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Really liked the ending of a season not so successfully began,but gradually becoming more ad ore interesting.The twists were good and the unexpected deaths made the difference (who would expect he would kill his sister).A message of empowerment was spread with his death after a preech of hate against women.Unfortunately I was disappointed watching Ally may becoming the leader of another hate cult like scum which has nothing to do with equality.

In my honest opinion, this episode was rushed and the ending was ok, not great I fantasize about Kai being successful on his election to the senate and then, being elected president as people all over the world chant "Hail the Devine Ruler" as the season ends. It would have been WAY better this way, but who am I besides a 19 year old boy who likes AHS...

Ok, so just let me start by stating that this is my first review of anything ever, and I'm as far from a professional movie critic you could get. However, I have some thoughts about this season of AHS, I will try to structure it up.

First of all, this have to be one of my favorite seasons of AHS so far (haven't seen Apocalypse yet) along with Asylum and Roanoke (unpopular opinion, I know). I have seen reviews on previous seasons basically saying that the story was awful but that the show somehow managed to survive with the help of well-known and talented actors. In a way, I agree with that, and that is why I find Cult to be very interesting in that matter. For this season, many of American Horror Story's "flagship actors" were left out (Kathy Bates, Denis O'Hare, Angela Bassett, Lily Rabe and of course Jessica Lange but she has not been around for a while). With that said, I did not really miss them. I felt that the storytelling in this season was strong enough without needing the regular talented AHS-actors to save it.

About the acting, I am very pleased. Of course, Evan Peters is the one that stood out the most. Kai was so different than the other characters he previously played on the show and it was refreshing and really impressing to see him portray something that at least I had not seen him do before. He did an amazing job playing a true psychopath and Kai will for sure be one of the more rememberable characters from the series (others are Sister Jude, Pepper, Bette&Dot to mention a few). I also liked the little thing about how he had his hair down when he was "Cult leader Kai" and hair up when he was "Kai the politician". About the other actors I think they all did a good job, although I had some moments when I felt the delivery from Billie Lourd, Allison Pill and Billy Eichner sagged a little, but really just on a very very few occasions. Adina Porter and Cheyenne Jackson were brilliant as usual. The kid who played Oz was also really good. He had some really great moments in my opinion. However, there is no doubt that this was Evan Peters' season.

It seems like some people disliked the season because it got "too political". I'm not American so I cannot really say a lot about how the Americans received it, but I did not really feel like politics were that central. Of course, AHS: Cult used the 2016 presidential election as a backdrop, but the season's theme was more about how easy manipulated people are and that human beings are always seeking for affinity around us and how we strive for belonging to a group of some sort. It showed us the multiple steps of manipulation and that is mainly what at least I will remember this season for. One thing I thought was really smart was including the bees in the intro, as they, just as the members of Kai's cult did, serve their queen and work for her regardless without questioning their purpose or existence.

Although, some things that did not make sense to me during this season include:

1. Where was Oz for all that time after Ally killed Ivy? We basically just saw Ally in company with Kai after Ivy's death, and it is highly unlikely that Ally let Oz be "upstairs playing video games" when all those killings and other cult stuff were going on in his basement?

2. How come Ally killed Ivy from the beginning? Yes it all made sense that she hated her for everything and really wanted to seek revenge but to kill the woman with whom she has a son with felt a bit out of character, at least so early on. She had never killed anyone before and her first murder would be of her own wife? And also, I think they made a mistake with the dramatic tension in that scene. As soon as Ivy said "Are you not going to eat?" I had a feeling that Ally had poisoned the food. They could have left that line out and the outcome of the scene would have been much more surprising.

3. AHS has a tendency to go a bit too bananas on the season finales. There was too much going on in this finale as well, too many new "plots" were introduced, much like the season finale of Roanoke. As a viewer I want closure and not be left with 10 more questions than I had before the finale.

4. During that scene when Kai walks up on stage to shoot Ally, there are at least 10-15 policemen in there but no one even tells Kai to drop his gun? He had been all over the news so they for sure knew who he was and how dangerous he was. I do not believe that he would have had the time and energy to "buy" all those policemen on the short time between getting out of jail and attending the debate, and since he was declared dead that would not have been possible.

But, as stated before, this was a really strong season and I liked it a lot. As a whole, I would rate it 8/10.

Regards from Samuel from Sweden

This episode begins with Kai, he has been transported to jail. He gets into a fight with Freddy. Crotchy sticks a knife into Freddy's head, he died instantly. Kai slits open Freddy's troath. Back Eleven months earlier, Kai is planning to kill pregnant Women's. Ally told to Kai that Speed Wagon is the traitor. Ally killed Speed Wagon with a knife. Many cult members killed themself when the FBI came in. Kai and Beverly got arrested. Ally speaks with Beverly about the Cult at the restaurant. Ally was an informant at the Cult all the time. Ally has a new girlfriend named Erika. Oz celebrates his birthday. Ally tells to Kai that Oz isn't his son. Kai has sex with Gloria. Ally is going to run for senator in Michigan. Kai stabbed down Rim Shot, he died instantly. Kai escapes out of prison with Gloria's help. Beverly told to Ally that Kai has been found dead in jail, but that isn't true. Kai has arrived at Ally's debate. Beverly shot a bullet trough Kai's head, he died instantly. Ally won the Senator election. Solid Final of American Horror Story Season 7, this season was the least entertaining of all seasons so far. I didn't like the plot but the acting was solid and that made it a okay Season. This season was to woke sometimes.

