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American Horror Story: Asylum |OT| Nuns, and nazis, and scares! Oh, my!

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TheSeks

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Okay, so I was wrong. Seems the horror story here is going to be Lana turning her back on her journalism and going for fame and having that bite her in the ass.

Zoe said:
He's too pretty to be in his 50's ._.
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He needs more masturbating while crying in front a window, amirite?
 
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Man, going from cheering on plucky Lana's determination in the last episode to thinking she kind of sucks now in this episode is depressing. I expected Jude's being alive would shock her into action, but no. The Lana who gave up her own freedom to prevent Bloodyface from escaping is dead.

I'm pretty impressed at how well they're maintaining the tension in the final episodes despite having the major villains all dead, and the aliens still out of the picture.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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It was really hard to watch Jude this week. Damn. It's so sad to see that she's gone completely insane and is, like, senile and has huge chunks of time missing from her memory. She's probably the most tragic character this season. Jessica Lange absolutely killed it this week though.

Next week is the finale! Hopefully all the outstanding mysteries are solved and everything is wrapped up nicely with a bow. I'm curious to see how/if the Monsignor plays into things. Also, it's the last chance for

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to make his big cameo.

iammeiam said:
Man, going from cheering on plucky Lana's determination in the last episode to thinking she kind of sucks now in this episode is depressing. I expected Jude's being alive would shock her into action, but no. The Lana who gave up her own freedom to prevent Bloodyface from escaping is dead.
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Exactly my thoughts. Just last week I was all "Lana fuck yeah!!" and this week I'm of the opinion that she's become a pretty despicable person. Damn, it's frustrating that she's turned her back on everything that she believed in for fame and money. Embellishing her book, letting her relationship with her partner fade away, acting like a diva. Plucky old Lana Banana is dead. I sort of hope Dylan McBloody Face kills her. >__>
 
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I've always thought Lana was an asshole, at least since she called the guards on Kit that one time. Seeing her in this way does not in any way surprise me.

Kit, man... Living the dream, for a while there.
 
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netguy503

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Neuromancer said:
I've always thought Lana was an asshole, at least since she called the guards on Kit that one time. Seeing her in this way does not in any way surprise me.

Kit, man... Living the dream, for a while there.
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They both had mental issues. Is that really the dream? I find it kinda pointless that both characters disappeared only to suddenly reappear and then die almost instantly. Especially when both ladies had alot they could still do with their plots. Kida weird from a writer's perspective. :/

Anyway, we have now had two episodes where we have seen Evan Peter's naked butt and two episodes with him in nothing more than a wife beater and underwear. I know Ryan is gay and probably has a thing for him but, cmon, I have to watch this in HD man. :/
 
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Supermanisdead

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Lana is quite a bitch now and I was laughing at Kit's happy 2-wife home. What the fuuuuck? This show is totally jumping the shark. Crazy time jumps, random developments that come out of nowhere, very little explanation of anything. It's all so very... phoned in.

I miss the simpler times when Mary Eunice was a devil bitch and we knew who to root for.
 
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Fantastical

Death Prophet
DAMN I hate what they did to Lana's character. :( She was my favorite.

netguy503 said:
Anyway, we have now had two episodes where we have seen Evan Peter's naked butt and two episodes with him in nothing more than a wife beater and underwear. I know Ryan is gay and probably has a thing for him but, cmon, I have to watch this in HD man. :/
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I know it's great! :)
We see a lot of female nudity or near nudity. Let the gays/straight women have our fun.
 
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netguy503

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Supermanisdead said:
Lana is quite a bitch now and I was laughing at Kit's happy 2-wife home. What the fuuuuck? This show is totally jumping the shark. Crazy time jumps, random developments that come out of nowhere, very little explanation of anything. It's all so very... phoned in.

