American Horror Story (FX) TV Show • Page 49

Watched S1 a couple years ago in Oct, watched S2 last year in Oct, gonna watch S3 this year and I suppose S4 next year. Pretty fun show, season two was pretty nuts

 

Season two is beautiful, man. Sounds like you've got yourself a solid plan there.

 

I loved the concept and execution of Roanoke alot

 

Of the 3 seasons of AHS I’ve seen Roanoke is easily my favorite.

 

American Crime Story is a million times better than any AHS season.

 

I don’t remember liking a single finally of any of the seasons. And probably the only season I didn’t like overall was 1984.

 

Oh for sure, not even close

 

I feel like Roanoke is the kind of show you expect to see when watching a show called American Horror Story for the first time with zero context to go off. It's scary. It'll make you afraid to be alone in your house afterwards, and I never had that feeling in any other season.

I think maybe that's the biggest issue for some? It doesn't have an overly cheesey story full of teen romance and drama, mixed with horror elements here and there. Roanoke just fucking goes for it. No other season of the show is truly terrifying in this way

 

Roanoke is one of the better ones for me too. Just felt relentless

 

Roanoke had the benefit of changing things up multiple times in a pretty creative way.

 

i loved the first half of 1984 and Apocalypse. But Murphy and co are so enamoured with "twists" that they're a detriment to the show. Both shows were also incredibly rushed, with very little payoff.

 

Nah, nothing about Roanoke was scary to me at all. I’ve posted about that at length in the past, but the format took out any possible tension or fear for me and just made me not care about anything that happened in the whole season. Cricket and Kathy Bates are the only parts I remember fondly at all.

 

Totally agree with their obsession with twists. It was one of my biggest pet peeves with cult. Multiple times every episode someone is turning on someone to a point where you can't keep track and it feels like a twist for twist sake...not something remotely in character for these people

 

Now I'm thinking I may do a Roanoke or Hotel rewatch soon. Already rewatched the first three a year or two ago, and it's the perfect time of year for it

I watched a documentary on H.H. Holmes yesterday so it has me leaning more towards Hotel

 

I really dislike Roanoke, for several reasons, not the least of which is, Taissa deserved better.

 

Did we ever hear why Taissa was given that shit role? Did she just really not want to come back, but Murphy was determined to surprise the fans so they figured a small cameo would entice her?

That bothered me a little tbh but that's only from knowing her in past seasons. Doesn't really take away from the season itself for me, it'd be fine if she was just some random actor

 

Maybe she only had time to film something quick for it. Definitely strange though

 

probably just busy, looks like she was in 3 different movies the year Roanoake aired so it's pretty easy to assume that scheduling conflicts happened during the filming of them all

 

I'm down for that. Standalone eps are something I can invest in ha.

 

I actually think this approach could be an improvement, given how AHS is incapable of sustaining any story momentum for a full season.

 

Yeah I'm definitely into it, especially with standard AHS still existing along with it

 

Yep, fully agree, hopefully this helps Murphy stay more focused on the story, start to finish