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TV Show: AHS: Roanoke | Paleyfest Panel: 3/26 | Season 7: 2017
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What are you guys' favorite roles each actor has played on this show?
For me....
Jessica Lange - Sr. Jude
Kathy Bates - Delphine and Iris are tied for me.
Sarah Paulson - Lana. But her performance as Sally has showed a completely different side from she normally does on the show and she's fantastic 
Evan Peters - Kit. Really well rounded character :clap3 Mr March has been a nice change for him though.
Denis O' Hare - Liz Taylor by far.
Angela Bassett - Marie Laveau. So perfect
Chloe Sevigny - Shelley
Frances Conroy - Myrtle. So many kiis. 
Lily Rabe - She's always fantastic, so it's hard to pick. But I'm gonna go with Sr. Mary Eunice...she had to basically play two characters and did so well.
Finn Wittrock - I guess Dandy, although I haven't really liked any of them tbh
Dylan McDermott - Johnny. He did so well.
Emma Roberts - Madison, she plays that role perfectly.
Taissa Farmiga - Violet. She played that kind of disturbed, dark teen role really well....Zoe was kind of odd.
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AHS: Scream Queens 
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Why does this sound so much like a TFM instrumental leftover
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Constance is the best character on AHS series overall. So that for Jessica.
Liz Taylor for Denis, obviously. Although I don't like his MH character, his acting there is amazing. Denis is such a good actor 
The Countess for Gaga
Taissa on MH (I forgot the character's name, but I just got high so you can't blame me)
Delphine for Kathy.
Lana for Sarah
Frances is Moira probably.
Lily is Sister Mary Eunice of course
Chloe - Alex
Finn - Valentino
Emma - Madison
Even is a tie between Mr March and Tate
Edit Violet it was 
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What if Queenie summons Papa Legba to the Cortez to help her when they try and kill her.
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Bitch, I am NOT ready for Queenie's ass in that hotel. I'ma need ha to yank out Madison's corpse from her suitcase.
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Evan: Mr. March
Jessica: Sister Jude
Frances: Myrtle Snow
Sarah: Lana Winters
Lily: Sister Mary Eunice
Kathy: Iris
Denis: Liz
Emma: Madison Montgomery (The best chara in the whole show, and no, not just cuz she has a bunch of one-liners)
Taissa: N/A
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Originally posted by C/H/A/N/E/L
Evan: Mr. March
Jessica: Sister Jude
Frances: Myrtle Snow
Sarah: Lana Winters
Lily: Sister Mary Eunice
Kathy: Iris
Denis: Liz
Emma: Madison Montgomery (The best chara in the whole show, and no, not just cuz she has a bunch of one-liners)
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Agreed on all levels. Taissa is quite enjoyable as Lachlan Drake, exceptionally. 
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Agreed on all levels. Taissa is quite enjoyable as Lachlan Drake, exceptionally. |
Bitch, I ALMOST put down "Lachlan Drake"
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C/H/A/N/E/L can you just entertain me for a second and explain why exactly you find Madison Montgomery to be, not just a good character, but THE best character in the entire series. I'm legitimately curious as to your reasoning
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C/H/A/N/E/L can you just entertain me for a second and explain why exactly you find Madison Montgomery to be, not just a good character, but THE best character in the entire series. I'm legitimately curious as to your reasoning
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Unlike how many people see her, I don't think she's just a bitch. Sure, Ryan created the character for Emma to flawlessly deliver one-liners and sarcastic bitchiness (legitimately my favorite form of humor; not just the insults, but the pseudo-deadpan delivery and everything), but she also managed to be extremely well-developed. She wasn't just a bitch with no explanation. Her voiceover in The Dead, along with the here-and-there stories about her life before the academy (such as when she talks about her mom at brunch with Fiona in the Replacements) show her background that kind of built her up to the woman she was in the show. Sure, her being neglected and kind of used as a money machine by her mother, and then had countless relationship failures and a lot of reasons for bitterness on her may not sound like the most intense development, but it's one of the most real ones I've seen on the show. I don't think background & development needs to be super realistic (I mean, it's AHS for God's sake), but something about her story captivated me. I understood her. And I loved her. I thought it was extremely poignant. And while it wasn't the seasonal focus, I legit would say she had better development than any other character in Coven other than perhaps Fiona. The only character I think rivals her with that is Lana, but those two are my top two. Other characters that make up my top 5, like Myrtle and SME, have a presence that I love, like Madison, and a personality I love, and all-around are amazing, solid characters, but I just was drawn to her a bit more than them.
Might sound a bit rambly & hard to follow, but if there's any other questions you have, I'll answer.
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Bitch, I ALMOST put down "Lachlan Drake" |
Who wouldn't? She was best when she dragged ha father Will Drake like when she questioned his sexuality or when she made fun after Tristan pwned his poor ass.
Zoe & Violet could never.
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I actually liked Madison and Coven in general, just not the finale and how everything wrapped up. It was ENTERTAINING in pure form, a thing that these two past season have failed to serve and people do a bit too much on season 3 just because it's less gore than others. It's not the best season, but it's not bad outside a pair of episodes.
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Coven's last two episodes were wretched and I'll never forgive Ryan for how he scrapped so much development in so many characters in that.
The biggest case of scrapped development was Delphine. It was clear he didn't know what to do with her. He had her there just to give Kathy a role, and we'd see how that immortal racist would be in real life, but then as the season went on it was like he wanted to redeem her, then at the end just changed his mind, decided she was still racist, and killed her.
And then so many characters had a bridge dropped on them. Delphine. Marie. Madison. Misty. Myrtle. All died for paper-thin reasons with paper-thin logic to hold it together.