I miss the simpler times when Mary Eunice was a devil bitch and we knew who to root for.
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If they don't explain the aliens I'll be soooooooooooooo pissed. Grace brought up some good points last night (which is why there was still alot of story left there Ryan Murphy). I love how Kit just completely forgets his abduction/ the thing that came out of him during surgery/ Grace and Alma coming back from the dead/being framed for murder. Things just seem to roll off him. Why didn't the cop who came to his house arrest him for being a fugitive and murdering Alma? Or question that the person that accused him of murdering is now suddenly living with him again like that's an everyday occurrence for them? They all just accept it.
 
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netguy503 said:
Why didn't the cop who came to his house arrest him for being a fugitive and murdering Alma? Or question that the person that accused him of murdering is now suddenly living with him again like that's an everyday occurrence for them? They all just accept it.
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Well Kit would've been cleared of any charges when it came out that Thredson was Bloodyface.
 
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netguy503

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ultron87 said:
Well Kit would've been cleared of any charges when it came out that Thredson was Bloodyface.
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And the cops knew he was living with a negro (their terms, not mine) but not know that it was the person who went missing/was murdered? Come on, they would have her picture on file.
 
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netguy503

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Fantastical said:
I hope the actress playing Alma is a major character next season.

Also, I don't mean to mean to be mean / rain on the Naomi Grossman party, but here's an interview with her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhcbo8Bh4zM

Still an amazing makeup job, but that picture is kinda generous.
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OMG....that last sec of the interview....her teeth go out so far from her face. It was like I was watching in 3D. lol Someone screencap that please.
 
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An interview with Ryan Murphy on last night's episode and the finale....

This episode basically focuses on each of the three leads and then they come together at the very end. What inspired the format for this episode?

I think we just wanted to spend our time with resolving a lot of those stories. I think it was interesting because a lot of those people had never been together. We’ve never had Alma and Grace and Kit all together. I think the idea was just to spend a good chunk of time with them and see what that relationship was like which was very interesting with all the progressive, free-love, civil rights stuff so that was one thing.
The funny thing about the second act which is Jessica and Franny Conroy is I think at one point as we were spitballing season two before we landed on the asylum idea, we had actually talked about doing the second season in a prison but then Alcatraz came along and stole that idea. [laughs] It was never very definitive but I always liked that idea. I think an insane asylum for us was probably much more effective. I love the idea of showing Jude’s descent. We wrote it and directed and shot it much like one of those ‘50s ladies in prison movies which I was always obsessed with. As a child I was obsessed with this movie called Caged which was like tough broads standing against Jimmy Cagney. I was really thrilled with Franny Conroy’s brilliant lady gangster interpretation. She was so brilliant and I loved her henchwoman and I loved the whole idea that Jude thought that woman is death. And I love love the actress who plays the new ward of Briarcliff, Robin Bartlett, who’s in one of my favorite Mike Nichols movies Heartburn.
All of that Lana stuff was really modeled after Truman Capote and his complete In Cold Blood fame grab. Lana has sorta become Truman Capote meets Jackie Susann. I thought it was just fascinating and moving and totally understandable that after all the horrors Lana took refuge and solace in fame and money and celebrity and glamour. I really understood that for her. Then I love how they all dovetailed.

It does sort of seem like Lana is a horrible person now.

Oh no! No! After what Lana went through, if she wants to throw on some lip gloss and go on f—ing Dick Cavett? No, I don’t think she’s horrible at all. I think she hardened up and I think lost her way, which we will find in the last episode to chilling results.

Is this basically leading up to a battle between old Lana and 48-year old Bloody Face?

Yes. It’s sort of a Barbara Walters vs. Ted Bundy extravaganza in that finale. That is part of the finale, which is very unexpected, and there’s a lot of other things. I think the finale is my favorite episode we’ve ever done. It was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and written by Tim Minear. I think it’s even better than “I Am Anne Frank Part II”, which was previously my favorite. The whole thing is done almost as a documentary with Lana current day looking back on her life and doing a 60 Minutes-esque [interview]. That plays with like 10 different time periods. It was a very ambitious script and a very ambitious shoot and Alfonso knocked it out of the park as did Tim.
The season finale is crazy good. Everyone who has seen it has cried and that includes me and network executives. It’s very, very emotional and sad.

