American Horror Story: Double Feature | Season 10 Episode 2 - "Pale"

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Hello!

So this season of AHS looks promising! I don't want to jinx it (we know how Ryan Murphy is with his endings) but so far so good!

This second episode did give us a lot more information on the whole "vampire" thing and, I gotta say, I'm happy with what they got here.

The meaning behind everything is amazing and, for once, I feel like Ryan Murphy really thought out this season. The whole thing with this being about a pill and not like a condition that you can't turn away from, right away, is interesting. But then there's the whole metaphor about artists! Because, in this world, you "become a vampire" through taking this black pill but the catch is - it only works if you're talented! And that is why there's this pale "monsters" going around - they are the ones that took the pill but weren't talented, so they will never satisfy their hunger and won't be able to "live a normal life".

As I said, it's an interesting take on vampires and one that talks about how artists "suck the life out of other people" in order to make their art, as well as the fact that they are never satisfied with their greatness. They always want more and thrive to be better and create better art.

I also loved the fact that they had a "logic" explanation to why you crave blood when you take this black pill - it's because of the lack of certain vitamins and minerals, which you now need on large amounts - amounts only available in "real blood".

Anyway... Now that I've talked about the meaning behind everything, let's talk about the actual events of the episode.

As expected, Harry got the urge to write and so they decided to stay for a bit longer. I haven't realized but apparently this episode took place during a whole week?! I don't know, but they say something about being there for a week so... That was unexpected! But while they were there and Harry was writing non-stop, he started craving blood, and that's when we get that whole explanation about how the pill was created and whatnot from Austin.

Austin and Belle also showed the whole "operation" to Harry, on how to get blood, as well as the procedure he had to get on his teeth in order to "feed" better - and that's when we are introduced to Billie Lourd's character.

Of course the whole thing with Alma had to come back into play and after struggling a lot with her violin, she decides to take Harry's pill and... Exactly... She goes out to eat and that's how the episode end - with her eating some type of animal.

There's nothing really groundbreaking so far, but I did like the take that they decided to take on the whole vampires thing and I'm curious to see where this leads because... I already have some predictions!

As far as this first part goes, I'm pretty sure something is going to happen to that baby! Either something happens to him when he's born or, which I think is the more likely thing to happen, Doris takes the pill and, instead of doing something to her, it messes with the baby and something like the first season happens, with the baby eating her from inside out.

When it comes to the connection to the second part, I'm certain they are connected! Mainly because I've looked up and Angelic Ross' character is called "The Chemist" and she's in both parts (her and her character), which leads me to believe that the second part is how they created the drug (aka a prequel) and it's the aliens that created the pill (or it comes from their blood).

Okay, these are my predictions as of now. Let me know if and what are your predictions, as well as your feelings towards this season so far and I'll talk to you next week!

Love,

Daniela.

American Horror Story: Double Feature | Season 10 Episode 1 - "Cape Fear"

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Heya!

I'm back, as promised, with a brand new season of American Horror Story and, as per usual, I'm pretty stoked about it!

I don't want to jinx it but this season looks promising. Not only they went in a different route with this season having two stories (if they connect or not, I don't know yet) but also most of the cast that we love from the first seasons is back - Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, Billie Lourd... And, the surprise of the season - Macaulay Culkin! Who, to be honest, is one of the reasons why I was super curious about this season. We haven't seen much of him in this first episode but from what we've seen, it looks promising and his character looks like a fun one so... We'll see. But, let's dive into everything that we found out about in this first episode.

So this episode starts of with Harry, Doris and their daughter Alma moving from the city to Provincetown, Massachusetts, with the intent of Harry finishing writing his pilot and Doris decorating the house where they were staying. 

Right away their daughter, Alma, starts seeing some weird stuff and, to be honest, I liked how super aware she was. Overall, this characters were smart characters. Alma stated that the house looked haunted, after an incident where Doris and Alma were stalked by a pale man they ran home and called the police and, in the end of the episode, when the same pale man entered the house and Harry killed him, the family decides to just get away from there. Obviously, we know that they're staying otherwise there was no season. But, overall, they were smart characters! But, as I said, there had to be a way for them to stay and that's when Evan Peters' character - Austin Sommers - comes into play.

Prior to the pale man entering the house, Harry went to a bar where he met Belle Noir (Frances Conroy) and Austin Summers, who are both writers. They talked about inspirations and whatnot and then Harry went back home and that's when the breaking and entering happens.

It's the next morning that Austin calls Harry saying that he has the cure for his writers block and Harry goes to Austin's house. There, Austin gives Harry a plastic baggie of black pills. Harry is hesitant to take them but he still takes them home in his pocket. That's when his agent calls him encouraging him to stay in Provincetown saying that he needs to finish that pilot and Harry takes the pill and the episode ends like that.

