I always find it interesting to come into an AHS review a little late, look at the community grade, spread out from A to B-/C+, then no C, C-, D+, D, D-, and then, at the end, the blip of Fs. It's like people just pop in to give the show Fs because they hated the show a lot three years ago.

After a season full of Funkadelic, Bill Withers, Migos, Shabazz Palaces, Pharoahe Monch, Sam Cooke, Kamasi Washington and a million other good musical cues, I was waiting with baited breath to see if we'd get the Outkast needle drop that this show obviously deserved.

That's precisely how I read it. Someone is red to signify to all who see them that they are being blocked by the system, rather than by an individual.

Maybe it's me, and that I've always watched thrillers and sci-fi for seams in the reality that's being presented to me as a means of trying to predict the outcome (which is why I loved Lost and Fringe, among many other things), but I kept being distracted by things throughout the episode that I think are there almost…

If Disqus and my depression cooperate, the winner(s?) of the final debate contest will be posted in the next WOT

For a real weird experience, (re)watch this and Ex Machina back to back.

I felt deeply, deeply conflicted watching this.

There's a bit of The Running Man to it, too, though only in spurts.

And Sarah Paulson's character's romance-that-couldn't-be-a-marriage.

Hotel really fumbled the landing, but still probably is the second (or maybe third) best of the first five seasons, behind Asylum (and maybe Murder House). Freak Show is the worst; Coven is saved from that title by the indelible Myrtle Snow.

I think I would marry Cecily Strong if I could.

I don't think they drink at Nina's bar together much. I think that Nina's is where Jimmy goes when Gretchen is working or otherwise busy.

The Babadook is an allegory for grief >_>

Go listen to some fucking Black Flag and Rollins Band

I cried but not happy tears.

It's an architecture term. The gist of it is that his house has dowels as reinforcing tools rather than nails, as it would have if it was all original.

you mean two fucking Denis Leary shows

Barefoot, too. Not only did she lose her costume, she lost her shoes. How? Who knows.

This episode was an A, but this review was a B-.

FWIW, Malden is an actual town in Massachusetts that's about 10 miles east of Walden Pond