To be fair, a developer making a popular TV series video-game, while not knowing a thing/caring about said TV series is the most authentic part of the whole thing.
Yep and that is because Disney along with several video game companies in real life are doing the same shit and they are failing. Just like mom was doing before it was revealed that it was metaing us.
@@yomisimie murder house was not that great idk why its hyped up to be one of the best seasons. Coven, Freak Show, and Asylum are a million times better.
@@GellertTV I quit Coven, Circus, and Hotel a few episodes in. It went from slight horror with alot of drama to drama but we all shop at Spirit Halloween for each episode. They just never quite caught the dark vibe of the first 2 seasons again. Haunting of Hill House was a good replacement for it though.
The most frustrating thing about the whole “burning down the murder house so the ghosts can leave” thing IS THAT WE KNOW HOW TO GET GHOSTS TO LEAVE THE MURDER HOUSE. WE LITERALLY SEE THE MAID’S CORPSE GET MOVED SO SHE CAN BE A GHOST WITH HER DEAD MOTHER INSTEAD OF IN THE HOUSE- This is infuriating lol
The whole premise of a house where dead people could reconnect with living family members once a year could be a real fucking somber yet kinda uplifting story, but this show decides to just make it a footnote and then nullify it with some weird meta twist? wtf
I like that concept but imagine the conflict if only one deceased relative could visit during the reserved set of time and the family can only visit once a year. A family could arrive thinking they’ll get to see Grandma Ruth again for 3 days but Uncle George barges his way through to berate his family for taking his millions when they didn’t like him when he was alive. Or deceased Aunt Charlotte arrives to visit only to find out that she never really was a “loved” family member. Her family members were nice to her face because they wanted her money and when she wouldn’t outright die, they poisoned her.
Right 😆 I can just imagine them in a meeting trying to come up with a catchy name then after a couple hours go by Janice, Hunter, Kevin and Kaiti are like: "welp, we've got nothing" 🤷🤷🤷🤷 Then Chad blurts out: "I've got it! We'll name it 'American horror STORIES!' ✨😎🤯
My experience of the three AHS seasons I've watched: *Episodes 1 to 9:* Storylines building, characters in conflict - looks like this is building to something interesting! *Episodes 10 and 11:* Hmm, okay well a couple of interesting threads have ended suddenly, that wasn't satisfying but... maybe there's still hope for the main story line? *Episodes 12 and 13:* ... so it was all for nothing?
@@OwMeEd I definitely recommend Roanoke as well, as it also diverts from that and is probably my favorite season. I 10000% agree with your original comment, especially with regards to Murder House. Super disappointing as it made it seem like there was never actually any danger because they all die and get to live happily ever after as ghosts anyways, by the end they treat it like its a super power.
I stopped after freakshow. It's just gone so downhill I tried Cult(? I don't remember) but honestly I was so annoyed by the "oh an interacial couple move into a house in the south and are threatened by the most hollywood version of 'dumb southern people' they could even ever think of creating to really make you understand that southern ppl are uber racist >:^(" So tone deaf, pathetic and it literally makes no sense. I think this was during the whole Trump era so it was some really annoyingly political season clearly aimed to hate on trump supporters or whatever.
That’s the part of the show that made sense it’s 100k because they said they were prepared to let it go for that much in order to sell it because it’s something no one wants. 95% of the show made zero sense whatsoever and is literally the worst story I’ve ever seen created
A mother and teenage son bonding by watching AHS together? Um, that sounds twisted enough to just be a part of the show anyway. Would ANYONE actually WANT to watch this with their mother!?
When I used to watch it (I watched some seasons- the last being Roanoke) I would have to pause the show any time my mother came in as I looked at her like she caught me watching porn or something equally as brutal and messed up. Eventually she watched 2 seasons and was like ‘Ah, I understand now. That’s such an upsetting, screwed up show to watch.’
Manipulating your son into loving you by making a game in which you die and become a ghost and have him burn down the house you died in and say goodbye to your ghost. Top tier parenting. 1000 IQ
Speaking of this being kinda a copy of black mirror, that "game over" episode sounds a lot like the "Playtest" episode of black mirror that was done WAY better. I've been watching Ryan Murphy shows since Nip/Tuck like 15+ years ago and it's amazing how regardless of subject matter, they all essentially turn out the same - this convoluted, masturbatory, off the wall insanity nonsense that's just as outrageous as it can possibly be.
Game Over and Playtest are literally nothing alike except they both have video games I guess? And I suppose black mirror is just a “copy” of the twilight zone.
