Denis O'Hare returning?
Hope so, he's always great
shareI agree. He was great as Liz.
shareThe biggest draw for my rewatching season 5 is Liz Taylor
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I wish. Roanoke was a lame season made all the lamer by the fact that he was in it so scarcely. Cult was terrible all around. He's definitely the best actor they have that they tend to completely underuse. They need to have him back. In fact, I'd like to see him headline a season.
shareI don't know why everyone hates Roanoke - I loved it! Enjoyed it a lot more than Coven, for instance, and then I remember the Freaks season I couldn't even finish, in fact it turned me off the show entirely for a while, couldn't even bring myself to start watching Hotel.
But Roanoke was an interesting subject, and I was content with the execution.
Different strokes for different folks. Personally, I am sick of meta-storytelling. Found footage is a tired trope. But its the first half of the season that really kills it for me. The fact that you know that what you are watching is a 're-enactment' completely deflates the tension because you know nothing is going to happen to the 'actors.'
I tried re-watching this season a week ago and couldn't get past episode 2. I just found it relentlessly boring and lacking suspense. But then I also had a new thought (criticism) about the re-enactment scenes. And that thought was, why didn't anything actually horrific happen during the filming of that series?
Anyway, its cool you liked it. At least AHS has a little something for everyone. Im one of the people in the minority who loved Hotel. So at least there will always be variety.
Oh, everyone died there, the actors as well. I think the interviews were taken as they were filming, not at a future point.
Yeah the interviews were done earlier, basically in the first part weird things started happening and then after episode 5 it became found footage and showed the production and aftermath of the follow-up series entitled Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell. That second half of the series (ep 6 on) is were they placed the re-enactors and their "real life" counterparts in the Roanoke house for three days during the Blood Moon.
shareThat was a dense response. I saw the entire season. I know the actors died as well. That happened in the second half of the season. I'm talking about the first half of the season when they were airing the "My Roanoke Nightmare" that had already finished filming. No suspense during that half. And why nothing actually horrific happened during the filming of THAT SPECIFIC segment seemed weird.
shareYeah I get what you mean, nothing happened to the first part of the series re-enactors.
Seeing this is a thread about: Denis O'Hare returning?
And someone unsuspecting may wander in.
****Spoilers Below For Those Who Have Not Watched Roanoke****
Reason nothing happened to the actors during the re-enactment scenes in the first half is they didn't film that first documentary (My Roanoke Nightmare) while there was a blood moon. Only the second part (Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell) was filmed during the blood moon because they wanted to up the ante for TV Ratings as the first ones were high and they wanted to better or equal them (partly by exposing Matt's sister Lee for the murder of her ex-husband Mason).
Basically the shows lore was set that the blood moon makes it possible for the spirits to not only appear, but also kill the living, like in old Druid type Halloween times when that was when Warlocks, Witches and Spirits were said to be at their strongest as well.
So that first half ended (ep 5) with the re-enactors facing off against a re-enacted version of the Butcher and her mob as the real people did during the blood moon that was there when they were. Like I said there was no blood moon during the first filming just what they added later in special effects, hence to the re-enactors there were no spirits appearing or killings because they couldn't at that time of filming.
I can see why some would find it weird that they'd do a first half of a season with only things happening to the real people in a re-enactment of what they said went on. Like how Lee and Mason's daughter Flora took off with a ghost and all the other stuff that happened to the real family. Like Mason being killed by the ritual people trying to appease the Butcher and etc., remember in the stories first half Shelby and Matt survived because of a sacrifice so the Butcher and co were appeased and didn't kill them. Though the Documentary people and viewing public of that doco thought it was because they made the story up to cover for Lee murdering her ex and hiding Flora away (so again why they went back during a blood moon to prove they were lying and covering up).
So yeah normally they do stuff to the people that are there in the shows now timeline, this time they didn't and went another route in the story telling. Which has not been the AHS style in previous seasons (including this current one), so it was a bit of departure to what people are used to, I liked it but each to their own (I hated Hotel for instance).