Series · Prime Video · 2013

Hannibal

Aestheticized murder. The looking-away is the right ending, and the show will not allow it.

The show is made with extraordinary control, and the control is in the service of making a cannibal beautiful. Skill does not baptize the subject. A household does not need this education in taste.

The eight

Industry
4/10
Meticulous. The care is spent on the wrong craft.
Household
1/10
Intimacy is a lure.
Piety
1/10
Beauty is nailed to a corpse on purpose.
Courage
2/10
Will Graham's empathy is used as a wound, not a duty.
Republic
2/10
The Bureau is a feeding ground.
Temperance
1/10
Appetite is the theology.
Truth
3/10
It tells you he is a monster and films him as a temptation.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing grows.

Live historicallyDo not start it. Taste is a moral faculty, and this one trains it badly.

Series · Prime Video · 2011

American Horror Story

Cruelty as a season pass. Skip it.

Each season picks a fear, American and specific, and then spends the fear on mutilation. A point about a real evil shows up in the pilot and is gone by the third hour, replaced by the dare. You will not be braver, truer, or kinder at the end of it.

There are horrors worth a serious evening. This is not one of them.

The eight

Industry
3/10
Craft in the design. The craft serves the shock.
Household
1/10
Houses are tombs or traps. The family is the first victim and the first suspect.
Piety
1/10
The sacred is a costume for the desecration.
Courage
2/10
Survival is not courage when the show only respects the wound.
Republic
2/10
Institutions appear in order to be rotten.
Temperance
1/10
Excess is the product.
Truth
3/10
It is candid that it wants to disgust you.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing a house should inherit.

Live historicallyTake it off the row. Do not negotiate a 'just the first episode.'