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American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5) (2 Viewers)

Man, they are packing in the stars for season 3.

I just hope each episode doesn't become a "Hey, look how cooky and strange this "normal" star can be". :unsure:

 
This will make a lot of you happy.

American Horror Story Alum Alexandra Breckenridge Joins Season 3′s Coven

http://tvline.com/2013/08/02/american-horror-story-coven-cast-alexandra-breckenridge/

American Horror Story: Coven hereby overfloweth, with the addition of Alexandra Breckenridge to its bewitching ensemble.

Series boss Ryan Murphy announced the casting Friday morning on Twitter.

Ryan Murphy - @MrRPMurphy

Very happy to announce the lovely and talented Alexandra Breckenridge will be joining AHS: Coven.

Breckenridge of course was part of FX’s original Horror Story, playing the younger, um, more libidinal alter ego of Frances Conroy’s housekeeper Moira. She joins a Coven cast that includes fellow Horror Story alumni Jessica Lange, Denis O’Hare, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga, as well as new blood Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Patti LuPone and Gabourey Sidibe.
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collective said:
This will make a lot of you happy.

American Horror Story Alum Alexandra Breckenridge Joins Season 3′s Coven

http://tvline.com/2013/08/02/american-horror-story-coven-cast-alexandra-breckenridge/

American Horror Story: Coven hereby overfloweth, with the addition of Alexandra Breckenridge to its bewitching ensemble.

Series boss Ryan Murphy announced the casting Friday morning on Twitter.

Ryan Murphy - @MrRPMurphy

Very happy to announce the lovely and talented Alexandra Breckenridge will be joining AHS: Coven.

Breckenridge of course was part of FX’s original Horror Story, playing the younger, um, more libidinal alter ego of Frances Conroy’s housekeeper Moira. She joins a Coven cast that includes fellow Horror Story alumni Jessica Lange, Denis O’Hare, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga, as well as new blood Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Patti LuPone and Gabourey Sidibe.
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'American Horror Story: Coven': Season 3 sees Jessica Lange as Sarah Paulson's mother (and witch!)

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/08/american-horror-story-coven-season-3-sees-jessica-lange-as-sarah-paulsons-mother-and-witch.html

In what is no surprise, based on the title, "American Horror Story: Coven" is centering around witches, though not every character is a practitioner of the dark arts.

But at the 2013 TCA FX day, Sarah Paulson reveals that she is playing Cordelia, daughter to Jessica Lange's Fiona (and don't think the use of the name "Cordelia" is a coincidence, you Shakespeare fans). Are they a family of witches? We'll have to wait and see.

"Some of us play witches, some play historical characters. I do play a witch. We move back and forth in time, so it encompasses a lot of different stories," teases Lange.

The historical characters she refers to are Madame Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates) and Marie Laveau, off whom Angela Bassett says her character is loosely based. And despite the darkness of those characters -- LaLaurie as a famous slave-torturer and Laveau as a Voodoo priestess -- executive producer Tim Minear says the third season of "AHS" will be a lot of fun.

"The fun quotient is high this year," says Minear. "This year is a drama, but there is a lot of humor and there is a kind of -- we are embracing a kind of velocity and fun with the series this year, so it's not the same as it was the last two years, but I think it might be a bit more welcoming to the audience."

Minear adds that the over-arching themes of the season include oppression and also family.

"I think some of the bigger themes this year are oppression of minorities of all kinds. Within that idea, the idea of minority groups sort of going after each other and doing the work of the larger culture for the larger culture," says Minear. "While there is a very strong feminist theme that runs throughout 'Coven' this year, there's also themes of race and themes of oppression. There's also a very strong theme of family and specifically mothers and daughters."

The show is shooting, at least partially, on location in New Orleans, which Lange waxes poetic about, as Kathy Bates cracks that the humidity is not so much fun. But Lange says:

"There is something in that city that is unique in this country. It has a kind of power. It has an authenticity that I think is lacking from most places in this country. It has a sense of history and the people live in the past and the present. It has this -- I remember [bob] Dylan had a wonderful description of it -- 'New Orleans is one long poem.' Truman Capote said, 'New Orleans is a secret.' There's a sense of place that I think will lend itself over time in a way that the backlot at Paramount never did. There is something about New Orleans that is going to inform all our characters, inform the story, the writing, the look of the place, everything. It's inescapable. ... I've been in love with New Orleans for a long time, so to have the opportunity to work there, it's a great gift."

Minear adds, "We are absolutely dipping into real things in New Orleans. ... Just this week, we shot in a house that is 150 years old. It was taken over by the Union army during the Civil War. You can't beat that kind of verisimilitude in shooting."

"American Horror Story: Coven" premieres in October 2013 on FX.
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If I start watching season 3 without watching previous seasons will I be lost?

Seems like every season is its own self contained story arc?

 
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apalmer said:
snogger said:
Liking the premise for this 3rd season a lot more than last season.. :popcorn:
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I've never seen an episode of the first two seasons, but if the show is half as good as the ad they've been running, I'm in.
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It is more of an annual miniseries featuring the same actors than a traditional TV show. S1 was about a haunted home in modern day Cali. S2 was about a Catholic run mental hospital in the 50s. This is about witches in Nola. You won't miss out by having missed anything. It's seriously a crazy show. I like it tho.

