A third season of American Horror Stories landed on Binge, late October. This season served as a four-episode Halloween event.
With an all star cast, including many familiar faces this season. Jessica Barden, Emma Halleen, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Allius Barnes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reid Scott, Annie Hamilton, Christopher Fitzgerald, Maury Ginsberg, Lisa Rinna, Laura Kariuki, Rob Yang, Hazel Graye, Raúl Castillo, Emily Browning, Havana Rose Liu, Susan Pourfar, Jeff Adler, Drew Moore, Patrick Breen, Maria Tucci and Laila Robins all star across the four episodes.
Take a look at the spooky trailer below!
Episode one, Bestie actually scared me! When Shelby moves to a new house and school after her mom dies due to cancer. She is quickly picked on by a group of kids due to her appearance and takes her anger out on her father.
While watching her favorite YouTube show Anna Rexhia, another watcher named BFF4EVA contacts her wanting to videochat.
It's revealed that the person is a deformed teenage girl who quickly befriends her and the two-bond due to their loss of mothers and annoyances of their dads. BFF4EVA/Bestie later encourages her to be more confident and do a series of escalating pranks like shoplifting, getting in fights with her dad, and poisoning the entire cast for a school play into vomiting on opening night.
She finally goes overboard when she goes as her music teachers' stillborn baby on Halloween and is locked in the basement by her dad as punishment. Bestie calls her on an old laptop and tells her to break her arm to get out.
This is the breaking point as it makes Shelby re-evaluate her relationship and stops being friends with bestie. She apologizes to her father and teacher and befriends a boy named River who bonds with her due to having an open heart and a hatred to the kids who bullied her.
One day River takes her to a house that he believes to be haunted but while there, Shelby realizes it's Bestie's house after recognizing the scenery. Bestie appears and Shelby tries to flee but River stabs & kills her, revealing he is another one of Bestie's "friends". The two walk out towards the sea and hug.
This episode features: Jessica Barden, Emma Halleen, Seth Gabel, Jeff Hiller, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Allius Barnes, Grace Aiello Antczak
Episode two Daphne may have been my favourite. While also being slightly disturbing!
In a world where a new pandemic causes everyone to be in lockdown, art curator owner Will Caswell is given a high-tech assistant named Daphne. Daphne is voiced by none other than Gwyneth Paltrow. While Veep superstar Reid Scott is Will.
As he is alone with only Daphne for company, he lets her in and she proceeds to make his life better: changing lights in his home, raising prices on virtual art auction, and helping him sleep.
When lockdown is lifted due to a vaccine, she grows upset when he is intimate with his girlfriend Sarah. She first tries to sabotague their relationship by admitting that she faked an orgasm and then not making dinner reservations.
Later she replaces her takeout with food cooked in peanut oil which results in her dying.
At a physical art show, Will brings Daphne who ends up killing everyone at the show, except for him as he left the room. Upon returning home, he is arrested for Sarah's murder due to footage showing him changing out Sarah's food order and the murder of the art goers due to his tampering with the room.
At the precinct, he learns that Daphne had been a gag gift and for others didn't work the way it did for him. He continuously tries to get Daphne to talk for the police while the device remains silent.
This episode features : Gwyneth Paltrow, Reid Scott, Annie Hamilton, Christopher Fitzgerald, Maury Ginsberg
In episode three, it is truly shocking, titled Tapeworm. A peppy woman named Vivian attempts to audition for a role at Vogue but an agent named Sheila Klein tells her she's too fat to be a model. Her friend Heather gives her a card to a weight lose doctor named Dr. Thaddeus Leu who gives her medication called Modify that cause her to lose weight and later on she gets a job at Vogue.
However, during a photo shoot, she faints and breaks her nose. During a checkup with Dr. Leu, it turns out that she has a heart condition that could be fatal if she keeps taking the shots. He gives her another option which is a tapeworm that would eat anything she eats and never give her any weight, but she must not overeat.
She does so anyways and later on as she continues to get more jobs, the worm begins to cause her to change in her eating behavior and personality causing her to yell at her coworkers and Heather. The worm causes her to lose so much weight that she becomes very skinny.
After meeting with Leu, he gives her a serum that will cause the worm to exit through her anus and at home, she takes the serum and pulls the worm out. Unfortunately, the worm is still alive and then kills her.
When Heather comes back to get her stuff, the worm attacks her and inserts itself into her through the mouth. Later Heather auditions for Vogue and gets in claiming that she's starving starting the cycle all over again.
This episode was totally full on. However this has easily been the best season of the American Horror Story spin-off.
This episode features : Lisa Rinna, Laura Kariuki, Rob Yang, Hazel Graye
The last of four episodes was the weakest (sadly). However Raúl Castillo is excellent. Aussie Emily Browning also gets her first American Horror appearance.
Organ is about Castillo, a selfish womanizer pays the piper for his actions after getting one of his kidneys stolen after a hookup.
It was the shortest of all four Halloween episodes.
This episode features : Raúl Castillo, Emily Browning, Havana Rose Liu, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Susan Pourfar, Jeff Adler, Drew Moore, Patrick Breen, Maria Tucci, Laila Robins
American Horror Stories streams on Binge. If you need to start somewhere, start with season three. It is miles ahead of the past two seasons. That should now conclude my horror TV series posts for a while.
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