I guess I'm the part of the GP who loved this episode without nitpicking everything. Yes, I can agree that the first half was a bit messy with flashbacks in flashbacks and etc. And only parts where Gaga's acting bothered me was in scenes where The Countess ran out of the hall after finding out that Rudolpho was dead and also in the scene in that church or whatever it was.
I mean, you could see difference between gothic enigmatic (wooden, if you want to choose that one) The Countess when she was staying there in a hallway with Iris and that naive actress. Gaga needs to train hard and then she will be able to do some good dramatic scenes.
Y'all make me analyze her acting after every episode

Just think that she's an actress who plays one of the main parts in the season and chill a bit, ffs
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I'm watching both SQ and AHS and I can tell that AHS is so much better, lol. I'm glad that Ryan puts all of his work into this show but SQ has been really boring after episode 6.
Excited for Emma