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Thursday, January 24, 2013
3:55 pm
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What is past isn’t always prologue, as the finale of “American Horror Story: Asylum” illustrated last night.
Someone is getting an Emmy for “Best Makeup on a Lesbian”
In the present day, Lana Winters is still very much alive, and just as ambitious and determined as she has ever been. On the day she is set to receive a Kennedy Center Honor, she is being interviewed in her well appointed New York apartment by a young journalist. Lana went on to become a trailblazing investigative reporter, first in print, and later in television as the host of “America Unmasked”. Get it? The woman who was kidnapped and impregnated by a masked serial killer has a show called “America Unmasked”. Who doesn’t appreciate a good pun?
Lana even has a portrait of herself painted by Bono. The man, the legend, the guy who paints portraits when he’s not busy saving the world from AIDS and bankers.
Lana paints a wonderful story of returning to Briarcliff with a camera crew to document the horrid conditions and shut the place down. She tells her interviewer of how she tracked down Sister Jude and saved her from the atrocities, yet it didn’t happen. Lana stops and says it’s a fantasy. By the time she returned to Briarcliff in 1970, Jude was long gone. She had not kept her promise to Jude. This isn’t going to bode well for Sarah Paulson when she has to compete against Jessica Lange in the Best Actress in a Miniseries category at the Emmys. Sister Jude is most definitely getting the sympathy vote.
Just be grateful that your eyes haven’t adjusted to the light. It isn’t a pretty sight.
Anyhow, Lana is also joined by her long-time partner, an opera singer that informs her that they’re having dinner with the Gershwin’s or the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s or the Gomez-Bieber’s or someone important. I don’t know opera all that well. Lana seems content and successful.
On the flip side of that coin is her not very well adjusted offspring, Johnny, who is seeking vengeance on his mother. In the present day, he breaks into a boarded up Briarcliff and has visions of his father, Dr Thredson aka Bloody Face. “I had so much love for you, even when you were still in your mother’s womb”, his father’s ghost informs him. Sure, unconditional parental love is a beautiful thing. I’m guessing if Dr Thredson had survived being shot by Lana, though; he would at least have suggested his son try a different hair style.
Johnny sits in a cell in Briarcliff, getting high, when the lovers walk in and we get an answer to what happened in the first episode. She-Channing Tatum proceeds to call the second most winningest coach in the history of “the Voice” a pussy, and then blows him. Then Johnny cuts his arm off. Question answered. Johnny is Bloody Face Junior. He’s all sorts of messed up, and he seriously hates Maroon 5, or maybe he just hates adult rock, in general. Some questions go unanswered in season 2.
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I’m not buying the Cardinal’s suicide. The Catholic Church condemned suicides back in that day–instant trip to hell for self-murder. Any man who climbed the ladder of Mother Church all the way up to Cardinal is a Company Man all the way and wouldn’t dream of doing that to himself.
I buy the Cardinal’s suicide. I was actually happy with the way that story line ended. Like Lana said, he was the worst kind of person. He didn’t even know what the truth was anymore. He was too ambitious for his own good and just as bad as Arden, minus the whole Nazi thing.
I feel like Ryan Murphy tried to cram too much shit into this season. The story lines didn’t flesh out as much as I hoped for. He explained just enough to squeak by.
No clue about season 3′s location. I hope it’s some where in the South.
Oleeddie – I think you are confused. This is tvgasm, not a place for you to scream brag about “BANGING HOT BROADS.” Im annoyed I had to read any part your comment.
Wonderful recap, RJ…will you be recapping season 3? Please???
I’d like to say yes but if AHS has taught us anything, it’s to live day by day because you never know when you’ll be tortured by a former Nazi doctor and forced to submit to human experiments, so I guess we will see.
I bought Monsignor’s suicide because he was a weak man. He gave up his chastity, and with it his piousness, with little protest.
