American Horror Story

[tigerrouge]

The whole show is a crazy experiment sewn together in random ways, I don't expect it'll make any sense in the end, but I watch it every week.

 

[Phuel]

season 2 is so good but so gross and v.scary!

Scary... Really? More like campy fun than scary to me with the supernatural going-ons.

The truly scary part that hits me is the so-called morals of the that time; that homosexuality was treated as a sickness; a sexually-uninhabited (sl*tty) woman was considered mentally-ill, and an interracial marriage was illegal. (NOt that the times have changed these perceptions for many people....)

Is there an episode that we don't see Kit's bare a**?

I'm bummed that poor Chloe is an amputee and turning into a mutant. (Please end her misery Anne, I don't want to see Chloe dragging herself around on the ground as a mutant.)

Pepper is such a scene-stealer, God bless her adorable pinhead. Love her character as a tribute to Freaks' Pinhead (now that is a truly disturbing film).

 

[Belowen]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on this season... To be honest it's bothering me that there isn't any real flowing storyline. I'll keep watching though.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Interesting, i think this season is so much better than the first one, i didnt think i will love this much. Ya its a bit nuts, but i think its so well done, and ya scary to me as well, the setting is nuts. Although you raise great points Phuel, perhaps the time of show is more scary than the happening in the asylum, although i defo think its a creepy place.

 

[nightclubbing]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on this season... To be honest it's bothering me that there isn't any real flowing storyline. I'll keep watching though.

I thought I was the only one who felt this way. At least there was some kind of continuity between things at the Murder House. Things were easily tied between the past and the present - not so much in this season.

Scary... Really? More like campy fun than scary to me with the supernatural going-ons.

The truly scary part that hits me is the so-called morals of the that time; that homosexuality was treated as a sickness; a sexually-uninhabited (sl*tty) woman was considered mentally-ill, and an interracial marriage was illegal. (NOt that the times have changed these perceptions for many people....)

Is there an episode that we don't see Kit's bare a**?

I'm bummed that poor Chloe is an amputee and turning into a mutant. (Please end her misery Anne, I don't want to see Chloe dragging herself around on the ground as a mutant.)

Pepper is such a scene-stealer, God bless her adorable pinhead. Love her character as a tribute to Freaks' Pinhead (now that is a truly disturbing film).

Agree with all of this. Except I'm so cool with seeing Kit's butt every week

HATE what they did to Chloe, I was so excited to see her character develop but I guess that's done and over with. I haven't watched Freaks yet but I have been wanting to for a while, I know I have it on my computer. I know Dylan McDermott is returning this season, I wonder what he will be doing this time around.

 

[Phuel]

...I'm so cool with seeing Kit's butt every week

That goes without saying-- gratuitous male nudity is always appreciated.

So far, I enjoyed the 1st season much more-- at least until the rushed ending, and, if only for naked Dylan and Zach's blond boyfriend/husband. Not much in the sexy department this season... Hopefully things will change with Dylan's appearance; More gratuitous nudity on behalf of Mr. McDermott, please!

I think the storyline is unraveling slowly while we're forced to endure the insane and inhumane punishments/torments of innocent victims just for being "different". We'll see that no one and nothing is as it seems; perhaps the likable ones aren't so innocent, like Grace or Sister Mary... or that Sister Jude is not so evil, and will turn out to be the savior to all the madness and sadness... With season 1, it was about who was a ghost, and who wasn't, and who was going to make it out of the Murder House alive. With this season, it's who's insane and guilty, and who's really innocent and telling the truth of who they are, and who's going to make it out of the asylum alive-- and sane. I can do without the silly aliens and mutants though; too campy, b-movie/pulp-fiction for me-- but, that's the point I suppose, with someone like Ryan Murphy.

Hoping Pepper is safe and makes it back from the washroom!

 

[Scott]

^i agree. last night's episode was really good except for that annoying alien nonsense. but nonetheless,the therapist and lara.....no wonder he was so attentive with her.

 

[Phuel]

^^^For sure. I guess we'll just have to suffer through it to see the good stuff.

Poor "Anne". Even though she was suffering severely from postpartum depression and slipped obsessively into the "Anne Frank" persona, she had inadvertently discovered the true identity of Dr. Ardent, only to be dismissed as delusional and "cured with a lobotomy. Evil prevails this time. The saddest story on this show so far.

Jessica Lange: OMFG... this woman is so beautiful. What a face. She is untouchable. Frank the security guard summed up Sister Jude's fate so-- frankly, with "You didn't stand a chance heading this place, being a strong woman..."

