Freud was addicted to cocaine too.
It started off alright but just completely fell apart by episode 3 or 4. It's obvious that the makers don't give a fuck and just made shit up as they went along. There were still moments and gore that I liked in those early episodes of the season. I was on board with the wedding massacre while Billy Idol's White Wedding played, sure, okay, cool imagery. But it shit the bed with the whole "No wait, that's not the killer this person is! Oh wait, that person isn't the killer either, this family member of some asshole is the real killer! BUT OH WAIT IT"S ALL SUPERNATURAL BULLSHIT!" Fuck you.
I need to see Enemy but I did see Prisoners which was pretty good.
I know a lot of it was tropes n haha shit but legit wish we got more of a back story on Xavier and Chet? Everyone got some kinda full fledge back story and then "oh yea Chet...Xavier...huh." Which I find strange since at the time Cody Fern (Xavier in 1984, and Michael Langdon the antichrist in apocalypse) was more or less Ryan Murphy's boytoy/front running male since Evan Peter's went on haitus for a season so I would've thought he would've had more to do or would've gotten more backstory.
I think my biggest gripes were how inconsistent the ghost rules are in AHS. We should've had ANOTHER anti-christ in the making due to Brooke fucking that one guy.
If I had to figure out how to keep 1984 from going down the shitter (not at all a perfect idea at all tbh)
- up the runtime to the usual 45ish minutes instead of the 32ish minutes in an hour slot Ryan was going. The fact the initial opening episode was UNDER an hour long was an eyeroll, or give it a few episodes like the short series but long episodes.
- Keep pretty much the first half. Intro the people, give some clues, keep the wedding scene, all that shit.
- Everything takes place at night for the most part.
- Brooke can still be the finale girl
- No antichrist or ghost shenanigan's
- Remember the episode where everyone was hiding going "what the FUCK how we get out out of here" more of that, but instead of "OH SO N SO WAS A MURDERER TOO", maybe some people get pushed far into a corner due to distress and all of the shit going on, thats what pushes some people over the edge to murder?
Telling you right now, Enemy is one of those you need to really focus in on it kind of movies. I might give it another shot since the first time I watched it I wasn't in the best mental space, thank god it's short clocking in at an hour and 30 minutes. Of course, Jake Gyllenhaal gives it his all, which is pretty interesting since he plays two different people.
