AHS: Delicate is a missed opportunity 

My dude, did you watch this season?

American Horror Story have a season without a pregnancy/parenthood storyline challenge (literally impossible difficulty)

This season sounds like someone watched Rosemary's Baby as a child and rewrote what they remembered while adding in more shock moments.

Hear me out…this would have hit harder if it was set in the 50s/60s when societal pressures to be a mother and work in the home were stronger. The DA would have not seemed so heavy handed and the father’s antiquated views would have been commonplace. Anna could been offered the opportunity to be the first female something. Showing more of the internal struggle juxtaposed with friends her age having babies and maybe a mother or MIL asking for a baby and critiquing her homemaking while being ab*sed herself and perpetuating patriarchal norms out of habit….

this season had all the ingredients to serve cvnt on the same level as coven… like you have kim kardashian, witches and you have emma, leslie and billie in the same room… 😭 and some of the new cast like the susan girl and annabelle were eating 🧎🏽

As someone who hasn't watch this season, I cannot adequately convey to you how unprepared I was for the sudden appearance of Mary I and Elizabeth I in this video... And then "flashback to 42 AD" FULLY took me out.💀

Found this on Reddit: In episode 7, the witches circle Adeline, Ivy says "You have no power other than what she gives you" then Sonia says "and takes away". So Adeline had power, it got taken away by Siobhan once she left the cult, which explains why the chant failed for her at the restaurant, because she didn't have power. Siobhan later gives Anna power when she accepts the baby and is given the green heels. Anna is able to cast the chant/ ritual at Siobhan with the power Siobhan gave her.

The potential this season had was HUGE. When the break happened between the two halves of the season I almost wished it wouldn't come back.

“The season is literally just Emma Roberts” Yup, gonna watch it

As long as we’re adopting books here, I would give ANYTHING for an AHS: Pretty Little Liars type adaptation. Staying true (mostly) to the series but the stakes are so much higher bc it’s darker, and the stalker could realllllly terrify us instead of just sending texts 90% of the time

1000% agree. I thought the old AHS was back and then BANG! 2 final 30 minute episodes that were predictable and lacklustre.

As a person who hasn’t watched Delicate, this season is so hard to understand 😭 like none of these characters seem like they have purpose it’s literally crazy

I thought we were done with the incest plot lines 😭

What really gets me about this season is that they optioned a whole ass book and still they did another demon baby/gaslight the pregnant lady story. Like how do you use someone else's material and still rehash the stuff you've already done countless times? (Sigh) Anyway, completely agree about Annabelle Dexter-Jones, she was the standout. But my god, that finale. Think this is the first time I've finished a season of AHS and felt like I'd just fully wasted my time.

Episode 7 was so good. I wish the whole season had the same pacing as it did. I hope they bring Annabelle Dexter-Jones back because she really shined this season.

This season take gaslighting your audience to another level

I was expecting to spoil the ending for myself watching this because I thought I was still waiting for one episode to air. But, no. That was really the last episode. When I watched it, I kind of threw my hands in the air, thinking, 'Well, at least there's still one episode left to tie it all together.' Apparently not.

Ave Hestia was truly the highlight episode. Adeline was really interesting to see and the coven really delivered like when Nicolette showed up I immediately started gagging like sooo good

Whoever told Kim that she can act lied to her

"These two eat together" doesn't even register as them eating food at this point lol

The Gorgina line made me pause the video, take a break, hydrate and come back 10 minutes later. That was a lot.

“Why did a little song put her to bed” 😂😂😂 Omfg this is what I come here for

i'm actually really curious, would you ever consider making a video in this style pitching like your dream season 13? actors rough plot outline cinematography etc. it could make for a great finale (for now) to the series and given that you've explained your thoughts on all of the seasons prior, it'd be neat to see what Peak AHS would ultimately be to you!

