wasn’t it a dream sequence for the guy doing the selling? - now that madame curator is dead-in-a-jar - I don’t think it can happen.
No that was a dream/fantasy sequence. And because they had so many of those “horrible things happening-no wait fake out! It’s a dream!” sequences throughout the season, when Dandy starting killing everyone I didn’t even know it was real, and so didn’t even care, even though I had liked those characters there was no emotion to it and everyone dying was just meh.
I agree, I thought the clown would be the Big Bad and when he was killed off so early it just felt like the rest of the season was meandering with no plot or point.
And other than the very brief Edward Mordrake subplot there was nothing supernatural in this one.
I didn’t watch Lost, but all I could think was that at least it wasn’t quite as bad of an ending as True Detective.
Which puts it on par with most of the rest of the season.
Or rest of the series, for that matter.
Just my opinion (but- that’s the important one 
)- This show has always been wildly uneven and never reached greatness, but it has at least usually been enjoyable mindless campy fun. My favorite season by far was Season 3 (Coven); Asylum and the one about the hell house were big sloppy messes but ultimately okay.
This one was just a total trainwreck from the get go though, with plotholes they didn’t even care about and ludicrous storylines and “when in doubt kill 'em” lazy resolution, and it had such talent and budget and good source material to work with.
I think it would have worked much better if it hadn’t been such a star vehicle for Lange.
I’m a devoted AHS fan, even though I know Ryan Murphy is going to kick me in the stomach every damn season. I just keep going back for more. I wish I knew how to quit him.
My thoughts on this season: Twisty the clown should have been the centerpiece of this season. They went too fast in revealing his past and killing him off. He had a creeping menace that should have played out for a few more weeks, and his death should have been something else besides having a lame supernatural grim reaper make that call.
Jessica Lange is fantastic in every season of AHS. She had nothing to work with here. Same for Kathy Bates and Sarah Paulson.
Dandy got his due, but really? Drowning him in a Houdini escape box? After everything he did, they should have really gone to town on him. How about amputating his arms and legs, then fusing Twisty’s mask onto his face, then keeping him in a cage?
I’ll watch next season, just like I always have. I’m too embarrassed to recommend it to anyone else, though.
It’s bizarre to me that a show with such great potential…sucked so effing bad.
I don’t think getting rid of Twisty so soon was the mistake (I’d bet real money that if they had drawn it out longer, we’d be complaining about the ‘the clown wasn’t creepy anymore’), it was that there really didn’t seem to be any reason or satisfying payoff for any thing that happened.
I agree that the finale was disappointing, but I have a question about the second-to-last episode. What exactly did they do to Stanley? He was shown onscreen in that cage for about a second.
It’s like in the 30’s movie, “Freaks” - you get a glimpse. I don’t think we are supposed to know. We are supposed to be momentarily shocked and horrified, and leave it at that. Our imaginations will make it all the more horrid. Dissecting it takes away the magic. So to speak.
It looked like they cut off his arms & legs and dressed him like Meep. The whole scene with them chasing him and what they did to him was a straight reference to the Tod Browning movie “Freaks.”
Looks like they cut off his legs and most of his arms and probably most of his tongue and then shoved him in the Meep costume.