"Hey son, I hate how we're not close, so I basically bankrupted myself to make a game about your favorite show for you to play, and it has sex scenes in it" The people in Hollywood are all such psychopaths that they can't even remotely think like a normal human.
"Oh and also I don't actually own the rights to the franchise, so if I release the game to recoup the insane development cost, I'll instantly get sued and the product will be pulled off the shelf."
I think that's just good parenting. My son wanted me to read Garfield with him so instead I sold the house and made Garfield 2. I'm sure he'll forgive me one day for those years we were homeless. I still haven't read any Garfield but I researched that Bill Murray Garfield movie so I'm basically an expert. Why won't my son respect me?
“Imagine being this far into development and you don’t even know the source material” You’d be surprised with how incompetent a multi-million dollar costing writing/developing team can be when they just decide to do there own thing rather then pay attention to earlier media. It is so appalling how much it has happened in recent years in all sorts of media. I recently played Halo 5 and my gosh that game manages to miss literal basic day one writing 101 information that it’s amazing the writers even got payed with the final result
“Game over” was awful. The twist at the ending - it was a game in a game!- felt like it wasn’t the original ending. My guess is the show runners originally wrote the show to have the Murder House burn down for real, but realized they need to keep it around to milk more nostalgia for future episodes when their now-crappy and tired show (which inexplicably keeps getting renewed) rises to even greater levels of stupidity
"Imagine being this far into development and you don’t even know the source material." Pretty much sums up how Hollywood turns a game into a movie. Oh, the irony.
tbh people will hate it anyway even if they know the source material, cause it's not the same thing. GIS did know their source material and people still hated it. I guess gamers think their game is cool and no one should watch it but play the game itself.
Sounds like phase 4 of the MCU considering the black widow director literally admitted to not knowing that multiple avengers don’t have superpowers-calling black widow the only non super powered avenger…then Loki made Tony’s sacrifice pointless by having a drawer full of infinity stones (which is impossible cause if the universe they came from doesn’t exist then neither can the leftover stones) or having a world ending threat in The Eternals almost destroy the world (yes the director of the Eternals literally wanted to sabotage the entire MCU by destroying the entire world in their film)…so yeah
"Imagine being this far into the game production and not knowing the source material".... Idk sounds like Hollywood when they make a movie adaptation in general
Seems kinda fitting. Ryan does zero reserch on video game development to make his show, and the mom in it does zero research on the show to make her videogame.
What really sucks is how much this devalues the series. People, who’ve never seen anything AHS, are gonna watch this and think the whole series is garbage. In fact, I wasn’t sure about Double Feature myself after seeing this. Total cash grab for HULU.
It's schlock. From the very beginning its B-Movie premise and execution at best. But it's silly, self aware schlock. This is just garbage, completely irredeemable garbage.
Pal, I am in the middle of watching AHS and I don't see anything good. Unless this show is supposed to be a campy horror satire then it's really fucking terrible. I mean I'm loving it. But it's not what id call good.
"Hey son, there's a convention for that show you really like that I have literally no interest in on this weekend." "OMG Mom! Wow! I can't believe it! We can spend some time together!" "What? Ew. No. I'm going. Here's some clothes, have fun with your father."
I liked AHS up until they tried to start making all the seasons connected and tried to retcon how meta they could be and then they just kept getting more ridiculous!
Its fine in small amounts like having a previous guest character in the hotel season or mentioning something from a previous season is ok. But they just butchered it in the apacolypse season by making it about the coven witches instead of focusing on the other aspects of the theme. And the worst part is they had to rush the ending because of this.
I never understood why people scoffed at meta humor, but Game Over explained why. It's meta to the point of being confusing, tacky, and ridiculously convoluted.
It tried to be a more updated version of Roanoke, but at least what Roanoke had going for it with its "show within a show" premise is the Millers were unreliable narrators, or at least could've been. I at least liked the reveal of the "real" Butcher. Usually AHS has a problem with keeping villains scary by showing them too much, but the Butcher in the 2nd half of Roanoke genuinely scared me.
@@briankaslewicz6130 I actually enjoyed roanoke and finished it in 1 day while other seasons took me forever to finish because of how bad they were. Roanoke of course has its flaws like any other season but I really enjoyed the concepts and most were executed pretty well
I feel like when they want to make a story like this on netflix they should try and do the chose your own adventure thing they did with blackmirror. I think that would open up a lot and encourage different writting paths. I also think it would lend itself to meta humor much more.
