AMERICAN HORROR STORY 3 — Page 13

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Two things -

First, I'm very happy that my term "Frankentate" has survived. It makes me smile.

Second, this season has gone straight into the "Murphy Mess" that all his shows go into. After 5 episodes of a Ryan Murphy show he gets bored and basically says "Fvck it". And that's what's happening here. Like Clyde pointed out in that list, nothing makes sense anymore if you think about it for more than 10 seconds. And I'm still not going to give up on the fact that this show IS NOT HORROR. It's not scary and the more blood you add to it is not going to make it so.

I think my reason for being so critical last night because I wasn't completely wasted while watching it like I usually am.

Jordan, you do make a good point about it not being horror. The closest thing they have is ghosts but when they act like people it negates the scare factor. It's not even really torture porn (which is was normally passes for horror these days). I'm curious to see which tropes they go with next season since they really blew their wad with ASYLUM. I mean where do you go after serial killer/slasher, Nazis, aliens, mutants, aversion therapy and Catholicism (I know I'm forgetting like 10 more things).

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My bad, Reg. I was actually doing that as a running joke and then forgot I'd done it.

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Never forget.

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AHS has never been "horror". At BEST, it's been mildly suspenseful. But even it's best episode has never been scary.

It made me laugh, too.

I guess since they don't want to scare us they're just going to make us laugh. Season 4 should have a laugh track.

Ryan Murphy doing a purposefully-comedic version of horror has proved funny in the past. Example: "I Know What You Did Last Spring Break".

It does not help by having the breaks as they have done this season. When it's a roller coaster that doesn't stop til the end, it's better.

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My own personal issue with this season (God, I hope I haven't typed this all here before) is that the concept of witches doesn't play on any of my fears. A murder house with ghosts? I have to open my shower curtain every night when I get home because I am absolutely certain there will be an albino with a knife waiting to kill me (thanks, Foul Play!). Asylum? I hate the idea of my freedom being taken away in any shape or form. Add to that my claustrophobia and the fear that I am always about two minutes away from absolute madness and forget it.

But witches? Eh.

There's a rumor that next year is AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CIRCUS. Bring back Pepper and Danny Huston as a Gacy-like clown!

Updated On: 1/16/14 at 03:06 PM

I don't care particularly about the so-called rules (can Queenie do this, can a ghost do that?). But I find it hard to be really invested in these characters in this supposedly dangerous world when their deaths mean so little. I've honestly lost track of who's dead. Sometimes they come back; sometimes they don't. Their illnesses and injuries can just go away--unless they don't.

So the stakes aren't very high. And when Murphy has to give interviews saying "Oh, no, this time she's really dead . . ." Well, you can see the problem.

So a character gets shoved in a coffin and buried alive. If that happened on, say, "Girls," I'd pay attention to it. Here I just shrugged and thought "Eh, she'll be back. Or not."

"There's a rumor that next year is AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CIRCUS. Bring back Pepper and Danny Huston as a Gacy-like clown!"

Didn't Murphy already say they'll be continuing Coven next season?