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.
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.
REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 706
American Horror Story continues with this sixth episode of its Cult season entitled “Mid-Western Assassin”, and this was really a very enlightening episode with lots of twists and turns.
For a change, the episode started with a flashforward scene, and a very intense one I must say. It wasn’t that hard to guess Kai survived the gunshot, but I really didn’t expect Ally was the one who fired. Of course, we later found out it wasn’t exactly her, but I didn’t know that at the time.
Continuing last week’s episode, after Ally saw Meadow she decided to finally toughen up and go save her neighbor. I am so glad Ally finally grew a spine, because she really knows by now she isn’t imagining things and the clowns after her are very real, so she has to fight if she wants to prevail. Ally frees Meadow from the garage, and we learned why the cult turned against her: she realized what we did from moment one, which means, she realized Kai is an asshole who cares about himself and getting what he wants, so he will do whatever he has to, to get it. Kai was just playing her, and everyone else really, and after Meadow finally realized that, she left (or almost did, since she was kidnapped). Even though this whole story was fake, I still believe Kai cares about getting what he wants, and nothing more, because if he cared about the cult wouldn’t ask Meadow to shoot him, because there is no scenario in whichc that would turn out good for her.
This new idea of making Ally crazy by telling her the truth is really a struck of genius. Sure she was scared, but she had Ivy to run to when things got tough, which means she now has no one. She knows the whole truth, everything that has been going on, but she can’t say it because she will sound beyond crazy. The one person she thinks she can count on is doctor Rudy, but we now know better. Maybe he isn’t on the directly cult, but he probably reports to Kai. Kai may be a jerk, but he is smart, and this was probably his smartest idea yet.
We also found out why the cult is targeting Ally specifically: because of Ivy. Ivy hates her wife now, and it all started when Oz was born. We learned Ozzy is Ally’s biological son, and Ally made sure to mention that many times, especially when she was breastfeeding him. Adding to this, came Ally’s annoying phobias (I am going to have to agree with Ivy on this one), and now she wants a divorce, but Ivy knows she will never get full custody of Oz. Unless of course, Ally completely loses it, proving she is unfit to take care of their son.
In another great twist, Kai met Sally Keffler, a woman who decided to run against him for the empty sit on the city council. I really liked the scene in which she presented herself, because everything she said was very true. But because she represented serious competition for Kai, probably unlike the other candidate, I realized she wasn’t going to live much longer, and I was right. Even though Sally did look smart and like someone who would do a much better job than Kai, she also looked very weird. I guess that is customary in American Horror Story. When Ally told her about the cult, she wasn’t surprised at all, she just kept making casual conversation as if Ally had simply told her rice was on sale at the supermarket.
After having Sally killed and posting a suicide note on Facebook (“People won’t believe it”; “Of course they will. This is Facebook”), we finally got to see the scene from the beginning. It was finally in then that we found out Meadow was still working for the cult. Even though I believed her story in the beginning, I wasn’t too surprised by how most of what she said was a lie. Of course, it was still very surprising seeing Meadow kill herself. Now the police took Ally, but I don’t think they can arrest her, since she didn’t do it, and there are many people to testify that. I am sure she will be out in no time, because this will probably not be something left for the local police, so Samuels won’t put his hands on this.
Overall this was, as usual, a great episode. I definitely continue to say this season is shaping up to be one of the best ones (if not THE best one) so far. I am giving this episode an 8.9.
The seventh episode of this seventh season is entitled “Valerie Solanas died for your sins Scumbag” and in it we will start to see some previous cult leaders, so stay tuned.
REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 705
American Horror Story is back with another great episode, the fifth of this season, entitled “Holes” and in it we finally learned a few things more about the cult.
Right in the first few minutes of the episode, it was officially confirmed that Ivy is a part of Kai’s cult. In fact, in this episode, we found out exactly who are its members: Kai, Winter, Ivy, Harrison, Meadow, Beverly, Detective Samuels, Gary (the guy who cut his arm to go vote in the last episode) and a guy who appeared for the first time, R.J. It was a bit surprising seeing that Ivy is a part of all this craziness. I know that I said in one of my previous reviews that maybe she was, but I don’t think I actually meant it. I really wasn’t prepared for this. But of course that it makes all the sense in the world, because even though their house was always full of evil clowns, Ivy was the only one who never seemed to see anything.
That one scene in the end of the episode made me wonder if there is someone else on the cult, and by “someone else”, I mean Rudy Richards, or better, Rudy Anderson. Apparently, Winter isn’t Kai’s only sibling, Ally’s psychologist is too. In fact, I think it is safe to say Rudy was the one who made Kai start walking downthe dark road he is on right now. I thought I saw some weird things in shows and movies before, but keeping your parent’s corpses in their old bedroom, lying in their old bed, definitely beats a lot of them. Not to mention the fact Kai goes there from time to time to speak to his mother. As weird families come, the Andersons really are very close to the top.
