AHS: Cult — Page 2

Just had a chance to finally watch episode 2. I quite like it and don't get what the problem is for some.

I keep thinking of Alison Pill as Medium Alison. She's changing her major to horror.

Oh, I get it. Put up your dukes! Put up your dukes! Marquess of Queensbury Rules because this is important.

This certainly is one of the gayest seasons to be sure not only with the characters but the casting. I think this one is better than the last one but I don't know if I can sit through an entire season of a woman being tortured by clowns. I think the Trump Presidency bringing out the devil in people is the best aspect thus far.

henrikegerman said: "Am I the only one who feels they'd like this season a whole lot better if the tone of direction and design was looser and loonier? More John Waters'ish?"

Exactly. It's leaning in that direction, but never takes it far enough to hit the mark. So much potential with Mary Cherry, Eichner et al.

The first three episodes held my interest and were appropriately creepy. I think I have a different understanding of the word "pretentious." I find Ryan Murphy's stuff shiny but low-brow, except for the OJ thing which was great because he didn't write. It mostly seems to specifically lack pretense.

SmoothLover said: "To me this season is a mix of Stephen King and watered down Hitchcock."

Stephen King? Maybe a bad parody of Stephen King. I don't see any Hitchcock in this at all.

The best thing about this show is Beverly Hope.

The number of birds/yard size ratio seemed off.

I think as unsettling as the premise and context of "Cult" is, it's still being done very very well, a lot of great acting, plenty of and I do mean "plenty" of shockers and scares....

I haven't had time to watch Tuesday's show yet, but it was edited because it starts with a mass shooting and out of respect for the Las Vegas shootings, the broadcast version was heavily edited. You can watch the unedited version On Demand, or DVR or FXNOW, etc....

I still can't believe the shocks from the last two episodes and having just watched the "edited" opening I'm stunned again.

But yes, it's going to be a Love/Hate Ryan Murphy edition of AHS. But I'm definitely intrigued, startled and yeah, scared....you probably know why if you've seen it....

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My brother used to wrap me up tightly in a blanket and then sit on me so the coffin scene a couple episodes ago was terrifying and brought me right back to that feeling of being trapped. I like this season because it is scary---the idea of a group of clowns nonchalantly walking into your house and then killing you ritualistically is scary and insane--and yes I grew up three doors down from the Serial Killing Clown himself, John Wayne Gacy, so again this show hits home for me. The season is also unpredictable. I keep saying "oh well obviously this will happen next" and instead the show goes in a different direction and I cannot believe what I am watching--in a good way. I appreciate how the underlying emotion in the show is anxiety, fear, and rage over Trump's presidency. I feel that anxiety, fear, and rage and it is cathartic to watch it play out on a horror show.