Rantasmo! I'd love to see another episode of on AHS, especially now that Hotel is wrapped up. From Lady Gaga to Denis O'hare, the episode almost writes itself!
(one of) My boyfriend(s) and I are witches - me gay, him bi - and he ADORES this show. Me, I'm just here for Stevie Nicks because "Seven Wonders" is AMAZING.
Omg this just reminded me. Every day in my senior year in high school the only gay guy I knew at my school sat next to me in the worst psychology class ever (the teacher just gave us worksheets) and he would ask me every day who I thought the next supreme was. Keep in mind I have never watched coven. It got to the point where I would just make up names and then he would argue with me LOL he was the best I miss that guy.
Thank you for the Jessica Lange comment! I have been saying for so long she plays the same character every season. I'm sure she's a versatile actress. And she plays her parts in AHS well. But don't be telling me they aren't all the same morally ambiguous sexy sass pot.
Coven was a very good season, and I also find it interesting how much the writers made it a very women-focused season. I feel straight men that tried to watch it probably didn't enjoy it. Over 75% of it's cast is all female and in the show all the male characters are either minor, or in Zombieboy's case, is literally a walking, attractive husk that's quite literally used as a trophy boyfriend and sex toy, which I found pretty funny. I loved Coven (not as much as Asylum or Freakshow), and all that plus the witches makes it unsurprisingly appealing to women and gay men.
Wolfgang Romine I'm a straight dude, but I loved Coven. Rewatching it right now as a matter of fact. I can definitely see how there might be more for women and gay men (there was also their sexy boy neighbour) but there is plenty of stuff that anyone can enjoy. Namely, some really great characters. Kathy Bates' character, as despicable as she is, was genuinely fun to watch and be disgusted by. Although Kathy Bates is basically always amazing. Marie Laveau was an absolute badass, because Angela Bassett is a badass (and hot as hell). And Papa Legba is one of my favourite characters of any season of the show. He's so damn creepy!
I'm still not convinced that Stevie was actually a witch. The implications are there from Misty, but her connection to Fiona could have easily been more due to Fiona's partying past than her actual magical power. Especially once she brought up Eminem.
I like Murder House and Coven, but somehow was put off by Asylum. Jude, Mary Eunice, Pepper, Lana, Kit, are characters I like, but I was just shocked about the Alien plot-line. That just made me question what the writers where actually thinking. Am I just looking at Asylum in a different way?
Haven't seen past season One yet but as much as I enjoyed it I keep meaning to watch more. Living with a witch I can understand why many people avoid "witch" movies and TV programs. It's pretty sad to see how our culture has turned an actual group of people into either cartoons or monsters and glossed over some pretty horrible things from our own fairly recent history. I can go see "Witch Hunter" or "Wvtch" or "Lords of Salem" all of which depict these people as evil and often monstrous. I know some would dismiss my concerns as being too sensitive but I've known many Wiccans, Pagans and such who've been denied employment or fired by their christian bosses for openly stated religious discrimination, perfectly legal in this state.
