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TV Show: AHS: Roanoke | Paleyfest Panel: 3/26 | Season 7: 2017
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Originally posted by Phenex
Someone created this opening and tweeted it to the DOP Michael Goi, and he replied with;
So the look of Hotel might be similar to this in some ways?
https://vimeo.com/132572317
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I don't like the order of names in that opening credits but other than that it is creepy enough.
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Bling Ring is the only thing Taissa's been good in, while Freak Show's the worst job Emma's ever done. Then again, bad acting in a bad season, so whatever. |
Actually, that would be her performance as Jill Roberts in Scream 4. But Emma was inexcusably bad in Freak Show. You CAN have terrible writing and still give an okay performance (Angela Bassett was the best part of her character, Evan was co cinching enough, etc.) Emma stood out as the worst performance of all AHS when she didn't even have the worst writing of the season.
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Originally posted by Phenex
Someone created this opening and tweeted it to the DOP Michael Goi, and he replied with;
So the look of Hotel might be similar to this in some ways?
https://vimeo.com/132572317
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This is so good 
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Originally posted by tigerlily13
Selena can actually act, I don't know why y'all are giving her a hard time about that. It's hard to imagine someone doing a horror role when they haven't done a horror role. I'm sure Selena could pull it off. It seems Selena has a thing for indie-drama movies though unfortunately. Olivia Cooke however would probably be the best addition to teh show. She's brilliant in horror and can actually act her ass off.
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Selea Gomez? Yeah, she was easily one of the only good parts of Spring Breakers (along with the ciematography and Britney scene). I'd take her over Taissa AND especially Emma in a heartbeat.
She's someone who needs to stick to acting instead of singing
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I'd lowkey be here for Selena as a depressed charrie or a sweet innocent girl who turns evil. That's it though.
That being said, Ryan Murphy needs to find Michelle Trachtenberg's agent and cast her next season (or in Scream Queens). She slays at the horror genre.
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Not me expecting some tacky 1-hour-build shack, and they come out with all this 
Slay Ryan! 
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Going back a couple pages to the Taissa/Emma debate, it's actually really simple, Emma is the superior actress. People just have a soft spot for Taissa because she was in Murder House.
People criticize Emma for being a one-dimensional actress (the bitch), but she pulled off Maggie pretty well given the not so great script and character development (or lack of). Taissa only has one role- the misunderstood teenager, and she barely pulls that off. None of her scenes have ever wowed me, where as Emma has got me on several occasions.
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Originally posted by X/O/X/O
They're not gonna make everything a Gaga homage just because she's in it. She's an actor, not the artistic director. Sorry.  |
Clearly not. I mean something that is dark and creepy like the interludes, doesn't seem so far fetched considering her announcment promo was like that. Apology accepted
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Smh @ people trying to blame the writing. Obviously Maggie was terribly written, but there have been no shortage of actors who have done okay or even well with bad writing. What Emma's acting did was exacerbate the flaws and shortcomings Maggie had as a character, which is horrible for an actor to do.
Emma was generally pretty good as Madison, but even then she had problems with convincingly displaying emotion. I distinctly remember Madison's "I am a millennial" monologue being an example of this. It's a brilliant monologue of Madison dealing with an existential crisis while experiencing numbness and sadness while pointing out the irony of her situation. Emma was handed this brilliant self-reflection piece and struggled to deliver it at all, let alone in any moving or powerful way. She sounded bored through most of it. 
The more thought I give it, Taissa isn't that much better of an actor, but it's less obvious with her for some reason? Zoe did completely suck, but let me defend Violet a little bit. I think you're all being a little unfair to the character.
It's been a while since I've seen Murder House now, but, speaking as someone who has been through long-term clinical depression, I remember Violet's writing as being decent. Taissa's acting was trite and overplayed at times and the Tate romance seemed targeted at a tumblr-y audience, but the actual writing and Violet's general thought process was typical of depression, if exaggerated. It's problematic that people associate that mentality with "angst self-diagnosed teenager" when it can be indicative of actual depression, as it was in Violet's case.
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It's also important to remember that Lily is only a few years older than Emma, Taissa and Gabourey, but can act circles around all three of them. I'm convinced that Lily would have been much better in any of their roles than those three were. And, no shade, but I doubt if those three will ever be skilled enough to pull off a complex, deep role like Sister Mary Eunice as well as Lily did.
Nora and Misty alone >>>
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Originally posted by KylieistBoi
I don't like the order of names in that opening credits but other than that it is creepy enough.
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I doubt Max will be in the opening credits, but this is the way I think they'll go.
