Posts By Alice Slater
Netflix UK TV review: American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 4 (Edward Mordrake Part 2)
November 11, 2014 | Alice SlaterTendrils of Edward Mordrake’s (Wes Bentley) Dracularian green mist leads the camera into the crux of Episode 4, the concluding half of the Halloween two-parter. Dressed in his Victoriana garb of top hat and cloak, Edward cuts a fine, gothic … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 3 (Edward Mordrake Part 1)
November 4, 2014 | Alice SlaterThe Halloween episode of Freak Show is upon us, which means – if history is doomed to repeat itself – a wind of change is about to blow through the carnival. Previous Halloween specials (Season 1’s two-parter Halloween, Season 2’s … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 2 (spoiler-free)
October 28, 2014 | Alice SlaterUnderneath the veneer of greasepaint and stage smiles, Freak Show is a season of binaries. Innocence and experience, naivety and corruption, life and death, darkness and light, pleasure and pain are all played against two juxtaposing and integral backdrops: the … Read More
The spooky true tales behind American Horror Story
October 25, 2014 | Alice SlaterWe pick apart the true events behind one of TV’s spookiest series.
Peppered with intertextuality drawn from both fact and fiction, American Horror Story is an anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the chaps responsible for the … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 1 (spoiler-free)
October 21, 2014 | Alice SlaterAs a new-fangled little gadget called “television” sweeps 1950s America, circuses and their respective sideshows are on the verge of a steep decline. American Horror Story: Freak Show explores the consequences of the struggle between the old world and the … Read More