Good recap RJ. Very funny. I was mostly ok with the finale, though I think the whole alien thing deserved a some more explanation. I have no clue what the clues were for season 3, unless maybe Kit gets reincarnated/beamed back to Earth into a new time/place/plotline by his little green friends?
I liked this season a lot, but I feel like that ending came out of a state-run asylum … The whole alien thing just seemed like a left-over idea from an earlier script treatment. Did the mysterious aliens really add anything? No. The monsters already inhabiting the asylum were more than enough. Even the weird double backs with timing, characters reviving from death, and sped-up baby births could have been just as effectively developed as a result of crazy patients on meds in a crazy setting. Sister Jude had years pass and couldn’t tell which end was up. They could have played with that craziness and made uss feel crazy too, unable to tell what (if any of it) actually happened.
My favorite episode was “The Name Game”.
Ryan Murphy said in an interview that they had originally intended this storyline to be in a prison, but “Alcatraz” did the prison thing, so they went with the asylum twist. This is why they had the episode with Frances Conroy as that tough cellmate with Jude. It was suppose to be more like that.
I was glad they down-played the alien thing. I almost didn’t watch this season when I saw the outer space bullshit in that 1st episode. It did turn out to be pointless to the storyline IMO. I was never a fan of Lana and I didn’t have much empathy for her. Was I wrong to want Johnny to be the “last man standing” at the end. My favorite character this season was Sister Mary Eunice. She was the BEST and they killed her off way too soon. I would have liked a better ending for her.
I DID love “The Name Game” too… and now I’ve got it running thru my head… Morty Morty Bo Borty Banana Fana Fo Forty… Fe Fi Fo Forty…. Morty!
I’m surprised to hear that a prison was the original setting for this season. I don’t think they have co-ed prisons today, and they almost certainly didn’t have them in 1964. The asylum was rip with fornication, and if this had been a prison, it would have been a much different show. It would have aired on HBO about 10 years ago and it would have been called “Oz”.
Now I’m starting to question whether insane asylums were even co-ed in 1964. This may have all been one giant ruse.
I’m still confused what happened to Grace . . . oddly, I feel like I always miss something watching these. I thought the present day bloody-face was unneeded, I think Ryan just liked the Practice too much. Except for making RJ’s day, and killing some women most randomly, it didn’t do anything. I would have preferred an ending that stayed more in the sixties, and resolved things there with more dire-ness. Jude’s character was also a mixed bag. I thought Jessica, and all the actors did so well all through, but Jude’s mean, she’s a slut, she’s a murderer, she’s a nun, then she’s not a nun, she’s not a murderer, she’s crazy (but nice?) then she’s almost not crazy, but in the end they made her crazy, or was she just drugged. . . oh well.
I was ok with the aliens staying vague. I would have liked them to follow through with Jude screwing Arden for one, and having him tried for being a nazi and an overall awful human being. Devil nun could have tried to stop her, etc. Coulda been . . .
I will say I was entertained. I’m glad they gave the Lana Banana some redemption after kind of screwing her last episode.
Oh, and it’s pretty rare for two dark brown eyed people to have a blue eyed baby . . . is it me!?
I see the kind of reputation I’m developing here, as the mere slight of Dylan McDermott “makes my day”. I’d say that was a libelous comment, but it is true.
I tried to do the math once on two brown eyed parents have a blue eyed baby, and its almost near zero, but still possible. Just so you don’t think I’m even weirder, I was only doing this math because my sister and I are both blue eyed but we have one blue eyed parent and one brown eyed parent. Math would dictate that one or both of us was more likely to have brown eyes. I was trying to see if I could prove I was adopted before the easy availability of DNA tests.
hee . . . that’s funny, RJ. Usually the brown is dominant, in the case of both colors. My family is so white . . . How white are they?… we are so white, even my siblings with mixed eye marriages made blue eyed babies. I do find that kind of stuff interesting . . . but it bugs me when they don’t match the eyes of “younger actor cast as star” etc. Not a huge fan of sticking a contact in, but to make blue eyes brown, it looks a little better.
