S7E1
Election Night
American Horror Story · 2017-09-05 · 50 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 11 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
After Trump is elected President, Ally Mayfair-Richards is beset by all of her old phobias... and they appear to be coming to life.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
70
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
15
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 11 comments — 5 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“My favorite part about the opening is America washing the blood off of its hands”
colcart97▲ 43about 0–15% inread it ↗
“One thing I do like so far about the political swings is that they're satirizing both sides; Kal is a brash, batshit crazy dude who literally fucked his TV in excitement, and the other side is legitimately crying and screaming for trigger warnings. No partisan stone is left unturned, and I kind of like that.”
PonderingPotato▲ 127read it ↗
“Wow, *two* Sarah Paulson meltdowns in the first 15 minutes. What a treat!”
▲ 103read it ↗
“Sarah continuing her trend of characters that get on my damn nerves, I see.”
shortbreadprincess▲ 91read it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Bradley Buecker
- written
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Aimee Carrero as Picnic Girl
Kimberly Dawn Guerrero as Ballgag
Zack Ward as Roger
Rafael de la Fuente as Picnic Guy
Colton Haynes as Detective Jack Samuels
Donald Trump as Self (archive footage)
Mike Pence as Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton as Self (archive footage)