Oh god! As someone who read and loved Delicate Condition, hearing you describe how they butchered the story was torture! I highly recommend the book! Especially for people who ever gone through fertility struggles 🙌 For those who dont want to read the book, but want to know how much better the story is than on the show, I'll try to summarize/compare to the best of my memory. SPOILERS AHEAD FOR DELICATE CONDITION BY DANIELLE VALENTINE!!! Okay so, to start, the biggest difference is that Siobhan is another actress and friends with Anna, not her agent. Unlike Anna, though, shes very well established and is on par with Jennifer Lawrence as the book describes. But is still very close with and supportive of Anna. After Anna has her miscarriage, she talks with Siobhan on the phone and when Siobhan asks if theres anything she can do for Anna, Anna rhetorically asks "Can you bring my baby back?!" To which Siobhan acts strange and they hang up. So it wasnt getting an award that Anna asked for, but rather her baby back. Shortly after it is confirmed that Anna is still pregnant, she finds out that Siobhan is sick and actually has breast cancer. As Anna's pregnancy progresses, Siobhan gets sicker. While Anna is followed/watched by women throughout the story, none ever actually harm her or take her. Except maybe back home when she loses consciousness. During her pregnancy, Anna keeps experiencing things like coughing up feathers and sees a claw come out of her abdomen, but later there no signs of such things happening. She eventually meets with the Preacher woman, who reveals she too experienced weird cravings and was followed by these women during her pregnancy. All this, along with the reveal from Cora the receptionist that Dr Hill gives the group info on infertile women, Anna believes the group killed her baby and replaced it with something demonic. When she goes into labour, Dex drives them to the hospital but Anna believes the baby wants blood so she bites off part Dex's finger, causing him to crash their car. He dies but a group of women approach the crash for Anna. It cuts later to Anna recovering in the hospital and about to give birth, having no memory of what happened at the crash site. She prepares herself to have given birth to a demon but is surprised when her daughter looks perfectly normal. A member of the group is in the hospital and offers to let Anna relive what happened at the crash. In a flashback, it is revealed Siobhan and many other women Anna has encountered are part of a centuries old coven. But rather than replacing her baby with a demon, Siobhan used her magic to bring her fetus back to life. Since magic of this caliber goes against the laws of nature, it took everything out of Siobhan to do so, which is why she started getting sick. The hallucinations and cravings Anna experienced were a side effect of this magic. And Anna only experienced these things because she wouldnt eat foods with special herbs in them the coven made to mitigate her symptoms. Also the Spellbound dolls she kept finding were meant to draw the pain/harm into the dolls rather than Anna, but she disrupted their ritual and so that's why she struggled so much with the pregnancy. And the impostor ultrasound tech who broke into the hospital didnt cause Anna's miscarriage, she was just checking up on her for the coven as they were responsible for her getting pregnant in the first place . So this coven has actually been looking out for women for centuries and the only times mothers had bad experiences was due to them not trusting the coven's practices, like Miss Preacher. Siobhan reveals to Anna that due to the disruption in nature of resurrecting the baby, Anna might give birth to something otherwordly. But Siobhan says that if Anna agrees to let Siobhan be reincarnated as her baby, she will have a healthy child who will grow up with all of Siobhan's memories intact. The epilogue is several decades later where we will learn that Anna has had a successful career as an actress and director. And that she has an adult daughter named Siobhan who is also an actress. The daughter is "named" after the original Siobhan, who it is revealed died of breast cancer the same night Anna gave birth. So Anna did in fact accept the offer and allowed Siobhan to be reborn as her daughter. The novel ends with Anna befriending a woman struggling with fertility and it is revealed that she is now fully part of this coven. Helping other women conceive and have successful lives. So yeah. MUCH different and, in my opinion, a lot better than how the show played things out. Again, I highly recommend the book and definitely feel like the description of "a feminist take on Rosemary's Baby" to be accurate ♥️

Yeass I am so happy to watch you drag this nonsense.

I found your channel recently and now I find myself rewatching all your videos and excited for new ones! Keep up the amazing work, we love it!

I feel the same way about your thoughts on Adeline. I wish this season were about her being stalked by the Delicates and living a seemingly normal life until her showdown with her former sisters as they try to persuade her to rejoin the group. It would have been fascinating to see her have to fight her own sister and mother. While I enjoyed Siobhan in the current story, I think Ivy should have been the main antagonist, played by another actress. I'd also leave out the storyline about Dex's father and just make his parents normal people.

