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Pinwiz11 posted:We didn't need an extended appearance by Angela Bassett (even though I would have loved it), Let’s be honest here, any amount of Angela Bassett is too little Angela Bassett. I’m with the ones liking the finale and season as a whole. The series has always had amazing actors, set designs and cinematography, but the last three seasons have also had the writing to match. The show is still silly and campy, but in my opinion a lot more original and experimental in storytelling and tone than before, and the shorter season length has really helped. Maybe I’m just Stockholm syndromeing really hard.
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No, I definitely agree. I really liked that finale, and I think the last few seasons have been a real return to the promise suggested by Asylum. I do think this season was the weakest of the recent wave, but it was still hella fun and filled with more charming performances than the show knew what to do with. I can't pretend that it's all I ask of television, but if I'm being honest that's basically all I need. So I'm pretty satisfied. I'm genuinely amazed that they were able to turn every single returning character into a likable presence, while still somehow doing justice to whatever the gently caress Coven had established them as. They made consistent sense as characters, when previously they'd been defined by how almost entirely random they were. Respect. My only regret is that we were cheated a one-on-one showdown between Frances Conroy and Kathy RoBates. Though they did manage to steal the finale between them, so I guess it's not great loss.
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Any season of AHS that you don't quit before the ending constitutes a "good" season. The bar is really low.
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If that's the criteria then Freak Show is the only bad season. I finished it but like a year after the fact lmbo
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esperterra posted:If that's the criteria then Freak Show is the only bad season. I finished it but like a year after the fact lmbo Yeah, Freak Show's biggest sin is that it's boring.
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clown shoes posted:Yeah, Freak Show's biggest sin is that it's boring. Freak Show’s biggest sin was not ripping off Carnivale.
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I still maintain that Freak Show was ruined by Jessica Lange more than Lobster Boy saga. Ryan Murphy was so committed to giving her a swan song that the season just petered out. The Twisty/Dandy plot was pretty great. They should have stuck with a serial killer aspect instead of doing the freaks fighting for acceptance route. It was like they couldn't find one thing to focus on.
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Freak Show was ruined by Emma Roberts trying to play sweet instead of her normal ice bitch self. Way more unrealistic than Edward Mordrake.
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Freakshow was ruined by Twisty getting killed like 4 episodes in.
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Doltos posted:It was like they couldn't find one thing to focus on. ahs.txt
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esperterra posted:I think Ryan Murphy wanted a 666 hail satan endtimes season but also wanted to do nuclear apocalypse Man that sounds awesome I hope we get that someday
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SalTheBard posted:Freakshow was ruined by Twisty getting killed like 4 episodes in. Indeed. Pretty much every season of AHS starts with an interesting thread that they abandon 4 episodes in except Asylum (and maybe Hotel I can’t remember and haven’t seen Cult). Asylum starts 40 interesting threads and barely lands any of them though most stick around throughout the season.
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I’m going to say it, even though I find the idea unpalatable: Hotel was the most coherent season of AHS.
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I would say Roanoke but honestly I don’t remember much about either season.
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kjetting posted:Let’s be honest here, any amount of Angela Bassett is too little Angela Bassett. No, you're right. The finale was fine. The last 5 minutes were stupid, as was the fact she didn't even bother to splatter his brains on the sidewalk to make sure he was dead as well as the fact the Ghost House stuff never happened. But overall? Really coherent and pretty entertaining. I mean come on. It had exploding Cathy Bates then someone using her gibbed arm as a machine gun. I can't get mad at that.
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Blazing Ownager posted:No, you're right. The finale was fine. The last 5 minutes were stupid, as was the fact she didn't even bother to splatter his brains on the sidewalk to make sure he was dead as well as the fact the Ghost House stuff never happened. But overall? Really coherent and pretty entertaining. I audibly yas'd when Emma Roberts picked the arm up
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SalTheBard posted:Freakshow was ruined by Twisty getting killed like 4 episodes in. Well, Dandy being copycat Twisty was also pretty fun. Freakshow was mostly just boring. While the audio visuals were colorful, expressionist and inspired by Baz Luhrman, I still think Murphy should have gone more with John Waters as inspiration for the script.
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Dandy was so good, but he killed Frances Conroy too early then they didn't do much with him til the end iirc I love me some Finn Wittrock tho, too bad he wasn't in this season (hell or last, was he? I think he's just been in freakshow, hotel and crime story: versace. was he in roanoke??) I was hoping he'd turn into more of a series regular.
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Also missed opportunity to bring Clea DuVall back and have her p much just play her character from Carnivale smdh
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Doltos posted:They should have stuck with a serial killer aspect instead of doing the freaks fighting for acceptance route. Given the way Ryan Murphy has always treated his "freaks" -- as horror shows to disgusted or amused by -- I think this angle was always doomed to failure. The rich serial killer stuff was generally more on the mark, but generally the season felt like a bunch of characters looking for a plot, and, failing that, just restating their basic character outline over and over. esperterra posted:I love me some Finn Wittrock tho, too bad he wasn't in this season (hell or last, was he? I think he's just been in freakshow, hotel and crime story: versace. was he in roanoke??) Briefly. He's one of the Polks, but he doesn't hang around.
