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The Library => Broun Hall => Topic started by: War Eagle!!! on October 16, 2012, 10:33:18 AM
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Walking Dead is decent...but this shit is freaking awesome.
Watch the first 5 minutes here. Premiere is this Wednesday!
http://www.facebook.com/americanhorrorstory/app_216209925175894 (http://www.facebook.com/americanhorrorstory/app_216209925175894)
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Walking Dead is decent...but this shit is freaking awesome.
Watch the first 5 minutes here. Premiere is this Wednesday!
http://www.facebook.com/americanhorrorstory/app_216209925175894 (http://www.facebook.com/americanhorrorstory/app_216209925175894)
I caught a few of them last season and thought it was ok. Of course I have this ability to see a show I want to watch and never do. I will say that this season of American Horror Story has creepy all over it
and I plan on watching it. It helps that the wife wants to watch as well.
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I have the bad habit of DVR'ing a show for the entire season without watching. Then after two or three episodes into the next season I will get catch up b/c I usually watch a string of them all in one night. I had season one on the DVR and was thinking about 3 weeks into this new season I would start. My wife somehow deleted everything on our DVR three weeks ago. So no AHS or SOA. I have to go buy the box sets now.
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I have the bad habit of DVR'ing a show for the entire season without watching. Then after two or three episodes into the next season I will get catch up b/c I usually watch a string of them all in one night. I had season one on the DVR and was thinking about 3 weeks into this new season I would start. My wife somehow deleted everything on our DVR three weeks ago. So no AHS or SOA. I have to go buy the box sets now.
You missed out on Season 1. It was fantastic.
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You missed out on Season 1. It was fantastic.
After watching that trailer, I am probably heading to movie stop for my lunch break to get it along with the Sons of Anarchy that she deleted. :facepalm:
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After watching that trailer, I am probably heading to movie stop for my lunch break to get it along with the Sons of Anarchy that she deleted. :facepalm:
Just FYI...
You don't have to watch Season 1 to understand Season 2. Season 2 will be a completely new story as season 1 finished up at the end.
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Just FYI...
You don't have to watch Season 1 to understand Season 2. Season 2 will be a completely new story as season 1 finished up at the end.
Didn't realize that. I still have to get season one. Connie Britton.......damn, just damn!
Edit: I would punch you in the throat for a chance with that woman!
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Didn't realize that. I still have to get season one. Connie Britton.......damn, just damn!
Edit: I would punch you in the throat for a chance with that woman!
for the most part...i think WE!!! is right...although, i think a story arc will definitely be carried from season 1 to 2.
i'll hold him while you take a punch ...then i'll claim sloppy seconds.
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My $0.02.
Season one, in my humble opinion, was the best season of any television show of all time. Bold, I know, but that's my personal opinion. It kept you guessing and wondering WTF is going on better than Lost ever did. And by the season's conclusion actually answered them all, despite opening up new ones each week. It was by far scarier and more interesting than Walking Dead. To me, psychological, creepy kind of scary is far better than jumpy, gorey "scary".
I will certainly still watch season 2, but I have a feeling that it will play like a typical horror sequel to season one. Take Friday the 13th Part II for example, or Hellraiser II, or Saw II, or Final Destination II, or for God's sake, Halloween Part III. The story really should have ended with the first one. Every sequel thereafter is a bit of a stretch and a further departure from the original.
That being said, definitely watch the first season. I think there will be little throwbacks that will make more sense if you saw it. Jessica Lange's character is the "link" to the last season. Apparently some of the other "ghosts", like the gay couple, will be in this one too.
I have season one all digitally. Don't really know a way that I could get them to you, though.
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for the most part...i think WE!!! is right...although, i think a story arc will definitely be carried from season 1 to 2.
i'll hold him while you take a punch ...then i'll claim sloppy seconds.
Deal! :thumsup:
To me, psychological, creepy kind of scary is far better than jumpy, gorey "scary".
Good points. I am the saw way as above. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the good old fashioned horror movie, but I would much rather watch something that makes me go "oh, holy shit! The fuck did I just watch. Welp, time to lock the doors b/c there are some strange ass people in this world."
Sometimes the warped, twisted, shock value carries a lot more weight with me.
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Sometimes the warped, twisted, shock value carries a lot more weight with me.
This show will be right up your ally then...
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Horror movies lost me years ago when it became a competition to see who could out-gore the other. Just does nothing for me. The "psychological creepy" statement is spot on. Many moons ago, George C. Scott was in a movie where he moved into this old house after the death of his family in a car wreck. Turns out there was a little handicapped boy killed in the house by his father, when he drown him in the tub.