I always thought each season was too long. They start out strong, then meander up to an 'epic' ending. So I thought that the short form would actually be better for them. But, no. It's just the meaning part for every episode.
I felt like your name seemed familiar, and your bio says you're a horror author. I mostly read online rather than regularly-published authors like Stephen King (I find most of the stuff that gets published/ends up in the local library does absolutely nothing for me). But I _do_ still feel like I recognize you... What have you written that I may have read? Hope I'm not being too bothersome. Regardless, have a lovely day =)
I’ve played plenty of indie horror games by lone devs that “borrow” an IP and have convoluted plots, confusing mechanics and a nonsensical twist ending so this all makes sense. The episode should actually end with the mom throwing a tantrum about Steam pulling the game for copyright infringement.
In my 30 something yrs on this earth I've personally never played any game like this, but I understand everyone has different tastes and that's fair. I personally enjoy watching and playing a lot of lower budget indie films & games many of them are better than the more expensive and more popular mainstream stuff! Impo this show may have worked a bit better if there had been better direction,a more interesting concept & story line,cohesiveness and pacing throughout it's entirety ☝️oh, and it should've probably make some sense too! Suspending belief obviously isn't new in horror but this was just a mess and it hurt my brain. I can kinda see what they were aiming for with this one, but the concept just didn't work out at all & it all came out really bad. They surely did nothing to bring anything good to the already tainted table of the original AHS series.👻 (Just my 2¢) We'll have to see what's next!
listening to this plot synopsis was actually genuinely painful, its literally just like empty, meaningless dribble. is it meant to be like a clever meta narrative or something? its the most convoluted trash I've seen in a long while, i really have no idea what the writers were going for.
I'm kind of really enjoying the current AHS season. They're giving a lot of screen time to Frances Conroy and she's a god damn treasure! I'm also happy to see Macaulay Culkin's role wasn't just some one off character that gets killed 10 minutes into the first episode. I'm pretty sure he's going to get killed, but it's been four episodes and he's still alive, so that's good.
@@toomuchbongwater not gonna lie, I loved Apocalypse. 1984 was such a disappointment, though. They had such a great era and a theme to work with and they gave us a fat, wet steamer. 💩
the original asking price was 600k but it was on the market for so long they accepted the 100k, I guess nobody wanted to risk death for a nice house except for this insane game dev lady
It's interesting to see that Hollywood actually believes a single, middle aged mother could make a HD FPS game for console, on a topic they don't even know about, single handedly, without experience in the industry. Bitter people much?
@@Momofan69 Are you ok? You think a single, middle aged mother doesn't have enough responsibility? They have enough time to make a game that takes about 150,000 man hours to make, herself? While being a single mother and sole income earner? People like you make me sad, how about we actually glorify women for how hard being a single mother is, instead of actling like it's something one can do "between making AAA video game titles".
@@clickbaitrater8945 I think he misconstrued your comment to be misogynistic when you mentioned the single mother thing. As if he thought you meant being a single mom is bad and/or women can't be developers. Cut him some slack, mate.
@@MrSkeltal268 Well obviously she's trying to teach him how to be a considerate lover. I just don't see what your problem is with that, Anthony. ;-) :-O
Could you just imagine the casting call for that one guy? "We need someone who looks like Steve Harvey." Two people show up. Steve Harvey, and the other guy who got the part. He wasn't even an impersonator, his friends just always told him he'd look like Steve Harvey if he grew a mustache, and so he did, and then one day he steals a cameo from Steve Harvey himself. Why am I going on about this? It's the set-up for my super meta AHS fanfic coming soon: Steve Harvey's Revengeance!
@@Blurry_face_1411 "We ain't family, son, but this is gonna be one hell of a feud," Steve Harvey said, sitting in the middle of the six interlocking hexagrams he'd drawn upon the exact center of the abandoned Family Feud set. The stage lights came on by themselves, red and ominous, all creaking to shine upon Steve Harvey, creating additional hex patterns as they criss-crossed toward their master. The ghost of Ray Combs appeared before him. Combs, a former host of the show, had hung himself in the mid nineties. He had hosted the show during the times Steve Harvey struggled as a homeless comedian. Steve Harvey felt they had some sort of common ground that only he could understand. Regardless of that, the ghost could feel Steve Harvey's rage, and was immediately bound to the angry mustached man's will. This wouldn't just be petty vengeance. This would be unholy revengeance.