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Originally posted by C/H/A/N/E/L
Evan: Mr. March
Jessica: Sister Jude
Frances: Myrtle Snow
Sarah: Lana Winters
Lily: Sister Mary Eunice
Kathy: Iris
Denis: Liz
Emma: Madison Montgomery
Taissa: N/A |
1000% agree with you for once!
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Coven's last two episodes were wretched and I'll never forgive Ryan for how he scrapped so much development in so many characters in that.
The biggest case of scrapped development was Delphine. It was clear he didn't know what to do with her. He had her there just to give Kathy a role, and we'd see how that immortal racist would be in real life, but then as the season went on it was like he wanted to redeem her, then at the end just changed his mind, decided she was still racist, and killed her.
And then so many characters had a bridge dropped on them. Delphine. Marie. Madison. Misty. Myrtle. All died for paper-thin reasons with paper-thin logic to hold it together. |
The thing about Delphine is that there was no way he could redeem her without causing backlash. That's the main problem about using real life characters in this show, Ryan can totally change their perception about those crimes they did and that will cause immediate backlash. Forgiving and redeeming Delphine for all her crimes was impossible. She was an evil woman whose crimes could not be excused, no matter what happened to her on the show. She had to die because letting her continue to live was unforgivable and her ending actually gave me great pleasure.
On the other hand, Misty, Marie, and Madison's endings were so stupid I can't forgive Ryan for doing that. Misty really didn't need to go (Zoe needed to instead of her) and Marie really did nothing wrong except stealing an occasional baby and kill Nan (who killed Joan anyway). Madison however didn't deserve her ending at all. Obviously she was a bitch, but killing her twice was stupid. She was already brought back so after she returned from the dead, her whole arc should have focused on developing her character's growth as her whole point of living was gone.
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Madison was a cute in retrospect forgettable character, just like the whole season. Y'all do too much on her corpse
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Unlike how many people see her, I don't think she's just a bitch. Sure, Ryan created the character for Emma to flawlessly deliver one-liners and sarcastic bitchiness (legitimately my favorite form of humor; not just the insults, but the pseudo-deadpan delivery and everything), but she also managed to be extremely well-developed. She wasn't just a bitch with no explanation. Her voiceover in The Dead, along with the here-and-there stories about her life before the academy (such as when she talks about her mom at brunch with Fiona in the Replacements) show her background that kind of built her up to the woman she was in the show. Sure, her being neglected and kind of used as a money machine by her mother, and then had countless relationship failures and a lot of reasons for bitterness on her may not sound like the most intense development, but it's one of the most real ones I've seen on the show. I don't think background & development needs to be super realistic (I mean, it's AHS for God's sake), but something about her story captivated me. I understood her. And I loved her. I thought it was extremely poignant. And while it wasn't the seasonal focus, I legit would say she had better development than any other character in Coven other than perhaps Fiona. |
I agree with this 100%
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I liked Madison but I think she's far from being the best character in all the seasons. 
I do think she was a bitch. I mean, it was cool to hear her background and why she was the way she was, but it would have been nice to see a bit more development.....she basically stayed a bitch until her death and didn't have much of a turning point. She was had no problem with Misty and Zoe dying, refused to revive Zoe, and quit the 7 Wonders because she was being a sore loser.
I think the best arc and development might have been with Sr. Jude tbh.
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The thing about Delphine is that there was no way he could redeem her without causing backlash. That's the main problem about using real life characters in this show, Ryan can totally change their perception about those crimes they did and that will cause immediate backlash. Forgiving and redeeming Delphine for all her crimes was impossible. She was an evil woman whose crimes could not be excused, no matter what happened to her on the show. She had to die because letting her continue to live was unforgivable and her ending actually gave me great pleasure.
On the other hand, Misty, Marie, and Madison's endings were so stupid I can't forgive Ryan for doing that. Misty really didn't need to go (Zoe needed to instead of her) and Marie really did nothing wrong except stealing an occasional baby and kill Nan (who killed Joan anyway). Madison however didn't deserve her ending at all. Obviously she was a bitch, but killing her twice was stupid. She was already brought back so after she returned from the dead, her whole arc should have focused on developing her character's growth as her whole point of living was gone.
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I agree with all of this.
I know "redeeming" Delphine was impossible because of backlash, but I'm just dragging him for even trying. It's clear he didn't know what he was doing with her. She worked best in her chemistry with Queenie, and the little jokes about her accustoming to modern day. But she never really served any purpose, and her development was so haywire that it was stupid.
And the tea on all those characters' endings. All the M's had bridges dropped on them; there deaths came out of nowhere, and made little sense. Misty & Myrtle died for LITERALLY no reason. Misty died to up the body count and I guess Ryan thought the idea of Myrtle burning again would be iconic or something ("BALENCIAGA!" was, but the burning itself was so unnecessary). Marie died for no reason, too. As for Madison, I have mixed feelings on it. I think it was fitting that she died since it happens to all AHS villains (but she was more of an anti-hero), and obviously wanted her to live since she was my fave, but the manner of her death bothered me the most. I mean, if Kyle had hit her over the head while she walked out and done something, I would've still fumed, but it would've been more logical than her having transmutation, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and concilium, yet her ass got strangled.
The way things went wrong at the end for literally all of the best characters and we were stuck with Cordelia, ZZZoe, Kyle and Queenie as our survivors was horrid.
I don't know why I go into Ryan Murphy productions expecting a fully-rounded, good story. He only pulled it off with Asylum. I guess it's just that the rest of the season is so hopeful and amazing (see: Coven, Scream Queens, and this so far) and then it just crashes and burns at the end.
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It is incredibly annoying how he basically made you start to like Delphine, she started to really change and have development....then she just went back to her old ways.
I also think that Cordelia's arc could have been a bit more gradual. It was so sudden the way she all of a sudden rose up.
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