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Emma Roberts never went to jail. Evan Peters dropped the charges. Watching her tween/early twenty-something stans do mental and verbal gymnastics to justify Roberts bloodying Peters' nose and biting his face hurts my head. They keep insisting that he assaulted her, too, so she should get a pass. I'm fine with both of them being cancelled, but at the very least Murphy should stop hiring them.

Watch him in The Assassination of Gianni Versace. If I hadn't seen him in that. I'd think he was mediocre, too. He's been given nothing this season, but in the handful of scenes that did have some meat (like when he mercy killed Bertie) he's been leagues above the rest of the cast. I don't think we're supposed to believe he's straight. Between making his character an actor/aerobics instructor and dressing him in short shorts, I think they're intentionally trying to make him the 'totally gay actor playing straight' character from 80's movies.

For me, there's a glaring lack of an intellectual component to the story. Every season - even Roanoke - had a theme and underlying story that was threaded through out each episode. I can deal with mediocre acting if there's a point to the story. People accused Apocalypse of being all about fan service - and it was to some degree - but there were layers to the story. An entitled white man-child and his equally entitled male cohorts were all threatened by women in power and felt entitled to that same power despite their lack of qualifications. Last night I really tried to apply some kind of running theme to this season. Was it our fascination with true crime? Was it a statement about social media and duality and how the mask we show publicly is rarely congruent to the one we wear privately? Give me something to justify watching this crap! I'm also beyond irritated at how nobody seems to be questioning Ryan Murphy's decision to repeatedly cast Emma Roberts. It's a slap in the face to every survivor of abuse. I'm tired of Murphy's claim to be an ally when he's blatantly providing an abuser with opportunities. That's the antithesis of the #metoo movement and he's enabling it.

I mean, aside from the fact she's a marginally talented one trick pony who gets cast in lead roles on TV shows despite her history of being a Grade A bitch on wheels on sets and got away with assaulting Evan Peters because she's Julia Roberts' niece? The main reason I am so down on this season is because of her, Lourde and Grossman being front and center because Murphy has a hard-on for basic white girls.

Rabe classed up the joint, but she was playing Nora Montgomery, just at a camp. Seeing her reminded me of how great this show used to be and can be when focus is put on the story and not creating roles for Murphy's friends and favorites. This episode did nothing to further the story and was a great example of Murphy inserting in useless characters just to give his pets roles. Dylan McDermott served no purpose to the story. And now out of nowhere Trevor and Montana have some kind of unrequited love? Just end this season already. They clearly don't have much of a story and are writing it as they go along.

Not a doctor, but I do work in trauma and think I can explain. When you go through something extreme, like a car accident, parts of your brain produce an enormous amount of chemicals (cortisol, adrenaline, etc.) That can impair your pre-frontal cortex aka the reasoning center of the brain and shut it down completely for a period of time. It's why vets can hear a car explode and think they're back in combat on the front lines even if they're in a super market parking lot. She certainly saw the body, but her brain wasn't functioning properly enough to understand the significance of what had happened.

I think he's indebted to her in the sense that she's been supporting him and without her, he has nothing.

The post-Hotel/Gaga stan-filled audience is more about shock and gore and less about cohesive and intelligent story telling. Murphy has gone from innovative and original to churning out schlock while playing to a base of 14-22 year olds with disturbingly obsessive crushes on the younger cast members. They're the only thing keeping this show alive at this point and Murphy knows it. This season is missing the sophistication of previous seasons, mainly because of a marginally talented cast full of Ryan Murphy's personal inner circle. Not sure if anyone read this linked article. Murphy doesn't even hide the fact that he casts Grossman because they're friends and he positively gushes about how amazing Emma Roberts, Gus Kenworthy and Billie Lourd are this season. https://ew.com/tv/2019/10/23/ryan-murphy-favorite-american-horror-story-episodes/ I think he thinks if he says enough how talented Billie Lourd it, he will speak it into existence. And, sure, she had a tough time of it a few years ago with her Mom and Grandmother dying a few days apart, but Lourde is a 26 yr old multi-millionaire despite barely working and who has been handed a career because her father is Murphy's agent and little else. If she were talented beyond hamming it up, it would be one thing, but she's not. Despite that small discrepancy, she's forced down viewers throats and the all the teenaged viewers squee because she's just so cool. Same goes for Emma Roberts. Young girls love her because she dated Evan Peters, wore cute outfits and was given a few bad ass lines of dialogue. They don't care she's a fucking brat who beat up Evan Peters because she was coked up out of her mind. I mean, he wrote in AHS appearances for Stevie Nicks because he was so in love with her in HS. Come the fuck ON. Sorry to sound so harsh, but I loved this show and I resent how it's been destroyed simply because Ryan Murphy was a dork in HS and has some deep-seated desperation to be popular with the younger crowd and hot men who would never give him the time of day otherwise. (Don't even get me started on The Politician and Ben Platt and how Murphy thought it would be oh so cute to cast his Evan Hansen love interest even though she, too, can't act her way out of a paper bag.) God that felt good.