Jessica wears her age so proudly and regally, unlike so many Hollywood women. I hope some directors rediscover her and bring her back to feature films. I'd rather see her in a high fashion editorial and on the cover of a magazine than any top girl of the moment.

Where's Pepper?!?!?

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Poor Lana, i hope she gets out somehow, although it doesn't look good. But what he said to her prior to imprisonment, about her writing HIS story, makes me optimistic she might not end up on the cutting floor. And for crying out loud someone help poor Sevigny!

 

[Phuel]

I actually found some of the Lana and Chloe scenes hilarious. With Lana: Her sitting next to a lamp that had a human-skin lampshade... complete with nipples! With Chloe: The little girl who discovered her in the stairwell goes screaming to her teacher in the playground. Then the teacher and a gang of kids run back to the stairwell, only to run away screaming in unison like a classic Benny Hill skit when the see a mutant-Chloe dragging herself painfully up the stairs.

***I guess Lana got what she desperately wanted after all: She gets to "interview" Bloody Face. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

denden.com

 

[Scott]

^ha!

i have to say the show has really evolved in an interesting way. from sister jude getting tricked by dr. arden by sister mary eunice only to be committed herself to dr.thredson/bloody face impregnating lana with the child who will go on to become a killer himself as portrayed by dylan mcdermott. i still hate that stupid alien twist though. if the main narrative of the show didn't have such a gothic horror sensibility it wouldn't bother me so much but none of that alien rubbish makes any sense to the shows general plot. anyway,i wish so hard like i've never wished anything in a show that somebody will finally rid it of mary eunice and dr. arden. more than being just characters you love to hate,they've just become annoying.

 

[nightclubbing]

For me I think the alien thing is just like, kind of keeping with the era? I talked to my mother about that, because at first I didn't get it but then I thought about that time and figured it was just something to do with that.

 

[Phuel]

... anyway,i wish so hard like i've never wished anything in a show that somebody will finally rid it of mary eunice and dr. arden. more than being just characters you love to hate,they've just become annoying.

Yeah, it's all just so annoying now.The shows is such a mess: Characters are hardly interesting anymore-- either they're so flatly cruel like Arden; or evil snarky like the Sister Mary; or mind-numbingly dumb like the Monsignor; or just unbelievably unreal like Lana (self-abortion and she's up and running and getting into more trouble already)-- they're just... tired. The only saving grace is Jessica Lange. Even now as one of the wrenched patients and at her lowest point, she still commands authority and doesn't take sh**.

Apparently, that's typical of a Ryan Murphy project: It starts out so promising, than goes to sh** somewhere along the way.

Wow-- Dermott... as trailer-trash is still-- maybe even more... handsome.

 

[Scott]

i tell you i never got into nip/tuck and will never watch glee and i didn't watch the first season of this show but overall it's generally been a disappointing experience watching a murphy production. it's too hit and miss....has its moments then the next moment i want to throw something at the tv. jessica however is indeed the only thing that engages me as a whole...without her i probably would have switched this off after the second episode.

 

[Phuel]

Also never watched a single episode of Nick/Tuck or Glee-- the latter just clearly screamed ANNOYING to me just from the snippets of promos I've seen, but I thought American Horror Story: Murder House was very good in its concept and inception, so gave it, and Ryan, a chance.

I think you should give the 1st season a go-- it is good and unfolds slowly, it's very atmospheric and moody, and the banter is witty and sharp. Then it collapses altogether towards the end to a contrived, and rushed ending. Also, Jessica is in it a lot, so that's an incentive. And I really like Connie Britton and her character in this. All the storylines are interesting-- well, until they converge, or drop off, towards the end in a mad dash to conclude the season.

I definitely like it much, much much more than Asylum. It's not so campy, fragmented, sloppy and ANNOYING. AND, no Adam Levine.

 

[tigerrouge]

It's back! But you know with this show that no-one stays dead for long...

 

[Belowen]

Apparently the latest episode held a clue as to where season 3 will be set, and what it will be about. The strongest theory so far is that it'll be set in salem/be about witch trials which I think is an awesome idea. Can you imagine Jessica Lange as the woman accused? Perfection.

 

[Scott]

oh i completely forgot about the return wednesday hopefully they'll have it online so i can catch up before this week's episode.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Apparently the latest episode held a clue as to where season 3 will be set, and what it will be about. The strongest theory so far is that it'll be set in salem/be about witch trials which I think is an awesome idea. Can you imagine Jessica Lange as the woman accused? Perfection.

Oh my that could be really interesting.


What a nuts episode, and yet i am loving every minute of the crazy!

The musical number?