I also really liked that she had a past beyond March and that is had to do with the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. She makes my hands tremble with how perfect she plays her role. I’ll give Murphy this: his “AHS” Halloween episodes are usually pretty awesome. Which is not something you’ll hear me say often about an “American Horror Story” episode. I felt like, for once, the pacing was spot on. The mood and tone were sexy and dangerous, the guest appearances (both actors and historical characters) were thrilling and for the most part, the acting was really good. Overall, I really enjoyed “Devil’s Night” for exactly what it was supposed to be: a throwback to infamous killers. Luckily that part of the episode was pretty minor. There’s just no excuse for that kind of laziness in a show that is five years old. Lots of bad writing decisions being made right there. She does this literally before even talking to her husband just once about what’s going on. Instead of asking any appropriate people any appropriate questions about her son, she goes straight to the woman who took him and decides (in what couldn’t have been more than a few hours of deliberation) to suck her blood… suck the blood of a stranger…a stranger who ADMITS to kidnapping her son. In light of that, there should be some basic beliefs we shouldn’t have to suspend and basically Alex blew through all of them last night. Instead, I’m thinking to myself, why doesn’t she take her son, missing for two years, to the hospital? Why doesn’t she turn the hotel and its owners in to the police for holding her son? Why in HELL doesn’t she tell her husband? I understand that we are asked to suspend quite a bit of disbelief for shows in general, especially horror shows, and double especially for Murphy’s shows. I expected big things from that plotline this week. At the end of “mommy” last week, Alex finally runs into her missing son at the Hotel. I really, REALLY dislike Sevigny and her stupid ass character, Alex. I can’t figure out how to segue into my dislike of Sevigny or her character so I’ll just jump right in. And I truly believe he will save this season. He plays the time period of his character to perfection, his gusto is frightening, and every time his façade betrays him and we catch a glimpse of the pure evil underneath the well-fitted suit and perfectly manicured mustache, I’m in awe. As far as the main cast is concerned, Peters has the lion’s share of moxie. Plain and simple.īefore I go on my Chloe Sevigny/Gaga rant, I must praise Even Peters once more for being so perfect at everything he does. Which makes for some kickass entertainment. But what the show has done is turn these very realistic phobias into extreme and supernatural ones. In reality, hotels are creepy or gross because they are the sum of the current guests and shoddy cleaning. One of the reasons a hotel was chosen as the “spooky” setting for this season lies in the fact that we have little control over what happened, will happen, or could happen in our hotel-even more frighteningly, our own personal hotel room-when we make the choice to stay there. From what I’ve seen of these killers in various documentaries and such, the actors did a fairly awesome job of portraying them and I wish like hell we could have seen more of them.īut here’s what I really loved about “Devil’s Night”: the idea that a hotel is the sum of all its past guests. I also love the postulation that March was the one to give all these killers tips on how to be a better at their, umm, craft. Regardless of the episode’s camp or exploitation, it’s just a really fun idea. Every Halloween, James March holds a ghostly, murderous dinner party with some of the most notorious serial killers of our time. This is an idea I can definitely get behind. “Devil’s Night” is a who’s who of serial killers. Last night’s episode, “Devil’s Night,” was the second type of episode next to zero plot development but a ton of fun. How Murphy hasn’t learned to balance these things in one episode is beyond me, but I digress. It boasts very little plot development and exists mainly for thrills or tone setting (or an actor’s vanity). The second type is more of a fluff episode. The first type jumps from plot to plot to plot and gives so much information that you either get lost or get bored. There are two types of “American Horror Story” episodes.
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