In this season of “American Horror Story,” Evan Peters plays a character named Kai who, enthusiastic about the Trump presidency, runs for local office. Credit Frank Ockenfels/FX
Posted on 09/04/2017 8:31:05 PM PDT by BBell
But for the seventh season, which premieres Tuesday on FX, the series is focusing on a less traditional space for horror: a Michigan town in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.
There are some killer clowns roaming this comfy suburb but not all the carnage and violence committed this season comes by way of supernatural forces. Instead, it comes at the hands of bitter, angry voters.
Although some shows have benefited from Donald J. Trump’s surprising election victory last year — Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” depicting a dystopian future for the United States, felt, well, timely to some viewers — “American Horror Story” is the first major scripted effort to explicitly tackle what it means to live in a fractured, post-Nov. 8 country.
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“American Horror Story: Cult” begins its story on election night, switching back and forth between two very different evenings: A married gay couple (Sarah Paulson, Alison Pill), watching in agony with some friends, and a bitter 30-year-old man named Kai (Evan Peters), ecstatically celebrating at home alone.
Mr. Trump and his opponent, Hillary Clinton, are not characters in the series, but they are invoked throughout. The show’s creators say that the election and its aftermath mostly serve to create a tense, unhinged mood in the town. Ms. Paulson’s character, Ally, crippled by various phobias, rails about how the election made everything worse. Kai, meanwhile, buoyed by Mr.
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So now they’re going to use fiction to try and explain the 2016 election. Good luck with that!
In this season of “American Horror Story,” Evan Peters plays a character named Kai who, enthusiastic about the Trump presidency, runs for local office. Credit Frank Ockenfels/FX
Political porn for democrats.
Death.... to hollowwood.
If, by chance, John Kasich or any of the other establishment candidates had won, rest assured that the mass media would be making the same shows and laying the same dystopian themes at the winner’s feet.
That ‘thing’ Lena Dunham is involved with this.
>> “American Horror Story” is the first major scripted effort to explicitly tackle what it means to live in a fractured, post-Nov. 8 country.
Our country “fractured” when the lying,cheating,draft-dodging BJ Clinton won the White House with 43.01% of the popular vote (Thanks Pee-rot).
The country “Fractured” when Al Gore Junior refused for a month to concede the election in 2000.
The country “fractured” when a political novice who’d been mentored by Communists in college and Chicago became the president and said that winning is the best revenge, elections have consequences and he sought to target his political enemies.
What it means to live in a fractured country?
We’ve been living that since the Democrat Party ran the openly corrupt Bill Clinton for re-election in 1996.
“and a bitter 30-year-old man named Kai (Evan Peters), ecstatically celebrating at home alone.”
Seen humping his tv. Seriously.
Think he’ll be one of the murderers/culprits?
Eventually, yeah - who isn’t? The TV-Hump promo scene had me ROTF. I’ve never seen anything with Lena Dunham in it so now I’ll have a chance to find out if I hate her for her acting as much as everything else.
He has that mad McCain look.
AHS Hotel was boring and repetitive.
She's not "acting" and yes, you'll hate her. She hates herself and splatters it all over the screen, in all it's pear-shaped glory.
Their tears are delicious.
Season one was epic.
The rest have sucked wet goat fur.
She tried to use fiction to win it so it makes perfect [non]sense.
:)
The "Freak Show" season is the only one that I continued watching amongst all of the gratuitous, violent, "please call us edgy" sex scenes.
Freak show was entertaining. None of the others scared me, and I started watching each season hoping to be scared.
Maybe I'll get lucky and their "edgy-ness" this season will be their (gasp) bashing of Trump and not the grotesque sex scenes.
(Damn, am I a prude?)
Season one had sort of a ‘The Shining’ feel to it.
[Plus Dylan McDermott]
;)
The rest just bored me stupid.
“Coven” was so obnoxious, I was hoping they’d all snuff it, except for Marie Laveaux.
She was awesome.
The Stevie Nicks tie-in made my eyes roll back in my head.
Asylum might have been okay but for reasons unknown to anyone, especially the writers, the “aliens abducted me!” subplot was idiotic.
At this point, I watch the show simply because I’ve invested years in it and part of me hopes they’ll eventually come up with something good.
When Jessica bailed on the series, I figured sharks were about to be jumped.
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