AMERICAN HORROR STORY on FX- Page 18

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 10:36am

Mossy Bank is perhaps not only my favorite vaginal euphemism, but also the basis of my new drag character:

Mossy Banks, Tyra's hairier sister.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 12:34pm

I adored last nights episode, so far i think this season is doing great

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 1:29pm

James Cromwell had one of those Dabney Coleman/William Fichtner style nude scenes in the movie Tank where you were surprised just how good he looks naked.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 3:53pm

I remember in the movie "Murder By Death" there's a scene where he's wearing "see through" mesh shorts and T-shirt and I thought, as a 13 year old, "he has a nice ass!"

[broadway86]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 4:23pm

Don't really understand all the Lily Rabe hate. I saw her in "As You Like It", but I think she's doing very well in this. Fully committed to an increasingly bizarre and (intentionally?) pathetic role.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 5:28pm

Before I comment on Rabe (who I really liked last season, actually, though I go back and forth on her), I need to see how she plays this Devil posessed version of her character.

I admit, I really enjoyed this episode. There was one scene I thought was horribly written--it was the one where Chloe Sevigny tried to seduce James Cromwall... The dialogue was awful, but more than that th exposition was just SOO clumsily handled--I didn't buy that she would tell her entire backstory to him just to try to convince him to let her out for a few minutes, and it was just all so heavy handed. (Giving Sister Jude's backstory via the possessed boy was much more interesting).

I liked the use of slow motion for some scenes (which I assume is basically where Murphy's claim to wanting it to look like DePalma starts and ends).

OK, other things were heavy handed, but in a way I can take and expect from this type of show. It's still weird seeing Mr Kelly Ripa as one of the inmates (though he was just in the background this week), I associate him so much with Matteo, his role on All My Children, more than I associate Kelly with that show (prbably because her somewhat annoying personality pops up everywhere now).

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 5:42pm

That scene with Chloe Sevigny was painful to watch. The whole show is so poorly written and heavy handed that it's neither remotely scary or campy fun.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 11:42pm

I watched the Girls premiere back when it came on and I hated it and I hated that HBO was featuring another show with four white girls featured in the promo shot and I said how much I hated it and Jordan said, "You know, you don't have to watch it" and I realized he was right, I didn't. So I haven't watched it again and my life was infinitely better for it. Maybe there's something in that story that might be able to use in your own life, Erik.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 11:46pm

Wait - you mean I contributed positively to your life? I'm honored!!!!!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 11:51pm

Yep. It's true. Oh, and then I saw that gal's "Tiny Furniture" on Sundance or shome sit and man, she might develop into a talented person once she has a life, but damn, it's like her gaze can see the individual cells that make up her navel. Plus, it's the same exact thing as Girls. It was like watching Lucy and Desi play Tacy and Niky in "The Long Long Trailer." It's like, "This is the same thing with different names."

Updated On: 10/25/12 at 11:51 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 11:56pm

I think Apatow actually suggested he produce Girls, requesting something based on Tiny Furniture (essentially). But yeah, it remains to be seen if she has any other type of writing in her. (She co-wrote the new film Nobody Walks, starring John Krasinski, but it doesn't sound all that different, but it has Justin Kirk so I'll probably see it...)

And, wha? Are you suggesting I stop watching The New Normal?! What an idea!

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 12:17am

Loved last night, but the Chloe scene was painful to watch. Way too articulated and soap boxy. Basically, it was Murphy getting on his soapbox for sexual liberation. As soon as she said, "I hate the word whore..." and proceeded to diatribe about how she was in the asylum for "loving sex", I just rolled my eyes. Everything else was wonderful.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 12:24am

Eric, I think Namo was talking to other Erik about American Horror Story.

I don't really hate this season of AHS, but I'm just wildly underwhelmed and I'm not finding it very scary or suspenseful. I keep sticking it out for Jessica Lange (who I think looks younger as her 1964 self than she did in the flashback last night). I should probably check out soon, because it's not really doing anything for me. But I guess I'm hoping from some real balls to the wall crazy, instead of the anachronisms and uncomfortable views on race and gender and sexuality. That's pretty much every Ryan Murphy show, the anachronisms notwithstanding.

Sometimes I think that shows the board is wildly divided on should have two threads - one for lovers and one for haters. I really would like to see that happen with Smash next year, since the haters in that thread drive me bananas, but with different shows I'm different sides of the divide, so I guess I just try to suck up the ranting on stuff I like and feel entitled to rant about the stuff I hate.

But I get hate-watching stuff. I hate-watch New Normal (as do most people on this board, it seems) and I hate-watched AHS last year. I was glad I stuck out the whole season, though, because even though I still thought it was one of the most redonkulous, borderline nonsensical things I'd ever seen, the last four or five episodes made it all work for me and I felt some sense of satisfaction when it was over. But I do think there's also some (much) logic into not watching stuff you hate, but sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's a way to keep up with what everyone else is into (and for me, that's important, since my tastes so often seem to skew really narrow and impenetrable to most) and sometimes I think it's just masochism.


