McDonald's or Burger King should make a set of Lange-in-Williams tumblers. Collect them all!

I'd personally like Murphy to give her other things to do, and ultimately he runs the ship so that's why I direct most responsibility for this his way.

If memory serves she was pretty good in the role, but it was a tv movie production so not that great overall.

I don't place any of the blame on her either. I'd love to see her tackling some different kinds of characters and other projects. But Murphy can't see beyond this repetitive Blanche Dubois/Norma Desmond mashup character he's created for her.

See also: Flat affect and apathetic response patterns.

I can see that point, I just think that on many (not all) levels it was garbage in, garbage out. Bates made the garbage entertaining and fun in some ways, but for me it never elevated the material enough. And in some ways (head watching civil rights march on the tv, for example), I thought the material was just not…

I'm still watching too and will most likely finish the season, but I'm just less enthused about it. I agree with you that it's the second-best season after Asylum and also agree with all the actor/acting nods you mentioned. Just for whatever reasons I'm just not feeling it anymore.

Oh well, just wanted to offer an alternative. I like LXG too but the similarities didn't bother me at all. By Prometheus do you mean Proteus, Frankenstein's experiment? I loved that storyline myself, he just kept breaking my heart over and over again.

Or when PD is compared to LXG and that is suggested as a bad thing and/or a ripoff. I love those comics but the idea of a literary mashup/crossover doesn't begin or end with them. And PD is a far better LXG-esque tale than the awful movie adaptation.

Thanks. I did a quick Wikipedia search before saying that and didn't see anything about releases at first glance, but I didn't exactly look very hard. And didn't check if any stores were selling it.

That doesn't really sound like a question I can answer, since I loved it from the start. If you didn't, probably safer to look elsewhere for viewing recommendations.

If you haven't already watched it, may I suggest that you offer up Penny Dreadful when it comes out on disc, as a viable alternative to AHS ? That's one worth watching and has a better balance of batshit WTF moments AND actual plot.

Sometimes the classics are the best.

I was patiently waiting to see what the various responses to this might be. Did not disappoint.

See, I thought Bates was good in a shitty role. I can't really fault her and think she did the best with what she was given. But I also agree the performance wasn't really awards-worthy. But the Hollywood awards process is strange and off-putting, and I don't put too much stock in their supposed meaning anyway.

That's true and fair enough, I guess. Great horror is really hard to pull off and in fairness to Murphy this show has never even pretended to be that, except maybe in S1 when none of us knew what the show was trying to be (at least early on before the batshit became a regularity). But I still think I'd prefer to…

Yeah. The credits promise something truly dark and awful like a modern take or Hellraiser or something - the consequences of messing with forces better left alone. We didn't get that.

Coven's credits are complete false advertising. And I can't help thinking this season would be better if it starred all those stop-motion figures voiced by the cast.

I can't imagine she's happy with it either. I wonder if she is still planning to exit this show after this season. But then again I remember reading her role in S4 was supposed to be reduced in comparison to past years., and it doesn't really seem so.

I think it'll likely be tangential and flimsy: Possessed nurse nun showing up in this season to bridge to 2. I could see them claiming that S1 Mulroney is somehow connected to S2 Mulroney/Dr. Serial Killer, etc.