Well yeah the lack of any likeable characters (and I really mean *interesting* at this point—I don’t need to like them or empathize with them, but...) could be fine if the plot was so compelling that it made up for it. But, as you say, it really isn’t and doesn’t. I thought Murder House (maybe just cuz it all seemed…

Unlikeable cast isn’t as much of a problem as the lack of any actual plot developments so far. It’s just a bunch of unlikeable people talking about nothing.

AHS as a whole is an objectively-bad clusterfuck of a series whose only real redeeming feature is it’s ability to one-up itself and take some seriously…

Finally the show gets the grade it deserves.

Exactly. I also think part of the problem is... Does anyone care about ANY of the characters? Usually even in the worst season, even after just three episodes, I’d feel *something* about at least the death of one of the characters if (almost) the entire cast was killed. But... Yawn.

Mead’s line about the relentlessly dull young couple made me laugh. Surely, given her nanny relationship to the Anti-Christ, the movie should have been The Omen. I don’t love the instant doubling down on Coven’s biggest problem, which is that death became completely meaningless, but I did like their big entrance.

Yeah, so long as he hires the right folks and backs off. With him at the helm, it’s a shitshow for POC every time. 

I’m hoping Joan Collins’ character is only “AHS” dead, and not “dead” dead; because you don’t bring a legend like her out of semi-retirement, watch her steal every scene she’s in, and then brutally kill her off two episodes into the damn season. C’mon Murphy!

Definitely check Pose out! I had the same concerns going in but it's definitely not Ryan's take on PIB.  It's so good.

The glory so far of this over Hotel (my least favorite AHS season) is that the episodes fit into their damn time slot.

I realize it’s futile to try and bring real world logic, reason and medical science into Ryan Murphy’s fever dream but scoliosis is easily treated by a very common surgery.