American Horror Story Season 1 Episode 7 Review

American Horror Story: Cult opens with real-globe footage of the 2016 Presidential entrada, setting the scene for this season'south master focus: the fall-out from the election of President Trump.

Showrunner Ryan Irish potato is clearly trying to tap into the sense of increased anxiety of living in a mail-election environment where a desperately spelled tweet from the leader of the free globe could lead directly to nuclear annihilation. And, for the virtually part, information technology's successful. With caveats.

Our protagonists, and chief anxiety sufferers, are Ally and Ivy Mayfair-Richards, a married couple played past American Horror Story royalty Sarah Paulson and newcomer Alison Pill, with Ally experiencing an farthermost reaction equally the election returns roll in on MSNBC. The news exacerbates Ally's anxieties and phobias (including clowns and, weirdly, coral) leading to multiple panic attacks and hallucinations (or are they?).

Those hallucinations seem linked to our second master lead, a blue-haired pitter-patter named Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) who's getting his results from Trick News. As Trump is sworn in, Peters (framed similar a blue-haired Jesus) reverently says: "The revolution has begun."

Anderson appears to exist our main villain – he seems to have a connection to both the Mayfair-Richards' sinister new babysitter Wintertime (newbie Billie Lourd), and to a gang of killer clowns who are terrorising the town. Oh, and he's horrible.

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An anonymous Twitter egg made flesh, Anderson is obsessed with making people feel uncomfortable. He'south racist and – potentially – homicidal. Whether he's humping his boob tube shouting "USA! USA!" or throwing urine-filled condoms at Mexican workers, he's incredibly unpleasant to be effectually – Anderson is easily Peters' nearly unlikeable AHS function yet, and that includes the ghostly serial killer in Hotel.

Sadly, AHS's nastiest villain is likewise its most realistic. Going by media reports, it seems there'southward an Anderson in every town in America at the moment. Revolving around real-world events is a smart shift for the show, an interesting premise that keeps the series (at present on its seventh instalment) relevant. Just on the strength of this opening episode, the political satire is going to be the to the lowest degree engaging matter this year.

The politics of fear is an interesting topic for a horror evidence, simply any insight feels desperately dated That's the price of writing, shooting and editing a evidence during a historical period where events are escalating abnormally quickly, as Trump's Presidency gets increasingly surreal every bit each hour passes.

From the on-the-nose political gags to the sight of Evan Peters smearing himself in blended Cheetos, it all feels a bit South Park – but last flavour's South Park (a bear witness that'southward created / edited during the week of broadcast, to keep it topical), non this season'southward.

Where it really works is where it'south ever worked – the pic-homaging scare scenes. One early sequence is office David Fincher'southward Zodiac, function Tobe Hooper'due south Texas Concatenation Saw Massacre, featuring Freak Show's Twisty The Clown terrorising a young couple. It's magnificent – creepy, scary, (very) gory and gross, all the things we desire from this testify.

So, in futurity episodes we want less CNN and more It, because, while in that location's plenty of potential in the creepy clown narrative thread, there's far less in whatever political insight Murphy and the squad laid out 6 months ago.

That'southward the problem with living in a post-Trump world: the rules have changed, and yesterday'south hell often feels like tomorrow'southward paradise. Allow's hope that next week, at present the scene'due south been set, the evidence volition go back to what AHS does all-time – surprising us.

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