American Horror Story (TV Series) Black Out (2022) User Reviews

Well, it's AHS, but with a really small h

[allnewsuperfake · 5/10 · 27 October 2022]

While the show is circling around itself, admiring it's setpieces and occasionally showering them in flickering lights, the story is not really moving anywhere, while the characters and their respective actors do their best to escape the black hole of the writing. But even the human drama that normally is the second pillar of every season is just gushing towards nothing in particular, only to fall in on itself - people falling in out of love in mere minutes, people seemingly dying only to be ok in the next scene, and the irony of having the only death of a named character happening offscreen followed by a long rant about nobody noticing that he was dead.

Over all of this looms a weird mixture of prophecy, science and conspiracies about someone trying to murder all gay men in the city, but so far that has still to be explored beyond shooting an island full of deer and taking bloodsamples while some weirdo woman has been promising everyone in the subway that it is coming, but... well, it takes it's time.

Normally a season of AHS lives of it's premise, and it takes you a few episodes to see how it wastes away and all that's left is the potential. Here you don't even really have that going for it. I mean - there's a lot of eyecandy, and if you love the 80s, you'll get them from every direction, but the horror is more or less absent except for the occasional bad guy under a stroboscopic light holding a weapon.

Whitely Does It Again

[ZegMaarJus · 7/10 · 23 April 2023]

This Episode begins with Gino, he has been locked up in the freezer by Whitely. Patrick found Gino at the morgue. Gino speaks with Kathy about the missing gay boys. Hans Henkes has been killed. Theo broke up with Sam. Adam and Theo are having sex with each other. Patrick tells Marzara that he is gay. Gino fainted after a heavy discussion with Patrick. Solid Episode of American Horror Story Season 11, this Episode was another nice view of what i hope will be this Season it's level. Whitely is becoming more cruel, he is on a real killing spree it seems! Curious to see what he will do next on this Series!

Ending Scene

[FilmBrat105 · 9/10 · 4 November 2022]

Originally I thought this episode would solely focus on a black out, but it doesn't factor too much into the story here, in the episode and in the overarching plot. However, we got probably the creepiest ending scene and scene overall in AHS in several years. The dialogue, the lighting, the claustrophobic setting, the obvious inevitability and the suffering while we waited, it just felt brilliant. Jeff Hiller adds a lot. More development is given to some side characters but it feels a little hollow or otherwise boring, and I'd like to see more from Kathy, Barbara, & Fran. Adam seems to be the protagonist of the season but he doesn't have much to work with, or rather, he doesn't do much with what he has to work with. I appreciated Gino's calling Adam out. Furthermore, Joe Mantello's performance as Gino overall has been riveting and palpable. He is dissolved into the role and his anger and emotions are convincing. I think that makes him a better and more interesting protagonist than Adam.

Season 11 Evolution

[matthewglass-65945 · 10/10 · 28 October 2022]

Even critics are missing out on the historical significance of this new seasons. Like every other season most of these characters are based on real people. AHS is maturing. There is little humour or camp this season. I think the fan base is young and many do not know the cleverness of the historical and fantastical mixed if you don't know the order of the presidents in Season 10 and how the crew of the Xfiles are working on this show now. Kip's disappearance is explained from Asylum in that season. I wish the lil coven loving fans would be true Allie's and realize who these people are. Sam WAGANER. THEO/ Maplethorpe BD/Fictional (clue?) Tom of Finland. Lupone/ Bette Midler at the Continental Baths, Mafia owned NYC gay club and eatery connections.

Best season ever. Paulson has to rest those vocal folds.

Don't hate, research.

S11.E4 - Darkness [8/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 8/10 · 30 October 2023]

(S11. E4) My Live Reaction / Review for American Horror Story Season 11 Episode 4 ''Black Out''. Episode 3 was good and I gave it a rating of 8/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. It seems like the virus is spreading fast. I wonder what the killer(s) will do next. Patrick told the captain that he is gay? I didn't see that coming. Patrick's ex wife thinks that he is a killer? What the hell? The killer has some guts calling Patrick like that. These two guys followed the killer to his house? That's a really bad decision. The killer is really creepy, I like him. That was a nice cliffanger! Overall a really good episode, my rating is 8/10.