Scott would hear banging upstairs, which was the boy hitting the side of the tub while being drowned. Every now and then, a little rubber ball the boy used to play with, would come rolling in the room. Scott does his research and finds out it's the boy's ghost. One night, he takes the ball and drives out to a bridge and throws the ball in the river. He drives back to the house, opens the front door....and here comes the wet ball, bouncing down the stairs and stops at his feet.
That's the kind of "horror" flick I like. Rubber ball horror.
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Horror movies lost me years ago when it became a competition to see who could out-gore the other. Just does nothing for me. The "psychological creepy" statement is spot on. Many moons ago, George C. Scott was in a movie where he moved into this old house after the death of his family in a car wreck. Turns out there was a little handicapped boy killed in the house by his father, when he drown him in the tub.
Scott would hear banging upstairs, which was the boy hitting the side of the tub while being drowned. Every now and then, a little rubber ball the boy used to play with, would come rolling in the room. Scott does his research and finds out it's the boy's ghost. One night, he takes the ball and drives out to a bridge and throws the ball in the river. He drives back to the house, opens the front door....and here comes the wet ball, bouncing down the stairs and stops at his feet.
That's the kind of "horror" flick I like. Rubber ball horror.
I thought you liked Little German Boy IPA's?
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I thought you liked Little German Boy IPA's?
After a long day at the office, there's nothing like wrapping your lips around a Little German Boy
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After a long day at the office, there's nothing like wrapping your lips around a Little German Boy
Letting the hops swish around in your mouth, before swallowing.
You big ghey bitch...
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Letting the hops swish around in your mouth, before swallowing.
You big ghey bitch...
Mmmmm....Little German Boys
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I think that this season will have some of the same actors, but they will be playing completely different roles and story lines. I don't think anything is going to carry over. Jessica Lange will be in the show, but she doesn't play Constance. She will play a new character by the name of Sister Jude.
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I think that this season will have some of the same actors, but they will be playing completely different roles and story lines. I don't think anything is going to carry over. Jessica Lange will be in the show, but she doesn't play Constance. She will play a new character by the name of Sister Jude.
i stand corrected. i was under the impression jessica lange would be playing her role from the 1st season, but tell the story at a much earlier time.
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By the way, I am dissappointed the Alex Breckenridge won't be in this season. She is...ok...
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I think that this season will have some of the same actors, but they will be playing completely different roles and story lines. I don't think anything is going to carry over. Jessica Lange will be in the show, but she doesn't play Constance. She will play a new character by the name of Sister Jude.
I try to stay away from spoilers, so I had no idea about this.
But I just read all this here.
http://www.ibtimes.com/%E2%80%98american-horror-story%E2%80%99-season-2-spoilers-find-out-what-jessica-lange-adam-levine-and-evan-peters
WTF? This definitely supports my theory that it's going to be probably too much of a departure to even justify calling it the same thing.
Also, because I'm a huge dork, canonical discrepancies drive me insane. I don't even like when movie sequels use the same actor to play a different role from film to film. Fuck's sake, this is like half the cast playing different roles, like each season is a different sketch comedy bit or something. Doing that takes you out of that world, because in that reality we've bought into, there's already someone else that looks exactly like that person, and unless you at least explain it away as them being an ancestor (which is still a pretty cheap explanation), it makes no fucking sense.
I'll try to reserve judgement, but I hope they at least try to connect it to the first season in some substantial way other than the title and the cast...
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WTF? This definitely supports my theory that it's going to be probably too much of a departure to even justify calling it the same thing.
Which explains why they gave it a subtitle.
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I'll try to reserve judgement, but I hope they at least try to connect it to the first season in some substantial way other than the title and the cast...
They will not.
It's why the show won awards for being a mini series.
Each show is its own separate arc.
Think local theater where all the actors play a different role in whatever play they're putting on each season.
Think movies.
Did Michael Corleone prevent you from enjoying Tony Montana?
Did young Vito Corleone (Godfather 2) prevent you from enjoying Jimmy Conway (Goodfellas)?
Did Vivian Ward prevent you from enjoying Erin Brockovitch?
Did Tony Manero prevent you from enjoying Vincent Vega?
Actors play different roles. Doesn't bother me in the least.
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It bothered me that Jason Lee played Brody AND Banky AND Azrael. Same with Ben Affleck in those same movies. And those weren't even sequels. But Jay & Silent Bob were the common thread. Is Chris Evans Captain America or Johnny Storm??
