• September 13, 2017
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REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 702

American Horror Story is back again this week with episode 2 of seven 7 entitled, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”, in which the line that separates reality from illusion continue to be very thin.

It seems that we finally found out what Kai is up to and what he wanted to achieve when he attacked those Hispanic people last episode: he is trying to do what he advertised last episode, which means, he is trying to raise fear. A group of Hispanic people attacking a poor and defenseless man for no reason can definitely be scary. Of course this isn’t exactly what happened, but it is the only thing people know to be true. The fact that he got out of there with a broken arm was of course a plus, because people will look at him and think “Oh! Look at that poor man”, and this is exactly what he wants people to think. His goal now is to take that (convenient) empty chair in the city consul and make good in his word to spread fear.

The episode started exactly where it left off last week, after Ally saw a clown by her bed and started running and screaming. Of course that when Ivy got there, there was nothing, which makes them both wonder if Ally is crazy. “I think there might be something wrong with me. I don’t know what’s real anymore”.

It is also clear that this whole clown craziness is starting to affect Ozzy, because clowns is all he seems to be dreaming of, including of course, Twisty. This all appears to be coming from Ally, and Oz seems to be a little afraid of her, since he made it seem like he doesn’t want to be alone with her. Of course that Winter isn’t exactly a comfort zone because she really freaks me out in some scenes, and I am sure I am not the only one. She started talking about fear in this episode, so I think that Kai managed to recruit her to his little coven.

And speaking of recruiting and crazy, Ally and Ivy now have new neighbors: Harrison and Meadow Wilton, two best friends who didn’t find anyone to spend the rest of their lives with, and so decided to marry each other. It appears to me that these two are a part of all this crazy, especially when Harrison started talking about bees. As we all know, bees have been a significant part on the posters and teasers of this season, and so here they are. According to him, a hive is the perfect community, because every member of the hive is 100% committed to a single task, with no complaints. And while watching this scene, my mind kept screaming “Cult” because this is definitely a great allegory for it.

This is American Horror Story, so the craziness never ends. Short after coming back from the new neighbor’s house, the alarm in the restaurant was activated and Ally went there to check it out. Even though I was expecting something crazy would happen, I really wasn’t prepared for what Ally found: a body of one of their chefs hanging in a hook next to animal meat. It didn’t take long for the police to start pointing fingers at Pedro, a Hispanic, because of an argument they had earlier that day, and, let’s face it, because of the fact that he is Hispanic.

Later in the episode, Ally and Kai had their second meeting when, while advertising his campaign door to door, he gets to the Mayfair-Richard’s house. While Kai talked to Ally, one of the problems of politics, and other fields of course, was exposed: Kai started speaking in numbers and, when Ally asked him where he got that information from, he answered Facebook. There are definitely a lot of information out there, but the thing is that some (not to say most) of that information isn’t based on facts, but in people’s opinions. People say whatever they want, and that is their right, but we shouldn’t really support important issues with intelligence we find on Facebook, and other social networks of course.

But the most intense scene of the episode is yet to come: closer to the end, electricity went down. After being left alone with Ozzy by Winter, and after learning, from Harrison, that that was probably a terrorist attack, because it happened in multiple states, Ally started freaking out. I actually doubt the veracity of this. As I said, I think Harrison is part of the Cult and this is just another scheme to scare Ally (Maybe he also heard of the terrorist attack in Facebook!!!). But this doesn’t change the fact that Ally trusts the neighbors, not much, but probably more than me, and that was exactly where she was going to when she opened the door, saw Pedro and shot him.

This was definitely a great episode. It was very intense from the beginning till the end and I really loved it. This season isn’t what I thought it would be, but I am really loving it, even though only 2 episodes aired. I am giving this episode an 8.8/10.

Episode 3, “Neighbors from the Hell”, will air next Tuesday, so don’t miss my review.