Overall it was a decent pilot. I loved the feel of it and the directing choices where great, as well as the acting, obviously. It's pretty obvious to me, to be honest, that this is about vampires, so I just hope there's some type of twist on this vampires thing. Maybe it's about mermaids that drink blood?! I don't know... As of now it looks like it's vampires but I hope there's more to it.

Anyway, it looks like we have, once again, another decent pilot so, let's just pray this doesn't go downhill (as it usually does). Let me know what you thought of this first episode (no spoilers for the next one, please) and I'll see you pretty soon with my rant of the second episode!

Love,

Daniela. 

The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies | Season 37 Episode 3 - "Truce or Dare"

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Brand new The Challenge episode and... I guess we're back on track. 

This episode was a lot more entertaining and interesting overall. Not only the actual challenge looked kinda hard, but there was 'understandable drama' - and what I mean by that is that the drama was based on the choices for elimination and the decisions and... Even though it involved Big T, I can understand why it happened. I didn't like it, but I understand.

I guess I'm going straight to be point and say that, once again, a team that I'm not really a big fan of won the daily challenge - Tori and Ed. It's not like I don't like them, but I've said this before, I have mixed feelings towards Tori and sometimes she annoys me, which was the case in this episode. I get it - you're kinda mad that Big T threw you against Aneesa last season, but it's not a smart move to send her in this early in the game. Even Kyle said it! Out of all people... And Devin! Everyone told her not to do that and, luckily, she went on a different direction! However, it kind of backfired on her as well.

Jeremiah and Tacha were the house vote, understandably, having in mind that they were the only ones to not complete the challenge and they are both rookies, the thing is, Tori went to Tacha saying that she wanted her back so she asked who she wanted to go against and what does Tori do?! She sends Berna, one of Tacha's friends... Yeah, it really backfired... Also, this was a only girls elimination because Tommy, Big T's partner, had to go home because, during the daily challenge, he had a concussion and, therefore, was sent home.

So, it was Berna against Tacha and, in the end, Berna won, which I kind of wanted that, to be honest. I don't really know why, I just found myself rooting for her so... I guess there's that. And, even though she lost, Tacha was pretty classy about it, and just went off on Tori, which I liked to see, to be honest.

Again, Tori sometimes annoys me and, in this past season, I feel like she has been so cocky and... I get that it might be just a character that she puts on... But it still annoys me. Plus, her moves don't make any sense so that annoys me even more.

Anyway... So Tacha goes home, which leaves Berna to decide if she wants to stay with CT, be with Jeremiah or steal any other player - and she makes the right choice and stays with CT. And I guess that's pretty much it.

I do have to talk about Kyle though. His confessionals are the best and I just live for his comments!! Also, I didn't really mention it but the daily challenge was so much fun with a ton of people being afraid, and getting hurt and people loosing their clothes and being butt naked. Yeah, it was fun.

What also looks like fun is the next episode with, believe it or not, Josh having a meltdown!! What's new, right?! And I guess it's time I make some predictions and, from the preview, I would say a vet team wins the challenge and sends in Josh... I don't know how that would happen, but I'm pretty sure Josh goes in and I wouldn't be mad about it, to be honest. That would also break the Vet Alliance which would be fun to watch as well.

Let me know what you think is going to happen in the next episode, and how you felt about this episode and I'll talk to you either later today or tomorrow with a brand new American Horror Story season!

Love,

Daniela.

The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies | Season 37 Episode 2 - "Bertha"

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Hello!!!

Back with one more The Challenge rant and, as usual, it starts out great and then it just fades away...

The second episode really didn't stand a chance compared to the first one. I think most of it is because I don't like most of the players, so I'm not as invested but, overall, I really think the challenges and the drama in this episode weren't the best. Oh, and it also doesn't help that this episode was focused on two of the people that I hate the most on The Challenge - Josh and Fessy.

Somehow they orchestrated this plan that somehow worked?! Yeah... And that's what hurts the most. Not only they were shady AF but it also workout out in the end. And well, I'm talking about getting Kelz out of the game.

It all started, really, with Fessy winning the daily challenge. I really thought Emmanuel and Kaycee were going to win, but then Fessy and Esther pulled through at the end. I'm super happy for Esther though - she's awesome and looks like such a great person, and I loved her at the deliberation (which I'll get into), but Fessy... Ugh! I really don't like him and his ego! And then, the "Big Brother Alliance" (which in this season is more like "the Vets Alliance") comes in with Josh saying they have to take out Kelz. I mean, I don't blame him... Kelz would most likely beat Josh, but what Josh came up with, saying Kelz was making deals with everyone was just shady and it made no sense - as Kelz demonstrated. It did give us some laughs, with Kelz saying, basically, that Josh is dumb and he would not be the one to find out if he was making deals (which he wasn't).

