{"id":3177,"date":"2021-10-01T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2021-10-29T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:57:12","slug":"blog-robs-thoughts-on-ahs-double-feature-red-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"[BLOG] Rob&#8217;s thoughts on AHS Double Feature : Red Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Somethings, PCR here!<\/p>\n<p>Now.. fair warning, if you haven&#8217;t caught up with the 1st half of AHS S10, you may want to pass this by&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ok!\u00a0 So far, Season\u00a010 is an interesting and enjoyable season.\u00a0 Red Tide is 6 episodes, and the first half of Season 10, with Death Valley being the last 6 episodes.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t watched Ep 7 at the time of this writing, but the guess is the two seasons will somehow converge and overlap in some way.\u00a0 I really liked seeing Finn Wittrock in a lead role.\u00a0 The whole vibe was really well done in my opinion..the stormy greys, the lack of any real vibrant color.. really got the whole &#8216;winter in a Massachusetts coastal town&#8217; feel down.\u00a0 \u00a0Macauley Culkin was the real scene stealer for me, as Mickey was the only one I felt sorry for at how his story wrapped up.\u00a0 That said, I wasn&#8217;t crazy about Ursula, and.. to be fair, I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve enjoyed *any* character Leslie Grossman has played in AHS.\u00a0 While other actors seem to play a multitude of styles and personality types, Grossman always seems to end up playing the &#8216;Meh-person-turned-bitch that I could care less about&#8217;.\u00a0 The final episode of the first half was a case and point as it really revolved around her.\u00a0 For me, Episode 6 was a let down that moved way too fast through the narrative to wrap up the first half of Double Feature and set up the second.\u00a0 Where the first 5 episodes were a slow-burn pace, episode 6 felt like a roller coaster ride built by someone who&#8217;s never built a roller coaster but has seen one once.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m mildly optimistic for Death Valley and to see how it ties in to not only Red Tide, but previous seasons as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Somethings, PCR here!<\/p>\n<p>Now.. fair warning, if you haven&#8217;t caught up with the 1st half of AHS S10, you may want to pass this by&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ok!\u00a0 So far, Season\u00a010 is an interesting and enjoyable season.\u00a0 Red Tide is 6 episodes, and the first half of Season 10, with Death Valley being the last 6 episodes.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t watched Ep 7 at the time of this writing, but the guess is the two seasons will somehow converge and overlap in some way.\u00a0 I really liked seeing Finn Wittrock in a lead role.\u00a0 The whole vibe was really well done in my opinion..the stormy greys, the lack of any real vibrant color.. really got the whole &#8216;winter in a Massachusetts coastal town&#8217; feel down.\u00a0 \u00a0Macauley Culkin was the real scene stealer for me, as Mickey was the only one I felt sorry for at how his story wrapped up.\u00a0 That said, I wasn&#8217;t crazy about Ursula, and.. to be fair, I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve enjoyed *any* character Leslie Grossman has played in AHS.\u00a0 While other actors seem to play a multitude of styles and personality types, Grossman always seems to end up playing the &#8216;Meh-person-turned-bitch that I could care less about&#8217;.\u00a0 The final episode of the first half was a case and point as it really revolved around her.\u00a0 For me, Episode 6 was a let down that moved way too fast through the narrative to wrap up the first half of Double Feature and set up the second.\u00a0 Where the first 5 episodes were a slow-burn pace, episode 6 felt like a roller coaster ride built by someone who&#8217;s never built a roller coaster but has seen one once.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m mildly optimistic for Death Valley and to see how it ties in to not only Red Tide, but previous seasons as well.<\/p>\n<\/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":[224,216,42,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177"}],"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=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3216"}],"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=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}