American Horror Story

You felt sorry for Bloody Face? Cause all I felt was sorrow for Zachary Quinto being cast as a psychopath again. That poor man's career...

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Yeah, I didn't feel sorry for Bloody Face. At all. Ew... I wanted his character to die after the whole conversion therapy thing.

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You see I kinda felt like the Ryan Murphy was manipulating during the conversion therapy by making him unlikable. As horrible as it seems it still would've been the open-minded and progressive treatment for 1964

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That doesn't make it any less disgusting. That is the ONLY scene of ANY film or television that has ever made me feel ill enough I considered walking to the bathroom. Ugh...

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Fair enough. Although honestly with the amount of 'erotically charged' elements in the show it's hard to be sure whether the viewers are intended to be arose or disgusted by it.

It does nicely set up the fact the doctor is totally bonkers

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Not entirely sure it counts as spoilers at this point, btw. While it sets him up as nuts, its also something that doctor's of the time would actually consider and rationalize, so he's TECHNICALLY only crazy by our modern views (in that particular scene at least)... In a way...

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Dandy once again has outdone himself in proving just how insane he is. Yet I cannot stop myself from watching Finn Wittrock do all this.

I have to wonder where he gets all the stuff he has, I mean for these kinds of over the top murders, you gotta have certain kinds of "toys". Hm, maybe he shops at Blood Bath and Beyond?

edited 2nd Jan '15 6:41:14 PM by NickTheSwing

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So, this show came back and finished and no one has commented.

That's because it's now waist-deep in the Ryan Murphy-curse and not even the people who could bring themselves to defend Coven seems to be even slightly arsed anymore.

I think it was better than Coven but not better than Murder House and Asylum.

• Asylum
• Murder House
• Freakshow
• Coven

Freakshow at least had some direction to it. The last three episodes felt rushed and characters being killed off for the sake of killing them all off and it doesn't feel like a Horror Show anymore. Its all about inter-personal drama. The first couple of Episodes with Moredrake and Twisty were good, but Dandy, while certainly a 'real world horror' of sorts, wasn't strong enough to keep me terrified and I was more bored and annoyed that no one simply put a bullet in his brain and was done with it considering how murder happy everyone got as the season progressed.

Maggie's end was considerably disappointing considering how much character development.

Also, retroactively, the whole 'You have a massive cock' thing Stanley had going on went absolutely fucking nowhere.

I also found Elsa's end to be, eh. Wait, but she was tortured in that Snuff Film? She literally had her legs chopped off. And, yet, the newspapers will scathe her and her husband leaves her 'because (she) lied' about how she lost her legs? Even if that's a perfectly understandable thing to lie about. I don't see why everyone instantly drops her like a diseased thing when there are a lot more logical reactions to this.

I really liked Dandy as a villain - he was just so fun, and the shift from callow man child to actually murderous Patrick Bateman was really nice.

Finn just brought a lot of energy to the role of Dandy.

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Dandy was the only exciting thing about this season. And Elsa got too nice an ending for the shit she pulled.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

Just going by the sheer number of fangirls and articles about him, Dandy hit Ensemble Dark Horse and kept on going.

He always wanted to be a star...

edited 27th Jan '15 6:12:16 PM by NickTheSwing

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American Horror Story: People Coming Out Of Beds Edition

I really hate how this show gets me hyped, because the teasers looked great for the past two seasons and they were both less than spectacular. This one looks cool as well - though I feel like from what I've read online there's decidedly little to do with the hotel.

Having rewatched Seasons one and two, I really hope they go back to basics and really focus on substance over style this time, and really bring the location of the Hotel to life. Maybe that was what Coven and Freak Show were missing - a central location with a personality of its own.

"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."

I'm shocked no one is discussing the new season. I know Freakshow was awful, but...

Anyway, the new season is... interesting. I'm not sure about it. The first episode went through a ton of plotlines REALLY quickly. My favorite part about the first and second seasons was just how slow and subtle the build up was where we'd spend half a season unsure of 'Just wtf is that person's problem???' until we got an answer.

I like it so far, especially for Lady Gaga and Evan Peter's characters, but I see what you mean. I feel like they could have kept the mystery of how vampires work in this universe a little longer than the second episode, for example.