Is there like a battle between him and Lana? Are we talking wrestling match?

I don’t want to give too much away. It’s much more emotional than Grand Guignol. It’s something that John Landgraf and I talked about at length before I wrote it. This season was so dark which I loved but I felt it was important in the finale to give a sense of kindness and peace and resolve whenever possible along with some really scary things. So it’s a very very satisfying finale. I think there’s not a single stone unturned. All the questions are answered and more. The question I get asked the most is, “Who or what chopped off Adam Levine’s arm?” We dedicate an entire cold opening to that.
What will Kit’s life be like now as a single father and with Alma and Grace dead?
Just wait. It’s all explained in the last episode.

So Jude is full on crazy now?

Yes. She has lost it completely and I think she lost it because of the betrayals and I think based on all of our research all of those people in those institutions were given elephant sized, copious amounts of tranquilizers and downers to keep them docile. I think she’s been put on so many of them that her brain is fried as you will in the next episode, the finale, which is so good.

That must have been fun to write Jude and Pepper being the star duo of Briarcliff.

I loved that. I love that it turns out it’s all in her mind and Pepper’s been dead. I love that last scene and I think Jessica just killed it in that scene as did Sarah and in that scene.

Will we see the Monsignor in the finale?
Oh yes.
Will we see how Dylan learned that his father is Bloody Face?
Yeah.
There’s another big tease to season three in the finale?
Yes.

Is this one more obvious?

No. We [put clues] in the last four. We were lucky enough to know the arena we were going to be writing in. No one has completely gotten it. People have gotten some of it. I think after the last two people are gonna get it.

And there’s one in tonight’s episode, “Continuum,” right?
There is one in tonight’s.

Is the Angel of Death back in the finale?
Oh yeah. The question is, Who is she going to get?

Will there be more deaths in the season finale?
Oh yes. There’s only one person left standing after the season finale [laughs].

You were nominated for 3 GLAAD awards today for AHS: Asylum, Glee, and The New Normal. That must be very rewarding.

Yeah, anytime you get recognized for your work it’s great. I think that those three nominations are great simply because they all have really strong gay and lesbian characters in them. From where I started in my career with Popular in like the late ‘90s, it was hours and hours of discussions about whether or not I could have a character be gay or kiss. In a relatively short amount of time it’s become a real non-issue. To me the victory of that is all of the network executives–and there are many of them on these 3 shows–have all been so supportive and never blinked an eye and always encouraged us to write what we wanted and never censored us. I think that was great. I remember when I first started going to the GLAAD awards when I was a young chickadee with big hair, people were just so grateful for any morsel they could get and the landscape is so broad. It’s a really interesting mark of progression.

http://perezhilton.com/2013-01-17-a...ends-promo-season-finale-spoilers-ryan-murphy
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson to Return for Season 3

Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson will check back into American Horror Story for Season 3.

Peters and Paulson, who both appeared in the original run and the current Asylum incarnation, join returning cast member Jessica Lange, who will also play a new character in the next season.

Executive producer Ryan Murphy announced the news at a press Q&A, adding that some other faces from the first year will return. Additionally, just as Season 2 had Bloody Face, Season 3 will have “a great icon — and it’s a woman,” he teased.
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Other Season 3 teases from Murphy:
- The storyline will consist of “something funnier” because he missed what Jessica Lange’s Constance brought to Season 1.
- Lange is returning partly because Murphy promised her “hair and makeup and the best designer gowns ever” after she had to be so dressed down this season. Her character is described as “a glamour cat leading lady.”
- Season 3 will be “more historical in nature” and have a “different tone” than Season 2. But, says Murphy, “That’s the joy of the show.” It will also take place in modern day, but just like past seasons, we will see different “time periods” and “there [will] also be different cities.”
- In addition to AHS vets Lange, Paulson and Peters, “We want to have some new people come in and some [Season 1] people come back.” As for the new people, Murphy says he is looking to cast “actors Jessica wanted to work with.”
- Peters will “probably go back to playing a sobbing psychopath.”
- Regarding Paulson, “I know who [she's] playing,” Murphy stated, before adding with a laugh, “She does not.”
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I'm glad that Sarah Paulson is returning, but I've sort of had enough of Evan Peters - especially if he's going to "go back to playing a sobbing psychopath". I'm also a bit disappointed that it's taking place in modern day. I guess my dreams of Old West Frontier Horror Story will have to wait until season 4.