Ryan Murphy is the new Dick Wolf of television. Dick Wolf: This isn’t just Law & Order, this is Law & Order: Las Angeles. Ryan Murphy: This isn’t just American Horror Story, this is American Horror Stories.
Ryan Murphy has a exclusivity contract with Netflix, but he-s allowed to do Spinoff's of his Netflix series on other platforms. There's the reason why he is doing this shit.
I have a theory that this new AHS season is split up into a “double feature” because Ryan Murphy is so bad at writing full seasons without making them convoluted or feel like they’re going on too long
That’s true. He can’t end anything to save his life. I think what made Roanoke good was because that show-within-a-show concept turned it into a few smaller stories he had to end instead of one big one.
Well I already broke it to his ass on Twitter that he sucks at short stories just like I do & needs to stick to what he's good at, longer stories. And I'm also scared that because 10 is shorter that it's gonna suck (pun intended) just like AHStories. Writing short stories is fucking HARD. Writing horror shorts is even harder, especially when you love twists n turns & character developemnt like he does. (like I do too, lol) It just doesn't work well.
I can’t stand Ryan Murphy productions’ entire aesthetic and tone and the kind of characters they have and the sassy “meme-creating” dialogue they’re given. He was able to keep a lid on it for the first two seasons and harness it for proper use in the third season and everything else has been various degrees of bad for the most part.
Seriously. The dialogue in anything Ryan Murphy is by far the worst thing about it, and that’s saying a lot. He must be a real micromanager, or something, I don’t really know how the relationship between showrunner and screenwriter works. But it’s crazy how even the shows and episodes he doesn’t have a writing credit on sound the same. My roommate has a particular hatred for his dialogue, once she walked into the room when I was attempting to give Pose a chance- mind you the only thing of his she’d seen at that point was AHS, a very different show- and within minutes she was like “This is that fucking guy isn’t it, what’s-his-name, Murphy” And if I remember correctly I googled and he wasn’t even credited as a writer for it
@@hyde1893 playtest was good because instead of using it as a copout ending when you have no other ideas it actually had relevance to earlier points in the story and was a consequence to the characters actions. As sad as it is that the bar is ‘omg this ending actually makes sense in the story and isn’t totally random’ 😭
"The writers assume the only ones watching this are the ones thatve been watching since the beginning" this is true. No would would sit through this shit for any reason other than theyve been stockholmed syndromed into waiting and watching each episode in hopes that its good. Its me. Im bitches
@@rh7474 it is as bad as he says,I took a break from watching american Horror Stories and I wish I had stayed that way knowing only 3 seasons but it just got progressively worse and worse and then this came out and I had so much hope I was like ok this is it,they can improve on it now but they worsened things somehow. It's god awful,I don't recommend this to anyone.
I once asked a friend of mine what's the big deal with AHS was, his response in the most deadpan tone imaginable was "it's horror porn" and I knew I would never watch it.
I have read and listen to creepypastas made by amateur writers that feature more creativity in a single story than entire seasons of American Horror Story. Brad and Ryan need to improve at some point if they want to keep their show on air.
I wish more of those things were adapted into shows and movies. There is so many unique and interesting ideas within online stories. SCP is a treasure trove for unique science fiction concepts. I’ve been genuinely scared by RUclips indie horror and ARGs over the years. Yet here was are stuck on American Horror Story recycling the same bull shit over and over.
Some of the classics like Borassca, the Tommy Taffy/Third Parent Series, and the Left/Right Game go beyond being just amazing creepypastas and are just straight amazing pieces of horror literature. And that's not even getting into the absolute goldmine that is the SCP Foundation.
I had to pause the video to write this. I also haven't seen this season either. They stole the haunted movie plot from "masters of horror", which came out in the early 2000s.
Why can writers not write convincing woman game developers? They preach diversity of gender roles yet are the worst offenders for creating the most unconvincing competent female characters, have they never met a woman over the age of 20 before? Actually knowing how writers behave in their free time its probably likely they've never spoken to a woman that isn't on payroll or in high school💀💀💀
are you talking about this show writers or every writer in general or only male writers or what? this seems like you are just assuming how every writer behaves
It because they only care about diversity as far as they can get paid they don't care about having good representation buy only how much money they can make off of pandering to marginalized groups.
“It’s super meta and I hate it.” That’s exactly what I said after watching it. The one with the “youtube bros” just plain pissed me off, even after they all justifiably died at the hands of Machete Santa. Baal and the movie theater one were okay and I wanted the one about cannibals to be about werewolves. I was so hoping for one single werewolf feature, although I’m really not sure why. It would have just been different and few things about this project were different at all.
