But the AHS of season one is not similar to the AHS of season two….so how can S4 be similar to both of them simultaneously?

Except Kathy Bates says her accent is 100% Baltimore…so knowing someone from Pittsburgh really wouldn't be relevant.

But this means we won't have to sit through that abysmal fan fic-type review he did once per season….

The "little girl" is like 20, and I believe the real-life world's smallest woman.

She says it's 100% Baltimore, and there were definitely people from Baltimore on Twitter applauding her for nailing it.

What exactly about this is date-rapey?

Definitely thought hebephile referred to love of Jews…

I assumed that was a cover until she could have the talk in person.

Every time the sister told Carrie she needed to talk, I kept assuming "the talk" was going to be the reveal that the father died — which is why so much of the childcare burden was falling on her.

"She straight-up raped Quinn."

A positive review for this stinks of liking John Mulaney's writing/stand-up and not wanting to diss the show. I remember seeing the pilot over the summer and thinking it was one of the worst things I've ever seen on TV. Nasim's cuteness was the only thing that kind of made it watchable.

I feel like the CIA thing served to trivialize the entire horror show around the border.

— The last scene epitomizes the extent to which this season went completely off the rails. That should have been the pivotal scene that tied everything together, and the show put Eleanor and her dog-dad at the center of it. If THAT was supposed to be the big focal point of the season, then I must have been watching…

Didn't they do the same type of thing once last season as well? Love it!

In fairness, the main criticism of season one (for all its great qualities) was its need to spill out every theme and message for the audience.

I think it's clear they wanted to build to this outcome - he was not attracted to her physically but very attracted to her wealth/standing/importance, she was attracted to him physically but not at all impressed by him as a person - but couldn't quite figure out how to organically weave it into the story.

The Russell Crowe likeness was mentioned all the way back when McKenzie was on The OC, so you're definitely not wrong from an aesthetic standpoint.

A few big takeaways here:

Didn't roughly a year pass in 'show time' as well (once we did the three-year jump to the present day)? That's a pretty big jump for a serialized drama.

Wait - were there people who DIDN'T give that finale rave reviews as it stands? Insanity..