The last episode turned out to be terribly sterile and boring. Silly dialogues, weak acting, the plot sucked out of the finger as much as possible without intrigue.
Why it was necessary to put this particular episode last is not entirely clear. I thought that the logic would be in some kind of reference to AI, but there were no connections. In this case, we could have put a stronger series at the end. At least the impression of the finale would be more pleasant. Well, okay, we have what we have.
In general, the top of all episodes of the season is like this:
It was definitely better than the first season, but still work and work to at least get closer to the level of AI. Hopefully, if there is a third season, it will get even better. And let him be without Manny Koto, please)))
@Diex: I just liked only the dollhouse, aura and bloody Mary, they seemed exactly in the spirit of AI, the rest are quite watchable, but there was not enough special atmosphere
@gummy: sometimes it gives off vibes of the Supernatural, in any case, this feeling visited me while watching Bloody Mary, the Lake and the Drive)) It is clear that there are some legends based on one case or the other, but it was quite interesting to see new interpretations. As for me, in the spirit of AI, this season there is only a Dollhouse (of course!), Aura and Bloody Mary.
A socio-historical drama that took place in a specific place, in a certain period of time (almost 90 years), interspersed with light elements of horror. All the "terrible" things that happened were predictable and not scary, which is even insulting.
To explore the bottom of the lake for an unprepared person alone? (A daughter with a rope does not count). Here, even "horrors" are not necessary, the action itself is dangerous and extremely unreasonable🤔
Do you remember the phrase - "Mom, what did you put in the coffin"?
It's a sad, sad story of generations .... of course, there was no smell of horrors here (as in principle in all stories), but here I was touched by the story itself and felt some kind of completion, meaningfulness... just what was missing in many episodes. Of course, season 2 is better and I hope that they will continue to experiment with this genre. And for me, the best episode of the season remains the Dollhouse.
Some kind of empty episode, "swamp creature on minimals."
In my opinion, one of the problems with this spin-off is the length of the episodes, the authors try to create interesting plots, but are limited to 45 minutes, stories suffer from this.
I remember three episodes from the whole season - a Dollhouse (although the finale, imho, was blurred), Aura, in the style of a Black Mirror, (it was just good) and Necro (but it's more about the theme and surprise of the story). Everything else is not interesting or twisted.
Despite the fact that this season is really better than the first, I still keep thinking that creating this spinoff was a mistake in many ways. It would be better to pay more attention to the usual American Horror Story, to work out a good and long story that would at least come close to the level of the first three seasons. But instead, we get this and season 10, which cannot be called anything but a failure. And more spinoffs are waiting for us soon, which means, most likely, the development of AI will become even worse. The franchise will soon easily become an example when, chasing quantity, the creators forgot about quality.
In the season, I liked Necro, the Dollhouse, the Cult of Beauty and Aura. Pretty good stories came out.
The idea is interesting, but at the end of the series I wondered: why at this particular moment? This family obviously spent a lot of time on this lake together (in the mother's flashback, the four of them were in this house with their father). If these dead men from the bottom wanted to take revenge on that family so much, then why didn't they drown their father a long time ago? It turns out to be some kind of plot for the sake of the plot
From here, this final scene with the drowned and the father is neither hot nor cold
It would be much more interesting if the father was drowned at the very beginning, and then the whole family would dive to the bottom to discover the secret of this dam, because the most terrible scenes in this series were obviously underwater, and they could be left in this case until the very end, simultaneously revealing the fate of the drowned
- Mom, our dad is being carried into the lake by the dead!!! - Nothing, my daughter, it's time. After all, we are his family, and he left behind houses, a factory, a lake and a city😁
In fact, the series is really worthless. Did your son drown under mysterious circumstances? Probably, it is necessary to dive there without scuba gear. Did the daughter end up in a mental hospital amid the death of her brother? Let's tie a rope around her and, if anything happens, she already knows where she will live in soft walls if she is directly complicit in her mother's death👍
Personally, I have a complete feeling that I'm watching "tales from the crypt." And it seems that the idea of the stories is not bad, but the implementation is lame at the level of the 90s. For the entire season, only the "Aura" series stood out, but as already mentioned above, it is too much like a "black mirror".
