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Um. Yeah. I… I really don’t know what the hell is going on with this show. It had ramped up to something so interesting, and then in a single episode… it just… it… I don’t know what’s going on. And the scenes from next week? Really, AHS? A creepy homeless man Christmas episode? I don’t have high hopes for next week. But we can’t talk about that until it happens, so I just wanted to check in on what we missed.

I knew I wasn’t going to be recapping this show every week, but I was going to try. But this show is so (delightfully) fucked up that sometimes it’s best to just wait it out and revisit it. So, what did we miss?

Two weeks ago, the story was mostly about Dr. Thredson and his kidnapping of Lana. The gist of what we find out is that he has some serious mommy issues. She was a young mother, abandoned him when he was young, and little Oliver grew up in an orphanage. But he made it to med school, and upon seeing his first cadaver, his immediate thought of course was “Mommy?” He knew it wasn’t actually his mother, but she represented his mother in that she was about the same age his mother was when she abandoned him, and… well I guess that was enough for him. She also had dark hair I guess. And was naked? I don’t think that was part of it, but Oliver apparently had no qualms about hugging the cadaver later that night after all the other students and doctors had left. So far so good. Read the rest of this entry »

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I wonder what Martha Stewart makes her lampshades out of.

Well, that changes everything.

Not really, but, um… I was not expecting that huge twist at all! For two reasons: 1) It’s only episode 2×05, and I was not expecting them to reveal who Bloody Face was until, maybe, episode 10, and 2) I did NOT see it being Dr. Thredson. I mean, Zachary Quinto plays one hell of a psycho serial killer (Hello, Sylar), so… man, oh man, am I buying it. When he turned on that lamp, and the lampshade had nipples, I may have applauded the TV. May have. Okay, I did. Just a little bit.

So, last night’s episode kind of hooked me, I think. I was unsure of how I felt, though I knew that I was enjoying the season so far. But now? Now I need to know what’s going to happen. Now I need to know what’s going to happen to Lana. Now I need to know if Kit’s ever going to be saved, because now we know (do we?) that Thredson only had Kit record the confession so that the cops would think they had their man, they had Bloody Face, and they would stop looking. And then Thredson could go merrily on his way to killing and skinning more people. Effing genius. Read the rest of this entry »

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“These conditions are terrible. Idea: I’ll sneak in later. Everything will be fine.”

What up, OCTVers?! Hope you guys have been having a fantastic Fall Season so far. Here at OCTV, we can’t recap ALL the shows (though wouldn’t that be awesome!), so we pick and choose what we’ll cover. AHS was left off the list at the beginning of the season because… well… if you watched last season, you remember what a shitstorm of cray that beast was. I’ve been at this recap game for a while, and I’ll tell you… so much respect for last season’s recapper Jenna because I don’t know how I would have covered it every week. Seriously, that show was insane. Which, then, is fitting that this new season is all about an insane asylum.

If you have read any of my other recaps, you know how much I love crime and serial killers and crazy people. So this season’s premise really is my bag, baby. And now that we’re four episodes in, I decided I kind of wanted to try to helm this ship. I don’t know if I’m going to recap it every week, but I figured a check-in was at least a good place to start.

First of all, I am ridiculously thrilled with the way the creators/writers decided to do each season of this show (which slightly pains me because my hate of The Great and Powerful Murph is not unknown. The fact that I’m able to compartmentalize Ryan Murphy shows says a lot about the wonders of the human brain). Instead of having the same story, and having the same characters live a continuous life, they decided to confine each story to a single season. Which is why last season was all about “dead house” – and you guys… if you haven’t seen it, you NEED to. That shit was fucked. up. This season is about Briarcliff Manor, an insane asylum operated in the 1960s. This was all wonderful news. But then, OH THEN, they went and changed the name of the show to American Horror Story: Asylum. You can’t go and change the name of the show like that, TV people! It screws up our DVRs! UGH! But, it’s okay. I changed my DVR recordings, and we’re back in business. On to the show! Read the rest of this entry »

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Welcome to part three of OCTV’s mid-year wrap up, where Nicole and SB go over what they’ve been watching all year and take a step back to look at the seasons (or the seasons so far) as a whole.  If you missed part one, you can find it here, and part two is here.  Gifs are generously rounded up by hockeybychoice, and as always, Nicole’s thoughts are in purple and SB’s are in blue.  Enjoy and be sure to comment!

Modern Family

I … can’t exactly decide how I feel about Modern Family.  I do really like it, and I almost always think it’s really funny.  I care about the characters and I look forward to watching it, and I find it relateable and likeable, and it doesn’t really feel like a show that you should be able to find much about to criticize, but I still can’t bring myself to say that I love it without any sort of qualifications, the first being … goddamn, do I hate Manny!  He is THE WORST.  The good news is that I actually really like everyone else.

