American Horror Story [Season 11]

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Tonally, it feels like a dispiritingly YA take on American Horror Story or a bad cover version that would wash up on The CW Network alongside Riverdale re-runs. Sixteen-year-old Scarlett (played by Sierra McCormick) and her house-flipping fathers Michael (AHS regular Matt Bomer) and Troy (Gavin Creel) move into the famous Murder House – described as “Amityville Horror on crystal meth” in the show’s trailer – with hopes of turning it into a B&B. As soon as Scarlett tries on serial killer Tate Langdon’s rubber S&M suit, her nascent, violent pornography-fuelled urges awaken, and a cruel live-streamed prank from her crush Maya (Paris Jackson) sends her into a stab-happy tailspin. From there on, American Horror Stories dissolves into a predictable, badly-written jumble of ghosts chasing ghosts, with nothing original to say, that’s bloated even after two episodes, while even Murphy’s quippy dialogue comes off as hackneyed (“You want to get blitzed on Xanax and edibles and watch The Crown?”).

It’s a low bar to clear, but episode three, ‘Drive In’ (by Dexter showrunner Manny Coto) – concerning the revival of a cult horror film called Rabbit Rabbit that was banned after a 1986 screening where the audience started attacking each other – fares better because it’s stand-alone and not in the mocking shadow of its superior mothership series.