It feels like it's very, very hard for the creators to shoot stories for 1 episode. After most episodes, there is a feeling of understatement, as if something was missing, because they did not have time to invest in timing.
The series was very reminiscent of the movie "house at depth" / "underwater house" apparently they were inspired by it.... I agree with the comments above , the story is a bit weak for the finale 😕
The season was very uneven... Some episodes are straight outright bullshit, and some are good. But the screensavers for each episode are just a miracle... They all deserve 5 stars)))
I'm almost simultaneously watching the children's TV series "Are You Afraid of the dark?" (Or rather , a new adaptation of the Old Believers series) and even there is more style and suspense (and partly micro-horror) than in this series .. For Silverstone, of course, a likemuffic, but in general it would be better to screw up the "Tales from the crypt" probably :)
Okay, they did it after all! They shot shit at the level of season 1, I didn't think I'd see anything worse than "Drive". The final scene... I have no words to describe how dumb it was and how idiotic it looked. Why the daughter survived is also not clear… The budget of the series is 5 rubles, the script was found in the trash for free. Even one star in this case is a lot
@fdasch_: Manny, what's the reason for that? It will probably be a discovery, but the screenwriter is not responsible for the acting. Thank Tessa Blake.
Damn, after the first good two episodes of the season - "Dollhouse" and "Aura" - there was a feeling that all subsequent episodes would at least be interesting and watchable. What is the result? A complete failure, I think. Well, what kind of horrors are there in this series? It's just one family drama. It's a pity, because there was hope for a good season.
Well, at least the horror is that the screamers really made you shudder. And so yes, a complete understatement, something was clearly missing, the previous series set the bar high
Well, no, ending the season with such a series is a crime. And no, the series is not bad or good, it is not, just boring, not catchy. Considering this episode, the season didn't work out very well, I was hooked on only 4 episodes and two of them are just average (drive, facelift) and two are good (dollhouse, necro)
Wow, they found Alicia Silverstone! Where are my nineties and Aerosmith clips? For her, of course, I'll give you a point. I repeat: Manny Coto worked for himself and that guy this season. It's a good episode that would make for a full-length feature film in the style of "Houses in the Depths". But there is a feeling that the mythology has not been completed. For example, it's not clear why the zombies didn't drag Daddy away when the whole family was on vacation. But, in general, it's quite good for the season finale. I would like to have some more connection to "American Horror Story", but that's what it is.
I just have one question. What was that? How can this be connected with the horrors at all? Where are the characters of the heroes? Where is the motivation? Where is the logic?.. And why is this series the last? The feeling that they had to take something off just to be there and they took it off...
@Kreado: "What was that? How can this be connected with horrors at all?"
The motto of this whole series and the last half of the original one. It seems to me that after the "Freak Show" the creators deviated from the course in terms of horror.
The season as a whole was frustrating, to be honest. There were actually no good episodes, which is disappointing.
Specifically about this series, I can say that they started for health, and ended for peace, merged the series at the end to the very least, it's a shame.
LET SOMEONE RELEASE MANNY KOTO!!! Initially, the idea of a spin-off, where one episode = one story seemed good, like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", but in a modern way, but after 2 seasons I understand that the idea is so-so and the reason for this is Manny Koto 70% of the script was written by him and for a series in the anthology genre - this is not acceptable In no series does the screenwriter write scripts for all series, of course there are exceptions, but as a rule they are either psychos or geniuses, as a rule these are two sides of the same extreme. It feels like FX hired someone for food, and they got money for the staff of screenwriters. If Koto were not the only screenwriter and would write 1-2 episodes instead of 5, then maybe the quality of the episodes would improve: The timing would increase, the dialogues and motivation of the characters would be more prescribed, but alas, we have thrash horror films from the 90s But not everything is so bad, I would like to mention the series that caught on and which I will review.