Also on that note (about the deliberation), as I was saying, I loved Esther's attitude and what she said! I'm starting to root for her!

Anyway... Kelz and Tracy ended up going into elimination anyway and The Agency (Fessy and Esther) went with Ed and Emmy. To be fair, I would've liked to see Emmy go home because she's kind of annoying. Also, I was sort of rooting for Kelz and Tracy not only but mostly because I just didn't want Fessy and Josh to have their way.

Unfortunately they did... The bright side is that Ed is such an awesome guy that is was a shame if he went home so soon so... I'm happy that he's sticking around for, at least, one more episode.

What I'm not so happy about is the fact that they switched partners and guess what? They picked Tori and Devin again. I don't know if this is some sort of deal that we don't know about but I'm fine with Ed being with Tori now but Emmy and Devin?! Now that I'm a fan of Devin?! I just don't like Emmy and I think Devin was better with Michele but... Okay...

With all of this Michele was paired with Corey L and something tells me this was their plan all along because they've seen them working together on the elimination last week and so they want to eliminate both of them... I don't know, that's just my thought.

However, it looks like next episode Tori wants Big T out and I do not like that! Tori has been so shady this past seasons and I'm not liking this! I was never a huge fan of hers but I always saw her as the "normal girl" like the "relatable one" but now I'm not liking her attitude! Plus, how can you not trust Big T?! It does not make sense and I hope it backfires.

Okay, I'm done with my Tori rant.

Let me know what you thought of this episode and how you feel about this whole Vets alliance. Do you think they will stay together? Tell me everything and I'll see you next week with more rants!

Love,

Daniela

The Challenge: Spies, Lies and Allies | Season 37 Episode 1 - "The List"

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Hello people!

Here we are with a brand new season of The Challenge and, I gotta say - I'm so stoked about this season! I mean, I feel like I always say this with every new season but yeah... Here I am again, excited about a new season!

To be fair, they did change some things and added a lot of new people so that's always exciting! So, let's talk about the stuff that they switched up this season, starting off with the cast.

This season's cast is half Americans and half people from around the world, which is so interesting. Then, the teams are of two, one American and one "outsider". When it comes to the nominations and whatnot, there's a winning team who picks one team to go into elimination and then the remaining of the house picks the other team (but in reverse, it's the house that picks first). And, actually, the team that wins the challenge - The Agency - picks not a team but individual players, which was a nice twist. And, another twist is that both people go into elimination (there's no guy or girl elimination) and then, the winning team can change partners - out of everyone (apart from The Agency - of course).

Okay, now that I've set the basis of this season, let's talk about specifics.

As I said, there's a ton of new people so I can't get into everyone that is part of this season, but I'm gonna say that there's a lot of rookies and a lot of people from Survivor, which created huge drama already! And everything because of a List that someone may or may not have made. To be honest, in my opinion, Emy just wanted to create drama and be safe. She heard that the vets were targeting Survivor people, she's from Survivor, so she decided to turn on other people from Survivor and "infiltrate" the vets. Plus, she really looks like someone that likes to create chaos so, right away, I don't like her.

It's actually amazing the number of people in this season that I don't like, which kind of makes it easy for me to be rooting for some specific people - CT, Big T, Kyle and, believe it or not, Devin. I did like some of the rookies - Emmanuel, Michele and Logan, but we'll see...

Something that really caught me off guard were the romances this season. Not only there's already people flirting with each other - Tori and Kelz, Michele and Emmanuel - but also some people are sort of on a relationship with each other - Nany and Kaycee, Nelson and Ashley, Fessy and Amanda. Ugh...

And yeah, so in this first episode Aneesa and Logan were The Agency, which was nice, Michaela and Renan were the house vote, and The Agency voted in Cory L and Michele. The Elimination ended up being a bit confusing (not the actual game, but how they came up with the winner) but Michele and Cory L won and both of them decided to infiltrate - Michele picked Devin, which was an interesting choice but that I'm excited to see what comes out of this team, and Cory L picked Tori. 

On another news, Nam had to leave the game, don't really know why but it's speculated that he had Covid... So, because of that they brought in Ed who, to be honest, I don't know who he is, but he looks fun so... Let's see what he brings. And, because he was supposed to be Michele's partner and she switched, Ed ended up paired with Emy, and Kelz was paired with Tracy. And that's it for this episode!

Overall it was a really exciting episode and it looks like it's going to be a fun season but it's too early to tell. There's a lot of rumors around it so we just gotta wait and see. In the meantime, let me know what you thought of this first episode, who are your favorite players/teams and I'll talk to you next week!

Love,

Daniela.