AHS: Freak Show

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 6:36pm

The cast has begun tweeting pictures of the new season of American Horror Story so I guess we can start the discussion on how jumbled and most likely terrible Freak Show will be.
Two-Headed Sarah Paulson

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 8:03pm

I hope the characters are inconsistently written!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 8:32pm

It'd be great if there were nothing final about death except sometimes!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 8:40pm

I hope we get to see Frances Conroy play a creepy character!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 9:07pm

I hope Jessica Lange plays a stone cold bitch!

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 9:18pm

Am I alone in wondering if there would be comments from Abigail and Brittany Hensel on Sarah Paulson's character? Not that I expect anything in good taste from Ryan Murphy, but since they're a healthy set of dicephalic parapagus twins who have only really gone on TV so people don't stare at them like they're freaks...

[Luscious]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 11:41pm

I think it's deliciously anti-PC. Paulson as a conjoined twin and Lange as a German expatriate cabaret singer. Truly appointment television! Can't wait!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 11:44pm

I hope it's very dimly lit!

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 11:46pm

I'm pretty sure that picture is a bad photoshop of Lana from season 2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/12/14 at 11:48pm

I hope Lily Rabe gives a very mannered performance.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/13/14 at 12:03am

I hope there's uncomfortable elements of racism that I'll tell myself are going to add up to a big anti-racism statement that never comes.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/13/14 at 12:15am

Namo, "Man lives in the sunlight world which he believes to be reality....". That openining Aways freaked me the F out!

[east side story]

Posted: 6/13/14 at 8:11pm

Coven was a snoozefest. I stopped watching after the fourth or fifth episode. But I will give this one a shot, if for no better reason than I think Jessica Lange is disgustingly talented and fascinating to watch.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/13/14 at 8:46pm

Maybe Murphy will be too busy prepping his swingers show for HBO that he'll put Tim Minear back in charge like he did for Asylum. But... probably not, since Murphy's gone on record saying Coven was the best yet (and, confoundingly, it also seemed to get the most critical praise.)

I'll watch it, I know I will, and thankfully can complain about it on here. I'm glad for having the 100x better Penny Dreadful now as far as cable horror shows based around exploiting well known tropes. I hope they have some not too subtle gay power element that unbeknownst to Murphy really doesn't seem to express that at all--maybe some sort of gay freak? Oh who am I kidding, of course there'll be a gay freak.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/13/14 at 8:48pm

And of course there will be kinky sex involving Paulson's Siamese Twins. And probably some gristly subplot involving some creepy surgeon trying to perform an operation to seperate them that goes horribly wrong. These elements just seem inevitable.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 6/13/14 at 11:52pm

Conjoined twins never look like Daisy and Violet. I am sure Sarah Paulson's character will be perfectly symmetrical and aesthetically beautiful.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/14/14 at 12:03am

Next you'll tell me The Elephant Man didn't look like Bradley Cooper.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/14/14 at 1:00am

Crap, there goes my John/Frederick slash fiction project--I don't wanna write about freaks.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 6/15/14 at 1:32am

I love AHS precisely because it is so bad, and it knows that it is bad, which makes it all that much more awesome.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/15/14 at 1:56pm

I think everyone involved in it knows it's bad--except Ryan Murphy. The way he talks about it and how it breaks new ground, raises awareness about important issues, etc, is insane.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/15/14 at 2:35pm

That's not performance art? He's not just doing a bit?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/15/14 at 2:48pm

I saw a few episodes of that Glee reality show he was a judge on and... you may be right. (I hope you are right...) It would explain The New Normal.

Updated On: 6/15/14 at 02:48 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 6/15/14 at 2:58pm

Coven was abysmal but I have great faith in Freak Show. Mostly because it's the setting I've been waiting for. I loved Asylum and the flashbacks in Coven. Seems they always do better with historical stuff. And I'd be really surprised if Dot and Bette weren't just regular pygopagus - conjoined at the hip, like Daisy and Violet.

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/14 at 9:53am

Murphy's gone on record saying Coven was the best yet (and, confoundingly, it also seemed to get the most critical praise.)

It started off with possibly the most potential. But unlike Asylum, Coven didn't really follow through with anything it set up. And most of the reviews I read by the finale were very negative.

[Gorlois]

Posted: 6/16/14 at 11:01am

"Asylum" was brilliant television, but "Coven" was abysmal. Like broadway86 just said, it started with great potential and the first episode was fantastic, but it just fell apart at the seams as the season went on. In that way it was almost heartbreaking to watch "Coven." Funnily enough, it was the most popular season with my fellow HS senior friends.

I'm excited for "Freak Show" because the way the series is designed they should be able to get back on the tracks after a wonky season like the last-- or at least this will be a test to see if they can. Eventually, I think it would be great to hand the show off to different show runners every season who can create their own spin on the American Horror Story, but that doesn't seem like something Ryan Murphy would be willing to do...