Friday, November 2, 2018

"AHS:Apocalypse: Sojourn" Is One Big Disappointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                                 After the brilliance of last week's segment, entitled "Traitor," I expected the show to go up from here.  Was I wrong!

                                  Though it starts out with a Felliniesque sequence of Michael discovering that his allies--including Miriam Mead, his Satanic henchwoman--are all dead, and a fateful confrontation with Sarah Paulson's Cordelia, the show goes down from here, offering up teasers instead of drama.

                                    Michael (Cody Fern) is seen in a forest undergoing some sort of Satanic version of Gethsemane, complete with angel forest children who offer him Fanta--why not Coca Cola?  Why an inferior product?  If that's the best the Devil can do, forget it!!!!!!!!!  Than, when the Anton Lavey wannabe (because no one can play Anton, like Anton!) morphs into some Tony Kushner type angel, I was, like "Get outta here!"
The slow emergence of The Cooperative, headed by bowl headed Evan Peters and Billy Eichner, was flat out frat humor, complete with cocaine, and a demonstration of the Millennial Generation's mass capacity for knowing nothing, save what is in front of them, at the very moment.  A nice, humorous tease, and we get it, but hardly the substance of drama.

The most informative point I learned was how Kathy Bates' Miriam came to be a robot!
Sarah Paulson can hardly miss, but her Miss Wilhemina Venable is nothing more than this generation's version of the career woman.  Once upon a time; it was those like Glenn Close, who hid behind careers when they could not find love, but once the opportunity was there, they would either leap at it, or, like Glenn, as Alex, go bat shit off the wall!

This generation, embodied by Sarah, cares nothing for love, and will have no regrets when their reproductive systems dry up.  Believe me, I have dealt with these types, and they have no capacity for mass humanity at all!  Their jobs are their lives, and their vaginas!  I did not need Sarah to tell me this, but she is so good at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I get the idea we are going backwards, ending where we started, so we can understand how we got there.  Last night offered some stellar star turns, but where is the dramatic substance?

Harriet Harris, as Madeline, was a riot!  But where does she go, from here?  Same with Sandra Bernhard, as Hannah!  Teasers, not characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan and Brad, get your act together!  Please!!!!!!!!!!!

And, Sarah, can we have just one more look, at Hypodermic Sally???????????

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