Not to mention the rumored guest returns of Lady Gaga, Emma Roberts, Taissa Farmiga and Jessica Lange, although they are just rumored.
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Now, I do have reservations about this story, and this format, taking up the entire season. This year the show Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk is entitled “Roanoke“, referring to one of the greatest mysteries of the United States at the time of the settlers.
In its sixth season, many anxious about AHS, even in its anthology format, staying fresh. A basic understanding of Roanoke and some creepy people in the woods gives us the ability to make assumptions.
Rather than ending the episode thoroughly spooked, I just wanted to watch more to figure out what was happening and why it was happening. But since these events happened in the past…shouldn’t the actors be younger than the Talking Heads? It’s a fascinating move for a series that has fully embraced the wild and the weird – something that has turned some viewers off.
The theme of Season 6 is My Roanoke Nightmare, and will likely reference the Mystery of Roanoke aka the Lost Colony, which saw 117 people disappear in 1590.
The first episode of the season, titled “Chapter 1”, revealed only five of the 10 cast members but introduced two complex plot points and even more complex characterizations.
Cuba Gooding Jr. compliments “American Horror Story” the way your mom complimented you in high school: You knew she loved you, but you always left feeling vaguely insulted.
Happily married and minding their own business, Matt and Shelby are driven away from their comfortable lives in the big city after a gang initiation attack leaves the husband hospitalized for a while, the stress of which causes the wife to have a miscarriage. It’s thrilling to see what the creators have in store for Paulson or Bates, or what kind of brooding will the talented Peters get to do this year.
Network executives didn’t want to reveal anything, but the number one rumor proved real in the premiere: It’s connected to the disappearance of 117 colonists from Roanoke in 1959, the single most mysterious crime in USA history. Some of them terrifying, others have been overtly freaky as opposed to scary. However, we’ve had a rare glimpse of characters appearing in one season, who have an encounter later on.
The Season 6 premiere didn’t exactly establish a clear connection off the bat, but the presence of torch-wielding locals wearing colonial garb seem to suggest the presence of unsettled spirits on a mission.
Overall, I think this is an interesting way to tell the story. Now that the premiere episode has finally aired, it seems that the theme is basically “The Blair Witch Project”, which is probably unfortunate timing to come out the same week as the official “Blair Witch” sequel. Judging from the first episode, it feels as though this will be a very specific timeline, yet perhaps it will somehow bleed into what we’ve seen before. Both Shelby and Lee experienced hauntings in the house together and did not know how to explain them.
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A report by The Telegraph indicates that “American Horror Story” has been made to be a documentary film. I enjoy the structure of the series quite a bit. And fittingly, a lot of Season 6’s story – a haunted house reenactment – echoes back to Season 1. The series, for me at least, has been an entertaining ride that could bring the whole damn thing crashing down in a glorious way.
