Okay, I remember that Kai donated sperm and it was at a clinic that Ally and Ivy used. But was that the main reason he targeted their family?
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I never have seen Asylum. I have the DVD but the treatment of people in asylums disturbs me so much, I've never had the courage to watch it.
My comments about the overall series still stand. The creators don't really seem to have a genuine appreciation for the horror genre. Rather, they're more caught up in the sexiness of it: the imagery and tropes. This will go down in television history as probably the only series where the opening credits were better than the show itself. If Apocalypse is the final season, I really won't miss this show.
Okay, I remember that Kai donated sperm and it was at a clinic that Ally and Ivy used. But was that the main reason he targeted their family?
You really, really need to watch the first one. You will see how they righted some things, a lot of things. It took my daughter and husband and I to remember all of what happened in previous seasons to make Apocalypse make sense. I didn't think they could wrap it up in that last episode, but did a good job.I found Hotel and Roanoke going on too long compared to the earlier seasons (only haven't seen the very first yet), they went on a few episodes too many for me after I felt a climax had already been reached.
But Cult seemed to go on forever (it wasn't even one of the longest seasons). I don't dislike stories about cults at all (I love The Following with Kevin Bacon), but it just wasn't very interesting. It felt highly repetitive - Kai constantly mistrusts one of his followers, confronts them and kills them. It seemed less funny also than earlier seasons.
I surprisingly liked Sarah Paulson's character though - I found her extremely annoying in Roanoke - and she looked more beautiful somehow than in earlier seasons (maybe something about her hair). And she formed a nice couple with Alison Pill. But I didn't like the Kai character where I liked Evan Peters much more in earlier seasons.
Also, I feel like I missed an entire chunk of the point/plot and found it confusing. Why was Kai targetting Ally (Paulson) specifically and infiltrating in her family? Was it only because he thought he was the father of her son? I feel that was never explained anywhere. In the last episode it's cleared up that Oz ISN'T his son, but why was he thinking it in the first place?
You really, really need to watch the first one. You will see how they righted some things, a lot of things. It took my daughter and husband and I to remember all of what happened in previous seasons to make Apocalypse make sense. I didn't think they could wrap it up in that last episode, but did a good job.
I don't know if they don't have a genuine appreciation for it, but they're not aiming to make straight horror. It's more a satire of the genre. While it's gory, it's seldom scary (Roanoke was the most scary).
With Scream Queens it's more clear that it's a satire, but AHS is like a hysterical, over-the-top pastiche of the horrorgenre. And sex has always been a big part of the horrorgenre so they serve that up in spades too.
You're right: they're definitely not making straight horror. No way they're taking it seriously enough for that. But I think describing it as a pastiche is being overly generous.