I've always found it fascinating how Ryan Murphy's sense of humor can make his characters appear as non-human if the dose is incorrect: one character seems unlikeable, but the entire cast feels like that too. If it's too low, it manages to seem out of place, if it's too much, it creates a sense of overkill. For example, I tried to watch The Politician the oher day, the first scene being Lovely Platt trying to fake his identity to what he thinks people want in order to achieve what _he_ wants. Ok. Overdone by Murphy at this point, but still felt like a reasonable thing to do for someone. The next one is this girl doing the exact same thing, faking that she enjoys sex with his partner just to give him the fake confidence to be the man she knows he can be and wanta him to become. _However,_ this time it felt almost inhuman for someone to be so adamant to not enjoy sex after her partner told her "maybe sincerity will do a better work". I did not continue because she did that face teenagers do when their moms are acting "childish" but they can't roll their eyes. And I wondered, if it's the same thing and the scene lasts for almost the same time, why did it bother me so much the second time, if the first one I already saw plenty in Glee and American Horror Story? I'm not sure which is the level needed to make a character with Murphy's sense of humor funny but still feel like human, specially if we take into account that most of tv shows are written by more than one person. It becomes rather weird when his already off-putting style of dialogue is done by his co-writers who, of course, have a sense of humor of their own. Sometimes it's cool, sometimes is not. Blaine Anderson from Glee has an almost copy-pasted version in The New Normal, but even like that, said character felt inconsistent enough that I will need to google his name. His sense of humor, his sass, is this plausible larger-than-life-ness, filled with quick one liners and witty comebacks that go unremarked upon by the charactwrs but acknowledge by audiences. At best, the character is endearing, at worst, it makes them feel like they are robots made of a single piece of cardboard. Either "unreal in the sense of iconic" or "unreal in the sense of nobody being like that", with no inbetween nor guaranty that someone will mantain their personality in a believable way. That's why I believe it's a particularly bothering coin toss with LGBTQ+ characters in his series: we take umbrage with characters we can't sympatize with, but it is particularly bad when a minority is written like that because we don't have enough good ones yet, if we compare to the overwhelming numbers of Straight Cisgender Characters Who Are Mundane But Likeable. Sure, sometimes we get the moments that makes us feel "you go, gurl", but others we just ask "Seriously? Seriously?!" with furrowed eyebrows. You can't take the sass from LGBTQ+, but you commit an awful mistake if you insist on making them sassier than the already sassy cast. Again, is not that his style is wrong, he can be funny, but it is under and overwhelming the persistence on making a diverse cast have the same style over and over with every series with his mark. Feels like a bast choir with only one range, and it can sound amazing sometimes, but others? Others the voices just fall flat.
It's interesting to me how people can have completely opposite opinions when it comes to which AHS season is the best. I loved the first, hated the second and really liked the third. To me it is a mystery how anybody can enjoy Asylum but so many do and I just can't figure out why :-) Those who love season 2 often hate season 1 and don't understand why ppl like me enjoyed it so much.
I don't know, when "Asylum" first aired I could't get into it and was especially put off by the aliens (I just don't think aliens and magic mix) and stopped watching it. Then, later, when the whole season appeared on Netflix I thought "why not" and watched the whole season in a couple of days. Second time around I liked it much better and was able to get past the aliens. I think it's one of those things that you either really love or really hate.
I wonder if he'll ever talk about Freak Show. You want to talk about messes. It's hard even to say what the narrative through line of that series was. It was kind of just stuff happening to a freak show and the people mostly dying.
Frances Conroy is the unsung hero of this series. Very upset she wasn't in Hotel and that she doesn't get bigger parts. IMO she was the obvious choice to replace Jessica and that was a HUGE miss.
Okay, so two things. A) I kind of liked season 3 better than season 2, because although the characters were less amazing, the story and universe made a lot more sense (and also. I adored zombie boy. He was the most random unimportant character but still he had like a backstory and was cute af) where as in season 3 you had just the impression of creepy things and arcs being all thrown together and it seemed stupid and random and ugh. BUT the characters in season three. SO AMAZING and yeah. Just Judy. And Lana. Holy shit Lana and Judy rule. B) You should watch Bibi Blocksberg. Maybe not the show but the movies. It's about witches it's a little bit stupid but it actually like really goes into this social stuff (Her frigging dad has hexophobia as a password for his work computer, this thing is hardcore.)
Gregory House I guess because it was less thrown together? I don't know in season 2 there was a creepy murderer (who did fit in I'm not saying that he didn't) on top aliens, monsters made by that doctor, the devil and overall it didn't conclude in anything much? Like, there was nothing that made sense of why they had alll of that going on. While in season three there was just this one story line and everything fit together and it had a nice ending rounding it up. I guess that made more sense to me?
Could you do an episode about Time Squad? If you've never heard of this show or don't know why I want you to do an episode on it watch this www.watchcartoononline.com/time-squad-episode-25-ex-marks-the-spot
I loved season one but I've been hesitant to watch more. Living in the bible belt my family sees enough casually hateful behaviour from christians everyday that all the religious iconography in the promos is a bit unnerving . Also as two of us are more or less part of the 'pagan community' season three seems sketchy. Maybe we'll give it a chance with the Rantasmo seal of approval.
