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American Horror Stories 1x07: Game Over//October 325th, 2021

 For consistency’s sake, I’m titling this post after the episode as I have been doing since the beginning. But the actual title I want to give it, is “WTF Did I Just Watch?”. I need to start this review off with a disclaimer that I truly did not understand most of this episode, nor do I understand what it means for the AHS universe as a whole or some of the characters we’ve met during this series. I’ve often said this show has left me with more questions than answers, but this episode has me asking more questions than Ken Jennings probably did during his 74 episode winning streak as a Jeopardy contestant.  Let’s start at the beginning.  This episode starts off, like so many have before, with a car driving up to the Murder House. This time our potential victims are a young couple, Connie and Dylan (I see what you did there, Mr. Murphy.) and all seems almost boringly same old, same old until Connie mentions what big fans they are of American Horror Story. I actually had to ...

American Horror Stories: Rubber (Wo)Man Parts 1&2//October 290th, 2021

 As some of you may know, depending on where else you may know me from, I am absolutely obsessed with American Horror Story. One of the big things I imagined doing when I started this blog was writing reviews of new episodes, but alas, there weren’t any last year due to COVID-19.  But, now that the spinoff series of standalone stories, appropriately titled American Horror Stories, has premiered, I figured it’s a good time to just get right into it. Right now, the series is only available to stream via FX on Hulu. American Horror Stories starts us off in very familiar territory, in the fan-favorite destination, the place that started it all, back in season one, the Murder House.  This time, we start off with sixteen-year-old Scarlett, traveling to the Murder House with her two dads, who have purchased it basically hoping to rent it out as the ultimate haunted house, not believing in any of the lore around it. It’s honestly kind of a fun idea, if we the viewers didn’t know ...