Cuba Gooding, Jr.

‘American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare’ Recap 6×02: Missing O.J. Yet?

I belong to a very lucky subset of people that have really bad reactions to painkillers. Fun for me! So while I'm in recovery for a knee that I sub-located while lurking in a detached basement silo to capture a pig monster(?) stealing my own daughter from her home so I can play the world's shittiest game of Hide and Go Seek seeing how many more hours of TV I can claim credit for while repackaging some of my worst tropes into a sixth season, because everyone loved The People v. O.J. Simpson, right? Because of Cuba Gooding Jr.? He was absolutely the best part of that program, and of any program, so let's just SHOW HIM THE MONEY-SLASH-ENTRAILS, GUYS! falling on a hardcover book while running after an Uber, you'll have to bear with my nonsensical recap of this week's American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare. It's because I'm making the fun cost/benefit analysis between severe pain and spending hours in a bathroom puking.

‘American Horror Story’ Season 6 Premiere Recap: Boo (Blair) Bitch!

I don't subscribe to the adage that "there are two kinds of people in the world," even if it makes for some pretty great Twitter jokes. There are, for instance, at least three different kinds of people who are obsessed with Ryan Murphy's body of work ALONE. There are the sincere die-hards (consider the Gleeks or anyone part of the BooBooDaddy fan club); the ironically-distanced hipster "hate-watcher" ("Did they starve Jessica Lange before filming because if she chewed that scene any harder blah blah you get the point HERE'S A FUNNY MEME") and then there's me. I call myself a wary appreciator of Ryan Murphy and all his crossover, campy, frequently lazy but sometimes INCREDIBLE coterie of television programming. I myself fall more into the first subset of people than the latter, and I'll admit that I still care enough about American Horror Story--yes, Freak Show and all--to be deflated when a premiere doesn't live up to my expectations. And for all the hoopla and buzz and highly-marketed misdirects (which in itself was weird advertising, to have your creators come out and gloat about how it would be impossible for them to live up to their own hype), "My Roanoke Nightmare" felt markedly...flat. On purpose, for sure. But still...sigh.

‘The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ Finale Latecap: Anthology Antidote

If someone had told me one year ago that I'd be describing Ryan Murphy--the creator of the cloyingly twee Glee and the hit-or-miss American Horror Story franchise--as the savior of modern television, I would have probably laughed in your face. (I wouldn't have questioned your time-traveler's knowledge of the future, though; this was in the blissful antediluvian period before James Franco's 11.22.63.) And yet...here we are. This week marked the end of Mr. Murphy's masterful ten episode mini-series, The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, a welcome respite to the most content-bloated winter in history. And all I can say is: I wish MORE showrunners and networks took a note from the Murphy/Brad Falchuk playbook.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

‘American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare’ Recap 6×02: Missing O.J. Yet?

‘American Horror Story’ Season 6 Premiere Recap: Boo (Blair) Bitch!

‘The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ Finale Latecap: Anthology Antidote

‘The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ Recap 1×05: The White Knight

‘The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ Recap 1×04: Dream Team Dissembled

‘The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ 1×02 Latecap: An Unspoken Villain

‘The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ Pilot Recap: ‘A Belushi Situation’

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