[Tom4784]

Just watched it and it was ****ing WOEFUL. If the rest of the series is anything like the first episode than Freakshow will no longer be the worst season.

The writing is terrible and the message and the meanings it's trying to portray are both basic and badly done. Everything is spelled out using overly unsubtle character archetypes. Sarah Paulson is the overly fearful representation of the stereotypical left while Evan Peters is the radicalised right and it beats you over the head with this for the entire hour just to make sure you understand that even though it's blatantly obvious. It's dumb and the writing assumes that it's audience is dumb and needs it spelled out for them. It's just pretentious and nowhere near as clever, groundbreaking or interesting as the writers think it is.

It's utterly boring. You can tell that Ryan Murphy's beyond caring for this show anymore when it's ACS that's getting the awards so much so that this episode just felt like ACS with some 'scary' clowns thrown in for good measure.

Complete trash, unless there's an upturn and quick this might be the first season that I don't bother finishing.