{"id":513,"date":"2013-12-07T23:10:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2014-02-25T02:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:13:36","slug":"american-horror-story-x-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"American Horror Story: X-Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean Coven<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s hard to tell at times.<\/p>\n

And I was only kidding with that before the mid season point when one of the witches literally became Xavier.\u00a0 Well, cane instead of wheelchair and presumably vagina and not penis.<\/p>\n

Let me back up, the 3rd season of the anthology horror series called American<\/em> Horror<\/em> Story<\/em> is Coven<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s about 2 clans of feuding witches in New Orleans.\u00a0 One originally resided in Salem (white) but relocated to New Orleans.\u00a0 The problem was group of Voo-doo\u00a0 practitioners (black) already resided there.\u00a0 They don’t get along.\u00a0 The Salem group has a token (Precious) but she defects mid season (gasp!)<\/p>\n

If you think about it, something about all the participants being girls kind of hides the fact about it being a flat out race war.\u00a0 It would sure seem that way if they were all men.\u00a0 And it might be more offensive to people.\u00a0 It’s not like it makes the situation less obvious; but something about them all being female brings out a reaction of:\u00a0 no, no, let em fight…<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, the 1st season (Murder House<\/em>) was surprisingly good.\u00a0 The second (Asylum<\/em>)\u00a0 started strongly, but I got pretty bored of murder\/rape before I finished it.\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 I wouldn’t believe me without seeing it either.<\/p>\n

And I’m watching this season, and will finish it.\u00a0 The heavyweight addition to the cast this year (there’s always one) is Kathy Bates who is one of my favorites.\u00a0 However, as a denizen of pre-Civil War New Orleans, she uses a similar accent to the one she had in Waterboy<\/em>.\u00a0 Makes it harder than normal to take her seriously.<\/p>\n

They also (like other seasons) incorporate some real life murder history with a solid appearance by the Axeman of New Orleans.\u00a0 That scores big points with my brand of nerd.<\/p>\n

Why do I compare it to X-Men?\u00a0 The witches seem to have specific abilities except for Apocalypse (played by Angela Basset) whose powers are more vaguely defined and seem to have no bounds.\u00a0 I’m serious, there’s a Rouge, Precious is kind of a human Voo-doo doll where her injuries are experienced by her enemies, a minotaur dude, a Frankenstein(ish), there’s a professor X, there’s a Madalyn Pryor, lots of similarities.\u00a0 The white chicks live in the X-Mansion, which poses as a school for gifted youngsters.<\/p>\n

And the best fights happen on the lawn of the X-mansion.\u00a0 I’m not saying I haven’t enjoyed the season, just saying the writers are either doing this deliberately or are channeling Stan Lee and Louise Simonson.<\/p>\n

But, like I said, I’m still watching.\u00a0 It’s not boring.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0 It really went to shit and the various plots collapsed into a pile of fuckall.\u00a0 Skip it if you haven’t already.<\/p>\n

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