1 I am a huge fan of the Netflix series. Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, and Arrested Development are some of the series I really enjoyed. However, even though I knew the Netflix series had great productions, I was way too scared to watch American Horror Story. But when I finally had the courage to start the series, I was hooked from the start. Each season has a different story line. The first season is about a house with dead spirits trapped within the house. New families that move into the house unfortunately suffer from fear and even death. The first season was very strong in terms of their story line - the romance between Violet and Tate was something I was not expecting. It also got me asking myself again, why the devil is always going after pregnant mothers and unborn babies. 4 I can't say that there is a heroine and a hero in this story because there really isn't. Lana Walker survives the serial killer and eventually brings down Briarcliff, but she kills her own son and she does her work not because she feels the need to, but because she wants to be famous. Sister Mary Eunice is so pure and shy, but eventually dies after doing things that goes against her belief. Kit has no idea what happened to him - I still don't get why he in particular was the lucky one - but her wives both die from their own miseries. Plus, he doesn't do anything so remarkable to name him the hero. Sister Jude is not a heroine because she is not able to end all the problems that happen with her power. She actually ends up being saved by someone else. But, this season definitely portrays a good fight between the good and the evil, whether the good is really evil and the evil is also very evil. The viewers don't think Lana as being evil because she's fighting against Bloody Face, when in reality, she kills out of revenge and kills her own son. The fight between Father Thomas and the Devil residing in Mary Eunice appears to be a fight between good and evil, but really, Father Thomas puts Judy in the institution and drives her mad. 6 Overall, the story does a fantastic job of portraying the 60's feel, especially the exorcism scene in episode 2. It made me think of The Exorcist (1973) and its huge impact on the horror films from then on. Great acting from all characters, amazing suspense, really scary, and amazing camera angle. - American Horror Story uses a lot of unleveled angle, close ups during a monologue or a dialogue. There were also some interesting shots that really fit the situation that are memorable. | 2 The second season was amazing compared to the first season. The primary themes of greed/ambition, and the conflict between the good and the bad just blew me away. Although I did get the feeling that there were too many factors of horror smashed into one story - a serial killer, a mental asylum, a Nazi quack, the devil residing in a pure nun, alien abduction, and zombies as a result of human experiments - I think the thirteen episodes hold an amazing story. The overall story was true to itself, the characters had their own stories and their own way of keeping their sanity. Out of the numerous things I enjoyed while watching this series, one thing stood out to me the most: SISTER JUDE AND HER STRUGGLE OF SURVIVAL. 3 I believe the reason why this season really made me binge watch the whole thirteen episodes in two days is because I was fighting for Judy the whole time. Her transition from a mean, cruel nun to someone with sympathy, regret, and justice was fascinating. All credits to Jessica Lange. At first, she starts out as someone who doesn't care if the people in the institute really deserve to be trapped in the facility because she is so power driven. She is very ambitious and dreams about going to Rome with Father Thomas. She even thinks about seducing him. But throughout the episodes, she turns out to be the sane one, the one who really fights for her belief. A lot of people think that being pure, and nice all the time is what it is like to be religious, but really, being religious is being committed and struggling to keep that commitment. No one believes her to be sane when she keeps telling people that Sister Mary Eunice has the devil inside her. She actually becomes admitted to the facility and goes through what she ordered other people to go through. But after all the torture and isolation, she has a break through and at the end, the devil dies, the Pope kills himself, Dr. Arden throws himself in the furnace, Bloody Face is killed by the "heroine" Lana Winters, and Judy is rescued by Kit. 5 Something I did not understand in this season is the double appearance of the Angel of Death. She appears every time someone is about to die. But all of a sudden, she appears out of nowhere as a patient at Briarcliff and torments Judy. I am not sure if it was supposed to portray Judy's ill mind, but it was just very confusing. Another thing I was not sure about was Dr. Arden, the ex-Nazi. He does human experiments on patients and feeds the dead bodies to the zombies that seldomly appear. He had a whore-issue and he did some killings of his own, but he later kills himself without really adding onto the climax of the story. |
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