That's a fairer comparison than completely different films that exist in different universes.
I guess I was just hoping they would expand on the story I loved. While they closed all the doors and wrapped the season up nicely, they still left open the possibility of going forward with Lange's character.
I guess I'll have to come to terms with this very unconventional way they're handling this.
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Seriously underwhelmed.
Felt like it tried to be freaky for the sake of freaky and pushed too hard to jam random shit in everywhere.
Two blowjobs, a jerkoff, a straight fuck with a hand-lick start, two bare asses and a horny nun? I couldn't keep it all together.
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Seriously underwhelmed.
Felt like it tried to be freaky for the sake of freaky and pushed too hard to jam random shit in everywhere.
Two blowjobs, a jerkoff, a straight fuck with a hand-lick start, two bare asses and a horny nun? I couldn't keep it all together.
Yeah...I wasn't impressed in the least. If I didn't like the last season so much, I wouldn't even watch a second episode. I will give it another shot...maybe 2...but of it doesn't do anything better than tonight, I'm out...
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Yeah...I wasn't impressed in the least. If I didn't like the last season so much, I wouldn't even watch a second episode. I will give it another shot...maybe 2...but of it doesn't do anything better than tonight, I'm out...
It's like they didn't understand WHY people watched last season.
It wasn't for the weird, kinky shit. I mean it was for that but also because the story was compelling and the weird kinky shit helped move things along.
Agree that if this was the first season I'd be done and not watch it any more. But because the first season was quality I'll hang in a bit longer.
Same with Walking Dead. Season Two very nearly lost me completely. All the farm shit and the whole Maury Povich "who the baby daddy" angle was numbing.
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It's like they didn't understand WHY people watched last season.
It wasn't for the weird, kinky shit. I mean it was for that but also because the story was compelling and the weird kinky shit helped move things along.
Agree that if this was the first season I'd be done and not watch it any more. But because the first season was quality I'll hang in a bit longer.
Same with Walking Dead. Season Two very nearly lost me completely. All the farm shit and the whole Maury Povich "who the baby daddy" angle was numbing.
That...and I am not impressed with the "alien" theme...
That just doesn't do anything for me either...
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Avoided this thread until I had a chance to watch I tonight.
Totally agree with what has been said though.
I still said "What the fuck am I watching right now?" but with an entirely different inflection.
Seemed a lot more Nip/Tuckish.
The show should be called Retards & Ghosts Across Time, as that would better convey the link between this season & last.
The alien angle actually kind of intrigues me, though. At least that's taking on a new angle so we're not just seeing a regurgitated carbon copy of last season.
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I fell asleep. Tried a second time...again dosed off three times. I miss Connie.
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Just watched watched the second episode...
It's definitely getting interesting now. Hope yet.
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So did everyone give up on this?
It's gotten pretty interesting. Didn't think I'd like it, but I do.
I guess I've gotten over the uncoventional way that these seasons are "linked". They exist in entirely different universes. More like a director's second movie than a sequel to his first. Like every Tim Burton movie starring Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter.
Anyway, much like the first season, each episode brings a new layer of WTF.
This is show is like the History Channel's wet dream. Aliens, Nazis, Demonic Possession...Ghosts?
I dig it. I enjoy Walking Dead as well, but for some reason still prefer this show.
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I actually just started watching it again last week. I am liking this season so far.
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Yeah, first episode sucked. Second one was really really good and the rest have fallen back in line.
I think the first episode just tried to do too much. It tried to be too edgy and it took away from what made season 1 great. This show is edgy enough without having to pump all the other bullshit in it.
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Okay...bumpity bump bump. I paid little or no attention to this thread before since I had never seen 30 seconds of the show. Is this the same or different from AHS Asylum? Because I watched Asylum the last couple of weeks and that's some weird stuff....that I can't figure out or turn away from.
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Okay...bumpity bump bump. I paid little or no attention to this thread before since I had never seen 30 seconds of the show. Is this the same or different from AHS Asylum? Because I watched Asylum the last couple of weeks and that's some weird stuff....that I can't figure out or turn away from.
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I LOL'ed at "The Name Game" scene.
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I LOL'ed at "The Name Game" scene.
See, that's what I'm talking about. It goes from this Broadway production of "Name Game" to a possessed nun raping a priest.
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:facepalm:
Your posts are hurtful, nookie. Do not expect to see me at the pancake social on Wednesday.