This AHS recap series was so good! I stopped watching during season 4 because I kinda lost interest, but I've always wanted to know what happened with every other season. Great video like always 🤧💜

i havent watched ahs since hotel but i love your videos!! gotta say: some seasons start to mix in my head right now... i feel like almost every season there's some kind of weird demonic pregnancy? also artists who have to make sacrifices for their fame and success? and immortal witches or whatever? i get it, some themes may tie all of the seasons together but from your pure recaps i feel like these topics are almost always presented in the similar way, with no deeper discussion, symbolism etc. very surface level.

this season had sm potential

At this point the only entertainment from AHS - aside from marvelous vids such as this one - is watching how bad it can get. It’s incredible how each and every season gets exponentially worse. This season wasn’t even trying. Remember all the spiders from the credits? They didn’t. Remember how absolutely nothing happens in the first like 7 episodes? Except spooky spoooooooky missed appointments? They didn’t, and figured throwing a bunch of nonsensical nonsense in the 12th hour would do it. If they’re going to continue being this dopey they need to crank the camp back up. All this dead baby stuff ain’t it.

As someone who has to take B12 shots, I can confirm, it does actually look like blood 😂

Adaline and her evil twin sister CARRIED this season

Your recap videos are some of the best on RU-vid! Thank you for another great one!

Slayed as usual. Thank you for putting your review out so fast so that I can watch this instead of the finale.

I’m dying. I love your just over it tone at the end!!

This is the one I've been WAITING FOR!! I haven't wanted to watch AHS since watching the first episode of Apocalypse, and Ive been LIVING for these recaps!!!

“This is Dexter, he’s kind of just a rich asshole.” lol 😂

This influx of videos has really gotten me through the end of this semester

You are literally so slay. Just found your channel and I’m loving it

Ive seen so many videos post aboit delicate after the finale but i waited for yours!!🎉

I always learn so much from your videos. You do research on cast, authors, writers etc. thank you! ❤❤❤

recapping the morning after the finale? hello? youre amazing i would lovvveeee to see you recap shameless

i just have to say, i cannot click on your videos fast enough! ahs was my absolute fav show ever until 1984 which i could not bring myself to finish. your videos are perfectly filling the ahs gap in my life since i stopped watching the show

we FOR SURE need Annabelle back in a future season if AHS will continue past season 13. she lowkey reminds me of Sarah Paulson and we need that “mother” energy in AHS.

Honestly, I don’t think we got a consistently entertaining and fulfilling season since cult.. like sure, cult suffers from a lot of flaws, but ahs has never been flawless, and the first 4-5 seasons suffer a lot of the same issues we’ve gotten afterwards. The main difference is that after the first 4-5 seasons, the show slowly got less and less entertaining, and slowly has gotten more and more intolerable and careless with the story progression over the years. While we still have good moments in recent seasons, it has gotten more and more consistently bad, and it’s not even entertaining most of the time anymore, and I hate saying this, but I think it would be better for all of us if ahs was cancelled. I don’t see us ever getting another consistently fulfilling and entertaining season. I think it’s time Ryan, and everyone involved with ahs to focus on something else, it’s not like this show is that successful anymore anyways..

this intro ate so severely i love

The Queen Mary exchanging her first born was an absolutely ridiculous detail. Queen Mary had a horrible life and horrible reign, she was despised by her subjects due to her blind hatred and exceution of protestants, and her marrying of the Spaniard prince Phillip. She was ridiculed for her inability to produce an heir. Phillip left her for it (not with an actual divorce but he refused to sleep with her, returning to Spain and his mistresses) People hated her even more when her marriage to Phillip forced England's involvement into the war Spain was involved in eventually causing the loss of an important stronghold. Queen Mary had the farthest thing from a fruitful reign and the suggestion she did is laughable. And though she was ruthless and cruel, she wanted achild more than anything and i think it's disgusting to suggest she actually did have a child and sacrificed it. The real Mary wanted an heir more than anything because she didn't want Elizabeth to to inherit the throne. I know it's all fiction but the selection of Queen Mary, of all people, for this twist is nothing short of idiotic. Elizabeth was RIGHT THERE WHY DIDN'T THEY USE HER?!?! ELIZABETH WAS THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY HAD A SUCCESSFUL REIGN!!

I couldn't with the exposition dump from the witches in the final episode, it was so clunky and goofy.