Matt Bomer
Sarah Paulson
Evan Peters
Wes Bentley
Chloe Sevigny
Denis O'Hare
Finn Wittrock
Cheyenne Jackson
With Lady Gaga
With Angela Bassett
And Kathy Bates
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Originally posted by TheGreatestThing
Smh @ people trying to blame the writing. Obviously Maggie was terribly written, but there have been no shortage of actors who have done okay or even well with bad writing. What Emma's acting did was exacerbate the flaws and shortcomings Maggie had as a character, which is horrible for an actor to do.
Emma was generally pretty good as Madison, but even then she had problems with convincingly displaying emotion. I distinctly remember Madison's "I am a millennial" monologue being an example of this. It's a brilliant monologue of Madison dealing with an existential crisis while experiencing numbness and sadness while pointing out the irony of her situation. Emma is handed this brilliant self-reflection piece and struggles to deliver it at all, let alone in any moving or powerful way. She sounded bored through most of it.
The more thought I give it, Taissa isn't that much better of an actor, but it's less obvious with her for some reason? Zoe did completely suck, though, so. Let me defend Violet a little bit, though, since you're all being a little unfair to the character.
It's been a while since I've seen Murder House now, but, speaking as someone who has been through long-term clinical depression, I remember Violet's writing as being decent. Taissa's acting was trite and overplayed at times and the Tate romance seemed targeted at a tumblr-y audience, but the actual writing and Violet's general thought process was typical of depression, if exaggerated. It's problematic that people associate that mentality with "angst self-diagnosed teenager" when it can be indicative of actual depression, as it was in Violet's case. |
I agree with ALMOST everything in this post. The one part I disagree with is Violet being a good portrayal of clinical depression, mainly due to the fact she embodied most of the negative stereotypes associated with it (angsty loner teen who's into weird stuff, despite the fact that people with clinical depression can be well adjusted, having a thing for mysterious bad boys, constant moping, her never actually NOT being in the middle of a depressive episode, portraying her as "weird," etc.) I have it too and these are stereotypes I'm usually worried will be associate with me if people find out about it, so I don't really enjoy seeing Violet embody so many of them.
I have mixed feelings on Taissa. She's never really impressed me on AHS, but, in her defense, the writing has NEVER given her a chance to be good and she has been pigeonholed into being one note. And even with that note, she did have some okay moments (for example, when Violet got Sixth Sensed). In a Bling Ring she actually had good writing, and her performance lived up to it.
You are DEAD ON about Emma. I'd also add the fact that she had some scenes which, when isolated, are not inherently terrible but her acting in said scenes VERY much is. For example, her "drunk" performance when convincing to Desiree was a disaster. She didn't seem drunk in the least, it was just bad acting. Same goes for the scene where she convinces Grace to not tar and feather daddy. The acting was simply all around bad
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the set being built for Comic-Con |
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Tbh I don't really care too much for Emma as an actress. Like she's good I'm sure, and I really did like her role as Madison, but something about the way she acts just sucks to me. Not really sure what it is tbh. I do recall liking her in the show Unfabulous when she was younger though.
Lily Rabe can definitely play really different and complex roles, it's crazy how good of an actress she actually is. The fact that she was able to pull off the sweet and innocent charm of Sister Mary Eunice and then becoming a vehicle for the Devil is pretty amazing.
Misty Day who in my opinion wasn't written anywhere near as well as Sister Mary, was still portrayed really well by Lily.
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If only all of Freak Show was as good as "Orphans". It was truly everything. 
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Originally posted by XtinaPanicGodney
I'd lowkey be here for Selena as a depressed charrie or a sweet innocent girl who turns evil. That's it though.
That being said, Ryan Murphy needs to find Michelle Trachtenberg's agent and cast her next season (or in Scream Queens). She slays at the horror genre. |
Yassss Michelle would be amazing for this show!
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Originally posted by P!nk Forever
Y'all are paying the 2 actresses too much attention and make it look like a Britney/Christina rivalry. 
Can we argue about if Angela Bassett or Kathy Bates is better?  |
That's actually really hard  I'd pick Kathy though.
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I remember this one woman who asked a question about Lana at the Women of AHS panel. Sarah had just discussed the, "I may be tough, but I'm no cookie," line, described Lana as being manipulative, cutthroat, etc. and Sarah said how she loved portraying a complex, flawed character.
Then this woman comes up a bit flustered, says Lana was her favorite AHS character and asks Sarah if she thinks Lana was admirable, like a survivor rebelling against men in power. I think the woman loved Lana and Sarah completely decimated her view of Lana. Poor ha. 
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Y'all are paying the 2 actresses too much attention and make it look like a Britney/Christina rivalry.
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Angela for me, at least in this show.
Kathy's character was useless in Freak Show, but I liked her portrayal of LaLaurie.
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Any clues on what this season is about? Easter eggs from last season?
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