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See, that's what I'm talking about. It goes from this Broadway production of "Name Game" to a possessed nun raping a priest.
You're fucking up big-time coming in in the middle.
As discussed in this thread, each season are completely unrelated so you can pick up at the beginning of a new season, but don't even try to follow one after picking up in the middle.
Do yourself a favor and catch up. If they're not on Netflix yet, start with Season 1 just because it's awesome.
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You're fucking up big-time coming in in the middle.
As discussed in this thread, each season are completely unrelated so you can pick up at the beginning of a new season, but don't even try to follow one after picking up in the middle.
Do yourself a favor and catch up. If they're not on Netflix yet, start with Season 1 just because it's awesome.
So "Asylum" is the same as what you guys have been talking about? I'll go back and catch up, maybe this weekend.
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So "Asylum" is the same as what you guys have been talking about? I'll go back and catch up, maybe this weekend.
"American Horror Story" is Season 1.
"American Horror Story: Asylum" is Season 2.
Two completely separate stories that have nothing to do with eachother, but feature much of the same cast.
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"American Horror Story" is Season 1.
"American Horror Story: Asylum" is Season 2.
Two completely separate stories that have nothing to do with eachother, but feature much of the same cast.
Thanks.
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So, has anyone else noticed that season two of American Horror Story is sort of different from the first season?
What's up with that?
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So, has anyone else noticed that season two of American Horror Story is sort of different from the first season?
What's up with that?
Not Snaggle.
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Fuck you...Fuck you...and Fuck you.
Who's next?
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Fuck you...Fuck you...and Fuck you.
Who's next?
:meme:
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Oh - my bad. I thought this was a thread abut the BCS game. Was wondering what a thread about the Turds was doing in this forum.
Carry on.
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They are currently shooting Season 3 in New Orleans.
I seriously applied via email to be an extra. Haven't heard back. :(
Need to get ahold of their shooting schedule and just show up.
http://youtu.be/uWer7A7d-NE
http://youtu.be/BLLOK-HhE5c
http://youtu.be/fNNcB2eG8vY
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They are currently shooting Season 3 in New Orleans.
I seriously applied via email to be an extra. Haven't heard back. :(
Need to get ahold of their shooting schedule and just show up.
Will season 3 be a continuation of season 2?
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Will season 3 be a continuation of season 2?
Nope. Slate clean again.
This one's American Horror Story: Coven.
Based on a coven of witches, with a New Orleans voodoo theme running through it as well.
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Nope. Slate clean again.
This one's American Horror Story: Coven.
Based on a coven of witches, with a New Orleans voodoo theme running through it as well.
Thank god. I didn't make it all the way through the 2nd season. It fell pretty flat...
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BUMP. Have no clue if this was a rerun last night or a new season. Just flipping channels and came across the start of an episode. About witches. I made it through a little more than half before I started nodding off. If it got better at the end, I didn't see it because I didn't have any toothpicks handy to keep my eyes open. American Horrible Story
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BUMP. Have no clue if this was a rerun last night or a new season. Just flipping channels and came across the start of an episode. About witches. I made it through a little more than half before I started nodding off. If it got better at the end, I didn't see it because I didn't have any toothpicks handy to keep my eyes open. American Horrible Story
Wife made me watch it, best thing was spotting places in NO that we had been too.
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I applied to be an extra. Never heard back.
They've been shooting it here all summer, and I believe they still are.
I think I'm DVR'ing it, but I haven't checked my Tivo since earlier yesterday.
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I applied to be an extra. Never heard back.
They've been shooting it here all summer, and I believe they still are.
I think I'm DVR'ing it, but I haven't checked my Tivo since earlier yesterday.
That's right. I remember now you saying you had tried to get on as an extra. So new season.
Because of this thread, I got into it and really got to liking the show. A bit of everything including the occasional boner-worthy frick scene. Last night was just slow. Probably setting the story for the rest of the season. And maybe it did evolve into more like the other season's shows but I could only watch so much.
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I applied to be an extra. Never heard back.
They've been shooting it here all summer, and I believe they still are.
I think I'm DVR'ing it, but I haven't checked my Tivo since earlier yesterday.
Aren't there shootings there year round? I don't think it's limited to summer.
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Aren't there shootings there year round? I don't think it's limited to summer.
There's a marked increase in the summer, mostly due to block barbecues and porch sittin' weather.
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Took a while to get the pieces together, but I liked the direction of this season far better than the sicko-perv storylines that dominated last season. I quit on the series then.