Updated On: 10/26/12 at 12:24 AM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 1:11am

My problem with AHS (this season especially so far) is that it's not "horror". It has it's suspenseful moments but it's American Horror Story not American Suspense Story (This is not RuPaul's Best Friend Race!). A lot of that obviously is Murphy's fault and the other is FX. There's an obvious limit on how much horror you can have in a horror show on any channel that's not HBO, SHOWTIME etc.

Part of me thinks had this show gone to one of those channels it could have been a much stronger series. The other part of me wonders if it's even possible to sustain "horror" for a whole season at all, though. There's a reason most scary movies are around 90 minutes long. There's only so much you can do to a set of characters in one film (or one season) before it gets repetitive or boring. And I think that might be why Murphy has just dumped a bucket of every horror movie plots into this season so far. I mean in two episodes we have a serial killer on the loose who looks like Leatherface who is possibly the living dead still in the asylum, alien abductions, scary sadistic nuns, mental institution torture, exorcisms, and more that I'm just too tired to think of now. I mean PACE YOURSELF, RYAN MURPHY!! You still have to fit a demon baby, zombies, vampires, a werewolf and Bristol Palin in this season!

Updated On: 10/26/12 at 01:11 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 1:22am

Apologies Namo. I am used to people spelling my name Erik, unintentionally, and didn't think who else it could be directed to.

Betty, exactly! I'm glad to see others on here felt the same. I guess it set up the encounter between the Doctor and the prostitute he hired (and I admit, I was kinda relieved that they let her get away), but otherwise it was just embarassingly written, and I don't blame the actors for having to deliver it.

One reason I do find this season creepy, I guess, is that the idea of being thought to be crazy, and not being able to convince others otherwise, is one of my top fears.

The anachronisms are lazy. Some, I can justify (some critics complained about the doctor saying mossy bank, but he does have issues about sexuality, and has been shown to use weird expressions and terms that seem fifty years out of date, since the start). Also, the attempts to explain some of them, seem forced (just as last year, some of the plot points--like keeping certain characters inthe house--seemed forced). Just because you have a character say that in 1964 they don't do certain practices, and then have a character reply "Well, here we do", doesn't justify it...

Phyllis, I feel exactly the same way as you about "hate-watching". For me, it boils down to if I'm getting any enjoyment (however perverse) from still watching it. I used to have a habit of hating to give up on any show (meaning, usually, shows I initially enjoy and then kinda fall apart)--I'd feel guilty. But as I get older, I've, slowly, realized that that's a waste of time... (The same goes for finishing some novels).

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 6:53am

Wow Namo I never would have thought of that!
I decided to give the show a chance after all the accolades the first season got. I didn't love the first episode but Lange's campy performance kept me interested enough to give it another shot. After this week it was taken off the DVR list.

[Luscious]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 8:49am

Well... I think it's over-the-top fun! Enjoying it even more than last season. Loving the whole Asylum setting. And loving the characters and performances. This week's episode pushed the boundaries of basic cable about as far as it's ever gone. Would it be a better series if it was on HBO or Showtime? Who knows? But even HBO and Showtime have their limits, and I doubt either would have taken things much farther. The only thing that bugs me about FX are the commercial breaks. They take you out of the moment and give you a chance to catch your breath. So from now on I'm recording and FF through commercials or watching On Demand. It makes a big difference. Just finished rewatching the first season of AHS on Blu-ray, and it plays so much better without the breaks.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 1:25pm

Since I got a dvr, I don't think I ever watch anything at the time it actually airs.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 3:20pm

I download and watch all my US cable stuff (yes, I admit it)--until this year we didn't even get FX programming except a year after the fact--but it always fascinates me what rules seem to be there when it comes to nudity and language. From watching (most of) Nip/Tuck, and AHS, FX seems able to basically say anything except f*ck and only show rear nudity. I hard that AMC, which I assume is on the same level, is allowed one f word an episode.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 10/26/12 at 10:29pm

I'm still pissed Adam Levine was killed off so early.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/27/12 at 2:04pm

Murphy claims he'll be in more episodes. Knowing Murphy maybe he is Bloody Face.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 10/31/12 at 10:56pm

WTF was tonight? Zombies? Chloe with more embarrassing dialogue? Kind of a boring episode. Not scary.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/2/12 at 5:57pm

Yay!!! Murphy took my Zombie suggestion from above. I guess I was right that he really is trying to get every single horror cliche into this one season.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/2/12 at 7:11pm

Yay! Thanks, Eric!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/2/12 at 7:20pm

Also reported last week Dylan McDermott is returning as well!