American Horror Story Season 8 Scoop: Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Adina Porter to Return
American Horror Story series co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed late Friday that the anthology’s eighth installment will be set “18 months from today”. He also revealed that viewers can expect a more “heightened” season than Cult, more in line with previous chapters Asylum (Season 2) and Coven (Season 3).
Murphy also gave the first details on the characters (and the actors playing them) that will be featured in Season 8. Returning cast member Evan Peters will play a “comedic hairstylist.” The recently cast Joan Collins will portray the character’s grandmother.
Murphy teased that Season 8 will feature three minority leads, in addition to series headliners Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates.
THR reported that Billy Eichner, Cheyenne Jackson, Adina Porter and Leslie Grossman will also be back. Eichner and Grossman announced their returns on social media.
Well I'm insanely excited to let you know I'll be joining Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman, Cheyenne Jackson and JOAN COLLINS on the next season of @AHSFX! https://t.co/FyiHxA9E3m
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 9, 2018
Production on Season 8 is set to begin in mid-June.
H/T: Deadline
Joan Collins Joins AHS
Dame Joan Collins has joined the Season 8 cast of American Horror Story in an as-yet specified role.
The Dynasty legend joins returning favorites Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters in the FX anthology series.
The only thing certain about the new season is that it takes place in the future.
Donald Glover’s Animated Deadpool Series has Officially Been Cancelled
Deadpool would have gotten his own animated series if FX didn’t pull the plug on it. Donald Glover was working on the script for the series and took to Twitter to set the record straight on the now-cancelled series.
His first tweet confirmed that he wasn’t “Too Busy” to work on the animated series
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932683173650438
FX Networks had to release a statement after the news broke out about the cancellation:
“Due to creative differences, FX, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover and Marvel Television have agreed to part ways on Marvel’s Deadpool animated series. FX will no longer be involved with the project. FX and Marvel have an ongoing relationship through our partnership on Legion, which will continue.”
Donald then decided to release the script for the finale of the animated series through a series of posts on his Twitter.
We won’t post all of the pages but we will give you some of them down below:
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932697195200512
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932705223049216
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932714173644801
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932724105818113
That was just a few pages from Donald’s twitter. You can check out the rest by clicking this link.
FX Releases First Look Trailer for Legion
We are a week away from Legion premiering its second season on FX. Although FX has released footage for the new season in the past, they also released a First Look Featurette with cast and crew interviews, and some new footage was thrown in to excite fans.
You can check out the trailer down below:
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Legion Season 2 premieres on April 3rd, at 10 pm on FX
Source: YouTube
Legion Season 2 Gets Official Trailer
After various teasers and new images, Marvel has finally released the official trailer for Season 2 of FX’s Legion.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting for anything new footage they could get their hands on and now today is the day. The trailer gives us the first look at the new villain of the season, Shadow King.
You can watch the trailer down below:
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Season 2 of Legion will premiere on April 3rd on FX.
Source: Marvel’s YouTube
Season 2 of Legion Gets New Twisted Promo
Fans eagerly awaiting season 2 of Legion get excited! We got another new promo for Season 2. Although it doesn’t feature much footage, it may give us some clues on how this new season will play out for David and friends.
You can watch the promo below:
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FX’s Legion will return on April 3rd.
Source: FX and YouTube
Legion is Coming Back This Spring with Season 2
After a critically acclaimed first season, FX has announced that the X-Men based show Legion will be returning on April 3.
Along with the announcement, FX also released a new photo for the series as well.
While there hasn’t been an official trailer released yet, FX has released a reel of their new and returning series with some footage of Season 2 of Legion in it. You can skip to 1:03 in the trailer down below for the new footage.
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Source: FX & YouTube
REVIEW: American Horror Story Episode 709
American Horror Story returns once again this week, with this episode entitled “Drink the Kool-Aid”, which is the ninth episode of season 7, and in it Ally started doing what she should have done episodes ago, and stood up to herself and to her son.
The episode started with what was probably Kai’s version of a bed time story. He told his cult about the true events of another cult, the “Heaven’s Gate”, and how their leader made all of the members drink poison believing they would all transcend into something much greater. Because he really needed to make a point, he also told them about another cult, the “People’s Temple”, and how they all also killed themselves because their leader, Jim Jones, told them too. Kai told them all this in preparation to what came next: he made them believe he was giving all of them poison, in order to find out how loyal everyone was. When everyone started drinking it, it wasn’t very hard to realize there was no poison in the drinks, but also I don’t think Kai would ever do that at that stage of the game. Maybe he would do it if he was truly desperate and the police were at his tale, but not when he was winning. Unlike the two cult leaders he talked about, Kai doesn’t seem to believe in any spiritual higher power.