As for returning season 1 cast members? I'm guessing the hot maid and Taissa Farmiga.
 
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Nemesis_

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I hope we just don't get a Tate 2.0

I really like the idea of Lange being all glammed up, I think she suits it a little bit better tough I prefer the character of Jude.

Still glad to see them coming back, I wonder if Lily will be making a return. She was the surprise stand out for me this season.

I also could not STAND if Taissa Farigiignsifmwicmds came back, I hated her so much. Then again I might like her to come back for some kind of redemption.

I think this is definitely going to be witchcraft and/or gypsies though.
 
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HanShotFirst

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Possible Spoiler alert:

Wikipedia said something about seeing Dracula in the Monsignor's shadow but it was taken down. Did anyone notice this? I think it would have been in Spilt Milk?
 
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Poimandres

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Neuromancer said:
What is there to explain? They're aliens. Aliens do some crazy shit.
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I think there will be some sort of explanation as to why they are interested in Kit, but that's about it. Good I say. No need to know everything about the aliens, but a bit more screen time for them wouldn't go astray!

I think this whole season has been awesome, with only a couple of slightly underwhelming episodes (Anne Frank, demise of Eunice ep). I like how quickly things develop, and how unpredictable the show is. Sure, it's a little messy, but it's highly entertaning and in this age of restrained mature programs it's nice to see a show like this where they can just let loose. Also it's far better than season 1 was.
 
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Nemesis_

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Poimandres said:
I think there will be some sort of explanation as to why they are interested in Kit, but that's about it. Good I say. No need to know everything about the aliens, but a bit more screen time for them wouldn't go astray!
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I think they've already discussed it.

Pretty much they were interested in Kit because he was so "forward thinking" and had empathy for all living things. Grace says it to Alma in the latest episode. I also assume "forward thinking" also implies he was willing to put racial discrimination aside and hook up and run away with Alma.

I want more from the Aliens, but for some reason I really do feel like their story arc is done.

HanShotFirst said:
Possible Spoiler alert:

Wikipedia said something about seeing Dracula in the Monsignor's shadow but it was taken down. Did anyone notice this? I think it would have been in Spilt Milk?
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A cool idea, but I think people are reaching. I rewatched the episode, I'll let the pictures do the talking
It's clearly the chair giving him this kind of accent that makes him look like Dracula. Perhaps they are eluding to the new season? Vampires?

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White Man

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I'm mildly nervous that the ending will be something like along the lines of the entirety of the season has just been Lana continually escalating her stories to sell more books. Maybe she was hospitalized as a lesbian (or a reporter), wrote a book about the experience, and then her follow-ups just got continually more ridiculous. It would explain the weird pacing and the drastically differing styles and editing, the completely bonkers collection of subject matter, and it's probably the only way to tie up most of the big questions while teasing a further completely unconnected season.

Maybe Lana's series of books focus straight up on:
catholic horror
exploitation
-nazis
-women in prison
-aliens
"Bad seed" type flicks
Holiday-themed horror flicks
Serial killer porn

And if Bloody Face Jr (if he is real) ends up hunting down Lana, he could just be a deranged fan. Or a deranged fan plot point in her next book.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
White Man said:
I'm mildly nervous that the ending will be something like along the lines of the entirety of the season has just been Lana continually escalating her stories to sell more books. Maybe she was hospitalized as a lesbian (or a reporter), wrote a book about the experience, and then her follow-ups just got continually more ridiculous. It would explain the weird pacing and the drastically differing styles and editing, the completely bonkers collection of subject matter, and it's probably the only way to tie up most of the big questions while teasing a further completely unconnected season.

