We (anais_pf and I) watched American Horror Story and it totally held our attention; there were occasions when one or the other of us (or both of us) were confused and unclear about what was happening, whether the last two minutes were a flashback or were 'now', were real or were someone's hallucinatory experience or their imagination or whatever... but at least some of that seemed to be intentional, to catch the viewer up in the worry and projection and all. Definitely some creepy nightmare fodder but not a gorefest, and not gratuitous violence. A lot of good tender moments and good character development.
I was expecting the disease to be positioned as a metaphor for AIDS but fictional, to leave them more room to play with alternate possibilities, so I was a little surprised when it was explicitly identified as AIDS.
Overall, I think it's the best encapsulation I've ever seen of what it must have felt like to be a part of the NYC area gay community at the time. Fiction, but not really.
I was 8 years old and living in the borough of Queens in 1981, so watching some of the visuals and aesthetics was surreal. The subway cars looked much too clean though.
What did you think of the two-part finale? I felt like it could've done a lot more with the time it had and that it spent more time on Sam than it needed to.
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I was expecting the disease to be positioned as a metaphor for AIDS but fictional, to leave them more room to play with alternate possibilities, so I was a little surprised when it was explicitly identified as AIDS.
Overall, I think it's the best encapsulation I've ever seen of what it must have felt like to be a part of the NYC area gay community at the time. Fiction, but not really.
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What did you think of the two-part finale? I felt like it could've done a lot more with the time it had and that it spent more time on Sam than it needed to.
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