I enjoyed this episode, apart from the melodramatic talk of the election, I think it was a pretty solid start to the season. The jokes in the episode were a bit too much for AHS, although I did find some things funny,
it was like Scream Queens humour, and Billie Lourd was acting like Chanel No 3. I also feel like it's a bit predictable of how things are gonna go, like the whole town is probably in on it, Winter purposely only let the son see the clowns (letting him look through the window) as she probably planned with Kai to make it sound like he was seeing things. I kind of do have a feeling that it could go down the road of Kai really just being a lunatic who lives in his mother's basement and that this turns out to be the imagination of Ally and her son (maybe Ally is his birth mother so he inherited her mental health problems)
which I really hope it doesn't go that way. Anyway I'm more excited for this series than I was for Roanoke at this stage.
I also enjoyed the Twisty rehash scene of him killing the lovers in the park, his van re-appearance, and the fact that it's told through the comic books and not that he magically came back to life. I'm a little disappointed that the other clowns aren't real clowns at all, but just people in Halloween masks. But I really do prefer this type of referencing to past seasons (Sarah and her psychiatrist being Asylum, Twisty from Freakshow, The Butchery referencing Roanoke) rather than flat out past characters returning for silly reasons.
I do like Billie Lourd, however I feel like AHS is diluting itself in terms of it's Anthology type casting. If Taissa could have played Winter,
if Lily Rabe could have played Ivy etc... then I feel like it would be better but I think Ryan's past the point of consistency on that front.
