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American Horror Story: Delicate Recap: I’m the Auteur, Bitch
The AHS finale lets Anna “have it all” but also implies that women can’t have a career and a family without selling themselves in the process.
Occult-themed media often falls into the trap of inadvertently preaching conservative values: Take the Conjuring franchise, the most successful Christian horror series of all time, which ends up affirming its characters’ Catholic faith by positing holy rollers Ed and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson) as righteous crusaders against very real supernatural threats. While the members of Siobhan’s coven are dialing up their performances to camp levels, their hissing and cooing feels correct when they’re dressed up like giant Victorian crows in a glossy white room with a dripping gore centerpiece. In fact, the moments when “The Auteur” references earlier episodes — the coven calming Anna by spraying her with perfume from the gifting suite, for example — are somehow sillier than the plastic Halloween-store organs hanging above the … giant blood balloon?
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