Willing to give the witches a look.
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Watching it now.
The one black frat dude in the bus. I work with that guy.
Heard him talk on the elevator one day about shooting. Not sure if that's all he does on the show or what.
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Watching it now.
The one black frat dude in the bus. I work with that guy.
Heard him talk on the elevator one day about shooting. Not sure if that's all he does on the show or what.
Was he demonstrating how he holds it sideways?
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*Spoilers Below*
So this is sort of why I watch.
Precious mates with a bull.
Dirty mom jerks Frankenstein off and is later trophied to death.
Woman envisions voodoo fertility rite that ends with masturbation tease and goat's blood.
Tears over negro presidents.
Jessica Lange gnaws on scenery like the queen diva she should be.
The younger Farmiga girl is a better actress than her older sister.
A jizz reference from Julia Roberts' neice.
A couple of snappy one-liners.
And......
Why I feel like I shouldn't watch
Cartoonish characterization of Christians.
Not horror, but an interesting show. Is more about social misfits finding their place in the world than it is horror.
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*Spoilers Below*
So this is sort of why I watch.
Precious mates with a bull.
Dirty mom jerks Frankenstein off and is later trophied to death.
Woman envisions voodoo fertility rite that ends with masturbation tease and goat's blood.
Tears over negro presidents.
Jessica Lange gnaws on scenery like the queen diva she should be.
The younger Farmiga girl is a better actress than her older sister.
A jizz reference from Julia Roberts' neice.
A couple of snappy one-liners.
And......
Why I feel like I shouldn't watch
Cartoonish characterization of Christians.
Not horror, but an interesting show. Is more about social misfits finding their place in the world than it is horror.
Agree.
Precious diddling herself whilst getting caressed by a Minotaur got me hot & bothered...wait, what?
On the real, Eric Roberts' daughter is hot. Hope she's not gone for realz.
As for the Christians thing? I know my opinion is invalidated by most of you, but I don't think that was a generalization of ALL Christians any more than Kathy Bates is supposed to generalize ALL southerners as flagrantly racist evil villain.
It's American horror story, and this season in particular is focusing on the "horrors of the south", so to speak. Slave owners, voodoo, etc. Now they're adding in another element, which is the Westboro Baptist, stand in the French Quarter with a bullhorn and a giant cross and pontificate about how everyone around them are going to hell, type of nuts. I don't think it's their intention to stereotype all Christians this way. But there are those type of people, and they're more based in reality than witches or voodoo. And they're creepy.
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As for the Christians thing? I know my opinion is invalidated by most of you, but I don't think that was a generalization of ALL Christians any more than Kathy Bates is supposed to generalize ALL southerners as flagrantly racist evil villain.
Having read about the people who make this show, I'm pretty sure that's basically how they see all Southerners and Christians.
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Twisty the Clown, tho.
If y'all gave up on this show for the last two seasons, you may want to give it one more try. Looks creepy as fuck.
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Twisty the Clown, tho.
If y'all gave up on this show for the last two seasons, you may want to give it one more try. Looks creepy as fuck.
Watched it and yes, it is very creepy. This would be a wonderful show for all those who have clown phobias.
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It's American horror story, and this season in particular is focusing on the "horrors of the south", so to speak. Slave owners, voodoo, etc.
So did this show focus on the evil BLACK slave owners?
Because in LA, there were equal number white and black slave owners....
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So did this show focus on the evil BLACK slave owners?
Because in LA, there were equal number white and black slave owners....
One of the most ruthless and notorious slave owners in the south was William Ellison.
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Y'all still watching?
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I dare say this is better than even the first season. Damn sure creepier.
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Y'all still watching?
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I dare say this is better than even the first season. Damn sure creepier.
I thought this was even more creepier, especially the stuff that comes up on Google when you search this.
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Y'all still watching?
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I dare say this is better than even the first season. Damn sure creepier.
Disagree. First season was near perfect. Couldn't wait for the next episode because I didn't know what was going to happen next. It hasn't sustained that, even with the pretty decent Coven.
A lot of Freakshow is excess for the sake of excess. Nothing to do with horror. While the setting is certainly weirder, Coven was better. This is drifting into Asylum territory and I bailed on it after three episodes.
The acting is particularly bad so far in this one. Even Jessica Lange is faltering.
Yeah the clown is a weirdo, but the rest of the story just isn't getting the job done. The clown's spoiled brat pal is particularly stupid and grating. Whenever he's on the screen I'm inclined to turn it off.