I have to admit I’ve considered trying to design a game to get closer to my son, but thinking maybe like a janky, thrown together 8 bit game that we could laugh about
Honestly, I think the kid had it down pat in one line of dialogue. “You could’ve just watched it with me.” I find it kind of problematic how the solution to her issue with her son is just doing the original plan but better. Because if you’re a parent and your kid is into something like a game, book, or show or something then I can guarantee they will respect and enjoy it more if you just sit down with them to partake in some way rather than just more merchandise related to that hobby as a gift. I know it’s horror, and not needing a moral center, but most of the best horror does have a moral center such as how to handle depression in Babadook or subliminal race issues in Get Out. This could’ve been great if it focused on the mother learning to interact with her son instead of pandering to him. If you have a niche or different interest than your family I know you feel the same. You’d rather your mother or father actually watched the show or you play the game as opposed to them just buying you its associated merch. A story about this dichotomy could’ve been great, even still with self referential fan service. But instead it’s ONLY the fan service…
Oh Hell No, No, that was so so long. The edit button is DEFINITELY a friend you might want to consider getting to know before hitting the send button. Less is MORE!. xo
@@nignamedmutt7270 Subliminal. As in, below the threshold of conscious awareness. The race issues the movie targets are a metaphor for the way people can act towards a minority in modern culture without being aware of it. Like speaking butchered Spanish to a Mexican or mentioning basketball to an African American. The more overt horror is meant to convey this. The movie is giving a *subliminal* message through it’s more overt plot. Subliminal =/= Subtle all the time, especially in horror.
AHS has reached a point where nothing makes sense and their plots are littered with holes. They hire average actors and have given up on their writing. So many GOOD horror stories to adapt yet they keep picking the lamest plots.
Here is my take on the AHStories now that its over The first episode was fine. Yes, it was recycled from the first season except instead of moody Violet who is an "emo" teen, we have a teenage sadist. It sound ridiculous but at least it was a big change from the original Murder House other than her two dads. I was actually feeling bad for her when Paris Jackson and her friends exposed her to their livestream and I was still paying attention all the way to the end of the episode. It is up there of being one of the best ones. Ep. 2 however was straight ass. The female Tate (that's what I call her) was horrible, her line delivery is the worse than what I've seen in a while...miraculously...and this episode felt so short and rushed. Everything got resolved too quickly like Paris and her friends wanted to murder Scarlet for revenge but one threat from female Tate and they back off and accepted the apology from their murderer. THEY ARE DEAD WHY DO THEY CARE?! It was just too unbelievable. I guess Ryan Murphy heard about the whole 'murder husband' fanfic trope and made it into 'murder wives.' This episode is just shit. Episode 3 was fine, there was still bad acting but at least the story was a new concept we haven't seen yet. But I did laugh aloud twice, when the serial killer from AHS9 was dying with his own monologue and in the end when the two mains were having sex and I seen that the 'murder movie' was on Netflix and the world was ending outside and the screen just went to black. Episode 4 would've been more therapeutic if Jake Paul and the other douchetubers were playing themselves. It was ridiculous and Danny Trejo deserved better. I had to shake my head at the rushed explanation of what creature it was and I wanted to swallow a bullet when I seen that last guy freak out and cry over 5 million subscribers when he's bleeding out and seconds away from death. Ep. 5 was better but still stupid. I'm not a gigantic fan of Billie Lourd but for some reason, her being there made the episode better in a way. I did sorta liked the twist of her husband being a greedy cheater the whole time and I was okay with her getting revenge on him since he was basically gaslit her into an asylum. Not the best one but it was alright. The sixth episode was actually fine for the first 15 minutes. I just hated when the exes and the scam artist went deep into the woods and had a standoff over several corpses. Cody Fern was on here too and I personally like him for the Apocalypse stuff...before the flashbacks. If it wasn't for those flashback episodes and the finale, Apocalypse would've been a top tier season. But I'm getting off-track. I'm just saying that he didn't save the episode and I fucking despise their child (Ik he was kidnaped and was raised in the woods for ten years but he did hesitate for a second to kill his parents) and if there was one AHStories that I would like to see is a continuation of this one but the parents as ghost kill all the cannibals and their kid as revenge. It sounds dark but that would be a good episode if done right. Episode 7 was sad. They brought Dylan McDermont and Jamie Brewer back for no reason. You explained it better than I could but yeah, these are my thoughts and thanks for reading till the end if you do.