Can I ask what you think is tightly written about it? Because I'm seeing the opposite. I'm seeing a "let's throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach to the story. As for the episode, all it did was take everyone right back to where they were the previous episode. It didn't advance the story at all.

Did anyone else notice how awful that kiss between Montana and Xavier was? It reminded me of Jack and Karen.

It would help so much if there was one character to root for. This is just a hodge podge of WTF.

Bassett graduated from the Yale School of Drama, literally one of if not the best acting programs in the world. If she were white or a man nobody would deem her a bad actress because she's too confident. That's ridiculous.

I work in PTSD recovery. It's important to understand that a DA survivor's brain has been damaged in the same way it would if it had suffered physical trauma, like a head injury. Maddie is acting irrationally because the parts of her brain that handle emotional regulation and reasoning no longer work properly. It's not as simple as she's "melting down." What she's doing by befriending in the woman to protect her is actually very common.

This was the first episode where I paid attention to Lena. Yikes. Please get rid of her. Of course they had to show her in a UFC-style fighting match. Buck's lawsuit was destined to go away quickly. Weird he didn't tell his lawyer from the start he just wanted his job back.

TV Guide confirmed the season has been cut back. It was supposed to be 10 episodes and they decided mid-season to shorten it to 9. That can't be a good sign.

Eh, I think Murphy's feminist ally persona is more self-serving than anything else. And let's not forget that he has repeatedly cast Emma Roberts - a domestic abuser - and never once addressed it. That takes a lot of arrogance in this climate. Even more so given how he treated Diana Agron and Melissa Benoist for not kissing his ass. Moving on... I like JLH. Anyone that can last 20+ years in show business and still be a decent/nice person will get my support. I think she's great in the role and I like that they're addressing her PTSD. Buck's decision was so stupid, but it tracks given he, too, is suffering PTSD. Oliver Stark has been getting a decent amount of praise from sites like TV Line and The Wrap for his performance in the first 3 eposodes. It's too bad they're going to damage the character with this law suit.

One of the AHS fan accounts on Instagram is saying that this season has been cut from 10 to 9 episodes. I never take anything those pages say seriously, but I wouldn't mind if they shortened the season. With next week being the 100th episode, I'm wondering if any previous characters will appear. And then the week after that is the annual Halloween episode. Lots of possibilities. I;m sure they'll waste all of them. I think it's probably much simpler: who ever dies on the grounds stays there. I think Chet and Trevor will be back

I think Ramirez and Jingles can leave the grounds because they pledged their souls to Satan and were re-born. I agree with the poster that said they were all alive when they got to the camp. While live-tweeting the episode, I saw someone else refer to Xavier as Xander, so Brooke must have said that name. Mistake? Intentional? No idea. I'm also confused as to how Montana had not a drop of blood on her during that extended fight with Brooke. Have to say that when Billie Lourde is given something to do besides simper, she's pretty enjoyable. Chet's death got to me the most. I remember an investigation ID or Dateline episode about a couple being robbed aboard their boat, tied up back to back and hitched to the anchor, which was then thrown over board. Those few seconds of hearing the anchor chain unfurl knowing what was coming must have been sheer terror.

I'm so very, very irritated right now. I just want a linear storyline. Is that too much to ask? Nope. It's a mess. Murphy knows people will keep watching no matter what. He doesn't give a shit.

If the AHS Instagram Account I follow is right, Sarah Paulson isn't going to appear this season but Lily Rabe is. She's going to be in the episode titled The Woman in White. Didn't they refer to Stevie Nicks as The White Witch? God, please don't let them insert Nicks into another episode. The only character I'm invested in is Xavier, partly because I like Cody Fern and partly because X. is the only one with an interesting back story. Oh, and because Fern is the only member of the cast can act. Though I have to say the way he cries in every "dramatic" scene is getting a bit much.

I'm with you. Unless I missed a Very Special Investigation Discovery episode, Richard Ramirez was not murdered by a serial killer and then resurrected. You can't just invent a back story for a real-life figure. The entire season of Apocalypse was written around Queenie's death in Hotel, and she's a work of fiction! That's why I keep coming back to this all being some kind of fantasy, like the van license plate said in the first episode. None of this is real. It can't be. Could they all be characters in a virtual reality game? That's different enough from Roanoke to not be a recycling of the idea of a show within a show.

He's the strongest member of this cast. I've always liked the small choices he makes that add a layer to his character. Those small moments are what he does best.

Pretty much me the whole episode. The most suspenseful moment of this season so far was watching Cody Fern broil in an oven. Other than that? Everything has been predicted. But god bless Fern and how he commits to his performances even with dreck material.

I think he found him too pathetic to kill.

I find it very curious that Cody Fern hasn't posted once about 1984 other than the cast announcement months ago. In fact, he's barely posted at all. He did the same thing with HOC and he was very public about how disappointed he was with that experience. He hasn't done an ounce of promotion for this season. Every other cast member has been posting behind the scenes stuff. Nothing from Fern. That's weird. I'm now starting to wonder if people refused to come back.