I don't know that adding weirdo creepy next door kid from American Beauty is going to improve the situation, but his "extra face" looks stupid and is poorly executed. You'd think that in a series that makes me forget there isn't a real two-headed girl, they could have done better with that. Speaking of two-head? There's a continuity issue with her neck mole that drives me insane. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not depending on the shot. Somebody needs to pay attention.
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I don't know that adding weirdo creepy next door kid from American Beauty is going to improve the situation, but his "extra face" looks stupid and is poorly executed. You'd think that in a series that makes me forget there isn't a real two-headed girl, they could have done better with that. Speaking of two-head? There's a continuity issue with her neck mole that drives me insane. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not depending on the shot. Somebody needs to pay attention.
I'm sure you could care less but apparently that the writers have taken this character out of The Book of Lists.
From the always trusting Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake)
Edward Mordrake was the name given to an apocryphal 19th-century heir to an unspecified English peerage who was said to have suffered from a form of Diprosopus. According to sources, he had, on the back of his head, an extra face which could neither eat nor speak out loud, although it was described as being able to laugh and cry. Edward reportedly begged doctors to have his "Demon face" removed, claiming that it whispered to him at night, but no doctor would attempt it. He committed suicide when he was 23 years old. [1]
The story has been disputed in the past and was likely at least enriched with fictional elements.[2] The description of Edward Mordrake's condition is somewhat similar to those of Chang Tzu Ping[3] and Pasqual Pinon. Both Mordrake and Pinon are featured as the "2 Very Special Cases" on a list of "10 People With Extra Limbs or Digits" in 1976 edition of The Book of Lists.
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I'm sure you could care less but apparently that the writers have taken this character out of The Book of Lists.
From the always trusting Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordake)
No offense, but what does that have to do with anything?
I know who Mordrake is. It's the execution of the character on the show that's problematic for me. The back face looks incredibly fake.
I've got several problems besides the double face looking phony and stuck on with spirit gum.
Kathy Bates - Don't like her all that much and her accent is asinine here. Not sure what she's trying to do with it, but it's not working.
Michael Chicklits - He was good in The Shield, but not so much anything else. I'm not buying him as an impotent strongman.
Lange - Another shitty effort at an accent. And stop letting her sing. Stop letting any of the fuckers sing. Now. It's not Glee.
Two Head's mole. It's there. It's not there. It's there. It's not.
The shows are too long. Cut out half an hour of talking, PLEASE.
And even Mordrake. We're supposed to be scared of this spirit coming to take away a freak? Yeah... if his method of selecting which one to remove includes BORING IT TO DEATH. Jesus, he shows up and Bates babbles for 27 minutes in that shitty accent and he doesn't even kill her ass, just says "well, sorry milady" What a waste. Nothing to fear from him at all. So yeah, pfffftttt.
Make the show about the clown only, cut it to an hour and wrap it the fuck up.
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No offense, but what does that have to do with anything?
I know who Mordrake is. It's the execution of the character on the show that's problematic for me. The back face looks incredibly fake.
I've got several problems besides the double face looking phony and stuck on with spirit gum.
Kathy Bates - Don't like her all that much and her accent is asinine here. Not sure what she's trying to do with it, but it's not working.
Michael Chicklits - He was good in The Shield, but not so much anything else. I'm not buying him as an impotent strongman.
Lange - Another shitty effort at an accent. And stop letting her sing. Stop letting any of the fuckers sing. Now. It's not Glee.
Two Head's mole. It's there. It's not there. It's there. It's not.
The shows are too long. Cut out half an hour of talking, PLEASE.
And even Mordrake. We're supposed to be scared of this spirit coming to take away a freak? Yeah... if his method of selecting which one to remove includes BORING IT TO DEATH. Jesus, he shows up and Bates babbles for 27 minutes in that shitty accent and he doesn't even kill her ass, just says "well, sorry milady" What a waste. Nothing to fear from him at all. So yeah, pfffftttt.
Make the show about the clown only, cut it to an hour and wrap it the fuck up.
Well, to be honest I didn't realize that some of these characters actually existed. That makes it a little more creepy imo. My post are on the heels of seeing some of the images of these folks that Google provides. Weird but interesting really.
I agree with you especially on Kathy Bates accent. That bugs me. Also, the spoiled rich kid. He bugs me. I was hoping the black maid lady was going to slap the piss out of him.