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God what a waste of a two headed Sarah Paulson schtick that season was
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I was just endlessly amused by the Daisy reference. Had to explain that one to my wife, but dammit, I laughed.
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OAquinas posted:I was just endlessly amused by the Daisy reference. Had to explain that one to my wife, but dammit, I laughed. Built by nerds, die by nerds. I choose to believe she had a bunch of different death protocols, like she'd been programmed to do the thumbs up from Terminator 2 should anyone drop her in molten steel.
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I think I'm going to go back and watch all the seasons again. Some I gave up on but maybe they will be better binged.
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CODChimera posted:I think I'm going to go back and watch all the seasons again. Some I gave up on but maybe they will be better binged. Coven definitely benefits from binge watching. It had the best soundtrack and aesthetic of the seasons. It’s easier to forgive the plot incoherence when it looks and sounds so cool.
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I have only ever binge watched this show, and a lot of the criticism and complaints go out the window. Freak Show is still boring and Hotel is weak, but Coven’s randomness and weaknesses aren’t as pronounced. On the other hand, the good seasons are even better. I watched all of this season between Monday night and last night, and it was definitely one of the good ones. The finale and the “final battle” seemed a little weak compared to what I was anticipating (Mallory rejuvenating the world and undoing nuclear fallout by turning everything back in time like she did with the deer, but on an obscenely massive scale), but it was still a good season overall. It could have been great, but it lost steam towards the end. Looking forward to an eventual mega season that ties together the other AHS universe, too. I don’t remember all of the seasons equally so I won’t do a full ranking, but my recollection of them overall is more or less: Great: Asylum, Roanoke Good: Murder House, Cult, Apocalypse Bad: Coven, Freak Show, Hotel
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OAquinas posted:I was just endlessly amused by the Daisy reference. Had to explain that one to my wife, but dammit, I laughed. Care to explain it again?
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kjetting posted:Care to explain it again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE
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Looks like we haven't seen the last of Coven. https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/12/a...PkkRIsvSUL9AUdU
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We finally sat down and watched all of this after having been forced to stop after episode 2. That sure was a bunch of things that happened but overall we liked it. Good to see the murderhouse cast again. Also a huge lol for whoever first said "Billy on the Road".
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haveblue posted:We finally sat down and watched all of this after having been forced to stop after episode 2. That sure was a bunch of things that happened but overall we liked it. Good to see the murderhouse cast again. Season was worth it for this joke.
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the truth posted:I have only ever binge watched this show, and a lot of the criticism and complaints go out the window. Freak Show is still boring and Hotel is weak, but Coven’s randomness and weaknesses aren’t as pronounced. On the other hand, the good seasons are even better. Great: Asylum, Cult, Apocalypse Good: Murder House, Roanoke, Hotel Bad: Coven (  ), Freak Show (Boring)
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Well this is hosed up. You know how in Cult they had that part where they were trying to gently caress with a kid's brain showing him snuff films and such? I thought that was just hosed up creepy stuff, but it turns out there was an insane doctor in that real world NXIVM cult literally showing people horrific snuff videos of people being dismembered, or the occasional gang rape. I do think AHS probably took inspiration from this though, I just hadn't heard the detail before. https://www.news.com.au/world/north...24985a475face68 The article posted:A DOCTOR described as the resident physician to the twisted sex cult Nxivm has been charged by a New York oversight board with illegally conducting human experiments. I can only hope that these weren't real snuff videos re-reading that list, though. Because it sounds like it might have been clips from American History X, Hannibal and some exploitation movies from those descriptions (seriously you aren't going to find real video of someone eating their own brain), but alas, that's all the info I have. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jan 16, 2019 |
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Humanity is a mistake
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Evan Peters in a recent interview with GQ UK posted:I’m going to take a break, regroup, decompress, get back in touch with what I feel like I want to do. Not that I didn’t want to do any of those roles – they’re exactly what I wanted to do. It was just zero to 100 instantaneously. I want to play music. Last July he went in more detail with main GQ too https://www.gq.com/story/evan-peters-pose-interview quote:I’m goofy, I’m silly, I like to have fun. I don’t like to yell and scream. I actually hate it. I think it’s disgusting and really awful, and it’s been a challenge for me. Horror Story sort of demanded that of me. The timing in particular of the new "taking a break" comment makes it likely this upcoming 9th season (only Emma and Gus Kenworthy confirmed for so far) is the first without Evan
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Chris James 2 posted:Last July he went in more detail with main GQ too https://www.gq.com/story/evan-peters-pose-interview "I want to play music." Man that is so  I literally can't even...
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:"I want to play music." Season after season, he plays such extreme characters. I totally get the need to decompress, even if it derails his career. And with his on/off engagement, dude needs a break! Look what happened to Heath Ledger. He was already kind of messed up, then going there with the Joker pushed him to the edge.
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