]] who gives [[spoiler:Hannah]] AIDS [[spoiler:via turkey baster insemination]].
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* AllegoricalCharacter: [[spoiler:Rather than a conventional serial killer, Big Daddy ends up being a metaphor for the oncoming AIDS crisis and how it's about to devastate the Gay community across America... Although some of the characters get into a physical fight with him at certain points.]]
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* AllegoricalCharacter: [[spoiler:Rather than a conventional serial killer, Big Daddy ends up being a metaphor for the oncoming AIDS crisis and how it's about to devastate the Gay gay community across America... Although some of the characters get into a physical fight with him at certain points.America.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: In the latter half of the season, Henry reveals that he's smitten with Gino, having read all of his articles in the ''Native''. Gino is repulsed at the idea of being courted by an unrepentant hitman.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Henry hacks off his own hand in order to escape after being captured by Mr. Whitely.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler: Big Daddy ultimately is one, personifying HIV/AIDS. Only those who have the disease see him and the murder sprees he enacts in the final episodes signify how widespread the epidemic is.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler: Big Daddy ultimately is one, personifying HIV/AIDS. Only those who have the disease see him and the murder sprees he enacts in the final episodes signify how widespread the epidemic is.]]
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* ArmoredClosetGay: Patrick is gay, but has to cover it up because he's also a cop who's stuck in one of the most homophobic precincts in the city. This is a source of great tension between him and his boyfriend Gino, who's been out for years and wants Pat to come out, too.
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* TheBigGuy: Big Daddy is, as his name suggests, an enormous man.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Mr. Whitely is taken out.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Mr. Whitely is taken out.]]
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* ColdBloodedTorture: In "Thank You For Your Service", Gino is kidnapped and tortured by an unknown assailant, who shoves hot needles into his nailbeds.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Mr. Whitely is the direct antagonist for most of the season, until he's finally shot in the head by Patrick in "The Sentinel"]].
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Mr. Whitely is the direct antagonist for most of the season, until he's finally shot in the head by Patrick in "The Sentinel"]].
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Adam is the only person in his social circle left alive by the final episode.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: As insane as Mr. Whitely's plan is, it's driven by a genuine desire to protect the gay community of New York City from all those who are trying to hurt them.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the principal characters are dead by the end of the season, predominantly from AIDS. The final shot of the finale is Adam, who has HIV, breaking down as he prepares to give the eulogy at Gino's funeral.]] About the only bittersweet thing about it is that it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Adam's actions managed to help spread awareness and possibly save some lives]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Most of the principal characters are dead by the end of the season, predominantly from AIDS. The final shot of the finale is Adam, who has HIV, breaking down as he prepares to give the eulogy at Gino's funeral.]] About the only bittersweet thing about it is that it's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Adam's actions managed to help spread awareness and possibly save some lives]].lives early on in the epidemic]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: The Sentinel.]] Not a lot of evidence on the "magic" side, but if it had actually worked it would have been far from the craziest thing to happen on this show.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Sentinel.]] Not a lot of evidence on the "magic" side, but if it had actually worked it would have been far from the craziest thing to happen on this show.
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* TragicAIDSStory: The entire narrative is set in New York City at the dawn of the HIV/AIDS crisis as people are getting infected. By the end of the season, [[spoiler:almost all of the major characters who survived Mr. Whitely's murder spree get AIDS, and many are shown to have either died of it, are implied to have died, or are living with it]].
