S02.E04: Milkmaids

[AnimeMania]

An outcast risks everything in order to save her small town from devastation.

Streaming:  August 11, 2022

[SHD]

Was this supposed to be a metaphor for AIDS? Or Covid? Or blindly following religious leaders? Anyway, nice to see Cody Fern.

[cdnalor]

Welp, we don't watch this show for historical accuracy.  Could Science Girl have been more of an anachronism?  I can't imagine how a milkmaid could even have access to books in that little village.

[AnimeMania]

Cody Fern as Thomas
Julia Schlaepfer as Celeste
Addison Timlin as Delilah
Seth Gabel as Pastor Walter
Ian Sharkey as Edward
Mark Daneri as Doctor
Sanya Arnold as Rachel, Thomas' wife

[HelloooKitty]

This was so gross. I could hardly look at the tv. I don’t need gross out horror. 

[AnimeMania]

Nothing is so unclean as a woman who lives with beasts. Isn't a cat a beast, didn't his mother and 2 sisters live a cat?

[Lethallyfab]

“Feed me pus from your open wound” is easily the grossest thing the AHS Franchise has ever done and that is saying a LOT, given said franchise.

[tennisgurl]

Between the heart eating and people sucking on an open wound, this was impressively gross, even by AHS standards. That's something at least, because otherwise this one is even worse than last week. Its too bad, I love Cody Fern and I normally enjoy AHS period pieces, but this was embarrassingly bad, although its pretty much what you expect when you hear "AHS in 1700s". Lots of speeches about the evils of religion and the patriarchy, sexy lesbians, pitchfork murders, and a modern anachronistic scientific cool girl who I kept thinking was going to be revealed to be a time traveler because no way is this a person who could have existed in this time and place. How does a poor milkmaid in nowhere 1700s have access to the latest scientific medical advances? 

Interestingly, both the eating hearts to stop an epidemic and the milkmaid pox were based on real things. Very loosely though, the New England Vampire Panic happened in the 19th century and was tied to tuberculosis and ancient folk lore, and the person who did research linking cow pox with smallpox and milkmaids seeming immunity was a British scientist named Edward Jenner in around 1821, however this episode impressively made both of these real life historical events much more boring. Also the phrase "are you ok?" definitely did not exists in this time period, that was just painful. I know that we don't go to this show for historical accuracy, but come on. 

Edited August 13, 2022 by tennisgurl

[hatchetgirl]

Ok, are we being pranked now? This was beyond stupid. The dialog was terrible, the acting was beyond awful. 

Ryan Murphy - do us a favor and take a really long break.

[iMonrey]

This wasn't even scary, it was just disgustingly gross. I could barely even watch it. By the time the milkmaid popped one of her pustules like a zit I was about ready to turn it off, and I don't even know why I bothered finishing it. Even worse than last week's, and it wasn't even written by Manny Coto. It was not a name I recognized or anyone who has written for this show before. Boy - never again, I hope.

[sugarbaker design]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

It was not a name I recognized or anyone who has written for this show before. Boy - never again, I hope.

Our Lady J was a writer on RM's Pose.

[Anela]

This is not good to be watching when I’m feeling sick.  Ugh. 

[mustbekarma]

Wow.  I could not believe how much I disliked this.  I want that hour of my life back.

[yourmomiseasy]

The finger sucking scene had me retching and dry heaving, it was only through will that I didn't puke.  I'm pretty certain it is the strongest reaction I've ever had to a TV show and I used to watch Bones while eating dinner.  That being said, this was stupid.  And I'm calling this stupid as someone that watched Bones.