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TV Show: AHS: Roanoke | Paleyfest Panel: 3/26 | Season 7: 2017
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Pink Cupcakes was the WORST omg. i nearly lost it and deleted the file after the 93847503536438th fake-out fantasy. I hope they NEVER do an episode like that again, my heart just can't take it 
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All I'm grasping from this is that we can't drag Freak Show for being trash because it sold itself as trash.
Coven had an entertainment factor the rest didn't, except for Asylum, hence why I often see those two as tied. Coven's last couple episodes were tragic because of how they wrapped up the story, and the same can be said for Trash Show, which had empty episodes of boringness that always seemed like they were gearing up to greatness (which they did with Blood Bath, Tupperware Party Massacre and Orphans), but then crashed and burned in the last 3 episodes. The finale's only good part was Elsa's story (and the only time it was okay for it to turn into the Jessica Lange show). |
Then you clearly don't grasp anything at all.
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The AV Club said it best:
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But American Horror Story: Freak Show takes the easy way out at every turn. It churns out dozens of potential plotlines, then chops them down, one by one, with no suspense or sense of anticipation. It sets up relationships and dynamics, then discards them willy-nilly. It trades tension and drama for gore, or for punchlines, or for sheer numb repetition.
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AHS: Freak Show isn’t invested in suspense or ambiguity or layers. It’s invested in big gloppy gushes of intestinal matter, so that’s what we get. It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s over. Less story, more spectacle.
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It’s appallingly lazy storytelling, and it’s characteristic of the whole season.
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The most taxing element of this season is its insistence on showing and reshowing the same sordid moments: Jimmy’s hands being hacked off, Elsa’s legs removed by a dirty chainsaw, Ma Petite’s drowning (imagined, actual, and remembered). I can’t even call them moments of shock, because they become dull through repetition. It’s grisly. It’s gory. It’s splattery, gutty, messy. But it’s not shocking. The most shocking thing about American Horror Story: Freak Show is how enthusiastically it squanders its potential.
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Dandy tells Elsa he never refuses a lady in distress. She’s not in distress, she informs him tartly, “but I am in a rush,” which sums up the whole episode.
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Pink Cupcakes was the WORST omg. i nearly lost it and deleted the file after the 93847503536438th fake-out fantasy. I hope they NEVER do an episode like that again, my heart just can't take it |
Pink Cupcakes is amazing. It has the amazing fake-out, the disturbing as hell kill of Matt Bomer, and the hilarious phone-call between Gloria and Regina.
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Pink Cupcakes is amazing. It has the amazing fake-out, the disturbing as hell kill of Matt Bomer, and the hilarious phone-call between Gloria and Regina.
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The issue is... that wasn't supposed to be funny. 
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The issue is... that wasn't supposed to be funny. |
But at least it was entertaining.
Anyways, Hotel has the winter break like FS did right?
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The sad thing is that I didn't put Freak Show on my Christmas list this year. Even when I disliked Coven, I still asked for it for Christmas. Freak Show never even crossed my mind.
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So, since this week reveals the 10CK, who are your final predictions as to who it is?
I'm betting on Will Drake.
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But at least it was entertaining.
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Yes it does, after episode 10, She Gets Revenge (December 16th) and then it comes back like January 6th.
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Pink Cupcakes is amazing. It has the amazing fake-out, the disturbing as hell kill of Matt Bomer, and the hilarious phone-call between Gloria and Regina.
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The phone call was one of the best 3 moments of the season 
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FS is truly horrific, but i'm sure once i rewatch it the whole way through with no interruptions, i will like it a bit more...even still, it is plain bad. such a shame, it was a cool concept. if they had made it more in vain of Asylum and less a campy, exaggeration of Coven's success, with realistic, rational and likeable characters.
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YAAAAAAAAAAS I finally watched this iconic scene 
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"Surprise, bitch," is LITERALLY iconic. Like, not just ATRL iconic. It was iconic. AHS will never have something that immensely popular again. |
This. It was the "im going to make you an offer you cant refuse" of the series.
