‘American Horror Story’ 4.08 Recap: “Look Who A
Perhaps I was just in a better mood and more receptive to the show than I’d been recently, but as soon as I saw that last week’s episode of ‘American Horror Story’ was titled ‘Blood Bath’, I had...
Perhaps I was just in a better mood and more receptive to the show than I’d been recently, but as soon as I saw that last week’s episode of ‘American Horror Story’ was titled ‘Blood Bath’, I had...
The latest episode of ‘American Horror Story’ could have been titled “Everybody Hates Dell.” I get the feeling that Michael Chiklis’ strongman character probably won’t make it to the end of the ...
Episodes of ‘American Horror Story’ have been running long this season. Last week’s was more than an hour and a quarter (including commercials). Reruns and syndication may wind up having whole storylines cut out ...
Following a two-parter of episodes that disappointed me greatly, ‘American Horror Story’ returned to its tried-and-true formula of freaks and psycho killers. Although an improvement, is this episode too little too late...
With these last two episodes, I’m afraid that ‘Freak Show’ has quickly dropped down to being my least favorite season of ‘American Horror Story’ so far.
‘American Horror Story’ often goes all-out for its Halloween episodes. This year brings a two-parter that started last week and will conclude this Wednesday. Unfortunately, Part 1 may be my least favorite episode of th...
With the second episode of ‘Freak Show’, it occurs to me that this may be the first season of ‘American Horror Story’ without anything supernatural in the plot. At least so far, there’s been no sign o...
With a completely new storyline and set of characters every season, FX’s ‘American Horror Story’ is a series in a constant state of reinvention. Even if you don’t like a given season, you never know what th...
With the first season now concluded (but a second confirmed), I think it’s fair to say that the results of Guillermo del Toro’s new vampire series ‘The Strain’ have been mixed at best. The show seemed to ha...
Just one episode before the season finale (and yes, a Season 2 has been confirmed), ‘The Strain’ works hard this week to move the pieces into place for a big showdown.
After a couple weeks of going in circles with storylines that went nowhere, stuff actually happens on ‘The Strain’ this week! The characters make progress and move the narrative forward! For half the episode, anyway. K...
In a well-written serial drama, even if the overall narrative may take a season (or multiple seasons) to resolve, the storylines in individual episodes will advance toward that goal. Someone should inform the writers of ‘The...