Episode 6 was probably my favorite of the bunch. It wasn't perfect, but nothing made me cry harder ever than when the kid remembered the "boo" thing, it was kinda embarrassing for me lol
I used to watch AHS with my parents, every episode was absolute agony for me. It just made me so uncomfortable and just ugh, I only sat through it because I liked spending time with them. Season three was alright but I tapped out at season four and my parents (and my brother and I because we wanted to give it one last shot) after the first episode of five. Turns out we all kind of thought everyone else liked it and never said anything till that fucking drill strap on.
@@FluffyBunniesOnFire who needs a murder house, I want a house where every member of the family shares a dream where they are in the most embarrassing and boundary-violating situations possible, cringing their souls and spirits away as they are convinced they are the only ones having those dreams
wait really? you didnt like a single episode from the first 4 seasons? i thought season 1 and 2 were the best ones from all the seasons the show has had
I love how in a world where AHS is also a huge cultural phenomenon, the giant house (that would be worth 2mil in my current city even without being famous), was only $100k? the first house I bought when I lived in a goddamned flyover state was $100k. in a tiny dead end town 10 years ago. you mean to tell me that famous landmark is just sitting on the market for nothing??? incredible.
I'm sure real glitches like stretching characters and flickering textures can be scary, especially when you don't expect them Writers fucked up again, oh well
@@raphangelo299 that could make the scene even better. Like she's running from Twisty and suddenly makes that Black Ops 2 giraffe head glitch? I'd shit my pants
Honestly i like ahs for it's aesthetic and themes but i never watched a full season. Also sex and nudity is ironically a turn off for me in horror media and there's tons of it here
All of the endings aside from Ba'al were just terrible like they didn't even know how to end them. I was straight up confused by Drive-In's ending and thought I missed something. Also who just thinks "Hmmm I want to bond more with my son. I know! I'll make a video game from scratch!"
What was confusing about the drive in ending? It was bad but I understood the guy sold the rights of the movie to Netflix before it was destroyed thus infecting basically the entire world. It wasn’t realistic in the slightest but not sure what was confusing about it. Also the cannibal ending was fine. Ended in pretty much the way I expected to.
Ahs has notoriously bad endings. It's like the writers get carried away at the start and before they know it they are out of time/episodes with no ending in mind
@@ssharkbait I think I might have mentally blanked whenever it said he sold it to Netflix because to me it just went from them leaving his exploding trailer to them boning out of nowhere while the city fell into chaos
In defense of the lady who wrote the video game to get closer to her son instead of just watching AHS. I would rather learn game design and write a video game than sit through Apocalypse.
Honestly, 1984 is my favorite season overall. Granted, I like the classic slasher style thing, but I just felt like it was a nice break from the dogwater that is AHS.
I liked it as well. Honestly I started watching the first episode randomly, after the opening credits, and didn't even realize it was another AHS season until the end. I find this current season a real bore.
My only criticism is that they didn't use enough serial killers, hear me out- There are far more scarier killers than Ramirez that were active in the 70s and 80s. Fuck, Richard Chase was literally called a vampire and in that world he very well could've been.
@@merchantfan A show I surprisingly liked even though everyone was an asshole at some point was the tv series of The Mist, too bad it only had one season I think
Black Mirror can't even get the Black Mirror formula to work 100% of the time, and even then the times they break the formula intentionally have resulted in some of their most beloved episodes, e.g. San Junipero. Black Mirror is at its best when it's not actively trying to be like Black Mirror, so any show which tries to ape it by aiming to be like Black Mirror can only hope to be an inferior imitation of a well regarded show at its weakest points.
I say let them keep the spinoff. Hopefully it will be home to the half drawn ideas so we can keep the mainline series coherent and get back to the strength of season 1-2 (4 to some) and double feature which is so good so far
Idk why the writers feel the urge to have their shows be needlessly convoluted. If they'd focus on one straight simple idea, the shows would be so much better
Having now watched all of the "vampire" part of double feature, I can tell you with certainty that it is one of the dumber storylines I've seen, and bad vampire fiction is one of my guilty pleasures. I think at this point Sarah Paulson is the only reason I keep coming back.
@@unconcernedcitizen4092 Murder House: Oh no, the dead can't leave this building. Asylum: Oh no, the crazies can't go home. Freakshow: Oh no, we can't leave this site. Hotel: Oh no, the dead can't leave this building. 1984: Oh no, the dead can't leave this site.
