AMERICAN HORROR STORY 3- Page 19

[Wynbish]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 11:14am

If that and this



Had a girl


And, coincidentally, both pictures represent stories much scarier than this season.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 12:04pm

Balenciaga? What was that about?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 12:10pm

WOW look what the cat dragged in

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 12:17pm

She loved fashion?

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 12:24pm

she loved fashion...despite what it did to her.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 12:33pm

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 1:02pm

I don't think I have anything else to add to the long list of questions generated by the flailing plot of this season. I wasn't impressed by the finale, but I didn't really hate it, either. The only thing I really didn't like was Misty being stuck in hell, but my growing ambivalence towards the story had a pretty numbing effect on any attachment that may have formed to the characters at the beginning, so I just shrugged it off. To me, the ends didn't justify the means and I just felt they took the LOOOOOONG way around the story. It was like listening to a 7 year-old try to tell a joke. The storytelling was terrible and it was definitely the worst of the three seasons, BUT...I can't say I was bored. I still managed to be entertained every episode. Confused and a bit frustrated, but never bored. I laughed a lot, for the right reasons and the wrong. It is a little embarrassing that Witches of East End is more comprehensible, though.

At least Coven was better than The New Normal.

"LIES!" "KNOTTY PINE!" "What this coven needs is a new rug."
Those are my take-aways from this season.

Updated On: 1/31/14 at 01:02 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 1:30pm

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

Ha! Brilliant summation.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 2:44pm

Buzzfeed: Where "Coven" Went Wrong

[strummergirl]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 2:50pm

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

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 3:04pm

So much of what doesn't work in this show is that he tries to make it funny with his "gay" sensibility. It's why all the gays (the ones I know at least) who hate horror, love this show. They say it's scary (and while they have nothing to judge it against, since they don't like horror) but they love all the "divas" in it.

Ryan Murphy is a Star-Fvcker and nothing but one. He'd abandon everything in his next Circus themed season in a heartbeat if Cher said she'd like to come into his show halfway through it and all of a sudden have it be all about her raising rabbits and caring for disabled puppies in the African jungle. I know I've said a thousand times that what pisses me off most about it is that the title is so misleading. This show is just NOT scary. And if/when people defend it and say that it is, I just can't understand that. There's a difference between bloody and scary and Ryan Murphy is just the Eli Roth of TV. He thinks that blood equals scary and I can assure him, it does not.

I just really hate him.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 5:39pm

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 5:52pm

Oh, there absolutely is. I'm not denying that. But I do feel (and have felt from day 1) that the title is 100% misleading. It's not called "American Sometimes (mildly) Scary Story"

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 5:55pm

I read today that he abandoned the Circus idea already.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 5:59pm

Damn. I was hoping for 13 weeks of Jessica Lange dressed as a clown.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:14pm

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:18pm

Maybe season 5 will be AMERICAN HORROR STORY: RYAN MURPHY'S BROWSER HISTORY

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:25pm

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.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:45pm

What was is that Cordellia yelled out before she was burned? I couldn't make it out.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:49pm

That was Myrtle and she said Balenciaga.

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

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:55pm

Wasn't circus just an internet message board rumor? I don't think there was anything to support it

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 6:57pm

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.)

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 7:06pm

Murphy said that there was a clue about the next season, but that no one has gotten it completely correct yet. 1950s, German accent and Lange cast. That's all that's been confirmed.

Apparently there was a model for Balenciaga in the 50s whose father was an Auschwitz commandant. People are connecting that to the date and accent.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 7:15pm

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.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/31/14 at 7:21pm

Lange as Marlene Dietrich in AMERICAN HORROR STORY: NUREMBERG?