As things were unfolding, I didn't really need there to be a total surprise, but as soon as it was done I went back 8 minutes and watched it all over again. The two characters were clearly on the left and right sides of the screen and must have switched places without us knowing. (I don't feel it's a flaw, or I'm not…

I thought a major choice of the filmmakers was to whip us audience members around with the tone. At first it's magical, real Sophie tells real Ethan he shouldn't investigate it, he shouldn't challenge it (which he apparently did with a magic show performance in the past). Then you can't avoid but be on real Ethan's…

So can we reveal all the spoilers here? Because I want to talk about the very *end* end.

Another stereotype could even have been that Millennials post about global warming or social justice, but never get off social media to actually do anything about it. But Millennials being defined by indifference is not a thing. Madison is Lindsay Lohan, and I don't think anyone has ever blaimed her problems on her…

The scene draws together Fiona's conflicts about aging and being replaced by powerful female rivals with mother/daughter issues. She has the power to kill Madison, but also the power to choose her replacement by having daughter. But then, of course, her child is an independent person, so they clash, yet her child is…

What I've seen to be the basic plot arc of this season:
A powerful leader disrupts a longstanding truce, by setting free a serial killer, between the (so far) exclusively black Voodoo witches and the nearly all-white Coven witches, causing peace to erupt into war, in her tragic quest for immortality.

The previews for the next episode had Queenie on a bed with others standing around her, implying she was injured.

I felt like the AHS writers just left me to fill in all of the characters' motivation from another particular HBO show. "Someone else did it, we don't really need to put work into making this make sense…"

Laveau said Cordelia was in the "wrong tribe" and Misty was talking about how you need to find your tribe to find your real voice. Misty's also completely alone out in the swamp, currently. By season's end I think she gets a tribe full of zombie witches via Zoe, leading to some battles against all the zombies I'm sure…

Also, at least in this episode (maybe for most of the show so far), all of the men have been objects in sexual interactions. The Christian neighbor boy, object of Madison and Nan's gaze, was the most interactive, he actually spoke. Even though we have reason to feel sympathy for zombie Kyle, he has not spoken so far.…

I'm a little unclear, is Todd's point that including the image of a black man as a sex beast in this instance just reinforced the stereotype? I feel like the writers must think that they have (or they're going to by season's end) break down the stereotype somehow.

Re: Order and Disorder/Chaos, Wan and the others he led out of the city were living under the oppression of [whatever that family was]. An oppressive government or society would result from Order being too dominant, and the revolution Wan led was Disorder restoring balance. When he let Vaatu go, Wan thought he was…

Ah, my mistake. But yeah, so far we've seen her end up reacting aggressively when she gets to talk. And I guess she got to stand looking confused when paired onscreen with Kathy Bates.

Her movie choices make me think she's an absolute weirdo in real life. She ends up playing the most average people in those weird projects, though, so maybe she just overcompensates and holds back too much. She's likely going to lose it by the end of this season, though.

I think they chose to throw focus on Queenie this episode because they were filling out this whole centuries-long feud between White witches (besides Stevie Nicks), who learned from Tituba in Salem (but also inherit their powers through a bloodline?) and Black voodoo non-witches(?) who are more direct descendants of…

I feel like I accepted what was being shown to me, but it still didn't quite ring true.  So, the money trouble didn't come out of nowhere, because the writers tried so hard to not have it come out of nowhere.  I did actually think the specific comment Lane made to Don, that he had liquidated all his assets to start…

I feel like I accepted what was being shown to me, but it still didn't quite ring true.  So, the money trouble didn't come out of nowhere, because the writers tried so hard to not have it come out of nowhere.  I did actually think the specific comment Lane made to Don, that he had liquidated all his assets to start…

Throughout the whole episode I was comparing the illustration of Lane's irreversible choice to that of Joan's last week.  With both I felt that same awareness that "I am watching a TV show with writers who have been crafting this story."  Joan's story, though, was very cinematic, cutting between particular, awful…

Throughout the whole episode I was comparing the illustration of Lane's irreversible choice to that of Joan's last week.  With both I felt that same awareness that "I am watching a TV show with writers who have been crafting this story."  Joan's story, though, was very cinematic, cutting between particular, awful…

I thought he should have business cards:
PETER CAMPBELL
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