YMMV / Are You Afraid Of The Dark Season 7 The Tale Of The Many Faces

• Evil Is Cool: Say what you will about the wickedness of Madame Visage's plan, but there's no denying she's quite successful if she's been doing this for three hundred years and is able to keep her victims in line without question. She can banish those who disobey her and find replacements quite easily. She's also got a fun Campy style, and is quite smart at switching between different faces to cover her tracks.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Why does Madame's original face just look like an elderly woman when it's actually three hundred years old? Because she clearly swapped it out when she was still a natural age (between eighty or ninety perhaps), and never put it back on. Therefore it didn't age naturally until it was put back on her.
• Fridge Horror:
  • Madame has been doing this for three hundred years. Does that mean three centuries' worth of girls have had their lives stolen, working in service to Madame until they die?
  • And while there is evidence to suggest the girls don't age (faces in the book all look very young, and it's possible Madame switches between multiple faces to prevent them aging too much), the same can't be said for their friends and families who spent their whole lives worrying about their disappearances. And if the girls didn't age, then there's suddenly a group of them from different time periods who have to adjust to the modern world.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The plot of a young girl being recruited into a group to be exploited by a creepy cult leader before taking it down from within takes on a whole new dimension after Emma's actress, Sarah Edmondson, did the exact same thing in real life, falling victim to and eventually helping to bring down the NXIVM cult in 2017 (though the real life cult exploited the young girls it recruited in far more horrifying ways.)
• Les Yay: Emma and Lizzie really hit it off, and Emma in some ways plays the role of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. They share a very tender hug at the end.
• Older Than They Think: While Madame Visage takes inspiration from Mombi from The Wizard of Oz and the Evil Queen from Snow White, she has a few aspects that Disney would later use for Mother Gothel in Tangled - she kidnaps a young girl and uses Gaslighting to prevent her from escaping (convincing her that the world won't accept her), her motivation is to preserve her youth, she's Really 700 Years Old, and speaks with a Mid-Atlantic accent.