In contrary to what I thought, Meadow being missing isn’t really a scheme (at least not in the way I thought it was). Harrison was simply preparing territory to kill her, since she had been doubting Kai. The good news is that, before she was killed (at least I think she was), she told Ally that she can’t trust anyone: not the police, the neighbors… nor her wife. I am glad Ally knows about this now. I was a bit tired of seeing her continue to run back to Ivy every time. I hope she realizes she is alone in all of this, so she will have to toughen up, and fight if she wants to see her son everyday like she used to.
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But Meadow wasn’t the only one the cult turned against in this episode. Because R.J. was showing some hesitation when it came to spreading fear, all the members joined forces and killed him, slowly and painfully. Even a hesitant Ivy helped, making up for the fact she didn’t help killing Bob.
Another thing I have to say is that it has been great how this season has been dealing with fear. I love this topic, and it has really been well developed. Sure people get scared when there is a serial killer on the loose, but they don’t really care that much, because we all think that is something that happens only to other people, never to ourselves. Sure they can make curfews, and start being a little bit more careful, but in end of the day, not a lot changes. Of course things do change when a tape of someone being murdered by very freaky clowns is shown on national television. Fear is definitely starting to spread and it probably won’t take long for the city to fall into chaos. And then Kai will be able to have the “kingdom” he always wanted.
Overall, this was really an amazing episode. Finally we have been receiving much needed answers. American Horror Story never really had very long seasons, and this one is already almost halfway through. Hope things start getting more and more intense. This season has been really great, and I am sure it will continue down this road. I am giving this episode a 9.2/10.
The sixth episode of the season will air next Tuesdays, October 10th, and it is entitled “Mid-Western Assassin”, so don’t miss it, because I won’t either.
REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 704
American Horror Story is back with its fourth episode of season seven entitled “11/9”, an episode which didn’t really continue what we have been seeing in the last 3 episodes, but it was still a great one.
To make things a bit clearer, I will comment on the events by chronological order, since the scenes in the episode were a little all over the place. By the way, I am not saying this is a bad thing, I actually liked it because it made my brain start working right in the first hours of the morning.
In this episode politics definitely had a major role, since we were put through the last few hours before Election Day. Ivy asks Ally to go with her to a rally, but she doesn’t want to since she is sure Hillary is going to win, so the rally is pointless. It is precisely because of people like her that nothing gets done, not just in America, but all over the world. People who just think “Why bother going if I can stay home and do whatever I want?”. And when something they didn’t want to happen, really does happen, they complain. This is exactly Ally’s case. She was so sure Hillary would win that she didn’t even vote for her. Then she cried her eyes out and screamed until her lungs hurt when Trump won. Even though she is probably the character who complains most about Trump’s victory, she seems to be one of the few who can’t say anything about it, because she didn’t try to prevent it.
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But anyway, these flashbacks for the day before the election focused, for once, on Ivy. A Trump supporter harassed her right in the middle of the protest, and this was really the first moment she met Winter. Probably for the first time in the show, Winter didn’t act weird and even helped Ivy catch the man who did that to her. Even though what they did to him may have seemed a bit extreme, it was definitely nothing he didn’t deserve. The most unfortunate thing about this is that this man may be fiction, but there are real ones out there who think it is OK to do whatever they want to women and get away with it.
If there was a main character in this episode, that was Kai, who popped up in every time line. He made the harasser so desperate to vote, that he cut off his own hand. I think Evan Peters really nailed it in this episode. We hadn’t had the chance to really see Kai before. Sure he was in all 3 previous episodes, and we knew he was weird, but we never got to see how far he is willing to go to get what he wants. Not really at least. Kai managed to make that man think the entire result of the elections, the choice between Clinton and Trump, rested upon his hands, and if he didn’t vote he would have to see a woman lead the most powerful country on Earth.
It was with these kinds of arguments that Kai managed to recruit Harrison and Meadow Wilton. The couple had just lost everything, so Kai comes in with his ideas of world domination, and about the fact that there should be no labels. Sure it would be great labels didn’t exist, that we were all simply citizens of the same country/world, but labels will always be there. When we look at a person we label her/him immediately, from the most obvious: gender, color; to the ones we find out later: like sexual orientation, among others. If Kai thinks he can change this, he is very wrong.