Thank god no one knows who I am (other than gay bob, my avatar) or I’d have to call my lawyers!!! kidding . . .
Hmmm…. I’m a blue-eyed, blonde-haired German girl. My hubby is a brown eyed, brown-haired Italian. We have three kids. Our oldest boy has brown hair and brown eyes. Then I had fraternal twins. The 1st was a daughter, brown hair and brown eyes, but the 2nd was a boy… he was blonde with blue eyes like me. The Fuehrer would be proud!
… and juddfan … I know who you are!
Count me in as a Dylan McDermott lover. I do him even as a white trash, crack smoking son of a serial killer. I’d insist he wear a condom though. I do have some standards.
Maybe R. Murphy will ask Lily Rabe to come back for season 3. She seems to be a fan favorite. Also loved her as the crazy doctor’s wife in season one – “Have you seen my baby?!?”
I think the clue has something to do with Jude’s telling Lana that if you look into the face of evil – evil is looking back at you.
Maybe Murphy will be including Evel Dick in season 3.
@Miss Molly – You know, I sure did notice there were a ton of mirrors in this episode, and that last comment is very mirror-ish. I don’t know what that would mean, but there you have it.
I thought the finale was a little too…happy ending-y. I really liked the darkness of this season, so to have it end in such a way was kind of anti-climactic. Ryan Murphy just can’t let something end evilly, he just has to have a happy ending for everything.
I don’t think the Monsignor was weak.
Keep in mind that the whole episode with Mary Eunice happened the day after he was drowned and then nailed to a cross. After that, how would be possibly fight off a demon (or Satan) hell-bent on raping him? Especially when it already proved once before (during the failed exorcism) that it was stronger than him.
The only thing he /could/ do at that point was to lay still and take it.
I do think his story ended in the way that it should have though.
The aliens were horrible.
The only good part about them is that they saved Kit from dying of cancer. I really liked his character and that would have been too sad. I do wish that they could have explained some why the aliens liked Kit so much.
I know Grace said something about how his mind is special because it works differently, but that bitch was crazy. Can’t trust anything she says.
Lana looked so gorgeous in the 70′s. Her hair, clothes and face were perfect.
Still sad that Pepper didn’t make it.
“Still sad that Pepper didn’t make it.”
Are you SURE? I bet you ten thousand quatloos that Pepper comes back… Love that hair! I think the aliens especially liked to see Kit in his whitie tighties… Or is that too much projecting?
70′s Lana was ROCKIN’. I loved her whole look at the playground. 2013 Lana looked pretty rockin as well.
I liked the finale, yes it was a bit “touchy feeley let’s just wrap it up already”, but it was good.
Again, could have done withought the ENTIRE alien thing…totally pointless. Ryan Murphy just threw too much at us this season that didn’t make sense, and frankly…..alot of it was really stupid.
I also want to know why the aliens liked Kit so much! Glad they saved him from pancreatic cancer but why do they care so much? Was it because he wasn’t racist and or scared by crazy girls? Is that how they figured his mind was special? I’m confused by that.
Yeah Lana redeemed herself in this episode. Funny how she calmed her pscyhopathic child the same way she calmed his father….then took care of him the same way.
I totally buy the Cardinal’s suicide. Yeah it’s a big no-no in the Catholic church, but so most of what he did. Everything he did was to advance his career and when that was all brought to light, he wasn’t strong enough to face what he did and offed himself. Probably figured it’d be a way to be cannonized.
oh, chooch, I know you too!!!!
just being ironic . . . ; )
I also buy the Cardinal’s suicide. I forgot to mention that……
Hell, if he can willingly bang the Devil disguised as a nun, then ANYTHING is possible.
Am I the only one that was happy to find out how Bloody Face the Sequel got his daddy’s house? I was wondering about that. Not happy for the dead couple, but it answered my question.