I personally feel like Emma Roberts is a wonderful actress- when she’s playing a villain. I feel the reason her performance fell so flat was because this isn’t her forte, she honestly just does better when she’s playing someone evil or at least b!tchy

Kim was fine and believable as the celebrity manager until she was asked to give nuance to her performance. It was whatever until they started asking me to believe she was an immortal evil witch (the "iphone face" was very real in those flashbacks). Cara Delevigne was just fine as well (I think she was better here than in Only Murders In The Building, I struggled to watch her act on that show). The fact that Emma isn't the strongest/most versatile actress didn't help, she is always better in campier roles. Sarah Paulson and Lilly Rabe have played similar roles in the same show and done it 10 times better so she had a lot to live up to. Overall the acting this season was disappointing when other seasons were known for the quality of the leading cast. The standout was definitely Annabelle Dexter-Jones, her episode was like a breath of fresh air. I liked her on Succession too so I hope she comes back for another season. - You were READY for this recap/review, I wasn't expecting it to be out this fast. Have a great day ❤

I had no idea they finally finished this 😅

I never saw American Horror Story but based on this video series...why does every season seem to have a pregnancy thing happening do the writers have a thing for that

I think you should do scream queens, I know you’re avoiding Mike’s mic comparisons but he only did the pilot, I’d love a breakdown of the whole first season.

The ending seemed so rushed like all of a sudden Emma Roberts character just had to say a spell and boom Kim’s character and all the other women disappears and her baby is all of a sudden normal? Huh!! 🤔

I quit watching American Horror Story after the first episode of Apocalypse but still like seeing what happened in the other seasons so I appreciate your review.

I'm glad you're covering this because the subtitle of this season annoys and confuses me and I can't be asked to Google it on my own.

You’re very nice for not ragging on Kim too much, but yeah she was nooooot good 🤣

I think necolec knew it wasn’t Sonia

Great video- much better than the actual season!

I love this and you! Thanks for your hard work Cain!

I thought there were 10 episodes and then hopped on the Reddit thread for episode 9 and was like that was the finale... what the actual super-fuck?

Just an FYIer, if your spouse dies while still married to you, they aren’t your ex-wife or ex-husband… that’s reserved for divorce. In several places in Africa and the Middle East, widows are forced to have ritualistic sex (???) to “cleanse” themselves and prove they aren’t witches. Refusal to do so makes widows at high, high risk of murder-and their kids, too. So we’re lucky that doesn’t apply in the West. Imagine your spouse dies and then instead of grief and support of your community, you’re forced to fuck someone you don’t pick… to prove people don’t die from fucking you. So sick. So widowhood is a complex thing throughout the world and most people don’t know the phraseology but I think we should. Great commentary as always! I thought Kim’s acting improved a lot over the break.

I swear I would be shocked if there ever was a portrayal of a pregnancy that wasn't weird AF.

You put this out so fast, icon, do you ever sleep?

The best part of this season was that it emphasized on the fact that the coven witches are truly the good witches as their magic are not inherently evil which means they are basically the avengers of ahs universe.

love your content!!! keep up the amazing work

Anna and Madison are Emma’s best characters imo. I love this season so much and no I don’t think it’s perfect but damn the plot/plot twists, the style, mystery, characters and gore was what made it so entertaining for me. The ending is actually so overhated. I do think Siobhan’s death is sort of rushed but that’s my only issue. All the questions were mostly answered and some were left to be desired. This season is very much old AHS and I have a feeling Delicate will have a cult following.

I watched this season with the thought of „they are following a book, maybe thats gonna help“ - boy was i wrong, they went completely off script from the books ending and im sorry, ryan murphy and his team SUCK at writing finales. Im done for good with the show after that finale 😂

Honestly justice for Ms. Preecher

The book was apparently so much better! From what I heard, in the book, the witches were actually good and were trying to help Anna.

So you're telling me it had nothing to do with spiders?

u were quick with this one big eat

This video was longer than the finale 😂

wtf is that star stick xD i am mesmerised. IT IS MADE FOR THESE TYPE OF VIDEOS

I think this season is that they’re trying to capture the old writing style, but they can’t really capture it as well as the other people that

Grezt video. You should do the mess called pretty little liars next

That’s kind of like General Hospital when they tried to get the capture the woman that wrote Luke and Laura familiar with who wrote General Hospital back in the early 80s and it’s like that when they got rid of that lady that they had to put on their own style

I got to the part where you mentioned its based on a book but didn't know how similar it is. I've read the book and now I'm back to finish the video and let you know if the problems are from the book or the adaptation.

