I’m over 40 and I still find it hard to believe that there was an actual person named Joey Buttafuoco.

Absolutely. Hence why I find comfort in friendly, non-committed, shoulder shrugging agnosticism. I know that I know nothing and likely never will. I’ve been seduced by the siren song of neutrality.

I think Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have probably converted more people to atheism than Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens could have ever dreamed of.

Ice cream commercials should be like this ^...........not creepy.

I agree. This is the best reading of it I’ve seen. The show wouldn’t have shown the two different reactions from Paulson and Peters’ character if that wasn’t the case.

Evan Peters’ character does *not* seem to be on the “red” side. He is excited about Trump’s presidency, and perhaps even voted for him, but only because he wants to cause chaos, not because he is a Republican. ((Recent politics have gotten so static-y that we may forget this, but there actually were progressives…

Don’t forget Evan Peters dry humping the tv.

I fear that many viewers are going to be too distracted by the Trump backdrop to really get what the show is about this season. It isn’t ABOUT Trump or the election. It isn’t about the alt-right nazis or snowflake liberals. At least in the first episode, it’s really about a mentally ill woman whose psychoses intensify…

Ivy’s kind of a pill. ...uh. No pun intended.

Also, I hate to sound like a Trump supporter, but everything about Ally makes me think, “Jeez, what a fucking snowflake!”

Remember when Chappelle quit his show when he realized white people were laughing at it for the wrong reasons? I could see that happening to Ryan Murphy and this season of AHS. I hate Trump, too, but this episode was just too precious and seemed designed to inspire responses of “Triggered, snowflake?”

Not ALL male characters are off the hook-

Skip the body armor if you must but, really,please, please, wear a helmet. I’ve had two friends get in accidents on the highway- oddly enough not caused by cars just flaws in the asphalt - and though they had pretty bad fractures, the only reason I can still talk to them and not at their headstones is that they were…

I’m in the UK, so the only times people ride without helmets, it’s illegally. Usually because they stole some poor kid’s moped.

People taking photos on train tracks always makes me distinctly uncomfortable. Especially when it’s kids. Presumably it’s in the same way as seeing fellow bikers without a helmet or body armour makes me twitch.

ITA, this and The Shining are guaranteed to either give me nightmares or keep me from sleeping at all.

I just dismissed 3 comments declaring that art is necessarily dangerous (WTF? Maybe don’t use your toddler brother in it then?) and that trains aren’t silent. Just fucking Google it. Read one of many, many articles by everyone from the fucking rail companies to newspapers to science blogs that say the exact same…

I agree - the train tracks are the scary part. I don’t agree that trains are in any way silent, but they do move more quickly than some anticipate and unexpected moves by a little kid can make getting out of the way problematic.

I don’t care what you’re dressed like —DO NOT TAKE PHOTOS ON RAILROAD TRACKS.

Yes, why don’t flood victims just act like rational consumers and comparison shop for the best deal on water between price gougers? Let the free market decide who dies of thirst!