I enjoyed the premiere, but I think it's because I've dropped all pretense of this show being a good show. It's trashy, shocking, "what's the craziest, grotesque, weird and sexual shit we can come up with" TV. It's better to just to just enjoy it as the show that it is rather than try and think about it. Of course, Coven was still completely awful and Freak Show just a complete bore.
Anyway, I will say that the premiere was, I think, perhaps the weakest acted premiere of the show since Murder House (Connie Britton was visibly out of her element, Taissa sucks, Dylan isn't great). I was only feeling Sarah Paulson and the actress who plays Marcy. Kathy Bates is good but I kind of find her character boring so far.
Gaga was decent. I will say it's interesting that Murphy even said they're going for a silent era kind of thing with her, that's definitely Gaga's strength like looks and whatnot. That said her dialogue delivery wasn't awful, it was just kinda whatever or okay.
Chloe Sevigny was a notable misstep IMO. She didn't have much screen time but she or at least her character seemed notably weak.
