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American Horror Story: Orphans (2014)
Orphans - The Return to 'Asylum'
What great it is to get taken back to the brilliance of the second season. "Orphans" is the first ever American Horror Story episode to connect with another season.
"Orphans" places a death close to Pepper which places her towards tradegy. Maggie and Desiree clash and Maggie is forced to choose which side she is on, and Stanley tries to take advantage of Jimmy.
"Orphans" is a return to form, albeit this sure is just a one off like "Mordrake Part 2". Another coincidence I've noticed is the better episodes this season all feature a decent Elsa flashback, strange that is as I've found Jessica Lange to have stayed one season too long. Also it was nice to have a supporting character like Pepper have solid screen time and her acting was amazing. Top American Horror Story episode.
Stranger Things: Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat (2016)
The Flea and the Acrobat
This episode starts off where "The Body" left off, Hopper is trying to see what is going on at the Department of Energy, Mama and Papa Byers are reunited for Will's "funeral", but for what reason is Papa Byers back? The kids are tracking down a alternate dimension entrance (in a great nod to Stand By Me) and Jonathan and Nancy plan an assault on the "Faceless Man".
The Flea and the Acrobat wasn't as strong as the previous two entries, but still a strong episode that further shows the monster at play, the history of Eleven's torture, and a few hints on this shadow dimension. Plenty of cool Dustin moments too!!! On the downside there was a few clichés, but another fantastic episode from Stranger Things.
The Walking Dead: Swear (2016)
Swear
Not quite on board with the 5.8 IMDb rating for this episode. It's an episode that continues The Walking Dead's season 7 slow build, as we are introduced to another coloney, but the episode doesn't leave our character or the plot lingering in this new Ocean Community.
"Swear" opens with the return of Tara since she was last seen going for supplies with Heath after Rick's gang killed Negan's outpost in Season 6.... Tara awakes on a coastline and discoverers a new colony where there is no men and a shoot on sight policy. She survives only on luck, and is then forced to try to manufacture a way of taking the Oceanside Colony to Alexandria to make an alliance.
Maybe the episode has come at a time where people want plot advancement, but that will come, soon. Tara has been missing for a while so this Tara centric episode was due. She is a supporting character given a lead role here. The episode wraps itself into a arc where Tara is given the opportunity to assist the Alexandrians in stealing the Ocean Colony's armory to revenge on Negan's attack, but keeps her word to Cyndia who went out of her way to keep Tara safe. Heath mentions early on "We all look out for ourselves, that's what all do now", but Tara doesn't at the end, keeping the colony a secret. Nice little theme if you ask me. Not a bad episode .
American Horror Story: Tupperware Party Massacre (2014)
Tupperware Party Massacre - So so episode.
With American Horror Story - Freak Show, I either love the episode or hate it. Mordrake Part 2 and Bloodbath are some of the better episodes because stuff actually happens. Horror. The rest of this season is just character crap and I just can't get into them. The Bette and Dot scenes this episode had me cringing and laughing, I don't know if it's intended for emotional impact. Dandy is the only thing keeping this season going, and his opening scene of horror (with his Mum & Avon girl) didn't really have substance, was just a 5 second impact job.
The episode mainly tracks Bette and Dot deciding they want to stay together as opposed to being operated on, Jimmy's drunken rampage continues, Dandy fancies himself as a God and sees nothing or no one stopping him, and Dell sees his guilt as too much and decides this is the end.
I feel the season is more American Drama Story than American Horror Story, and I just don't care about these characters and what is going on, the second season done it perfect. Third season got it wrong, and this season is either good, or crap, in my opinion.
This episode isn't the worst of the season, but isn't too special either.
The Walking Dead: Go Getters (2016)
Go Getters - Slow Build.
The 5th episode of Season 7 continues the slow build, but I feel it's leading up to an explosive second half to the season.
This episode features us catching up with the Hilltop Community with the new additions of Maggie & Sasha. Gregory the coward leader wants them gone so the Saviours won't give them a hard time, so it's up to (The Awesome) Paul 'Jesus' Rovio to step up, in his first appearance this season. Simon and the Saviours pay a visit. And Carl and Enid are on route to the colony, the latter two complete with shocking dialogue, acting and scenes these two have already shared in season's past.
Slow episode and the Simon intrusion was a repeat of last episode, but Sasha, Maggie & Paul Rovio were a welcome sight. Carl and Enid are an utter snooze fest however.