Maybe Lana's series of books focus straight up on:
catholic horror
exploitation
-nazis
-women in prison
-aliens
"Bad seed" type flicks
Holiday-themed horror flicks
Serial killer porn

And if Bloody Face Jr (if he is real) ends up hunting down Lana, he could just be a deranged fan. Or a deranged fan plot point in her next book.
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That's an interesting thought, but I don't think the writers are clever enough to come up with something like that.
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill

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White Man said:
I'm mildly nervous that the ending will be something like along the lines of the entirety of the season has just been Lana continually escalating her stories to sell more books. Maybe she was hospitalized as a lesbian (or a reporter), wrote a book about the experience, and then her follow-ups just got continually more ridiculous. It would explain the weird pacing and the drastically differing styles and editing, the completely bonkers collection of subject matter, and it's probably the only way to tie up most of the big questions while teasing a further completely unconnected season.

Maybe Lana's series of books focus straight up on:
catholic horror
exploitation
-nazis
-women in prison
-aliens
"Bad seed" type flicks
Holiday-themed horror flicks
Serial killer porn

And if Bloody Face Jr (if he is real) ends up hunting down Lana, he could just be a deranged fan. Or a deranged fan plot point in her next book.
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Now that'd be crazy.
 
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So anyone think they'll go a mindfuck route and show the seperate seasons are actually connected in the final episode, i mean its pretty obvious the
Cardinal will be possessed and become Pope, but maybe he could be the same pope in the first season
.

For next season I want a travelling carnival of insane clowns
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill

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Messypandas said:
So anyone think they'll go a mindfuck route and show the seperate seasons are actually connected in the final episode, i mean its pretty obvious the
Cardinal will be possessed and become Pope, but maybe he could be the same pope in the first season
.

For next season I want a travelling carnival of insane clowns
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Vazra

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Kit too much suffering by the death of Grace and Alma = DEAD

Jude lost her marbles and she doesnt have much reasons to be alive = DEAD

Monsignor = ?

Lana has been making money out of the stories but seems to have a crazed son trying to kill her, will someone stop Bloodyface Jr or will he kill Lana = ?

Bloodyface Jr = Will he kill Lana or will he be killed by someone else?
 
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Fantastical

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I could be misinterpreting things, but on Sarah Paulson's Twitter it seems like she might be hinting that
Lana will redeem herself somehow. Quote: "Don't give up on Lana. She's a flawed person, just like the rest of us."

Messypandas said:
So anyone think they'll go a mindfuck route and show the seperate seasons are actually connected in the final episode, i mean its pretty obvious the
Cardinal will be possessed and become Pope, but maybe he could be the same pope in the first season
.

For next season I want a travelling carnival of insane clowns
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Yeah I was reading about some theories like that.
 
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Mrg8523-

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I know the season still isn't over but what's the general consensus so far on season 2? With the season finale coming up, I finally decided to watch season 2 this weekend. I still have a few episodes to go but so far I'm not really liking this season.
 
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braves01

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Mrg8523- said:
I know the season still isn't over but what's the general consensus so far on season 2? With the season finale coming up, I finally decided to watch season 2 this weekend. I still have a few episodes to go but so far I'm not really liking this season.
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I thought it was really good, better than S1, up to the break but since then it's lost a little steam imo.
 
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woolley

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Mrg8523- said:
I know the season still isn't over but what's the general consensus so far on season 2? With the season finale coming up, I finally decided to watch season 2 this weekend. I still have a few episodes to go but so far I'm not really liking this season.
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Most here seem to love it but most people that I know irl don't like it. (including me)
 
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