The real horror isn't in the monsters or
The real horror is how many female characters in this show are cast to be in a straight relationship with male actors who couldn't play a convincing hetero if their life depended on it. Though that seems to be true of AHS for many years now...
This series is sloppy. It's written with the creativity and originality of a film student who is sleeping with their teacher to earn a passing grade. How do you go back to the horror house and not reference even ONE of the original cast of characters that made the show famous in the first place? Yeah, i know we finally get to see a few glimpses of a couple of them at the end in a truly moronic storyline about video games, but they aren't actually written in to be important to the storyline in any way, and it's just a tease. And why cast a "daughter" who looks maybe 5-7 years younger than her "dads?" I fully thought it was a story about two gay guys and their single angry aging lez bff for the first few min, then I watched the rest in disbelief. The female actresses cast in this show have increasingly too much botox/filler/plastic surgery and that wannabekardashian instagram emotionless face and it's painful to watch. The new young actors are very very VERY bad at acting and have the sincerity of a dead-eyed soulless disney child actor - again, this is where the true horror lies. You get a gem like Danny Trejo and you put him in the biggest piece of garbage I've seen in a half decade - an episode where a bunch of undeniably IRL gay actors run around in crop tops pretending to be straight bros, and it's all centered around social media crap. I'm tired of hearing about "followers" and "likes" and "virality." I'm tired of reading test messages in life, television is my escape, yet I still need to read texts to follow storylines. I'm trapped in a waking nightmare. This is MY american horror story.
The actual plots may have been able to be somewhat interesting, but it felt like it wasn't written, casted, acted, or edited by anyone who was interested. Churn out more crap, get a big check from quarantined streamers, start working on the next season. Nothing is original here anymore. Within the first 10 min I turned to my spouse and said "there's going to be a sleepover massacre." Guess what happened maybe 20 min later?
I long for the intricacies, nuance, attention to detail, expansive and diverse cast, and desire to make a masterpiece that was so evident in the first few seasons of AHS. Now it's a gimmick. Anything with the label makes mediocre money from people who love gobbling up crap, so the key is to put as little effort in as possible and release it asap.
This series is sloppy. It's written with the creativity and originality of a film student who is sleeping with their teacher to earn a passing grade. How do you go back to the horror house and not reference even ONE of the original cast of characters that made the show famous in the first place? Yeah, i know we finally get to see a few glimpses of a couple of them at the end in a truly moronic storyline about video games, but they aren't actually written in to be important to the storyline in any way, and it's just a tease. And why cast a "daughter" who looks maybe 5-7 years younger than her "dads?" I fully thought it was a story about two gay guys and their single angry aging lez bff for the first few min, then I watched the rest in disbelief. The female actresses cast in this show have increasingly too much botox/filler/plastic surgery and that wannabekardashian instagram emotionless face and it's painful to watch. The new young actors are very very VERY bad at acting and have the sincerity of a dead-eyed soulless disney child actor - again, this is where the true horror lies. You get a gem like Danny Trejo and you put him in the biggest piece of garbage I've seen in a half decade - an episode where a bunch of undeniably IRL gay actors run around in crop tops pretending to be straight bros, and it's all centered around social media crap. I'm tired of hearing about "followers" and "likes" and "virality." I'm tired of reading test messages in life, television is my escape, yet I still need to read texts to follow storylines. I'm trapped in a waking nightmare. This is MY american horror story.
The actual plots may have been able to be somewhat interesting, but it felt like it wasn't written, casted, acted, or edited by anyone who was interested. Churn out more crap, get a big check from quarantined streamers, start working on the next season. Nothing is original here anymore. Within the first 10 min I turned to my spouse and said "there's going to be a sleepover massacre." Guess what happened maybe 20 min later?
I long for the intricacies, nuance, attention to detail, expansive and diverse cast, and desire to make a masterpiece that was so evident in the first few seasons of AHS. Now it's a gimmick. Anything with the label makes mediocre money from people who love gobbling up crap, so the key is to put as little effort in as possible and release it asap.
- Heathonistt
- Sep 3, 2021