# Jessica Lang if freaking awesome! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679 "2015-01-01T15:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/1 "2015-01-01T15:10:15Z")
I just finished watching American Horror Story S1 and loved her in that. Now I’m about two episodes in to season two. I was surprised to find they cast Jessica again, only except this time she’s playing a different role which she also appears to be great at. It’s a very different role from her previous one too. Quite impressive. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/2 "2015-01-01T16:40:23Z")
It’s an anthology series with many actors coming back in different (but related) roles every season. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/3 "2015-01-01T18:36:50Z")
If not freaking awesome, what then? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/4 "2015-01-01T18:45:21Z")
Lange’s been in every season of the show. Always as a very different character. Always an amazing performance. And _always_ a titanic bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/5 "2015-01-01T18:59:21Z")
Wow, hard to believe she’s already 65 years old. In 1982 when she was in _Tootsie_, she was 33. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/6 "2015-01-01T19:17:42Z")
I just finished season 3. She’s still awesome. I’d highly recommend [Titus](http://www.amazon.com/Titus-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/6305962987) with Anthony Hopkins. It’s Shakespeare and she pulls that off flawlessly. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/7 "2015-01-01T21:53:14Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > I’d highly recommend [Titus](http://www.amazon.com/Titus-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/6305962987) with Anthony Hopkins. It’s Shakespeare and she pulls that off flawlessly. Yes! She’s fantastic in that. And Tamora makes Lange’s AHS characters look like a pack of nuns. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/8 "2015-01-01T22:54:42Z")
She was fantastic in **Everybody’s All American** (a much better movie than the title and advertising would have you think). She portrayed the same character progressing from a teenage beauty queen to a hard-edged middle aged businesswoman, without any false notes. Actually, all the actors did a great job and the aging makeup was about the best and most subtle I’ve ever seen in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/9 "2015-01-02T00:35:50Z")
I liked AHS until I watched the season about the witch coven in New Orleans. That one sucked. Jessica was awesome… but everything else about that season was way below the first two. The weird thing was that the opening sequence that plays at the opening of each episode on the DVD is awesome but does not reflect anything that happens in the actual show. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/10 "2015-01-02T01:14:19Z")
Jessica Lange is fantastic! > [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I liked AHS until I watched the season about the witch coven in New Orleans. That one sucked. Jessica was awesome… but everything else about that season was way below the first two. The weird thing was that the opening sequence that plays at the opening of each episode on the DVD is awesome but does not reflect anything that happens in the actual show. I agree about season 3. I was really excited about the concept, but disappointed in it compared to the previous two season. I’m getting ready to watch Freak Show and I hope it’s back to the caliber of the first two. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/11 "2015-01-02T02:58:11Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Wow, hard to believe she’s already 65 years old. In 1982 when she was in _Tootsie_, she was 33. Even harder to believe her screen debut was in the godawful Dino DeLaurentis remake of\* King Kong \*(the '76 one where he climbs the WTC)… ---
**Author:** ![archer\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@archer\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archer_1)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/12 "2015-01-02T20:37:40Z")
She is amazing. I stopped watching after Coven because Freak Show is just…not the same as S1 or S2. Especially S2. Jessica Lange will always be amazing in everything. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/13 "2015-01-02T20:49:33Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > The weird thing was that the opening sequence that plays at the opening of each episode on the DVD is awesome but does not reflect anything that happens in the actual show. It pretty much never does. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/14 "2015-01-02T21:12:00Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I just finished watching American Horror Story S1 and loved her in that. > Now I’m about two episodes in to season two. I was surprised to find they cast Jessica again, only except this time she’s playing a different role which she also appears to be great at. > It’s a very different role from her previous one too. Quite impressive. She impressively belts out Bowie’s “Life on Mars” here: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_KeZnsddH0) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/15 "2015-01-03T00:05:54Z")
[quote=“vivalostwages, post:14, topic:708679”] She impressively belts out Bowie’s “Life on Mars” here: [/QUOTE] She does it so badly so well that it is just stunning to watch and listen to. I wonder if they autotune it. ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/16 "2015-01-11T01:25:30Z")
I’d give her an Emmy for her rendition of “The Name Game” in AHS Asylum ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/17 "2015-01-11T16:42:42Z")
Jessica Lange has won TWO Oscars, not at all surprised she is knocking it out of the ballpark on TV, too. (I will admit I got lost watching ‘Asylum’, didn’t care too much for it. LOVED the first season, and I loved the witches if only because of the humor and that gorgeous mansion.) ‘Freak Show’ is a lot of fun, but not very scarey, except for the horrifying clown. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/18 "2015-01-11T17:01:24Z")
she may not know karate but she knows Krazy ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/19 "2015-01-11T17:29:12Z")
Lang was great in season 3. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-lang-if-freaking-awesome/708679/20 "2015-01-11T18:55:09Z")
The “opening sequence” of each season is actually tightly tied to elements in the story. You can search for “opening sequence analysis” or somesuch and get many links like this: [http://www.slideshare.net/abbeya7x/american-horror-story-coven-opening-title-sequence](http://www.slideshare.net/abbeya7x/american-horror-story-coven-opening-title-sequence)