American Horror Story
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM
S02E02—“Tricks and Treats” Warning: Contains spoilers for this episode. And naked butts. According to available sources, American Horror Story executive producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk are both in their 40s. James Wong, who wrote "Tricks and Treats"—this second episode … Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM
S02E01: "Welcome to Briarcliff" Like the proverbial dog to vomit, I just can't help but go back and slurp up this messy, disgusting, gloriously guilty pleasure. And I have to say, what I saw in "Welcome to Briarcliff" actually encourages me that Falchuk and Murphy may have figured out what worked and what didn't in the last season of American Horror Story. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E12
’Twas the season finale, and throughout Murder House,
not a creature was living (except Ben the louse).
This critic was watching in doubtful suspense,
In hopes that this season would somehow make sense. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E11
"Birth" follows in the example of last week's "Smoldering Children" by being…well, not bad, really. "Birth" has an actual structure (rare for this show), it ties its threads together logically and with purpose (ditto), and—by American Horror Story standards, at least—is downright tasteful and restrained. (Granted, a gigantic antichrist baby kills its mother on the way out of the womb—but, you know, tastefully.) Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E10
What American Horror Story really needs—apart from a more savvy and tyrannical script editor—is an exorcist. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E09
American Horror Story makes it clear that what it's really horrified of is women. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E08
"Fine, let's discuss the brain eating." I mean, how can I hate a show where that line is possible? Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E07
"Open House," written by co-creator Brad Falchuk, is by far the weakest episode of American Horror Story so far, and demonstrates the show's fundamental flaws all too clearly. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E06
I guess it was inevitable. When you start a show at the absolute border of tastelessness, believability, and cable network standards, it's hard to keep upping the ante week after week. Yeah, yeah, raw brain. What have you done for me lately, American Horror Story? Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E05
Violet’s in the kitchen,
Worryin’ bout the 'sitch she’s in:
Rubberman’s behind her
But doesn’t seem to mind her.
The man with the burned face,
Hands out, pissed off,
Wants for Ben to pay him off
for knockin’ little Hayden off. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY — S1E04
Two gay ghosts; two ginger ghosts; two appearances by a homicidal Rubberman; one ex-mistress returned from the grave; one dead woman euthanizing her elderly mama; one woman with Down's syndrome getting struck by a car while wearing a "pretty-girl" costume; one burned man pounding on the door; one doctor sewing his dismembered baby back together with animal parts; and a sonogram so frightening it makes medical professionals faint. What can I say? It was a slow week at the old Murder House. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY — S1E3
If you put a group of horny 12-year old boys in a room, kept them awake for three straight weeks on pixie sticks, Mountain Dew, and methamphetamines, showed them every horror movie ever made, and then asked them to free-associate a TV show, they still wouldn't come up with the turgid, tortured mess that is American Horror Story. Continue reading
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY – S1E1-2
Stupidly pretentious, embarrassingly unrestrained, and chaotically unfocused, this is a basic cable Hell for good actors who have made bad choices. It's a fiasco, but it's kind of fascinating, and way, way more fun that it has any right to be. Continue reading
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