S11.E09: Requiem 1981/1987 - Part One

[AnimeMania]

As vitality expires, two old friends are led through unique journeys of retrospection.

Original Air Date: November 16, 2022     FXX    10 pm 

[iMonrey]

So Sam is on the beach and manages to pull the mask off of Leather Daddy, who turns out to be . . . Ronan Farrow? 

No way that was the same guy we've seen all season long he wasn't nearly beefy enough. I don't get who it was supposed to be though. Have we seen him before?

This episode didn't really work for me, although I admit to being moved by the final scene between Patrick and Gino. There was just too much time spent on dreamscapes and it felt very indulgent to me.

[SHD]

What?

[Mattipoo]

On 11/17/2022 at 5:34 PM, iMonrey said:

So Sam is on the beach and manages to pull the mask off of Leather Daddy, who turns out to be . . . Ronan Farrow?

LOL. I couldn't stop laughing when they made that reveal. 

Edited November 19, 2022 by Mattipoo
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[Madding crowd]

I took that reveal to mean that you could get AIDS from the cute boy you just met and that horror doesn’t always look scary until it too late. 

[rhofmovalley]

I thought the reveal meant he needed to accept his fate which was death, and that death didn't need to be frightening.  Also that he needed to acknowledge the pain and damage he'd caused others.  

[Dobian]

Terrifically moving final scene.  An interesting season.  Certainly the most serious of any AHS season ever.  Falls into the category of classic horror with the whole AIDs metaphor.  My only issue is that it wasn't scary enough.  It felt more like surrealistic drama.

[Starchild]

On 11/17/2022 at 6:34 PM, iMonrey said:

I admit to being moved by the final scene between Patrick and Gino.

I cried. It was eerily similar to what happened with me and my father last month, even down to some of the dialogue.

I think this episode was part poetry.