@@frightinthenightproduction4059 I mean they have a basic similarity but I wouldn’t say every season is the same For example, murder house is good, apocalypse is shit
But they do leave the site And there's actually living serial Killers in Freak Show If anything the serial Killers are the thing that keeps coming back You can't say pumpkin, apple and cherry pie are the same thing just because they all have crust OH ALSO: conveniently leaving out seasons that don't fit the example is kinda lame
@@KingOfGaymes I will agree that Apocalypse is shit. That season is the most egregious offender despite it breaking the formula. I'll never get over the fact that Michael got killed by a fucking car. oH hE DiDnt kNoW hE hAd HiS pOwErS yet. Like wot? If I have a bullet proof vest on but I somehow am not aware of it, that doesn't render the protection non existent.
I just want to say I’ve been watching you for a few years now and your videos have aged like a fine wine. I’ll go back to watch your older videos expecting to cringe, but I just laugh like it’s the first time I’ve watched them. I got my boyfriend interested in your channel, and he’s gone through and watched plenty of your videos in his own free time. It makes me happy that we have one more shared interest to add to the pile. Keep it up man you’re the best!
That kid's face when he burns down the house makes that whole scene impossible to take seriously. Honestly, it looks like a video I would've made when I was a child
It feels like they wanted to tackle the meta aspects of both AHS' fandom and IP itself but went far too self indulgent and egotistical in their writing to actually say anything worth of value. If you want to see something that does this better, try any of these: - In the Mouth of Madness - Wes Craven's New Nightmare/Scream - Cabin in the Woods - Shadow of the Vampire - Funny Games
@@user-ft7xi7on8p right i’ve been watching it and it all feels so forced and even the aesthetics ( what i usually stay for if the story is bad) r boring and bland. and i just don’t buy main character as a family kinda guy LIKE CMON U CANT GO BACK FROM DANDY
@@salthesteamengine then you must not be actually watching the same show as I have because HE'S NOT A FAMILY MAN! HE LET'S HIS DAUGHTER TAKE A PILL THAT MAKES YOU A VAMPIRE FOR FAME FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! that doesn't sound like a "family man" 🤦♂️ and he doesn't treat his wife the best either.
I feel like the ghosts are stupid selfish people who forget after they kill someone out of entertainment/boredom they have to live with them. They remind me of the meeseeks from Rick and Morty, “well he roped me into this!”
Wholeheartedly agree. I could only sit through the first two episodes. The rest is just absolute drivel with no plotline or any substance whatsoever. So fucking boring.
_”Haha guy’s look we made the show on the show! What’s that you ask? No, it’s not a comedy why does everybody always ask me that?”_ Contrivance is a staple of the never-ending series.
"I'm going to make a game about a franchise I neither know, own, or have any rights for." Yeah, checks out. And she must have made the whole game all by herself, because every employee ever would have told her that this is the Michael Jordan of bad ideas. Which of course makes sense, since loony women can totally do the work of hundreds of professionals working 80+ hours a weak for 3+ years straight.
Amazing to think that an AHS production would be bad! Who would have guessed??? Its not like it started already pretty bad and continued to progressively get worse until people legitimately begun to have such a warped opinion of what a decent show was that they thought the earlier seasons weren't so bad.
I dunno bro American horror story is actually good. I watched all the seasons except the newest, every one of them I found thoroughly entertaining. This shit is nothing like the actual series and is really stupid
It’s fine if you enjoyed it, I tried to and could not. There were so many dropped plot lines and inconsistencies. I’m not a “turn your brain off and enjoy” kind of person, so when something is poorly crafted and scripted it’s particularly noticeable to me and AHS has always been a good concept and poorly executed to me.
This just sounds like THE MOST EXPENSIVE WAY to write out a house that you no longer can legally film in and a way to justify your weird plot holes from now on lmao
The 10th season of the original show is actually really good and reminds me of the earlier seasons of AHS, just fyi if you’re ever curious. It’s at least MILES better than this god awful spinoff lol
I’m super obsessed with it. So refreshing to actually be excited for new AHS episodes again, plus Frances conroy is giving me LIFE this season. She’s so amazing
Ah yes the classic "I need to get closer to person X so I'll work many many hours on project Y instead of being close to person X" storyline... timeless
I was just thinking about this from a game-design perspective. How could these events actually be implemented as a game with gameplay and game mechanics? I guess this would probably be kind of like a Telltale "game", which is basicly a movie, where you have to press a button now and then to keep watching.