I thought this was a great ending to an excellent season. Ioved the melon killing training, can't believe they went there! I also liked that the ending was ambiguous rather than being purely feel good. Leaving you with another political conspiracy to worry about and then fading to black. Perfect.

This season as a whole has been a hilarious no holds barred satire of satire of American politics. It sends up absolutely everyone with no mercy, taking the most distorted fears people have about their political opponents and running with them to degrees of sublime silliness.

I particularly loved the dude bro alt right secret army in matching pyjamas, the right on progressive mum who becomes a murderer because her wife didn't vote for Hillary , and most of all the murderous cape wearing feminist conspirators with plans to wipe out all men.

I'm suprised people even mention this show being scary in a serious fashion, for me it's been primarily a genre bending comedy satire since season one. I'm not sure if that's the intention or because I'm British and have a different perspective. Although I will admit the clowns were quite creepy this year! Kai was brilliant. Evan's performance was perfectly captivating, switching from psychological intensity to pure comedy as needed. Especially when "manwidges" were concerned.

My favourite season. I think maybe even better than 2.

Well, that was bad. The only saving grace was Evan Peters. Putting that aside, what happened with the story?! It doesn't make ANY sense that Kai could have amassed followers inside of the prison, no matter how sweet talking he is. He would have been beaten to a pulp. What's more, there's no way he would have developed this kind of relationship with this woman guard. Yes, we learn later that she was Ally's follower (another plot hole. how the **** did Ally know who Kai took an interest upon, how did she contact her etc!!!! ugh...) but none the less Kai should have no way to take her unto his charm. We 're not shown ANY of the stuff that happened to prison and we 're just supposed to suspend our disbelief.

Furthermore, even if we do accept those things the final showdown makes even LESS sense because Ally's plan depends Kai taking a gun from the prison guard and not just casually taking one from his trusting prison mates. This gets even worse when you consider that Kai considers women less than men in every way. And even if we accept this as well, it doesn't change the fact that when Kai dies his followers who were clearly guarding the doors, did absolutely nothing!

This felt like a rushed attempt to make Ally the big leader now. Hooray now we don't have an evil man cult, we have an evil woman cult! We started the season with "men are superior" and ended it with "women are superior". So what's the verdict? That there are no misandrists and no misogynists, only misanthropists? If so then congratulations, it took 11 episodes to convey something that would need 2-3 episodes to fully pass on.

The most sinful thing about this season is that every character is unlikable. I knew that Kai was a disturbed, disgusting racist dude but the way the other characters are written, there's no sympathy for them in order to actually hate Kai. Are we supposed to root for Ally? Why? She's is just as corrupted, bad and even more so obnoxious than Kai. More like she became that way.

If I could rate negatively I would. The only thing that could save this season would be Oz teaming up with Twisty disemboweling everyone, with the last scene being them sat upon a rooftop, eating ice cream. What? This season was a joke anyway.

(S7. E11) My Live Reaction / Review for American Horror Story Season 7 Episode 11 ''Great Again''. The previous episode was good and I gave it a rating of 9/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. So Kai now is in prison, that sucks. His plan to kill 100 pregnant women is insane. If Speedwagon was the traitor, then Kai killed Winter and its unfair. So that's it, the end of Kai's cult, makes me sad. Ally killed Ivy but still lies about it, what a snake she is. Kai is planning to escape? Interesting. Kai tried to kill Ally and failed and that sucks, I really wanted him to kill her. Kai is dead. Overall this episode was good and I enjoyed it. My rating is 9/10.

Getting started, a Horror Story, is not /feminism or patriotism-fascism-racism and propaganda... But it's something like the opposite of bedtime stories!!! (unreal-fantasy or some supernatural) This, could easily be the season of Crime Story (Series) or a fake documentary.

For the episode, that I can not understand is how a "leader" with a power like this and that mind control can be killed like this (so easily), after you've shown us the people that he is sourounded by... I mean in the theater, that scene where he reveals himself it's obvious that "his men" are standing by ALL THE DOORS (possible escape-Exits). So if he was indeed betrayed by someone, there is NO WAY that someone else "who believed in him" would not continued the killing , for him!!!

That means , the END could be and should be a lot much different.

<Adding: Evan Peters, for once more , shows that he is the Best Actor in the Series>

Spoilers ahead: anyone surprised Allison came out on top and Kai didn't? It was obvious for a few episodes now, but anyone who has watched AHS knows Ryan Murphy likes to have the female actors be the strongest characters. Just watch Season 2 to see that.

