{"id":3141,"date":"2021-09-03T06:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2021-09-03T06:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:12:32","slug":"blog-pcr-ranks-ahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3141","title":{"rendered":"[BLOG] PCR ranks AHS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Somethings, PCR here!<\/p>\n

So, in our Free For All episode (which you can listen to here<\/a>…)\u00a0we touched on ‘American Horror Stories’ and, tangentially, AHS in general.\u00a0 Long time listeners of the show know both Hatton and I have varied opinions of the AHS seasons… but here, for the first time, I’m giving you my rankings of them…<\/p>\n

9 – Roanoke<\/strong> –\u00a0 I know they tried something a bit different this season with the ‘real vs re-enactment’ and the second half feeling like a different story until it wasn’t… but the whole thing fell super flat for me.\u00a0 When I first saw the title, I wanted a season ABOUT Roanoke not.. this convoluted mess that we got.<\/p>\n

8 – Asylum<\/strong> – I know I’m stepping on toes here, there are a BUNCH of people who like Asylum.\u00a0 There were PARTS I liked, not not nearly enough to override the fact that I feel like I got scammed in a story that was teased and never shown.<\/p>\n

7 – Cult<\/strong>\u00a0 – Cult was… uncomfortable.\u00a0 I know AHS stories aren’t supposed to be all ‘light and fuzzy’, but “Cult” for me felt ‘too soon’ with what was going on in the world at the time.<\/p>\n

6 – Murder House<\/strong> – This season falls in the middle for me because, I get this is where it all started.. but I would love to see AHS decide it’s time to ‘move on’ from it.\u00a0 It comes back around way too often for my tastes in other seasons (and even spin-offs) and it would be nice to see the show give it a rest.<\/div>\n
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5 – Freak Show <\/strong>–\u00a0 This was an interesting one for me.\u00a0 The whole carnival vibe I enjoyed, and Finn as Dandy was a standout performance for me.<\/p>\n

4 – 1984<\/strong> –\u00a0 I liked the schlock of it.\u00a0 The season captured the ’80s vibe great, and it was exciting for me to see them bring Ramierez back.<\/div>\n

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3 – Hotel<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll say it, I loved Lady Gaga in this season.\u00a0 All the acting was pretty top notch, the story was engaging, and nothing felt too forced for me.\u00a0 A very solid season from top to bottom.<\/div>\n
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2 – Coven<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0I adore The Witches.\u00a0 Coven was a great story, the infighting and intrigue about the Supreme… it hit all the right notes for me.<\/p>\n

1 – Apocalypse<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll be honest, this almost came in at the second spot as the first few episodes I was a bit “meh” on, but once The Witches showed up and everyone revealed their true colors, this season really took off.\u00a0 Cody Fern as Michael Langdon REALLY gave me some “Lucifer\/Ahura Mazda” vibes from Cry for Dawn and there was little, if anything, I would change about the season as a whole.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Somethings, PCR here!<\/p>\n

So, in our Free For All episode (which you can listen to here<\/a>…)\u00a0we touched on ‘American Horror Stories’ and, tangentially, AHS in general.\u00a0 Long time listeners of the show know both Hatton and I have varied opinions of the AHS seasons… but here, for the first time, I’m giving you my rankings of them…<\/p>\n

9 – Roanoke<\/strong> –\u00a0 I know they tried something a bit different this season with the ‘real vs re-enactment’ and the second half feeling like a different story until it wasn’t… but the whole thing fell super flat for me.\u00a0 When I first saw the title, I wanted a season ABOUT Roanoke not.. this convoluted mess that we got.<\/p>\n

8 – Asylum<\/strong> – I know I’m stepping on toes here, there are a BUNCH of people who like Asylum.\u00a0 There were PARTS I liked, not not nearly enough to override the fact that I feel like I got scammed in a story that was teased and never shown.<\/p>\n

7 – Cult<\/strong>\u00a0 – Cult was… uncomfortable.\u00a0 I know AHS stories aren’t supposed to be all ‘light and fuzzy’, but “Cult” for me felt ‘too soon’ with what was going on in the world at the time.<\/p>\n

6 – Murder House<\/strong> – This season falls in the middle for me because, I get this is where it all started.. but I would love to see AHS decide it’s time to ‘move on’ from it.\u00a0 It comes back around way too often for my tastes in other seasons (and even spin-offs) and it would be nice to see the show give it a rest.<\/div>\n
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5 – Freak Show <\/strong>–\u00a0 This was an interesting one for me.\u00a0 The whole carnival vibe I enjoyed, and Finn as Dandy was a standout performance for me.<\/p>\n

4 – 1984<\/strong> –\u00a0 I liked the schlock of it.\u00a0 The season captured the ’80s vibe great, and it was exciting for me to see them bring Ramierez back.<\/div>\n

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3 – Hotel<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll say it, I loved Lady Gaga in this season.\u00a0 All the acting was pretty top notch, the story was engaging, and nothing felt too forced for me.\u00a0 A very solid season from top to bottom.<\/div>\n
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2 – Coven<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0I adore The Witches.\u00a0 Coven was a great story, the infighting and intrigue about the Supreme… it hit all the right notes for me.<\/p>\n

1 – Apocalypse<\/strong>\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll be honest, this almost came in at the second spot as the first few episodes I was a bit “meh” on, but once The Witches showed up and everyone revealed their true colors, this season really took off.\u00a0 Cody Fern as Michael Langdon REALLY gave me some “Lucifer\/Ahura Mazda” vibes from Cry for Dawn and there was little, if anything, I would change about the season as a whole.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[215],"tags":[224,216,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}