The second is that I feel like as this show goes on, it goes deeper and deeper into “sitcommy” territory.  There’s always some sort of mix up or misunderstanding or “wacky hijinks” that make it feel like a screwball comedy, which is not normally my favorite thing.  And this was starting to drive me a little insane, but I kind of learned to stop thinking about it and just enjoy the show, because, like I said, I do enjoy the characters and one-liners so much that it just really isn’t worth getting worked up over.

Man, that sounds like more of a downer than I meant it to, and I don’t want to end on that, so let me finish by saying that I’ve enjoyed this season a lot more than the last, and I LOVED the whole wireless printer gag, Phil and Luke continue to be hilarious, and Gloria ALWAYS cracks me up … but of course, my favorite character is Stella.

I have mixed feelings about the show too, and I try to adopt the same attitude as SB when I watch it because I do like most of the characters and there are some great jokes in every episode.  But a lot of the times, the jokes feel like we’ve seen them before, you know?  Gloria is hilarious and her accent can be used to great effect, but it loses its impact when every episode features a joke (or five) about her wacky mispronunciations.  

You can practically predict the basic elements of every episode: Claire will be frazzled and annoyed with her family; Mitchell will be embarrassed by something that Cam does and will be kind of a dick about it; Phil will fall down; Jay will curmudgeonly complain about Manny and one of his fucking annoying quirks (valid).  The only thing that seems to change from week to week is the ‘wacky setup’ that SB talked about, the situation that is basically contrived just to highlight same beats over and over again.

The show really works best for me when the show mixes up the characters in ways that we don’t see very often, because it forces the dynamic of the entire show to adapt and vary from the norm.  Don’t get me wrong – those elements that they go back to over and over again are funny (well, except for Manny – as SB has already said, he is the worst) – it’s just that I’d like the show to find more ways to make us laugh or it’s going to start to get old.  Take Luke – his character evolved from the hilarious dumb kid to the secret genius of the family.  He’s still awesome, just in a new and different way.  If the show can figure out a way to make the characters seem as well thought out as the jokes, they’d be on fire.     

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The time has come. American Horror Story has come to an end… for now. I apologize once again for missing another recap last week. I truly am horrible. The direction the season finale went in was totally and completely unexpected. I figured they would keep with the story and the entire episode would be based off all of the ghosts fighting over the baby. Don’t get me wrong, that happened, but very briefly. Instead, they introduced and dismissed a whole new family all in one episode.

The show starts with a quick flashback to Ben basically begging Vivien to move into the extremely low priced house with “personality” just nine months ago. Ironically, Vivien was totally against moving into the house. Imagine all of the trouble she could have saved if she would’ve fought a little hard… pft. And now we’re back to today. After the birth of Vivien’s two “children” and she was pronounced dead due to a loss of blood, Constance found a way to take away the baby that Tate fathered. Man, she is just so crazy. She even makes up a total bullshit story about where the baby could be to the police just so they don’t have to search around anymore. I mean, come on! Ben retrieves the baby from Constance and makes his way back into the house.

As we could all expect, Ben feels the need to kill himself in order to rejoin his family in eternity. Oh sure, after your daughter and wife are dead you decide to care. He almost goes through with blowing his brains out until Vivien and Violet show up and give him the speech we all expected them to. The baby needs Ben and Ben needs the baby. It all seemed good enough until Ben’s life was taken without his own consent. Hayden, the psychopath he once impregnated, comes back for her final revenge on Ben. She throws him over the balcony with a rope around his neck. I feel like this was a cheap way to get Ben to die. I mean, it’s nice that the Harmons can all be a family once again but I would’ve been much more satisfied if Ben got away and left them alone. We all could expect that he would be stuck in the house one way or another so in some ways I wish they would’ve went in the other direction. Oh well.

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They’ve done it! American Horror Story has captured my full attention once again! For a week or two I was starting to shy away from the show, but last night’s twist totally got me in love again. No matter how bad I want to jump right into the twist, I’ll have to hold off until I explain everything else… there isn’t much. The whole show seemed to drag on a little last night up until about fifteen minutes or so before it ended.

Honestly, I wish they would put Constance away in an institution rather than Vivien. She is completely whacked out of her mind. Don’t the police and investigators see that everyone she is connected to has died? Granted, she hasn’t killed all of them, but she is definitely a man source. I mean, who shoots and grinds up their husband to feed to dogs?! That is just beyond disturbing. She didn’t even show Addy any true love her affection until she died. She is horrible, but I guess her character adds a lot to the show. Although Hayden was the one to murder Constance’s boy toy, for some reason Larry felt the need to say he did it in order to prevent Constance from going to jail. Yes, I know he loves her but still. I absolutely loved the scene where Larry had a chance to see his burned children and wife once again in the house. It was so heartfelt. His wife seemed to not want to have anything to do with Larry. For a second I thought he was going to find a way to get killed in the house in order to join them in eternity. That is until his wife completely told him off about him having an affair. That’s what he gets now I guess. Jail time.