1. The naughty list. Classic. A company of assholes, with one brain for the whole team, and in the end they are defiantly killed with varying degrees of cruelty.In this episode, I painted myself in Nico Gritham. Special thanks to Danny Trejo. He's beautiful. 2. BAAL. The plot is based on all sorts of magical figurines and gods. I love this. Billy Lourd has a separate plus sign. The finale of this series is the only one that impressed and surprised me. 3. Aura. The series is in the spirit of a Black Mirror, but with notes of mysticism and horror. I was glad to see Gabourey Sidibe
American horror stories could be a great series that would tell about urban legends, myths, human fears, but in a new way, ridicule the lives of Americans, as in the original series. But unfortunately we have an average in terms of fumes I'm giving this series 3 black bloody Marys out of 5
It's too boring. The logic went out of the chat. And the dialogues, the dialogues, what! In short, it was bad. But speaking in general, for the whole season, it is much better than the first one. Therefore, I will wait for season 3, there are still good plots.
Slightly better than last season, but I still think that this is a useless spin-off, which had and has potential, but it is being dumped into the trash in exactly the same way as they did with the tenth season of aiu.
The season has come to an end, it's time to summarize what you've seen. Hand on heart, I can honestly say that the second season is much better than the first, at least due to the fact that it is made "independent". It was nice that the canon was not forgotten, but also something new was being done - new stories, new techniques, new facets of the terrible for the series. We are not united by screamers and bloodshed alone, so to speak. God grant that the third season will be polished even better than the second)) I will definitely select it in my personal top by seniority: Dollhouse and Aura (AIU classics + connection with the canon), Necro and Milkmaids (an innovation, however), Lake and Bloody Mary (classic legends, quite watchable), Facelift and Drive (did not go absolutely, unfortunately)..
A gorgeous spin-off, not to compare with the original, but very interesting. I didn't even notice how quickly I watched season 1 and 2. I hope next season will be just as interesting and exciting.
The series is about nothing. As for the final episode, it's very weak, probably one of the most boring episodes in this series. In general, the season turned out much better than the first one, since I didn't like the first one, and I didn't have any hope that this season would be better, but it's good that I was wrong, but not to the end. There were passing episodes, there are those that I liked like Aura, Necro, Dollhouse, Facelift, the rest are on average
So in the memories, the father of the family came there, he was in this house, why on earth the lights went out is not clear, in general the series is good, but unfortunately in each episode of the season, there are plot holes, which does not just allow you to enjoy the atmosphere Aura is the best episode of the season, then Necro, Dollhouse is a good episode, the rest are just there and okay, in the first season I liked more episodes to be honest
Why it was necessary to put this particular episode last is not entirely clear. I thought that the logic would be in some kind of reference to AI, but there were no connections. In this case, we could have put a stronger series at the end. At least the impression of the finale would be more pleasant. Well, okay, we have what we have.
In general, the top of all episodes of the season is like this:
1. Necro 8/10
2. Dollhouse 8/10
3. Milkmaids 7/10
4. Aura 7/10
5. Facelift 6.5/10
6. Bloody Mary 6/10
7. Drive 5/10
8. Lake 5/10
The rating for the entire season 2 is 6/10
It was definitely better than the first season, but still work and work to at least get closer to the level of AI. Hopefully, if there is a third season, it will get even better. And let him be without Manny Koto, please)))
As for me, in the spirit of AI, this season there is only a Dollhouse (of course!), Aura and Bloody Mary.
All the "terrible" things that happened were predictable and not scary, which is even insulting.
To explore the bottom of the lake for an unprepared person alone? (A daughter with a rope does not count). Here, even "horrors" are not necessary, the action itself is dangerous and extremely unreasonable🤔
Do you remember the phrase - "Mom, what did you put in the coffin"?