It was a shame that the ending was so predictable as the earlier episodes did have some unexpected twists, but it was all for naught. They might as well have just re-ran the conclusion to Season 2.

I'm not opposed to female leads or strong female characters, but after 7 seasons of this, Murphy could have thrown in a twist to flip the usual AHS script. If there is a season 8, you can probably tell which character(s) will come out on top and which will just be used or rise and fall by the end.

Come on, Mr. Murphy, it's OK to try something different!

Only 11 episodes and it ends with the empowered woman leading a girl cult, not the evil man cult. Murphy did shine a light on the single-mindedness of politics, and how neither party are pure of heart. This is a far cry from Murder House to Hotel's series quality. Why this series delved into the political arena is beyond me, except Murphy's horse lost. I am really hoping that next year he gets back to what he did well. Next year I want werewolves on Boston. Seriously.

I really wanted to enjoy this season. I've been a fan of AHS since season 1 and it's definitely had it's ups and downs since then. This season was not a high point.

I agree with what one of the other reviewers said in that Politics were more of a catalyst and background than the actual focus. One of the really clever things this season did is starting with it looking like Kai was something as simple as a Trump supporter, and then peeling it back as the season moved on to explore the 'cult of fear' that was really Kai's interest.

The first half of the season was spooky and intriguing and suspenseful. The 2016 election is still a big, painful wound for a lot of people, so it had an immediate emotional hook that became even more interesting when it started being clear that that wasn't really what the season was about.

For me, the turning point was when Kai randomly picked up his army of misogynistic sycophants. Where did they come from? Why were they following him? Why did Kai, who we had seen courting Hope to his team with some of the best dialogue in the season, suddenly surround himself with racist misogynists?

It really felt like the season went sharply downhill from that episode onward. The intelligent, charismatic, psychopath that Kai was at the start of the season became a parody of himself. The 'divine leader' nonsense; the religious rituals that came out of nowhere, the suicidal devotion from his army that as an audience member I just couldn't suspend my disbelief for... not gonna lie, the last four or five episodes were a chore to get through. It just didn't make sense that anyone was following Kai anymore, let alone with such extreme, fanatical devotion.

Aaaaaand then the SCUM storyline. Seeing Evan Peters as Andy Warhol was a treat (the dude is a seriously talented actor), but... adding a feminist cult to work as counterbalance to the misogynistic cult that Kai was starting, when it didn't make sense that Kai was starting a misogynistic cult to begin with... it just spiraled the story further into a 'why am I still watching this' nonsense pile. And it also made the finale make even less sense; at that point, every other member of SCUM was dead, so are we meant to believe that Ally, having just told her son she's going to make the world a better place for him, decided to take up the torch and lead a revival of an organization devoted to killing all men? What? Why? And also: what?

smh

I think the season could have been saved if there'd been some element of the supernatural to explain the character motivations. Something non-human or some power or influence to give us a 'why' on 'why the characters made those decisions.' And it just wasn't there. Towards the end of the season, just freaking none of the decisions the characters were making felt realistic or believable at all. It was such a disappointment, because the first few episodes set up the potential for such a good story.

Ah well. Fingers crossed for next season, I guess.

I have always been against the the innane prattle ,the bandwagons that seem to sweep too many away with no thought to the consequences, costs, or real tangible motivating factors; those trends, genres, and mediums and ideas that seem too carbon copy and predictable as to spit in the face of the word "art" or "creativity" or "original"... *sighs * One such thing I avoided till late oct 2018 was American Horror Story. I have seen a lot of horror in my life...and in film, so I was none too eager to try a made for tv "scary" show that the average person found so scawwey. Yet I enjoyed the first few episodes of this 7th season, hoping for more to scintillate and actually scare, to excite, awe and shock...This could have came close...but then the lame wannabe white knighting agenda ruined everything. The potential, especially for something to go horribly RIGHT was thrown out the window. To hell with whichever gender "came out on top" would not have mattered if more blood, brains, and bodies had splattered and something supernatural had occurred. Alas the show was predictably going south by the halfway point...yadda yadda... But hey, whatever panders to those with their own selfish ideals that disregard what the masses want...right? So many poor choices with this show, and the only choiceI have to make is: DO I TRY TO WATCH AHS from season 1...? >,;,< ugh...4/10

I'm amazed that anyone could find Ally an empowering female figure. She is a double murderer and responsible for the deaths of others. There is nothing empowering about the women in this series: they are all manipulated and abused by male characters and at least two of them are psychotic. This whole series is presented as satire, but in reality it is just another another example of violence and misogyny masquerading as something more profound. None of the characters are likeable, not even the kid and most are hateful. The plot doesn't really make sense and at the end one is left thinking "so what?" The best thing in it is the performance of Evan Peters as Kai Anderson. Evan Peters has been consistently brilliant throughout AHS, playing a host of different characters with complete believability. He is an incredible talent and the only reason I gave this 4 stars.