Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, own it.
Fear makes people stronger on this week’s American Horror Story: Cult.
ThisAmerican Horror Story: Cultreview contains spoilers.
The quote itself made it to Living Colors song Cult of Personality.
The first lesson we learn in season 7, episode 2, is Dont Be Afraid of the Dark.
She wakes up to some clown in her bed and has a full on Coyote Episode.
Is that so wrong?
Ally is already a diagnosed sufferer of coulrophobia, fear of clowns, so she calls in her wife.
The two liberals immediately arm themselves like violent antifas, ready to hack up the first Harlequin they see.
Everything points to a liberal dementia.
It looks like the election of one orange man cracked Allys entire reality.
This has an effect of turning the entire neighborhood into an Overlook Hotel.
But the celluloid conspiracy tributes go back further.
We get a pod people vibe fromInvasion of the Bodysnatchers, another political allegory horror tale.
Something secret is going on in the community, and only the crazy people can see it.
The couple across the street appears on the surface to be perfect foils for Ivy and Ally.
He is a gay man, his wife is his best friend who doesnt have a problem with it.
The trypophobic Ally cajoles a gun off the new neighbors, to shoot holes in things, I assume.
Dr. Rudy Vincent (Cheyenne Jackson) makes house calls.
Either that or he has a really strict policy about paying for missed appointments.
At least he keeps Allys secret, for now.
Of course she gets the okay to have the gun.
What could go wrong in a world where criminal cases are politicized?
The minor characters dont last too long either.
Alison Pill is swallowed up in this role so far.
I am waiting for a breakout moment like the ones she had on Newsroom.
Her character there was made to blend, and yet she stood out in comic arias of physical comedy.
She then replaces every option with fear.
By the end of the episode the kid is addicted to the pinky swear ritual.
The show gets to deliver one fuck per episode and it comes shortly before the whole town is fucked.
Everyone will be part of the hive by the end.
We are all pods.
Dont Be Afraid of the Dark was written by Tim Minear, and directed by Liza Johnson.
Rating:
3.5 out of 5
