Spoilers

“Rockabye”

I did find this episode of American Horror Story: Delicate to be chilling at times, and disturbing almost completely. I found myself blurting something at the screen several times in the episode as things happened that I did not expect. That is always a good sign.

I feel so badly for Anna as she went through the ringer this week. Although, when she left that fan lying and bleeding on the bathroom floor to go accept her award, well, some of the empathy went away.

This entire show has that dream-like feel to it, as plenty of it seems to be surreal. I am not sure what exactly is happening a lot of the time or if it is meant to be actually happening or if it is a delusion in Anna’s mind.

She discovered that she was pregnant and lost the baby all within the confines of this episode and some of the side characters that showed up were really suss or creepy. That nurse who did the ultrasound only to be revealed as not a hospital employee was just wildly bizarre.

Dex is fairly suspicious as well… or am I just supposed to think that because Anna is having some doubts? I don’t know. He seems to be a good guy, but the show is hinting heavily that he has a secret, perhaps an affair happening as well.

However, I can’t tell if this is accurate because clearly Anna’s POV is skewed and unreliable.

And what was up with those creepy looking vials that Kim Kardashian gave for Anna to drink? What was that again?

I love how this episode showed what an Oscar campaign can be like. The politicking that goes on for actors to win that award seem to take away from the overall value of the award, but everyone does it. There are definitely some themes about award shows going on with this show.

Lots of questions surrounding this story so far and I am definitely intrigued by what is happening. I enjoy the meta commentary as well.

Spoilers

“Multiply Thy Pain.”

I have not watched American Horror Story for several years.

I was a huge fan of the anthology series by Ryan Murphy in its early days. Season one Murder House, Season two Asylum, season four Freak Show, season six Roanoke are some of my favorite seasons of television around.

However, I did kind of lose interest as the seasons moved on. Part of it was the Wednesday night release time because there was conflicts with it and I never got around to watching it online. Part of it was that the stories had gotten a touch out there. In particular, Hotel and Cult had not grabbed my attention. It was a series that just slipped out of my necessary viewing.

Then, yesterday I was on Hulu looking at No One Will Save You when I saw the release of episode one for the 12th season of AHS, called Delicate. To say that I was intrigued would be an understatement. I decided that I would give a chance to the new series, especially if I could watch it easily on Hulu.

I am considering using Sunday morning to be the target date for the next episode, which seems as if it will be released once again on Wednesday nights. This feels like a nice weekly series designed to give me the creeps and to keep me unsettled. I do love me some good horror.

If this goes well, perhaps I will look into some of the other seasons that I have not seen or even to do a rewatch on some of the previous AHS seasons that I loved so much.

This new season kicked off with a really spooky beginning with actress Anna Victoria Alcott (Emma Roberts), who had just found some major success with a movie that no one expected to do anything, but went huge, in bed. However, there was some black hooded figure there too. Shocked by the arrival of this figure, Anna chased it out of the apartment only to find what looked like blood all over the floor beside the bed and on her nightgown. We discover later that it was not blood, but lipstick and that there was a message on the mirror, “Don’t do it, Anna.”

Anna and her husband Dexter (Matt Czuchry) were trying to get pregnant via a fertility expert but Anna was seeing things, believing that she was being stalked. Some of the scenes involving these women dressed in black with glasses were filled with anxiety, especially those with Miss Peecher (Julie White) and Ivy (Cara Delevingne), as we see what Anna was seeing. There feels as if there are things we do not know about Anna and that this is all tied together.

Kim Kardashian is playing Siobhan Corbyn, Anna’s friend and publicist and she does a great job with this character. I am curious about her motives and how she will play into the story that they are telling.

The story, for the first time, is not an original story as this is based on the novel Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine. It is also the first time that Ryan Murphy is not the showrunner for the series, as he has passed off the mantle to Halley Feiffer, who did Impeachment: American Crime Story.

There are some fun imagery involving spiders both in the episode and on the poster so I am curious to see where this takes me.