Spoiler Alert!
Hello everyone!
Yes, American Horror Story is back and with a really different tone and season. Unfortunately, not the best.
We go from a super great episode from The Challenge to a not so great premiere of American Horror Story's new season - 1984.
I feel like I need to tell a little back story before I really get into my thoughts so, here it is.
When they first announced the theme, back in April, I believe, I was pretty excited. I saw the teaser trailer that they did, with just the announcement of the title and it was great, with Billie Eilish's song and everything. Then, more stuff started to come out, as cast and details and other teasers and, although I was super hyped about Matthew Morrison being in this season, the fact that neither Evan Peters nor Sarah Paulson would be back for this season really put me down. Evan Peters is my absolute fave and I feel like he always brings a different feel to the seasons, as well as Sarah Paulson so, needless to say, those were pretty big red flags about this season. Still, I remember the first teaser and I had hope, even more when some theories started to go around and, knowing Ryan Murphy, he must have something up his sleeve. But then, I also started watching more horror movies, more opinions on horror and on what this season could be like and... I just understood that I'm not the type of person that likes 'cheese' in horror, which this is completely full of.
Getting into the episode I knew this would be really cheesy and, in the beginning, I was okay with it. The initial montages and the opening were extremely cheesy and out there and, I must be honest, I'm not really a fan of this years' intro, but okay, I feel like I'll be fine with it once the season goes on. But anyway, I was expecting 'cheese' but not this much. Everything about this episode looks like it comes from other slashers such as Friday the 13th and Halloween and everything is too out there for my liking. I don't even know if I should/can touch in the story because it's extremely simple and just what you saw in the 'real trailer'. A group of friends go to a summer camp where a few years ago there was a mass murder. We see some creepy stuff but not that creepy, to be honest and, as expected in slashers, the characters doing really dumb stuff such as running and falling every three seconds, which I just can't get on board with.
There's not really much else to this episode, to be honest. They learn about the Summer Camp, they meet the only survivor who's the owner know and, apparently, there's two killers going around this season, the one from the summer camp and another one from LA that followed Brooke (Emma Roberts) all the way to the Camp after attacking her before she left to the camp. I mean, this first episode is just exposition and finding out more about each character but... It really didn't do for me. I really hope it gets better but I don't really have my hopes up. But hey, it's Ryan Murphy and there's always a plot twist so, I hope it's a good one and that it comes quickly because I don't know if I can take more of this cheesiness.
The performances are good though and I can't wait to see more of Matthew Morrison (he's my new Evan Peters so, expect me to talk about him a lot).
I know this rant was really down and that I didn't have a lot of good things to say but American Horror Story is still one of my favorite series ever and, like I said, I have hope.
Let me know what you thought and what are you predictions for future episodes and I'll see you next week.
Love,
Daniela.
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