But this weird couple weren’t the only people he recruited to his little cult. A reporter featured in the previous episode, Beverly Hope, also made it into Kai’s secret group. Understanding she had a lot of rage inside her, after looking into her past, Kai went to talk to her continuing to advertise his ideas: starting in the city council, and slowly climb his way up until who knows where. To prove he is serious and not just some guy who likes to talk crazy, Kai orders the death of Serena Belinda, Beverly’s rival, while the camera filmed it. I have to say that recruiting a reporter was a great idea, because, as we started seeing later in the episode, Beverly is slowly trying to spread fear while telling the news.
As I said before, even though this episode didn’t follow the footsteps of the previous ones, it was still a very nice one. The change of pace felt like a welcoming change. This wasn’t my favorite episode so far (I prefer the previous one because it was more intense), but I it will take the second place. Really looking forward to see this newish character of Beverly. I am giving it a 9.0/10.
The fifth episode of the season is entitled “Holes” and it does seem it will continue to mess with Ally’s fears, because we already know that she and holes don’t really get along.
REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 703
American Horror Story is back this week with another episode, the third of this seventh season, entitled “Neighbors from Hell” in which tensions inside of Ally’s community continue to rise more and more and get to a very dangerous level of high.
Right in the beginning of the episode we saw that these clowns really like messing with fears, especially the irrational ones, to a point that they locked a woman and her husband inside coffins and left them there until they eventually died. All this, the way I see it, because they want people to remain afraid. That woman had overcome her fears, she really went a long way, and when she finally put her phobia behind her, they showed up and used it against her in the worst way imaginable. This really made me wonder if Dr. Rudy is in on all this craziness. After all, he was definitely the best person to say that woman overcame her fear, so he could have told his “team” and they put their hands to work. At first I had no idea what was happening and why we were seeing those people, but I ended up loving that scene.
Back to the main plot, I really had no idea the fact that Ally shot Pedro would have that much impact on the community. Sure he was Hispanic, but Ally didn’t realize that before it was too late. Plus, it was really dark because of the blackout and she would have probably shot anyone who showed up, since she was so terrified. The police saw it for what it actually was, self-defense, and it even looks like Detective Samuels was actually happy about this, because he believed Pedro was the one who killed the chef in the previous episode, so less work for him.
But as I was saying, Ally shooting Pedro really had a big effect on the neighborhood, because people started protesting, saying she should be in prison and that justice wasn’t made. Even the neighbors from Hell (as Ally put it), the Wiltons, really made a big deal about this, saying Ally murdered him and that she is super racist.
One of the people who didn’t judge her and that even seemed nice (notice the “seemed” because he is definitely going to enjoy this in many ways) was Kai. As someone who is trying to raise fear and anger towards the Hispanic community, I bet Kai loved this unexpected twist. Ally was totally not a supporter of his crazy theories, but he is now probably hoping that will change because he says he is going to help her get rid of the protesters.
And speaking of this, Dr. Rudy seemed even more suspicious when he totally let Ally go and face the protesters. What kind of therapist would not try to stop an unstable patient from facing an angry mob? Because I could totally not see a good result coming out of that decision. Plus, if he really is on the cult, that would explain why the clowns are after Ally and her family. However, I still don’t know why. All of this still feels very strange. Could it be because she is lesbian? Maybe, but I am not sure if this would actually be a good reason for all this trouble. Really looking forward for answers.
Aside from all this, I have to say that I loved the fact that Ally took off her victim act and started playing tougher. Even though I think it was a bad idea when she tried to reason with the protesters, it did show courage. She was also tough when she decided to go face the neighbors with head on and fist closed, punching Harrison in the nose and telling them to stay out of their way. These neighbors are really getting more and more creepy and if it wasn’t obvious they are on the cult before, it does look obvious now because we saw them with Kai doing that pinky thing. I really do think they are also in on this, but by now I am suspecting pretty much everyone, so you shouldn’t listen to me very much.
Things do promise to get even more intense now, for many reason: Ally’s house was marked by that bloody face, Meadow disappeared (or at least Harrison says she did), Ivy and Oz are leaving Ally, at least for a while, and not to mention that Detective Samuels is somehow involved with the Wiltons, since we saw him hanging out in their house. Lastly, I will just add that Ozzy is definitely going to need therapy for the rest of his life just because of what he saw in the past few days. It seems that every episode he sees something more awful and weird and barbaric than in the last, so I am sure he will grow up to be a vicious serial killer.
I really loved this episode. It was so full of suspense and thrill. This season is really shaping up to be one of the best and I hope it continues like this. I am giving this episode a 9.4/10.
The fourth episode of the season will be released next Tuesday September 26th and it is entitled “11/9”, so don’t miss it along with my review.
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.