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Uh, The Sacred Taking & The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks was in the second-half of Coven so this half-season decline y'all are talking about is automatically invalid.
The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks
The Sacred Taking
The Replacements
Bitchcraft
Burn, Witch. Burn!
Protect the Coven
Head
Boy Parts
The Dead
The Seven Wonders
Fearful Pranks Ensue
The Axeman Cometh
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I agree with you about The Sacred Taking but TMDOSN????  Messsssssssssssssssssssss
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Also, The Axeman Cometh isn't that bad
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Murder House
Home Invasion
Halloween (Part 1 + 2)
Smoldering Children
Spooky Little Girl
Piggy Piggy
Open House
Murder House
Afterbirth
Birth
Pilot
Rubber Man
Asylum
Madness Ends
Spilt Milk
Tricks and Treats
I Am Anne Frank Part 2
Nor'easter
The Name Game
Dark Cousin
I Am Anne Frank Part 1
The Origins of Monstrosity
Welcome to Briarcliff
The Coat Hanger
Continuum
Unholy Night
Coven
The Sacred Taking
Head
Protect The Coven
The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks
The Replacements
Boy Parts
Bitchcraft
Fearful Pranks Ensue
Burn, Witch. Burn!
The Dead
The Seven Wonders
The Axeman Cometh
Go To Hell
Freak Show
Orphans
Curtain Call
Monsters Among Us
Edward Mordrake Part 1
Blood Bath
Edward Mordrake Part 2
Tupperware Party Massacre
Magical Thinking
Bullseye
Test of Strength
Show Stoppers
Pink Cupcakes
Hotel
Chutes and Ladders
Room Service
Flicker
Checking In
Room 33
Mommy
Devil's Night
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Murder House:
Smoldering Children
Spooky Little Girl
Home Invasion
Murder House
Afterbirth
Halloween, Part 2
Birth
Halloween, Part 1
Piggy Piggy
Rubber Man
Open House
Pilot
Asylum:
Spilt Milk
The Name Game
Madness Ends
Holy Night
Dark Cousin
I Am Anne Frank, Part 2
Welcome to Briarcliff
I Am Anne Frank, Part 1
Nor'easter
The Coat Hanger
Tricks & Treats
Continuum
The Origins of Monstrosity
Coven:
The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks
The Sacred Taking
The Replacements
Bitchcraft
Burn, Witch. Burn!
Protect the Coven
Head
Boy Parts
The Dead
The Seven Wonders
Fearful Pranks Ensue
The Axeman Cometh
Go to Hell
Freak Show:
Orphans
Blood Bath
Edward Mordrake, Part 2
Tupperware Party Massacre
Edward Mordrake, Part 1
Monsters Among Us
Massacres and Matinees
Curtain Call
Bullseye
Pink Cupcakes
Magical Thinking
Show Stoppers
Test of Strength
Hotel:
Room Service
Mommy
Room 33
Chutes and Ladders
Checking In
Flicker
Devil's Night
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Woo I haven't watched Murder House in awhile so I'm not gonna try
Madness Ends > Spilt Milk > I Am Anne Frank Part 2 > Unholy Night > Dark Cousin > The Name Game > I Am Anne Frank Part 1 > The Coat Hanger > Origins of Monstrosity > Welcome to Briar Cliff > Tricks and Treats > Nor'easter > Continuum
Burn Witch Burn > Bitchcraft > Fearful Pranks Ensue > The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks > The Sacred Taking > Protect The Coven > The Replacements > Head > The Axeman Cometh > Go to Hell > The Dead > Boy Parts > The Seven Wonders
Chutes and Ladders > Room Service > Room 33 > Flicker > Checking In > Mommy > Devils Night
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Ew at the Freakshow hate on the previous page...
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its weird reading back through the thread and seeing so much negativity surrounding episode 7, everywhere else ive seen it mentioned its been getting praised
I thought Flicker was ok, not fantastic but better than a normal filler episode.
This season is definitely better than FS imo
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Wait the new episode is coming out on 10th Dec? Wow, that's my bday 
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