I am liking the fact that they finally gave Peters a chance to have some actual range in his role. We've had four seasons of him as a misunderstood heartthrob or Token Good Teammate. Finally he gets a chance to be a delightfully hammy bad guy.

It's off to a much more promising start than the past two seasons. I'm hoping it keeps it up.

"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."

Exactly, we've gotten a backstory for...

• Sarah Paulson's Druggy (Name?)
• Matt Bomer's Character
• Kathy Bates' Character
• A very large portion of Lady Gaga's Chaarcter
• The Stain Maid
• Evan Peter's Hammy Bad Guy
• Our Protagonist Cop Guy + Missing Child and Current Child

I feel like it could have been built out for a little bit. Is that REALLY Cop Guy's kid? Or is it a hallucination? A ghost? Having the reveal in the first episode that the kid is one of the Not!Vampires removed a bit of the suspense.

There are a lot of choices that I really question here.

As for Peter's Bad guy, I wasn't sure I really bought it. It just... felt really fake and in-genuine to me. Maybe that's also because I expected him to terrorize other people (like the model) before we got an explanation. So confused as to why said model NEVER mentions witnessing a death after that scene.

edited 15th Oct '15 12:56:13 PM by InkDagger

I think the fact that it seems fake and in-genuine actually helps the performance. It's a very inhuman character trying to pass himself off as human. Like he has this image of class and holds himself to it to mask the fact that he's really a horrible monster, but it's such a thin disguise that you can tell something's off. Even in his private moments, he maintains that Faux Affably Evil personality because he has nothing but evil behind it. He's empty.

I also don't think Holden is Lowe's kid. When the wife was like "He just looked so much like you" in the first episode and he just gave this confused look, I thought something was up. Because that kid looks nothing like him. I think there's some kind of changeling thing at work here.

I do wish Denis O'Hare was given more to do though. He always seems to be one of the most underused returning actors.

"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."

It didn't feel like a character being ingenuine though. At least not to me. I've seen that before in some actors; The Red Queen from Once Upon a Time in Wonderland was very flat and fake for the beginning of the series and quickly lightened up and showed a grander performance when the story allowed her to do so which suggested that her earlier 'wooden' nature was rather intentional as part of her character.

Here... The accent just doesn't fit right and I feel like he looks really young for the kind of character he's trying to play. I feel like he's going for 'Axe Crazy Howard Hughes' and I'm having a hard time being intimidated and scared by it.

Then again, a lot of that might be that we hadn't seen him until this episode and we haven't had much build up for me to get unnerved by his character before we learn what his deal is, if that makes any sense.

I think the only thing I've actually been scared by was the drug addict rape victim from the first episode and I was really only scared for more personal reasons and... I don't think he was mentioned again actually, so wtf???

Come to think of it... Kathy Bates tells the cop the story of the hotel builder... which is completely unrelated to what the cop was asking her about in the first place. He should know that that's some random bullshit story (even if it becomes related later because he doesn't know that) and... he still doesn't arrest her like he said he would??? Why??? She fed you a bs story and you're taking it without following through with what prompted the story?

Okay, I'm calling it now. John is the Ten Commandments killer. Can't believe I didn't think of it before.

How so? How could he have called himself in the Presinct? How could he have called himself to a Hotel room he's never been to? On top of that... Why? Why harass himself in such a way and endanger the daughter he clearly loves?

John does seem like the main candidate to be the Jack Torrance-type to seem normal at first and then suddenly go crazy and be stuck in some kind of time loop where he's always been a killer (hence why he's a "special guest"). Maybe it's an amnesiac thing he does to punish himself for losing Holden.

"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."

I have no idea why or how. I should rewatch previous episodes, but I probably won't. But he's the only character with any link to the serial killer plot, his wife is now a vampire which would mirror the implied history between Lady Gaga's and Evan Peters'characters, and he was invited to the yearly serial killer reunion.

Also, look at Aileen Wuornos. When John left her before the party, she was frothing at the mouth with anger. Then at the party, she's as nice as she can be. And not in a "I don't like you but out of respect for our host I won't try to kill you tonight". No, more like "Oh God I'm really sorry man, I had no idea who you really were!". Also, the dinner host looked disappointed that John wasn't ready yet.

Of course that's just a theory, but I don'see anyone else it could reasonnably be.