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Hopefully this is a return to a more grounded story like season 1. Asylum wasn't scary to me because they went way over the top throwing in horror tropes. It was like a commercial haunted house attraction or something, which is great for an episode of something. Not a whole season.
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Just caught up on the first episode. Not bad, though the protagonists seem to again be on the bottom of the writers' concern list. Of course the A-list actors make the villains work. I'll probably stick around for more unless it veers straight into absurdity right away. Also got to say I read about the LaLaurie slaves mutilation incident in a book called "Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans" years ago, and that's one heck of a disturbing version. I don't think the show can get that skin crawling with it, but that story has always horrified me.
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Oct 11, 2013 01:10
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:This is a horror story told from the monsters' point of view. I would agree. I wondered at first if the characters were just hollow, but I think it's more thematic. They *are* the Carrie/old hag type supernatural women of folktale you don't want to come across. Their power is too strong to be reigned in so they simply accept that they're trouble for the world and go about covering it up after the fact. That interpretation is growing on me at any rate.
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Oct 19, 2013 17:31
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I think like True Blood this show has the weakness of trying to cover too much ground. Pretty much everything from suspense to character development relies on a slow burn, and instead they just have giant casts and all sorts of subplots. I hate to channel my high school art teacher but "less is more!"
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Oct 25, 2013 20:41
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johntfs posted:But like the right-wing religious nuts on some shows that have a change of perspective that gives them a sense of tolerance and compassion, I went back to the show last night to give it another chance. And I saw the tongueless butler in a woman's nighty try to pull Madison's corpse out of the chest in which he'd stored it so he could dance with/molest it, at which point one of the corpse's arms snapped off. To be honest I just saw that scene as a dark comedy gag. You see that oaf with a doll collection in his dress, and you think well ok maybe he's just a really sad individual. Then he opens the box... nope, it was exactly as creepy as it looked. Overall, I think I'm starting to actually get interested in this season though. At least the characters are crossing paths in some kind of plot and not just all over the place being shocking.
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Nov 7, 2013 23:37
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