Bassett/Conroy For President 2016

Another classic "So clever it was almost definitely an accident" moment in AHS history. There's so many of them that you'd think it was intentional at this point, but given the "Smashing Oscar-winning Action Figures Together" storytelling style, I'm still convinced that the brilliant stuff is just stopped clocks being…

Definitely revisit Season 1, it really comes into its own as it goes along. I tried to watch it a few years ago, and bailed after a few episodes. A friend basically strong-armed me into revisiting it last summer with the promise that if you go into it expecting a tragedy instead of a comedy, it's basically perfect. He…

Just added that to the mental queue. I've really come around on her being a wildly underrated actress.

OH GOD I didn't realize that came back this weekend. It was reviewed here last season, hopefully they do it again this year, even though those reviews weren't heavily commented if I remember correctly. I need to go rewatch the Nightshift episode now.

Somebody call Loren Bouchard and Kristen Schall and ask them to pull together a short of Louise delivering That Jules Monologue from Pulp Fiction right the fuck now.

I didn't catch on until the beginning of this week's episode, as soon as they wrote off a chunk of the "expendable" supporting cast and then used Elsa as Schmuck's Bait (thanks Jill Soloway for a term for something that's always irritated me but never had a name for until now).

Literally listening to the iTunes version on Youtube as I read this. I really fucking love Lange's Elsa singing voice.

They can almost (ALMOST) sell it until they try to write an ending.

THIS AWFUL FAMILY IS CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS AS GHOSTS, EVERYBODY HUG BECAUSE THEY INVITED FRANCES CONROY

As much as I hate the show's need to over-explain its villains, his genuinely not understanding what was so strange about being dropped on his head as a baby got to me.

Even knowing LaBelle was only signed for three episodes, I really fell in love with the idea that Dandy would become a mass murderer, but with his whip-smart 70-year-old (Yes, I looked it up, 70, and holy shit) maid being the only person he was genuinely intimidated by. Another one for the Wasted AHS Potential Files.

I'm feeling The Inevitable Unraveling coming abnormally early this year.

It legitimately bothers me that Paul isn't one of the central characters this year.

I got completely blindsided by how great his monologue was about why he didn't tattoo his face. I fucking love him.

I'm not going to lie, that… affected me.

That's some "LIGHTS! I'm off to find the Mexican" shit right there.

This show is so terrible at huggable-moment conclusions. See also: Ghost Christmas, and Cordelia Becomes the Martin Luther King of Witches. They almost always feel awkward and unearned, and completely undercut the tension that came before. Although oddly enough, Sister Jude's Touched By An Angel exit worked for me for…

Also, the flashback finally fixed the problem that every 20+ year flashback of Lange has had on this series: you can believe the face, but not the hands. The world's first case of elbow-length leather gloves adding an infinite amount of credibility to a flashback scene.

Liked, while still pulling for Catherine O'Hara to play Alison's mom for reasons I can't quite articulate.