American Horror Story Season 2

[Burns11]

Re: American Horror Story Season 2

Yawn

For all the flash and chaos early, it really unraveled into a flat, abrupt bore.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: American Horror Story Season 2

It had the feel of a clip show to me. I liked the way things ended, but not necessarily how they did. Lana's conclusion didn't feel nearly as strong as the rest of her story had been. Everything else did little to stir the waters.

[CaptainZombie]

I liked bringing it to modern times with the final episode but this whole season just was all over the damn place just like portions of the season finale. Then they end things with some story pieces going unanswered. I'm hoping S3 goes back to what made S1 good. A good simple atmospheric ghost story with suspense that hooks you into the following episode as you anticipate next week. This season I hated watching this at times and thank god for DVR to FFwd past commercials.

[matthewk]

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I'm glad this season is finally over. I felt obligated to watch it through to the end in the hope that it would all make sense. It didn't. Instead it felt like they were making the story up as they went along each week, and then realized "OMG! we only have 2 episodes left to wrap things up". Too many random elements that were never fully addressed or were thrown in just to keep the audience confused.

S1 was 10x better than S2.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I never felt confused by what was happening, but I never felt like I knew where they hell they were going either. The ride was fun in a very different way from last year.

[Burns11]

Re: American Horror Story Season 2

Not so much confused with what was happening on screen, confused as to where everything was going and how everything fit together.

[matthewk]

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Not so much confused with what was happening on screen, confused as to where everything was going and how everything fit together.

This is what I meant. The confusion was more like "Why the heck is that in there". They never did fit everything together very well. It was a bunch of scattered horror elements thrown into a mixing bowl.

[jeremym480]

^ That's pretty much my take as well.

This season seemed like it was going to have a lot of promise. However, everything just became extremely crowded with mutants, a nazi, the devil, aliens, Bad Santa, an Angel of Death, a serial killed, etc. In the end all of it just seemed rushed. It's like they came up with a decent beginning, but didn't know how it would come together, so they just threw everything together. There's still so many things left unexplored

- We never got any explanations or info on the aliens
- the devil basically jumped from on body to another, but didn't when Sister Eunice died. What was up with that?
- the Nazi thing and mutants ended up being much ado about nothing and was quickly forgotten

Those are just some of the things I can think of off of the top of my head, but to me it seemed like rather than telling a good story, they were trying to come up with a way to shock the audience every week. From the unexplained aliens, to a deranged Nazi doing his mad scientist experiments, to a possessed nun raping a priest, plus there was the necrophilia, the grown man sucking the breast milk, etc, etc, etc.

With all that said, I'll still be tuned in to Season 3 and not only for the majesty that is Jessica Lange (i'm assuming that there will be a S3 and that she will be in it) , but because even though the story wasn't that strong, it was still oddly addicting. I'm just hoping that Season 3 is more focused on telling a cohesive and engaging story rather than going for pure shock value.

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[CMH]

They wanted to tell a story that included all of the horrors of the 1960s.

It was, in some ways, an homage to those classic horror stories of aliens, serial killers, exorcisms and anything else that happened this season.

Unfortunately, it was a giant mess. It felt as if they could not decide which of the stories they wanted to tell so they chose all of them.


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