The final twist that turns “BA’AL” into a gaslighting cautionary tale is a bit goofy, but Lourd even sells that unexpected turn, bringing us into Liv’s existence as if it’s real. Of course, she ends up pregnant shortly thereafter, but she starts seeing visions of the demon Ba’al after the baby is born. When the latest attempt fails, she takes a totem from a receptionist of what is supposed to be a fertility god. The star of the last six chapters of American Horror Story brings truth to her performance as Liv, a woman who has been trying desperately to get pregnant. Maybe streaming really will be the end of us all.Īnthology series like The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror often get a lot of mileage from the episodes that feature the best performers - that’s definitely the case with this season-one standout anchored by Murphyverse veteran Billie Lourd. The urban legend of a movie so shocking that it permanently damages those who see it has been a part of the underground of horror forever, and it’s fun to see the new spin that AHS puts on it with the episode’s twist ending. When a drive-in schedules a screening of the banned film, a young man named Chad tries to stop it. The actor plays a horror director who, rumor has it, once made a film so terrifying (called Rabbit Rabbit) that it could drive people so insane that mass violence would ensue in the aisles of the theater. ![]() The stunt casting of Barbeau is fun, but this is one of the best episodes of Stories because of its concept and another memorable guest star in Freak Show, all-around great character actor John Carroll Lynch. It helps to get a horror legend involved with a show like this one, and the first standalone episode of American Horror Stories after the frustrating two-part “Murder House” tie-in that opened the series includes none other than Adrienne Barbeau, star of genre classics like The Fog and Swamp Thing. We went through all 19 episodes of Stories to date and picked out the five must-watches so far, episodes that exceeded expectations and transcended their twists to become the best of the best, presented chronologically. ![]() What if there was no finale?! As is the case with pretty much every anthology show, the run of American Horror Stories has been rocky, but the quartet of third-season episodes that just dropped on October 26 reveal a show that seems to actually be gaining in confidence, even bringing in a special appearance by an Oscar winner. It helps that the most common complaint of AHS critics is that seasons of the show, especially lately, seem to run out of ideas before the finale. Why not go back to some of the grisly ideas that never found their way into an installment of AHS and give them the anthology treatment with the kind of limited productions that COVID necessitated? Bring in some fan favorites from the Murphyverse, like Matt Bomer, Billie Lourd, Dylan McDermott, Denis O’Hare, and many more, and the thing practically writes itself. When American Horror Stories launched in July 2021, it felt like a product of the pandemic, a cheap-and-easy way to tide fans over while production stalled on Ryan Murphy’s proper cult hit American Horror Story.
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