Of course, season 2 is better and I hope that they will continue to experiment with this genre. And for me, the best episode of the season remains the Dollhouse.
In my opinion, one of the problems with this spin-off is the length of the episodes, the authors try to create interesting plots, but are limited to 45 minutes, stories suffer from this.
I remember three episodes from the whole season - a Dollhouse (although the finale, imho, was blurred), Aura, in the style of a Black Mirror, (it was just good) and Necro (but it's more about the theme and surprise of the story). Everything else is not interesting or twisted.
In the season, I liked Necro, the Dollhouse, the Cult of Beauty and Aura. Pretty good stories came out.
From here, this final scene with the drowned and the father is neither hot nor cold
It would be much more interesting if the father was drowned at the very beginning, and then the whole family would dive to the bottom to discover the secret of this dam, because the most terrible scenes in this series were obviously underwater, and they could be left in this case until the very end, simultaneously revealing the fate of the drowned
- Nothing, my daughter, it's time. After all, we are his family, and he left behind houses, a factory, a lake and a city😁
In fact, the series is really worthless. Did your son drown under mysterious circumstances? Probably, it is necessary to dive there without scuba gear. Did the daughter end up in a mental hospital amid the death of her brother? Let's tie a rope around her and, if anything happens, she already knows where she will live in soft walls if she is directly complicit in her mother's death👍
But the screensavers for each episode are just a miracle... They all deserve 5 stars)))
For Silverstone, of course, a likemuffic, but in general it would be better to screw up the "Tales from the crypt" probably :)
And so yes, a complete understatement, something was clearly missing, the previous series set the bar high
The motto of this whole series and the last half of the original one. It seems to me that after the "Freak Show" the creators deviated from the course in terms of horror.
There were actually no good episodes, which is disappointing.
Specifically about this series, I can say that they started for health, and ended for peace, merged the series at the end to the very least, it's a shame.
Initially, the idea of a spin-off, where one episode = one story seemed good, like "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", but in a modern way, but after 2 seasons I understand that the idea is so-so and the reason for this is Manny Koto
70% of the script was written by him and for a series in the anthology genre - this is not acceptable
In no series does the screenwriter write scripts for all series, of course there are exceptions, but as a rule they are either psychos or geniuses, as a rule these are two sides of the same extreme.
It feels like FX hired someone for food, and they got money for the staff of screenwriters. If Koto were not the only screenwriter and would write 1-2 episodes instead of 5, then maybe the quality of the episodes would improve: The timing would increase, the dialogues and motivation of the characters would be more prescribed, but alas, we have thrash horror films from the 90s
But not everything is so bad, I would like to mention the series that caught on and which I will review.
1. The naughty list. Classic. A company of assholes, with one brain for the whole team, and in the end they are defiantly killed with varying degrees of cruelty.In this episode, I painted myself in Nico Gritham. Special thanks to Danny Trejo. He's beautiful.
2. BAAL. The plot is based on all sorts of magical figurines and gods. I love this. Billy Lourd has a separate plus sign. The finale of this series is the only one that impressed and surprised me.
3. Aura. The series is in the spirit of a Black Mirror, but with notes of mysticism and horror. I was glad to see Gabourey Sidibe
American horror stories could be a great series that would tell about urban legends, myths, human fears, but in a new way, ridicule the lives of Americans, as in the original series. But unfortunately we have an average in terms of fumes
I'm giving this series 3 black bloody Marys out of 5
I will definitely select it in my personal top by seniority:
Dollhouse and Aura (AIU classics + connection with the canon),
Necro and Milkmaids (an innovation, however),
Lake and Bloody Mary (classic legends, quite watchable),
Facelift and Drive (did not go absolutely, unfortunately)..
Aura is the best episode of the season, then Necro, Dollhouse is a good episode, the rest are just there and okay, in the first season I liked more episodes to be honest
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