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Hello everybody (if anybody even still keeps up with this show)! Sorry I missed last week, I was busy working 12 hour shifts before and on Thanksgiving and all during break so I just didn’t have time to write last week! My apologies! I watched the episode today before the new one. Basically the only thing that came out of that episode is we discovered that Tate is actually the Rubber Man. Yes, he impregnated Vivien and did all those other horrible things. I mean, I guess it’s no surprise.

For some reason I’ve been finding myself becoming less and less interested in the show. Of course, I will continue to watch to see what happens, but I find it hard to get excited every Wednesday for the show to come on. Does anybody else feel this way? The story line has kind of gone off the wall a little bit and not in a good way. Tate being revealed as the Rubber Man was an unexpected, but good, twist. This week’s episode just didn’t do it for me though. I mean, Hayden is absolutely out of her mind. Seducing Constance’s boy toy and then killing him because he confessed his love for Constance. Get a grip Hayden! Then she teams up with Tate to kill even more people in the house to keep them there forever. That just doesn’t seem fair. I don’t know what her intentions are, but they don’t seem good.

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This week’s episode was not action packed whatsoever. I was kind of disappointed in that, not going to lie! It actually made me question a lot of aspects of the show, so if I happen to ask questions throughout the recap it’s because I want to hear all of your opinions on the situation!

Basically the entire episode was based around trying to sell the house. Vivien and Ben want out and divorced as soon as possible, even though Violet actually likes the house and wants to stay. Well, obviously, her beloved Tate practically resides in the house and protects her from anyone and anything. For some crazy reason, Vivien wants to inform all of the potential buyers about the house’s history. I guess that’s a nice gesture of her, but who in their right mind would move in that evil house after hearing all of its history?! She decides to take the ghost tour that she once fled from to get the full story on the first owners. In a nut shell, the young couple’s baby was kidnapped and returned mangled and dead. The “surgeon” of a husband decided to keep his baby alive by reconstructing it using parts from two other little girls. As the mother is pleased to have her baby alive again, she soon finds that her baby is now evil and seeks blood. The mother attempts to kill the baby but fails and instead shoots her husband and then herself. Since the baby was never killed, I have reason to believe that the baby is still floating around the house. I think the baby grew up to be the demon guy in the black suit who impregnated Vivien.

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As some of you may already know, last night’s episode was somewhat disturbing… luckily, we got to see guest star Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family last night! Of course, his character was nothing like that on Modern Family…he was completely whacked. Derek, a man completely terrified of urban legends, seeks out Ben for help. He is particularly scared of the “Piggy Man” legend of a butcher who killed pigs wearing a pig mask (cruel, huh?) only to be later killed himself. Has anyone ever seen the Saw movies? They kind of recreate this legend and I never knew that until last night. Interesting. We’ll get back to Derek a little later. I’m more concerned about Tate’s life…

So I guess all of my questions have been answered! Tate is a ghost who is back to haunt anyone and anything. The show flashes back and forth between 1994 and the present to display exactly how he was killed. Tate is being chased down by the SWAT team at his school. In this flashback, he is seeing the spirits of the students he previously murdered and continues to kill anyone who is in his way. I would NOT want to be a student at his high school! Later on in the episode, Tate is found by the SWAT team in his bedroom where he is held at gun point. He gestures to shoot himself in the head and continues by reaching for a pistol of his own…I think he really was going to kill himself instead of shooting for the SWAT, but who knows. Instead, he is completely blasted by several bullets. Since he dies in the house, his spirit lingers on and haunts people, including Violet. Violet is told by a medium, who Constance knows has a “gift”, that Violet needs to help Tate realize that he is actually dead because he has no idea. As anyone else probably would, she runs.

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After last week’s episode, it is only necessary that this week’s episode has a lot of crazy shit go down! I mean, they are overdue on killing someone…I was so happy it picked up right where it left off. I hate those weird flashbacks or flash-forwards. They add unnecessary confusion! I was relieved to find that Violet was taken out on a “date” by Tate because last week led me to believe something much worse had happened. And what’s up with Ben grabbing a knife after he sees the girl he had an affair with outside? I mean, isn’t she dead already? It just doesn’t make sense… I also feel that Ben is starting to go crazy just like he was warned. You know, he’s going to go on some psycho rampage and start killing people left and right before we know it. It’s only a matter of time.

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