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I'll give you Kathy Bates's weird accent and the musical element. The singing is extra dumb because they're clearly anachronistic. Fiona Apple? Lana Del Rey? The show is set in 1952 and the Del Rey song references Jim Morrison in the chorus.
Completely disagree about Dandy Mott. Super creepy and a compliment to the supremely creepy Twisty the Clown.
I also think the Mordrake demon face was pretty well done as well for a network cable TV production. It's not at all stuck on with spirit gum. It's clearly a CGI effect, as the face moves. It's not supposed to look exactly like a normal human face. It's a weird vestigial extra face.
Your strongman critique seems vague and forced.
I haven't noticed the mole continuity thing, but seems pretty minor considering the pretty amazing special effect for, again, a network cable television show.
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Well, to be honest I didn't realize that some of these characters actually existed. That makes it a little more creepy imo. My post are on the heels of seeing some of the images of these folks that Google provides. Weird but interesting really.
They've done that a lot in the show. Like the Axeman, Marie Laveau, and Delphine LaLaurie from Coven. They also had the Black Dahlia in Season 1 and Anne Frank in Asylum.
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They've done that a lot in the show. Like the Axeman, Marie Laveau, and Delphine LaLaurie from Coven. They also had the Black Dahlia in Season 1 and Anne Frank in Asylum.
I didn't watch too much of the first several seasons. I did some of the season where they were in the Asylum but not enough to follow the story line. So far I find it pretty interesting just because they seem to tip toe the company line when it comes to cable TV. To be honest, my interest was peaked watching the intro to the show. I think I saw one of the conjoined skeletons humping the other and the conjoined girls towards then end fingering each other.
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Meep
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Where does she fit in?
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Where does she fit in?
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Where does she fit in?
Only garage doors?
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If you didn't shed a tear for Twisty tonight, I gotta question your humanity.
Masterful job of making the despicable spicable again.
Not so much Jessica Lange, who is flailing like a three legged dog in a tar pit with this role.
Even though it was mostly devoid of gore and strayed too far into sexual sadism for my taste, I truly enjoyed tonight's episode.
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Closing out this season...
After the clown storyline flamed out early on, the rest of the series just floundered around. The performances -- particularly those of Evan Peters and Emma Roberts -- were astoundingly bad. Chiklis wasn't good, Angela Basset overacted horribly, Finn Witrock (or whatever) as simply terrible. Even Doogie Howser was really sort of wasted.
The first season was so amazingly good. It twisted and turned and you never really knew what was real and what was imagined. Even though I sort of suspected how it would end, I didn't really anticipate and was surprised. It was a 9 out of 10.
This was barely a 3.
It traded horror for meaningless gore. There was really not a single scary or spooky minute in the series after the clown died (and not much before that).
Instead of engaging the audience with excellent writing and intrigue, it substituted gruesome depravity for the sake of depravity. Lobster fingers, chubby fucking. It was just stupendously bad.
The season/series finale was the absolute worst of the lot. Poor Jessica Lange. She was fantastic as the former actress/southern belle neighbor in Season 1. She was marvelous as the queen witch in Season 3. Sucked as a nun in Season 2 (Asylum, so bad I quit midway through). She was horribly miscast in this role with her fake German accent and shitty singing. Given that all seasons supposedly tie together, I guess she was Elsa hiding in plain sight, but whatthefuckever. The entire storyline was stupid and wasted. Just a hodgepodge of stupid shit tacked together with tape and string.
If it ever comes back, I hope they get rid of all the actors on there now and go back to true horror and not just vulgarity.
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I turned Asylum off. I bailed on FreakShow.
Against my better judgment I decided to go back to the well one more time and give Hotel a chance. Two episodes in and I'm glad I did.
The first episode went back to the horror aspect. Sexy horror. Violence porn. It's dripping in blood, coated in gore, dwelling in the horror. It was fantastic.
Succubus kids, Vampira Gaga strutting around, sexualized gore, horrific characters, situations designed to make you uncomfortable. I just have to say Gaga isn't ever going to be a great actress and she's not that pretty, but in this role? Holy fuck. Pardon the pun but she absolutely KILLS. She's as close to perfect as you can get.
Kathy Bates is well cast as the caretaker/clerk. Burned man vamps it up as Cleopatra. Not sure what to make of the former two-headed girl as some sort of crack whore. Matt Bomar and Finn Cockrocket (or whatever) swish as models with an appetite.
That first episode was everything the show should have been for the last several seasons and strayed away from.
I expected a letdown in the second episode. Wrong. It didn't disappoint even though it was an extended, overly long episode.