 
Well, a little ham handed in the setup but they got all the pieces in place seemingly very quickly - which should make for more of a plot driven season I bet. Once again Jessica Lange showing her phenomenal acting chops. :thumbup:

 
Psychopav said:
Well, a little ham handed in the setup but they got all the pieces in place seemingly very quickly - which should make for more of a plot driven season I bet. Once again Jessica Lange showing her phenomenal acting chops. :thumbup:
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Solid start, I thought.

 
Wasnt going to watch but I just happened to catch the beginning. So much better already than Asylum. Set it for season pass

 
Amazing how good Jessica Lange is. And I love all the campy witch puns... "Ill drop a house on you", "I dont have a broom", etc

 
AcerFC said:
Wasnt going to watch but I just happened to catch the beginning. So much better already than Asylum. Set it for season pass
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asylum was a disaster. glad they are on pace to pick this series up from the 2nd season wreck

 
Psychopav said:
VA703 said:
AcerFC said:
Wasnt going to watch but I just happened to catch the beginning. So much better already than Asylum. Set it for season pass
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asylum was a disaster. glad they are on pace to pick this series up from the 2nd season wreck
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To each his own. :shrug: I thought asylum was top notch, bordering on brilliant, television.
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it was all over the place and it seemed like they scrambled at the end

 
Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the "bone a guy to kill him" witch power. Hopefully she has some other cool abilities that crop up.

Like... you know...

The ability to kill guys WITHOUT boning them.

 
Banemorth said:
Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the "bone a guy to kill him" witch power. Hopefully she has some other cool abilities that crop up.

Like... you know...

The ability to kill guys WITHOUT boning them.
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I have a feeling the witch who was burned at the stake will be found and bring Evan Peters (didn't catch his characters name) back to life, then he will again fall in love in Taissa Farmiga, and once again they won't be able to do it.

 
Banemorth said:
Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the "bone a guy to kill him" witch power. Hopefully she has some other cool abilities that crop up.

Like... you know...

The ability to kill guys WITHOUT boning them.
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I think she might have already shown one. Her ability to walk into a crowded hospital, visit a patient in ICU, bone him to death and walk out without being seen. Pretty powerful stuff if ya ask me.

 
My only concern is that it'll be a little too geared towards a teen/young adult audience, like Twilight or something.

 
Davej626 said:
Banemorth said:
Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the "bone a guy to kill him" witch power. Hopefully she has some other cool abilities that crop up.

Like... you know...

The ability to kill guys WITHOUT boning them.
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I think she might have already shown one. Her ability to walk into a crowded hospital, visit a patient in ICU, bone him to death and walk out without being seen. Pretty powerful stuff if ya ask me.
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Yeah, I thought I saw her disappear for a second. I wasn't sure if that meant she was invisible or not.

 
STBootleg said:
Davej626 said:
Banemorth said:
Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the "bone a guy to kill him" witch power. Hopefully she has some other cool abilities that crop up.

Like... you know...

The ability to kill guys WITHOUT boning them.
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I think she might have already shown one. Her ability to walk into a crowded hospital, visit a patient in ICU, bone him to death and walk out without being seen. Pretty powerful stuff if ya ask me.
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Yeah, I thought I saw her disappear for a second. I wasn't sure if that meant she was invisible or not.
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I noticed her disappearing for a sec, too.I know most of y'all know this, but don't look for a ton of logic/realism/attention-to-detail on AHS. For myself, I've found the best way to enjoy this show is to go along for the ride and don't question things too closely.

I think the writers most likely are either insane or 14 years old (not that there's a hair's worth of difference between the two). But I DO think they know they're writing campy #### - though there are also really really creepy and disturbing scenes.

The opening scene is, I suspect, going to piss many off. How not, with so much heavy-handed symbolism about something so shameful?

 
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Banemorth said:
Not sure if I'm a huge fan of the "bone a guy to kill him" witch power. Hopefully she has some other cool abilities that crop up.

Like... you know...

The ability to kill guys WITHOUT boning them.
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I don't know, it means we will probably get to see her bone a lot this season.

I'm ok with that. Plus my ex-wife had a similar power, except exactly opposite.

 
Precious looks like she's literally going to burst. She's like the Gluttony victim in Seven, except walking around and getting paid to anger my eyeballs.

 
Haha you guys are brutal. I will say Precious is a pretty good actress, but she gives me reverse wood whenever she's on the screen. More slutty Emma Roberts please.

Bates, Lange, and Roberts in one cast though has the makings of a fantastic show especially given the subject matter.

 
No Zach Quinto this season? I guess I'm in the minority in that I wasn't that impressed. They need more Angela Bassett and voodoo.

 
shadyridr said:
Usual21 said:
No Zach Quinto this season? I guess I'm in the minority in that I wasn't that impressed. They need more Angela Bassett and voodoo.
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Did you see the previews?
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:goodposting: Can't slam all the characters for the whole season into one episode..

Thought it built up the upcoming season pretty well.

Looking forward to

the rebuilding aka the Frankenstein side story.. Chop chop
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Pissed the DVR cut off right before Farmiga was about to ride the dude in the hospital. Did I miss anything other than him dying?

 
shuke said:
Pissed the DVR cut off right before Farmiga was about to ride the dude in the hospital. Did I miss anything other than him dying?
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Did you see the part where Jessie Lange took the girls to the house where Kathy Bates' character lived, and they were taken on a tour?

 
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