So here's the thing. It wasn't "good", but it wasn't the absolute incomprehensible sh*t show that the other past few seasons have been (although I have no doubt it'll get there, just give it a week or two). It seems like this year, Murphy finally decided to watch a horror movie and learn a thing or two about the genre. The problem is that his script reads like a horror movie edited for TV. He just doesn't know how to find that happy medium needed for television.
When Paulson walks down the hall and sees two girls (ghosts? who knows, they're not mentioned again) walk in front of her and then she just says "Is anyone there?" I wanted to throw my shoe through my TV. YES. Someone is there. You JUST SAW THEM. Like, not even from the corner of your eye, they were right in front of you. Then you go and decide to take a glass of wine and relax in the jacuzzi instead of calling the police or running away? You kind of deserve whatever happens to you then. And that's my other issue with the series - it's Murphy's total disinterest in writing characters with any common sense whatsoever. I don't care who you are, if someone attempts to murder you, you don't stay there. Things like this can work in a film where the constraints of two or so hours are on your side and the character might have no choice but to stay until morning or so, but when you draw it out over the course of 13 hours - little sympathy can be had for whatever happens to you from that point on.
Updated On: 9/14/16 at 11:59 PM