I came for Angela Bassett. I had never watched even one episode of AHS prior to this season. So, I imagine that lots of folks maybe came for Angela or Kathy Bates or because New Orleans and witches sounded more fun than insane asylums or creepy houses. And honestly, through the first five or six episodes, I was having a lot of fun with this show. It was ridiculous and the racial and gender politics were...problematic. But the actresses were tearing it down and it was funny and shocking and scary and touching in turn. I can see how and why it would've gathered a big audience. By the time it all fell apart, I was in for a penny, in for a pound.
I'll never watch it again, though. Even though Angela, KB and Jessica Lange are all coming back, right? Not even for those ladies.
Greatest moment of the season right here: [link]
I still plan to find a way to work "What the head said" into conversation somehow, someday. But that was a good one, too. Oh, that Myrtle. She was a treasure.
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Jessica Lange said she isn't coming back, I think.
Oh, really? I thought S4 was going to be her last.
Ah, well, that's a shame. She was tremendous this season. I hated the Fiona/Cordelia hug it out moment at the end because it felt out of character. I think Fiona would've been just as likely to pick that knife up off the table, plunge it into Cordelia's back, and hop on the next plane with all her Supremeness back in full effect. BUT I thought Jessica Lange played the hell out of dying of cancer.
That'll certainly make it easier to give up the show, though.
Amy is probably right. I thought this season was her last, not S4, but I can imagine I heard wrong.
I do think her urge to kill the next Supreme was sucked out of her when she found out Cordelia was the next. I kind of wish that character development was handled better. But that is such a minor complaint in the clusterfuck of this season.
I'm making my way through Nikita season 1 (I've also been catching up on Hannibal, so it's been slower going than I would have hoped) and if the DVD credits are accurate I just saw Kristen's first episode as a writer on the show. Wow. Seriously. That's a knock out of the park on the first go I have to say. And one hell of a cliffhanger. If I didn't have to get going relatively early tomorrow I'd watch the next episode, but can't afford that luxury.
