AMERICAN HORROR STORY 3 — Page 19

Balenciaga? What was that about?

---

She loved fashion?

---

---

"It was like listening to a 7 year-old try to tell a joke."

Ha! Brilliant summation.

I thought Sidibe acquitted herself quite well given I was among those most skeptical. What was surprising was how bad Farmiga was. I was apathetic to her in Murder House but yeesh, her whole bug-eyed, nice girl acting grew increasingly annoying early on. I don't really care how one-note bitch Madison was, given that Murphy loves to have those characters and refuses to shape them in any way in the writing, but Emma Roberts felt right at home in the universe.

Paulson was great, not a surprising Supreme but was happy she got to take lead despite how poor the second-half was. Bates and Bassett were aces. I wish Lange and Rabe didn't feel like they got the shaft, Rabe especially with Misty's ending. Conroy was great and her end did get a laugh from me but that exit felt somewhat anti-climatic.

Ryan Murphy and his staff writing stuff along the way is one of the least shocking revelations ever. The casts he gets for these things has to feel like Russian Roulette as it feels like somebody getting a breakthrough arc vs. the shaft, in a thankless role could really go either way with him.

I loved the first half but I dreaded my praise when I know exactly what Ryan Murphy usually does in never keeping a sustained momentum. It makes me wish he would just have all his episodes in the can than a break as I think when he hears stuff from the outside it definitely effects the work on the page.

Updated On: 1/31/14 at 02:50 PM

There is some relativity to the idea of horror to an extent. My bf was actually quite easily scared by the first two seasons (I found them a bit creepy, but not "scary"). But he did not find this season scary in the least. Just mostly funny.

---

I read today that he abandoned the Circus idea already.

---

I found some of Season 1 (which I granted had problems with, but not like this year) creepy. Asylum I found genuinely disturbing, but I have a thing about insane asylums, people thinking you're crazy (no comments please!) etc. This year... Well I found the torture of slaves hard to watch but it made me more annoyed than anything else.

I agree with Jordan that the show is not horror. I will say that the Home Invasion episode in season 1 is probably the one thing that's ever been mildly scary on the show.

---

That was Myrtle and she said Balenciaga.

People are saying it might be the clue to next season.

---

I think it was. Murphy has said something about 1950s and Lange brushing up on her German accent. (I LOVE Lange, but at this point it would be a miracle if they gave her a character that wasn't essentially like the character she has played every season, accent or no accent.)

After the slave stuff this year, and, while I largely loved last season, the Nazi stuff last year, I wish he would stay away from that whole aspect.