AMERICAN HORROR STORY – DOUBLE FEATURE SERIES REVIEW

In it’s 10th season, “American Horror Story” decided to split its time between two completely different stories. The first to air was “Red Tide”, which followed a writer (Finn Wittrock) and his wife (Lily Rabe) and child who move out temporarily to a seaside town during the off season so he can try to get some writing in, when some colorful and famous writer locals (Frances Conroy & Evan Peters) turn him on to a pill that will make him the best writer he can be, but at a horrible and blood-soaked cost. The second tale, “Death Valley”, follows Dwight Eisenhower (Neal McDonough) and his wife (Sarah Paulson) as they deal quite differently with the new world they had no choice but to approve of in the wake of Roswell and their dealings with the aliens who landed. Chris, Robert, Melina, and Justin had mixed feelings about this season, namely that part one was somewhat good to not good at all and part two was just plain awful. Listen to their scathing review here.

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CREATED BY: Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk

STARRING: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Finn Wittrock, Frances Conroy, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Adina Porter, Angelica Ross, Macaulay Culkin, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Denis O’Hare, Robin Weigert, Spencer Novich, Kayla Blake, Rachel Finninger, Blake Shields, Jim Ortlieb, David Huggard, Dot-Marie Jones, Neal McDonough, Kaia Gerber, Nico Greetham, Isaac Cole Powell, Rachel Hilson, Rebecca Dayan, Cody Fern, Christopher Stanley, Craig Sheffer, Mike Vogel, Alisha Soper, Len Cordova, John Sanders, Bryce Johnson, Karl Makinen, Jeff Heapy

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Melina Eames (Screener Squad)

Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones,