Because I
said I would do this, I am reviewing the first “half” (nine out of thirteen
episodes) of the season of American
Horror Story, American Horror Story:
Coven. These nine episodes started off very good, but got less good as they
went and eventually got the point of which they started to be bad. This has
been a fine season overall so far, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth
from the last few episodes of the show. But without further a due, I have to
review it.
This was an
enjoyable show. Though it did have times that got dull, it used a steady, fast
pace to keep the viewers’ interest in it so that they would not feel bored by
it. Though, there are consequences from doing this. Most likely, the show will
have many unrealistic, non-physics-following, illogical, and just plain stupid
things happen. This season has those things. It is prominent all throughout the
season. Though, sometimes I let it slip, because in the some episodes, the show
is very fun and it is allowed, to an extent, to have things like that.
It had some
good humor in it, and it had some cool factors with the magic that is used. For
the first few episodes, I thought that this season was meant to be a “fun”
season. And it was good at being a fun season. Aside from the fact that there
were some bad direction with bad shots and in-your-face, shaky, quick-cut
action sequences, it had all the elements it needed. It was very good. Though,
it does not stay fun for that long, and it turns into a drama eventually, which
it is not good at.
In Exhibit A
we have the characters. They are never steady. Character development is lacking
and none of the characters are good. I did not actually like any of them. None of
them were that strong. The characters also stop being who they are and change
into something else, which is not through development. They just change. In
Exhibit B we have the storylines. Some of them were actually good, but some of
them were bad. They go too far and throw away every factor that made the good
storylines good to ruin them. In Exhibit C we have the writing. None of the scripts
for the episodes are particularly good, and some of them were bad. The dialogue
was bad, too. There were some humorous lines, but the dramatic dialogue was not
good. In our final exhibit, Exhibit D, we have the content. Some things happen
just to have disgustingness. Some events and scenes go way over-the-top in what
was happening to ruin any credibility at all the scene had before. Some things
go way too far to try to demonstrate something which it did not need to go to
the lengths it did to demonstrate.
That is not
much, but that is all I have to say about the first nine episodes of American Horror Story: Coven. It was a very
enjoyable show with very little dull moments and many fun elements, but it had
bad writing and not-so-great direction. I did like it and think it was good
overall, but I am afraid the last four episodes of the season may not be good
at all. We will have to just wait and see.
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