She's good in this, but it isn't worth watching for either Connie or Jessica Lange. It's, how to put it? It has the same problems Nip/Tuck and Glee had when they jumped the shark - with the emphasis on the big visual shock and not on character or story. We don't build to it. So you feel a bit jarred as if it came out of nowhere.
It's almost as if they are desperate - we have to shock the audience, do something they've never seen before, thrill them to get their attention. In short, trying to hard. I sense it in Glee as well, except at least Glee has some really stellar musical numbers.
It's definitely a problem/flaw in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck's writing style - because I noticed it in all three series, the later seasons of Nip/Tuck when it imploded (actually why it imploded), Glee and now AHS.
I mean, the show as only an hour long, and they packed in it - sex with a rubber man, burned man watching guy wank, two screaming fights, a make-up sex, taking down a school bully, and a murder. None of which were built up to. Murphy has no appreciation for pacing. Watching a Ryan Murphy tv show feels like going to the television version of a Burger King.
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Date: 2011-10-10 02:50 am (UTC)It's almost as if they are desperate - we have to shock the audience, do something they've never seen before, thrill them to get their attention. In short, trying to hard. I sense it in Glee as well, except at least Glee has some really stellar musical numbers.
It's definitely a problem/flaw in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck's writing style - because I noticed it in all three series, the later seasons of Nip/Tuck when it imploded (actually why it imploded), Glee and now AHS.
I mean, the show as only an hour long, and they packed in it - sex with a rubber man, burned man watching guy wank, two screaming fights, a make-up sex, taking down a school bully, and a murder.
None of which were built up to. Murphy has no appreciation for pacing. Watching a Ryan Murphy tv show feels like going to the television version of a Burger King.