American Horror Story

Freak Show looks like a beauty, with a wealth of fascinating characters and a little smattering of heart helping to balance out the grisly appointed rounds of a so far unidentified clown with a hellish half-mask.

Humor, terror, sex, death, camp, karaoke: No show on television has all these ingredients but American Horror Story.

The storyline is more tightly focused than last year’s see-what-sticks approach. But it also feels like it’s pandering a bit to a younger CW crowd.

It’s always hard to tell how any series will go, especially one as reliably twisty and turny as American Horror Story, but in its first hour at least, Coven offers a clear, entertaining set-up for a potentially strong season.

The overall narrative is a bit lacking, just as you don’t go to a circus show in the hope of seeing all the various acts tied together through storytelling. Yes, there’s a murder to hide, a few secrets for each of the major characters, and Murphy’s overall arc of the outcast who holds more humanity than the “normal people,” but I hope the actual storytelling of American Horror Story: Freak Show improves in subsequent episodes.

The over-long season premiere--it's 63 minutes without commercials, so expect it to run close to 90 minutes on air; set yoru DVR accordingly--feels disjointed and the characters seem underdeveloped.

It doesn't work as a character drama and it's tiresome more often than it's freakily scary.

One of the best series ever, full of twists and turns and an effective plot. My favorite seasons and for me the best ones are obviously "Freak Show", "Coven" and "Asylum"

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The serie was good until the 3rd season, in the fourth loss of essence, in the fifth I am seeing with sodium strength, I hope that the next ones will change my opinion. I am from the Brazilian specialized critic.

This review is mainly about Apocalypse The season was alright, but what makes it a 3/10 for me is the CONSTANT and blatant sexism the show has developed. Cult had a bit of it, but this season...after episode 3 almost EVERY SINGLE LINE was "men are worthless, women should rule the world". Equality is a great thing, but it goes both ways. You can't preach about equality while writing incredibly sexist dialogue, like for example: "I have humored you men, but in no way does that mean you actually have a say". Throughout the series men are portrayed as powerhungry idiots who are constantly wrong and the only man who is portrayed as smart is the one who tries to ask the women for help. If there were characters who had these ideas it would be fine, but it's the fact that as i said, almost EVERY LINE has some of this stuff in it at some point in the season and it's clear that the show doesn't know how to do feminism without telling men they ****. It was just so frustrating to watch. I'm a man and i don't really enjoy being told what a **** piece of **** i am constantly while watching something i really wanted to enjoy...

Now that I've watched most of season 11 on Hulu, I think I'm ready to pass a verdict: this really ought to be the last season, because the writers have run out of interesting ideas, and now are only interested in preaching to their audience about trendy political or cultural issues like homophobia and Covid-19 hysteria (for which the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s is used as a metaphor). The first few seasons were totally non-political, and very entertaining. Now it is exactly the reverse.