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At the heart of every remake should be, well, the heart of the original source material. You need to speak to the spirit of what you’re honoring, treating it with respect while also adapting it to the sensibilities of a new era. And because it’s scary to remake something that is often beloved in its [...]
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I had to live without heat, hot water, get creative with cleaning myself and was grateful for that extra cell phone battery I had to keep me connected with the outside world. I didn’t love it, but I learned to live with it. I decided if the Apocalypse did come, then I was at least better prepared than some, in terms of endurance, and comedic timing.
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Well dammit if Ryan Murphy was right: I did cry during this episode. Several times, in fact. He managed to take a show that deals with horrors both real and otherworldly, lives that shatter and try and piece back together, blood, gore, and then some, and made me truly care, by the end of this anthology.
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I don’t wish Lana death at the hands of her evil son, but I wish that she’d stayed truer to the virtue of the story she set out to write. Instead, she embraces the possibility of this being her “In Cold Blood” moment; and while I can appreciate that in her time it might have been harder to be honest, I feel disheartened at her perpetuation of sensationalism in the media.
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When a couple of our Asylum inmates get some very joyous and satisfying moments, all I waited for was when it was going to blood splatter into death. In fact, those moments when I knew something bad was around the corner didn’t nearly affect me as much as when something looked sunny and good.
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When you have a show like AHS, death isn’t always a permanence, and it certainly lurks around every corner. I was for sure surprised, though, by who the Angel of Death did take, even as I had the fleeting thought that one of these people had to go. And when that person did, I regretted their passing, but only fleetingly as it begat another death I did not expect at all.
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I’m gonna wax a little about the Show’s obsession with pregnancy. I’m not sure if this is a purposeful theme, but I’m curious if the trend will continue in the seasons to come. I’d also like to follow the roots of a baby conceived of good over evil. Granted, the show is called American Horror Story, but I’d still like to hold out hope that some good can also win out.
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I’ve always found it interesting taking seemingly innocent things and making them scary. In the 1950’s, it was ants, flies, and rubbery substances. And even though Santa has been bad and murderous before, this episode made me seriously consider walking across the street from any street corner Santa ringing the bell.
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It’s natural on a show that centers around horror take the time to explore death and it’s themes, and this episode introduces us to the Dark Angel, sweetly played by Frances Conroy, who I hope will visit again as she is amazing, and her baby-tinged voice is heartbreaking and soothing at the same time.
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