The My Body video is so cringe but I do love the message lol

After watching a season of AHS, you should have a couple moments of feeling “ wow, I didn’t see that coming,” or “I am going to have to watch this episode or season again.” I honestly feel rewatching this season would be a TOTAL waste of time. Cora being a stalker near the end was not a twist, it was just lazy writing. The witches being behind everything else was not surprising, it was merely predictable. So many characters just made this season hard to tolerate. With the exceptions of Anna, Susan,Adeline, and Dr Hill, the rest of the characters were duds (Dex, Miss preacher, Cora, Ivy, The 2 Ashley’s, both of Dex’s parents, the house manager, the security guard). KK had some good moments, but Emma Roberts CARRIED this sh-t show!

22:54 in AHS (House) Montgomery did ab-rtions on the skde, if i remember correctly, and i think the baby jars are part of that? Might be totally wrong, im half awake.

Pickles + ice cream is a common pregnancy craving trope! Still dk why it was included... Maybe to show that there's still hope for her pregnancy to continue 'normally'? Who knows with this season lol- lots of story beats leading to nowhere, with the overall plot being somehow still wildly predictable

Genuinely enjoyed watching this season until the last 8 minutes. After that, i felt nothing but shame and regret.

so.... they just remade rosemary's baby but bad?

I was very disappointed with AHS: Delicates. I am not an avid AHS fan. However, I love the 1968 film Rosemary's Baby. So when I saw this season of AHS would be similar, I needed to watch! I am glad I did but it was definitely lackluster.

Yes. I didnf know Ryan Murphy didn't write this season. It definitely showed. You are right the AHS alums dev was wasted. What a shame!!!!

Great video thank you for watching this so I didn’t have to! It’s so upsetting because it’s truly nothing like the book which is fine but they just destroyed the whole spirit of the story to not even make it a good horror story. I think a direct adaptation of the book would probably have been a bit boring and could easily have been just a movie not a whole series. Buuutttt what I loved about the book is it’s actually feminist and about women supporting and taking care of each other while critiquing what it’s like to be in the medical system while giving birth. Like a genuinely empowering and interesting narrative not this shit. Any critique of how the main character was treated by her male doctor and partner got lost in all the bullshit and somehow the big villain was still women.🙃 That’s so tired but oh well. Thank you again for this lovely recap!💚💚💚 Oh and incest was NOT in the book. 🙃🙃🙃

I've always thought that a lot of the older seasons started strong and went to shit and then most of the newest seasons have been just overall kind of bad. I'm glad I watched this video rather than waste my time with the season. Here are my thoughts/theories: 1. It is implied that Rosemary's Baby came from the cult, led by Kim K's character. She gives the Auteur(sp?) script to the director and tells him that he cannot mention where it came from because it came from this same cult + just not wanting it to get around in general. I imagine it would be dicey if they had a bunch of people wanting scripts from them. 2. Maybe - big maybe - the prayer must be recited by someone that is human. 3. Maybe the reason why she is able to birth "the perfect baby" is because she's with Dexter. Perhaps its more of a circumstance thing + being able to manipulate her. Also how interesting to have a season end on a relatively happy note rather than open-ended

Honestly really enjoyed this season, par the last half of the finale. It felt like AHS was returning to how it used to be. Wish the last 15 minutes of the last episode were on par with a lot of the rest of the season.

Preacher is dead in the finale. The ravenhead were drinking her blood from her head which was placed in the fridge. It happened when they were doing some experiment or something. Tbh this season was so good until the finale happened... like wtf

Is it cool that I said all that? Is it cool that I'm kinda fat. Cause I knew that it's..

props to you for not going in on kims acting..I was laughiung every scene she was in

Wait can someone please explain, I watched the season weekly when it was airing and then it just stopped and never came back. When did it start airing again? Or was it just 1 more episode after all this time?

here for the roast

so excited to watch this ur my ahs source now since i didnt watch delicate

I loved this season! But yea, It was a HUGE MESS, and they needed another episode or 2. There was so much to explain and they were like ‘Nah! We’re good!’ 😂 AHS does t really doing endings anymore. The 2nd half of the season was getting really good and then the last episode happened. I had to google it and make sure that it was indeed the last episode. Never a good sign.

Honored to be first. Can’t stand the Kardashians but I’m looking forward to the camp

Yes I called Rosemary Baby from the start!!!!!

Honestly it was the finale for me... everything else was going so well :(