American Horror Story on FX

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

new vampire dude is a full head shorter than Bomer & HE's the model? puhleeze

these are the things i think about while hatewatching this silly show

love the music choices for the Gaga scenes tho

mvp of hotel was denis ohare, the ep w his son was killer

evan peters was also v good but the rest of the serial killer posse are awful + unnecessary

def some inspired music cues - hotline bling, mazzy star, marianne faithfull

gaga gets more cred in my book for not ruining the season than contributing anything significant

dam they also used a warpaint song! missed that somehow

The music was great!

6 starts in two weeks, looks to be abt the Roanoke colony disappearance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Horror_Story_(season_6)

I think that's a fair bet. The producers have mentioned that the promos have had a variety of themes to misdirect viewers about the season's theme

this framing device sucks

i kinda like it

agree its bad

Doris Kearns Goodwin?!?!?!?!!!!

that was pretty brilliant

apparently the rest of the season jumps out of the framing device and this was like a sneak peak of the rest?

i'm more sold on this now

yeah, somebody told me the whole thing was going to change. After this episode we tried to figure it out. Does the Polk family follow them to LA? Does somebody else move into the house? Then we saw the preview and it had the guy who bought the hotel from last season, so who knows.

so the weird cannibal people are actual roanoke descendants, or just carrying on the work?

neighbors just helping out I think?

I actually like this season. I mean, it's a stupid show for sure and a guilty pleasure, but I feel like this season has been nicely restrained compared to the last few, which were filled with crazy edits and so many references and characters it was hard to keep up with or care. I thought last night's Polk family was a nice little Texas Chainsaw bit.

ahs cult seems fun

yeah i always end up bailing on these fkn things & this one so far seems fkn weird & kinda dumb?

the trypophobia stuff is pretty lol tho

something about sarah paulson just bugs me & idk why

luv her