…meh? No spoilers.After seeing the first three episodes, I can’t say I’m especially wowed. Then again, I’m not so disappointed that I won’t be tuning in next week to see the next one. I’m still not sure what I was expecting, but so far I haven’t seen whatever it was.
To me it seems like just a random assemblage of parts, hoping that a coherent storyline will emerge. This is Ryan Murphy after all. Is there even supposed to be a coherent storyline?I guess we’ll see as the season unfolds.The Coven actors reprising their roles were obviously my favorite, but the new main character, Ben, ain’t bad. And he’s easy on the eyes.
Yeah, there was a lot of shit going on in the 60s, but compared to today… it almost seems amusing. Thankfully we had a lot of really good television; television (and television stars) that weren’t appreciated nearly as much as they are now.
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When I first moved back to Phoenix from SF in 2003 and was staying with my Dad, I got into watching NCIS because that’s what he watched. It was fun, engaging, and justice almost always came to the bad guys (something that was sorely needed two years after the still-fresh wound of 9/11). When I moved out and got back into my own place, the apartment complex I moved into provided their own—and only their own—satellite television service at an exorbitant monthly fee. It wasn’t even connected to Cox for you to bypass. There was no other option. Nope, thanks. I’ll stick with broadcast.
So I continued with NCIS via broadcast TV.
When Sasha Alexander was unceremoniously killed off left the show in 2005 my interest started waning as I realized she was my favorite character. But I stuck with it because—even though I now had real cable available—it was fun, engaging and justice almost always came to the bad guys (something still sorely needed, hip deep into the Bush/Cheney years). And I suprisingly embraced the addition of Cote de Pablo’s Ziva charcter to replace Sasha Alexander.
When Pauly Perrette left the show and more importantly I learned the reasons why, I almost gave up on it again, but it was fun, engaging, yadda, yadda, yadda…
It was only after Cote de Pablo’s brief return to —and departure from—the series followed by Michael Weatherly leaving that my interest started waning altogether. When Mark Harmon (whom I originally discovered many years earlier via Goliath Awaits) left his role as Gibbs to go behind the camera and produce, that was pretty much the death knell for me. To be honest, I gave the replacement cast a couple seasons, but the chemistry that the original series actors had just wasn’t there. Gary Cole, Wilmer Valderrama (I still see him in his role from That 70s’s Show), and Brian Deitzen are all fine actors, but this just wasn’t the NCIS I’d grown to love. It didn’t help that the stories seemingly started to alternate between “let’s scare grandma with the dark web (or whatever boogeyman was current)” and “social cause of the week.”
And then there’re the spinoffs…NCIS: New Orleans was decent enough, but it wasn’t worth recording to watch at a later time. If we missed it, we missed it, and didn’t feel a sense of loss. And as far as the others (NCIS:Sydney immediately comes to mind) are concerned…well, don’t even get me started.
What say you? Do any of you still watch the show? Age-wise from the commercials alone it was obvious I’m was target audience, but I’ve lost interest in the entire franchise and can’t be bothered to even check in on it these days. There are so many other excellent police procedurals out there (a genre that Ben and I both love), that we don’t have time to waste on this pablum.
American Horror Story: Asylum — Lana Winters’ escape (2012).
“One of American Horror Story: Asylum’s most intense moments came when Lana Winters, portrayed by Sarah Paulson, finally escaped Briarcliff Manor after enduring months of abuse, manipulation, and confinement.
After everything she had been forced to endure inside the asylum, Lana’s escape represented more than simply freedom. It was the moment she took back control of her own life and refused to let Briarcliff define her.
Terrifying, emotional, and deeply cathartic, the scene marked a turning point for Lana and helped establish her as one of American Horror Story’s most resilient and unforgettable characters.”
I was a huge fan of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story from the beginning, but I completely lost interest after the first episode of Season 12, Delicate. (I struggled to get through Season 5, Cult) and I almost gave up then, but I’m glad I came back and thoroughly enjoyed the second half of “Double Feature” Season 10, Death Valley.
My favorite seasons, however, were Season 3, Coven, Season 5, Hotel, and Season 7, Apocalypse. Of those, Coven is my all-time favorite. I loved the characters, the story, and the acting. All were stellar. (In fact I have our house labeled The Robichaux Academy(aka Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies).
So imagine my genuine excitement when I just read that the Coven universe is returning for Season 13—and Frances Conroy (along with most of the original case) will reprise her role as bitch witch of all bitch witches—Myrtle Snow.
