American Horror Story: Asylum

[Souler]

oh em gee, Robin Bartlett

[LangeFanForever]

oh em gee, Robin Bartlett

:~sigh~: Alas, true talent always gets overlooked.

This is just straight-up trolling, yes?

Chill, I don't do it that often and this scene and the performances between these two warrants the thread.

[Bean]

Chill, I don't do it that often and this scene and the performances between these two warrants the thread.

Incorrect! I merged this into the larger AHS thread.

[LangeFanForever]

Incorrect! I merged this into the larger AHS thread.

Mr. Bean! Dammit!

[Bean]

Mr. Bean! Dammit!

One thread per show keeps down the clutter and wear on the servers. Thanks!

[Cuculiza]

This season started off well and ok-ish and I slowly started losing interest with the Anne Frank episodes, which felt just too damn incoherent and a waste of my time. But I decided to give it a chance and continued watching. The subsequent episodes relied heavily (at least for me) on Cromwell and Lange, and it was just a pleasure to see them act.

The last 3-4 episodes though, have been riveting and truly good and entertaining. I'm sad it's gonna end tomorrow.

When the show stopped relying so much on religious elements (which are so silly and meaningless to me since I'm not a religious person) and started focusing more on what dementia or "mental illness" meant/truly means is when it really picked up steam and got interesting.

Also, they better give Sister Jude a happy ending or I'm gonna kill somebody in the street.

[desirelines]

Season has ended and the last episode was just fantastic. Great ending for the three characters. I think Sarah Paulson was just as good as Jessica this season. Her character haunts me just as much as Sister Jude.

Would really want to rewatch this season.

[DirkDiggler]

Everyone on the IMDB board freaked out last night thinking that the last scene meant Lana left the Asylum after talking to Jude and basically the whole season never happened. And Lana made up/wrote it all for a book. lollll

[BTN]

It was a good ending. I was hoping Lange would get a fitting showcase for what she did the whole season and she did. What a great payoff for the death angel part. At first I actually was unsure of who "she" was but it really worked.

I know the last lines were " if you look at the face of evil it will look back" and then Lana left but I still wondered if the whole thing wasnt real.

[haqyunus]

Now that it has ended and no doubt Lange was integral to the show but it is Paulson that I remember. Anyway, I kinda lost interest towards the end. The last couple or so episodes were a mess and I could never get into the sci-fi part.

[makemeameteor]

Now that it has ended and no doubt Lange was integral to the show but it is Paulson that I remember. Anyway, I kinda lost interest towards the end. The last couple or so episodes were a mess and I could never get into the sci-fi part.

More or less agreed. I've mostly kept silent because this season really tested my patience in a way the first one, despite being incredibly flawed, never did. At least there, I was always having fun watching the proceedings and the story revolved solely around that house. Here, the story veered all over the place, from Bad Seed ripoffs to aliens to zombies. By the penultimate episode, I was thoroughly bored.

However. This final episode changed the way I looked at the season. I'm a sucker for anything that examines people descending into madness. Things like Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, etc. Not that I'm equating the quality of AHS to any of those. It was still a massively flawed season. But when you stop looking at the season as the stories that make up Briarcliff and instead look at it as how Lana's experiences slowly turned her into such a hard, deceptive, and, yes, even slightly evil woman, I think the season takes on a new, much more positive light. I think the extraneous elements that I mentioned earlier are still pretty useless, though I guess the aliens function as sort of a MacGuffin. But all that aside, I think viewing the season as the story of how Lana Turner was corrupted puts it in a much more positive light.

Still majorly flawed, though, and I'd still probably prefer the first season. It never reached the highs that Asylum occasionally hit, but I also don't think it was nearly as uneven or testing as this season was. My opinion, of course.

[ldw]

The season could have been something really special. The finale was terrific but the journey there was just too ragged for me. It seemed as if subplots and intriguing dynamics were set up and not followed through on. Quite a bit felt anticlimactic and interesting dynamics ended up not being fleshed out. I liked it but I can't see it making my top 10 for the year. However Paulson's performance as Lana was incredible!

More or less agreed. I've mostly kept silent because this season really tested my patience in a way the first one, despite being incredibly flawed, never did. At least there, I was always having fun watching the proceedings and the story revolved solely around that house. Here, the story veered all over the place, from Bad Seed ripoffs to aliens to zombies. By the penultimate episode, I was thoroughly bored.

However. This final episode changed the way I looked at the season. I'm a sucker for anything that examines people descending into madness. Things like Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, etc. Not that I'm equating the quality of AHS to any of those. It was still a massively flawed season. But when you stop looking at the season as the stories that make up Briarcliff and instead look at it as how Lana's experiences slowly turned her into such a hard, deceptive, and, yes, even slightly evil woman, I think the season takes on a new, much more positive light. I think the extraneous elements that I mentioned earlier are still pretty useless, though I guess the aliens function as sort of a MacGuffin. But all that aside, I think viewing the season as the story of how Lana Turner was corrupted puts it in a much more positive light.

Still majorly flawed, though, and I'd still probably prefer the first season. It never reached the highs that Asylum occasionally hit, but I also don't think it was nearly as uneven or testing as this season was. My opinion, of course.

While the experiences changed her, I don't see how Lana turned into a "slightly evil woman".

[makemeameteor]

I mean it more as a summation of what Jude said to her in the final scene, about evil staring back and whatnot. I don't think she's like, say, Thresdon, for instance.

[ldw]

I mean it more as a summation of what Jude said to her in the final scene, about evil staring back and whatnot. I don't think she's like, say, Thresdon, for instance.

I have been pondering that scene. I am trying to give Murphy the benefit of doubt that he is not saying actions such as Lana being focused on getting the story, Lana giving up the baby, etc. were evil. That isn't just dicey but very offensive if Murphy is hinting it is.

Anyways, I agree with much of the rest of what you said.

[makemeameteor]

I have been pondering that scene. I am trying to give Murphy the benefit of doubt that he is not saying actions such as Lana being focused on getting the story, Lana giving up the baby, etc. were evil. That isn't just dicey but very offensive if Murphy is hinting it is.

Yeah, I didn't take it to mean that Lana's actions over the course of the season were evil. I think it was just more of a play on the "The abyss will stare back into you" line. Though with Murphy, it's sometimes hard to tell.

[ldw]

Yeah, I didn't take it to mean that Lana's actions over the course of the season were evil. I think it was just more of a play on the "The abyss will stare back into you" line. Though with Murphy, it's sometimes hard to tell.

True about Murphy. One never really knows with him.