Impressed with where it is and hope it maintains the pace.
THIS is the show I wanted from a series named American Horror Story.
When the absolute worst part of the show is Evan Peters (and he's pretty awful) there's a good thing going.
If you left it before? Come back.
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I turned Asylum off. I bailed on FreakShow.
Against my better judgment I decided to go back to the well one more time and give Hotel a chance. Two episodes in and I'm glad I did.
The first episode went back to the horror aspect. Sexy horror. Violence porn. It's dripping in blood, coated in gore, dwelling in the horror. It was fantastic.
Succubus kids, Vampira Gaga strutting around, sexualized gore, horrific characters, situations designed to make you uncomfortable. I just have to say Gaga isn't ever going to be a great actress and she's not that pretty, but in this role? Holy fuck. Pardon the pun but she absolutely KILLS. She's as close to perfect as you can get.
Kathy Bates is well cast as the caretaker/clerk. Burned man vamps it up as Cleopatra. Not sure what to make of the former two-headed girl as some sort of crack whore. Matt Bomar and Finn Cockrocket (or whatever) swish as models with an appetite.
That first episode was everything the show should have been for the last several seasons and strayed away from.
I expected a letdown in the second episode. Wrong. It didn't disappoint even though it was an extended, overly long episode.
Impressed with where it is and hope it maintains the pace.
THIS is the show I wanted from a series named American Horror Story.
When the absolute worst part of the show is Evan Peters (and he's pretty awful) there's a good thing going.
If you left it before? Come back.
You actually like something!?
:poke:
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I turned Asylum off. I bailed on FreakShow.
Against my better judgment I decided to go back to the well one more time and give Hotel a chance. Two episodes in and I'm glad I did.
The first episode went back to the horror aspect. Sexy horror. Violence porn. It's dripping in blood, coated in gore, dwelling in the horror. It was fantastic.
Succubus kids, Vampira Gaga strutting around, sexualized gore, horrific characters, situations designed to make you uncomfortable. I just have to say Gaga isn't ever going to be a great actress and she's not that pretty, but in this role? Holy fuck. Pardon the pun but she absolutely KILLS. She's as close to perfect as you can get.
Kathy Bates is well cast as the caretaker/clerk. Burned man vamps it up as Cleopatra. Not sure what to make of the former two-headed girl as some sort of crack whore. Matt Bomar and Finn Cockrocket (or whatever) swish as models with an appetite.
That first episode was everything the show should have been for the last several seasons and strayed away from.
I expected a letdown in the second episode. Wrong. It didn't disappoint even though it was an extended, overly long episode.
Impressed with where it is and hope it maintains the pace.
THIS is the show I wanted from a series named American Horror Story.
When the absolute worst part of the show is Evan Peters (and he's pretty awful) there's a good thing going.
If you left it before? Come back.
I got home from umpin last night and wife was watching whatever the last episode was, In the thirty seconds I saw before getting in the shower was some dude with a gun, shot a chick In the head and someone shot or stabbed him in the throat. Hell, I can see that on the local news.
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You actually like something!?
:poke:
Things that are well done. I'll give him that.
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I turned Asylum off. I bailed on FreakShow.
Against my better judgment I decided to go back to the well one more time and give Hotel a chance. Two episodes in and I'm glad I did.
The first episode went back to the horror aspect. Sexy horror. Violence porn. It's dripping in blood, coated in gore, dwelling in the horror. It was fantastic.
Succubus kids, Vampira Gaga strutting around, sexualized gore, horrific characters, situations designed to make you uncomfortable. I just have to say Gaga isn't ever going to be a great actress and she's not that pretty, but in this role? Holy fudge. Pardon the pun but she absolutely KILLS. She's as close to perfect as you can get.
Kathy Bates is well cast as the caretaker/clerk. Burned man vamps it up as Cleopatra. Not sure what to make of the former two-headed girl as some sort of crack whore. Matt Bomar and Finn roosterrocket (or whatever) swish as models with an appetite.
That first episode was everything the show should have been for the last several seasons and strayed away from.
I expected a letdown in the second episode. Wrong. It didn't disappoint even though it was an extended, overly long episode.
Impressed with where it is and hope it maintains the pace.
THIS is the show I wanted from a series named American Horror Story.
When the absolute worst part of the show is Evan Peters (and he's pretty awful) there's a good thing going.
If you left it before? Come back.
I did leave it before and just happened to catch the first two this time around as well. Agreed on all points.