American Horror Stories is Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's solution to running out of material after several hundred installments of American Horror Story: it's an anthology series, with hour-long episodes that sometimes verge into science fiction and mystery rather than horror. Season 3 was released in two parts, at Halloween 2023 and 2024. Usually when a year elapses, they call it a new season.
1. Bestie: "After the loss of her mother, a young woman seeks connection with a mysterious online friend." Amrou Al-Khadi, a queer Muslim drag queen, appears as Ana Rexhia. whose podcast has the motto: "It's a drag to be a fag, so just die!" What a disgusting thing to say, especially in the first scene of the first episode.
The high schooler's mysterious online friend, a grotesquely misshapen person, encourages her to do bad things like dress up as the Ana Rexhia "Die Fags!" character for Halloween. Everyone is horrified, even the school bullies, and her dad locks her in the basement. The online friend becomes more and more aggressive...
She gets a boyfriend at school, or thinks she does, but he turns out to be allied with the online friend.
2. Daphne: "An artificial intelligence smart device grows attached to its user." The device is played by Gwyneth Paltrow, and the user by Reid Scott. Yes, she pushes him into sex.
5. Backrooms: "A desperate father will do anything...and go anywhere...for a chance to find his missing son." I figured that Dad, played by Michael Imperioli, would be searching through the back rooms of sex clubs and adult bookstores, but the son is like ten, and it's paranormal back rooms.
6. Clone: Same plot as #2, except that it's an AI replica of an old, rich guy played by Victor Garber, bedeviling his...son, assistant, or lover?....Guy Burnet. About halfway through, they finally reveal that he's the lover, but not a husband, so no legal rights. Uh-oh.
7. X: A dangerous patient disappears, and a nurse sets out to find her. The nurse is a lady, interested in Security Guard Malcolm, played by Dyllon Burnside.
8. Leprechaun. Some unemployed blokes break into a bank...and find trouble. Focus character Colin, played by Henry Eikenberry, top photo, has played gay characters before, but not here. Colin has a pregnant wife.
9. The Thing Under the Bed. A grieving wife -- why are these people always grieving? -- "peels back the sinister history of her neighborhood." The wife is having nightmares, so she withholds sex from her husband, Matthew Holcomb, who objects because he's trying to get her pregnant and start a family. After talking to her sister, she lets hubbie start sex, but he gets pulled under the bed to his blood-splattering death.
See also: Bobby Hogan: From homophobic college to Parody Spiderman, with some significant dicks in beween
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