Ryan Murphy has washed and centrifuged so much the archetypes of horror cinema in
American Horror Story
that now
almost all the movies and series that propose us to be scared are approached from an ironic, referential and meta position.
All or almost all: NOT ME.
I'm scared shit, I keep shitting.
But it's true: Murphy has taken classic characters and plots, pushed them into his always satirical terrain, and
somehow deactivated them for good.
Throughout its ten seasons,
American Horror Story
has walked the genre up and down
, with mixed results. The first part of the last installment, entitled
Double Feature
("Double session": can you be more meta-referential?)
, Is one of the good ones. Its premise could have been thought of by Poe or Wilde
: what if there was a drug capable of enhancing artistic talent to infinity, but only to a select few who will not know if they are until they take it?
Because the substance only has the desired effect when the talent of the person taking it is genuine. If he's not, if he's just a bastard who thinks he's special, the drug will turn him into a pathetic Nosferatu.
Double Feature
takes advantage of that seductive premise and places it in the also very parodiable city of Provincetown.
There we meet a peculiar group of characters who believe they are special.
Spoiler: only some are.
In this new season of
American Horror Story
(you have it on Disney +), Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk continue
their policy of repeating with regular actors in the saga and seasoning them with flashy guest stars.
Lily Rabe, Finn Wittrock, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy and Sarah Paulson return to the series, among others.
And
performers like
a gorgeous and unexpected Macaulay Culkin make their
debut at
AHS
.
Having Culkin on this show and this season is itself another circular meta-reference.
By betting on artificiality and playfulness,
Ryan Murphy (almost) has made his series not scare me.
Scares continues to give like the first day, yes, but what would a series like this be without scares. Good television horror is supposed to be the one that scares but at the same time tells things.
There no series beats
Evil
.
Its second season, available in Spain on SyFy, gives rich, well-grounded scares. The series of the psychologist (Katja Herbers) the future priest (Mike Colter) and the man of science (Aasif Mandvi)
continues to put the finger on the wound and take advantage of their mysterious cases to talk about important things.
And I don't mean that this is a series where religion plays an important role.
Evil
is
another great creation from Robert and Michelle King
(
The Good Fight
) and it shows.
They also know how to scare and make you think at the same time.
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