In the City Council, Kai continued to talk crazy, and this time proposed a motion that suggested certain websites/apps couldn’t be used by the people of that community. Obviously, he didn’t call it censorship, but that was exactly what it was. This season, for me, is really getting more and more real, because this seemed like something that could totally happen. Of course that when someone wants to kill a democracy, they don’t do instantly, they do it slowly. One day they forbid the citizens of doing one thing, the next week they come up with something else… and people just settle with it, telling themselves there is nothing they can do to stop it, that there is no way they can fight the power, when that is totally not true.
All of this is left uncheck, and the reason for it is because people like Ivy exist. In this episode she told Ally she joined Kai’s cult because she was tired of never knowing what to do, so it was great to have someone tell her what to do, where to go, what to believe in… She may say she sees Kai for what he is now, but it is too late already.
Like I mentioned before, in this episode Ally finally stopped feeling sorry for herself and decided to stand up, for her and for her loved ones (which is only Ozzy now). After being gone for a while, Oz was a significant part of this episode, because Kai took a special interest in him, and even wrongly revealed he was his biological father. When Kai started telling the same bed time story, and after Ozzy denied what he was saying, Kai made sure Oz was punished, right after calling Wikipedia “fake news”. I thought that part was funny, because it really is in Kai’s personality to call everything which contradicts him “fake news”, when it’s his news which are fake.
Moving on, Ally was really pushed to the edge, and started telling the story of how she really fought all her phobias: she traded them for revenge on her wife. Throughout the episode I actually did think that she was being too nice to Ivy, considering she ruined her life. Because she has been a lot tougher recently, I thought she had some kind of plan, and turned out she really did. Close to the end of the episode, Ally poisoned her wife and watched her as she died. For someone who hates Kai because he is a “psychopath”, Ally really didn’t stay much behind. Later, she bribed an employee at the clinic and found out Kai isn’t Ozzy’s father. However, this is definitely what she told him, which to me was a great idea. As long as Kai thinks Oz is his son, he won’t hurt very badly. If Ally had told him the truth, he would probably have gladly killed the boy.
Overall, this was definitely a great episode, the best one so far. It was definitely shocking and with some really amazing scenes of all kinds. I am giving it a 9.5/10.
The tenth episode is entitled “Charles (Manson) in Charge” and it is the last episode before the season finale. As previously promised, and as the tittle reveals, we will see Evan Peters play Charles Manson, so you really can’t miss it.
REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 708
American Horror Story is back once again, this week with episode 8 of this “Cult” season, entitled “Winter of Our Discontent”, and there really were many breakthroughs in this short hour episode.
Continuing last week’s storyline, the women of the cult started the episode still very mad at Kai, but that anger grew when he put then on cooking and cleaning duty. Beverly realized they would never be treated fairly, so they had to cut the head of the snake. This was when Winter started getting cold feet. Sure it is a normal thing saying you will make a stand against one of your siblings, but actually doing it are two very different things, because in the end, Kai is her flesh and blood. It was in this moment that we were flashbacked to what seemed to be Kai’s first kill: a lunatic man who called himself a priest. I guess we can all agree the man really was crazy, and he did deserve what Kai did to him, because death was totally what he was asking for, but even though Kai did “take care of this problem”, this was what made him start turning into the psychopath we see in present day.
Speaking of psychopaths, Vincent didn’t seem to be doing much better, and I can totally relate to Ally when she asked what kind of therapist he was, if he didn’t realize his own brother was a psycho. Oh, that’s right, Ally is back, after her three-week vacation in a mental institution, order by Vincent of course. I am glad she is finally starting to do what she should have done long ago: look after herself and her family (which at this point is just Ozzy). Apparently, even though that was totally not his goal, Kai cured Ally of her phobias, by making her face them all, time and time again. In this episode, she even invited him to a private dinner, where they appeared to start being friends (or almost anyway).
If you thought Kai had lost his mind somewhere in the past 7 episodes, then you really need to think again, because during this latest episode, Kai came up with the mother of all terrible and disgusting ideas: make a messiah for his cause, by using Samuels, Winter and himself. Even though Winter didn’t like the idea of killing Kai before, she really didn’t like this one either, and the same can be said for Samuels. Bottom line: everyone realized the idea was beyond crazy, expect for Kai of course. However, this didn’t stop Samuels from trying to rape Winter later, which ended with him being murdered. If you ask me, he got what he deserved.
