American Horror Story: Asylum Recap: Madness Ends

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   ChaCha
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 6:11 pm

   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.

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   plockness monster
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 6:55 pm

   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.

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   SouthernEssence
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 9:23 pm

   Wonderful recap, RJ…will you be recapping season 3? Please???

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   RJ
   Posted January 24, 2013 at 10:43 pm

   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.

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   JasonR
   Posted January 25, 2013 at 8:03 am

   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?

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   Morty Doody
   Posted January 25, 2013 at 12:32 pm

   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”.

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   chooch850
   Posted January 25, 2013 at 3:04 pm

   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!

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   RJ
   Posted January 25, 2013 at 3:23 pm

   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.

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   juddfan
   Posted January 25, 2013 at 3:26 pm

   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!?

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    RJ
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    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.

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    juddfan
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 4:04 pm

    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 . . .

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    chooch850
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    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!

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    plockness monster
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    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?!?”

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    Miss Molly
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 7:00 pm

    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.

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    Liz
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    @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.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted January 25, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    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.

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    Morty Doody
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 7:55 am

    “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?

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    annie
    Posted January 26, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    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.

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    yeknom
    Posted January 28, 2013 at 9:39 am

    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.

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    juddfan
    Posted January 28, 2013 at 9:42 am

    oh, chooch, I know you too!!!!

    just being ironic . . . ; )

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    annie
    Posted January 28, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    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.

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    yeknom
    Posted January 29, 2013 at 8:23 am

    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.