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How much success can Ryan Murphy have in a single month?
Its absurd that these two shows were released so close together as it is.
Whats more, though, is that thats not even the end of it.
CouldAHS: NYCbe one of the last gasps of the beloved cult series?
But the slow burn of the two-episode premiere suggests otherwise.
This left us on skeptical, but still solid, footing.
Its not the first, apparently.
The odd thing is, of course, that he just made this part of his point withDahmer.
As withDahmer, whats scariest about this season is that it incorporates historical events.
Often, these are practically the scariest part of the show.
This is a refreshing, even optimistic turn for the series.
It showed its hand too quickly, and seemed to give up on recovering it.
Now,AHS: NYCfeels as though its committed to giving the plot room to breathe.
Namely, we dont know who is committing the murders or why.
We dont even know if our main villain, the giant leather man, is real.
The secondary plot, the illness ravaging deer and now humans, is still opaque, too.
Is this supposed to be HIV?
A fictionalized illness with similar effects?
Is the illness somehow connected to the murders?
These questions arise with the sense that there will be many other even more pressing questions to come.
These were long enough ago that it actually feels fun to see him take on these personas once more.
Currently, both Grossman and Lourd seem to be playing slightly different characters than we usually see withAHS.