But, even though this death was already shocking by itself, it wasn’t the only one of the episode. After Ally told Kai that Vincent was trying to find a way to stop him, Kai started doing some crazy talk (which is what he always does), and killed his own brother. If we think about it, two wasn’t even a big number of deaths, because for a few moments it seemed like a third death was going to happen: Beverly’s. I am glad it didn’t because I really did end up liking her, especially after she turned against Kai. She seems like the kind of person who will do anything to get what she wants, and right now that is killing Kai, so I hope she does it (or someone else actually. As long as he dies, I don’t care who is the murderer).
In kind of a side note, despite him being crazy, Kai is really a genius mastermind, and we were able to see that when he was in his council position, and made his crazy idea of more patrols (who work for him of course), to pass, by convincing everyone of his stupid point, by making it not seem so stupid anymore. Now he has his guards everywhere in the neighborhood, which means he can start his own mutiny at any moment, making everyone bow before him. And all this because no one was brave enough, powerful enough, or simply didn’t have the balls to stand up to him when they still had a chance. But hopefully, that is about to change because Ally joined the coven, which I bet it means she has an idea to take it down and to put Kai out of his misery.
This was, as it is usual by now, a great episode. I think it is really noticeable that things are getting to a point where everything will blow up, and I curious to see which side will be more affected. I am giving this episode a 9.0/10.
Brace yourselves, because believe or not, there are only 3 more episodes left in this season. The ninth one is entitled “Drink the Kool-Aid”, and in it we will see Ozzy being dragged into the middle of all this mess, so don’t miss it.
REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 707
American Horror Story is once again back with the seventh episode of the seventh season entitled “Valorie Solanas Died for Your Sins, Scumbag”, and even though this was an episode a little bit stuck in the past, it was still a great and surprising one.
To be honest, I had never heard of Valerie Solanas nor Andy Warhol before I knew they were coming to the show, but I have to say that they, especially Valerie, really are very complicated people. I don’t think I have to say that Valerie’s manifesto is beyond crazy, since it doesn’t take a genius to understand that, but American Horror Story definitely took her craziness into a whole new level. I am all up for women’s rights, but definitely not that much. The Zodiac killer, in the other hand, I had heard about. It seems kind of crazy and not crazy at all at the same time, that they really decided to link these two, but why not? Maybe no one had thought about this, but it is definitely not impossible.
From what was displayed in the episode, Andy was definitely a jerk. Maybe he didn’t deserve to die, but he did deserve at least a lesson. From what we saw, Andy’s death was probably one of the only things Valerie regretted, not because it was wrong or anything, but because, even though she had some “great” ideas and performed “great” deeds, his death was everything she was going to be remembered for. Especially this Valerie, who killed plenty of other people, but, in the end, no one believed she did.
“How does this connect to the story of season 7?” was definitely a question I asked for a few moments during the episode. Until, of course, Frances Conroy arrived back to the screen as one of Valerie’s followers, therefore a member of the Zodiac cult.
After Kai got shot and was pretty much proclaimed a hero of the nation (it seems now that anyone can be a hero for doing the most stupid things), Kai obviously won the election for the empty sit in the city council. And that was when things started changing: he surrounded himself with more men and started sidelining the women. Who didn’t like this? Beverly obviously. The women of the cult got a few advice from Bebe, who told them her history with Valerie. They also found out that Meadow’s death was Kai’s idea, and they decided they weren’t going to be pushed around like she was. They were going to take action.
Thinking they were rebelling against Kai, the women killed , dismembered and dumped Harrison’s body. That last scene in which Beverly was delivering the news was very well made, because we all knew that she was talking directly at Kai, and every single word she said was one more proof of that. Saying the murder was a retaliation of Meadow’s death and that she prayed there wasn’t more murders coming was a struck of genius. But the finale really beat everything. “Back to you”, she said, as if she was speaking ato Kai and saying “You’re move”.
But as I said, the women of the cult only thought they were rebelling against Kai, because in the final shot of the episode we realized that Bebe was with him, which means this is probably just another way for Kai to have someone do his dirty work. Maybe he wanted Harrison gone and he knew simply asking nicely wouldn’t be enough anymore. And now, without them realizing it, he has the women right where he wants them.
It was at the same time great and disappointing not seeing Ally in this episode. The episode focused a lot on the past, and having 2 storylines in the present would probably just rush things. But if you are a fan of Ally’s (I can’t say that I am a big fan, but I definitely do love Sarah Paulson), don’t worry, because she will be back in the next episode.
Overall, as I said in the beginning, this was another great episode which continued to focus on important issues of today’s world: feminism. This theme pills up with plenty of others which were mentioned already, and that is definitely one of the reasons why this season as been so great. I am giving this episode an 8.7/10.
Next episode is entitled “Winter of our Discontent” and, as I said, Ally will be back, stronger than ever. At least that is what the promo made it look like. Don’t miss it because I am sure it will be another great one.