To be fair, a developer making a popular TV series video-game, while not knowing a thing/caring about said TV series is the most authentic part of the whole thing.
Yep and that is because Disney along with several video game companies in real life are doing the same shit and they are failing. Just like mom was doing before it was revealed that it was metaing us.
yikes. Absolutely
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Sounds like the writer of the new high republic novel
Insert any number of examples here...
The problem with American Horror Story is that they need to stop milking the murder house.
They can't, that's one of the 2 only good seasons....
@@yomisimie I think there's actually 6 good seasons but okay
@@yomisimie murder house was not that great idk why its hyped up to be one of the best seasons.
Coven, Freak Show, and Asylum are a million times better.
@@GellertTV You're wrong
and ill tell you why you're wrong
gottem
@@GellertTV I quit Coven, Circus, and Hotel a few episodes in. It went from slight horror with alot of drama to drama but we all shop at Spirit Halloween for each episode.
They just never quite caught the dark vibe of the first 2 seasons again. Haunting of Hill House was a good replacement for it though.
The most frustrating thing about the whole “burning down the murder house so the ghosts can leave” thing IS THAT WE KNOW HOW TO GET GHOSTS TO LEAVE THE MURDER HOUSE. WE LITERALLY SEE THE MAID’S CORPSE GET MOVED SO SHE CAN BE A GHOST WITH HER DEAD MOTHER INSTEAD OF IN THE HOUSE-
This is infuriating lol
That also makes no sense. Many of the ghosts have had their corpses taken out of the house.
Should have ended with all the ghosts sitting on the smoldering rubble - "what the hell do we do now"!
Technically since they went back in time it never happened 🥴🙃
The whole premise of a house where dead people could reconnect with living family members once a year could be a real fucking somber yet kinda uplifting story, but this show decides to just make it a footnote and then nullify it with some weird meta twist? wtf
I like that concept but imagine the conflict if only one deceased relative could visit during the reserved set of time and the family can only visit once a year. A family could arrive thinking they’ll get to see Grandma Ruth again for 3 days but Uncle George barges his way through to berate his family for taking his millions when they didn’t like him when he was alive. Or deceased Aunt Charlotte arrives to visit only to find out that she never really was a “loved” family member. Her family members were nice to her face because they wanted her money and when she wouldn’t outright die, they poisoned her.
AHS has three such places; the Murder House, the Cortez Hotel, and the summer camp in 1984.
@@toyamwarr This is proof that if the writers just cared about their story, their concepts could yield some actual gems TvT
@@DrGregoryHouseIT
Me : Damn they killed a main character this early ?
AHS : your soul never leave if you die here
Me : aw shit here we go again
Bingo
they really had no clue what to name the new series, so they just made it plural
🙃🙃
Yea didn't try to hard on names this year. This season we're going to have two long stories...let's call it...AHS..Double Feature...🤯
Right 😆
I can just imagine them in a meeting trying to come up with a catchy name then after a couple hours go by Janice, Hunter, Kevin and Kaiti are like: "welp, we've got nothing" 🤷🤷🤷🤷
Then Chad blurts out:
"I've got it! We'll name it 'American horror STORIES!' ✨😎🤯
What about "Frightening Fables in the United States of America"
@@LtCdrXander that's unironically pretty catchy.
Love that the mom programed a sex scene into a games she's making for her son lol
It was in the game that is in the game
This episode's initial incident is essentially: "What if we kissed in the Murder House? 😳"
I'm wheezing from this, please, why is this true
Haha just kidding... unless 👉👈😳
@@canyounot6858 omgg,, 🥺👉👈
“it was all a dream” adapted for 2021 I guess.
verified
Topicy opicy what are you doing here?
Yeppers
and after the final red ball, all I could think was "AHS: Inception With Actual Ghosts, Muthaf**kas" :-(
Hello Mr. Singular Subject during one Period
My experience of the three AHS seasons I've watched:
*Episodes 1 to 9:* Storylines building, characters in conflict - looks like this is building to something interesting!
*Episodes 10 and 11:* Hmm, okay well a couple of interesting threads have ended suddenly, that wasn't satisfying but... maybe there's still hope for the main story line?
*Episodes 12 and 13:* ... so it was all for nothing?
ACCURATE
Which 3 did you watch? Just curious. The only 2 I haven’t seen were Cult and Freak Show.
@@BooserBoi The first three - Murder House, Asylum, Coven - I do plan to watch Freak Show, I've been told it departs a bit from the formula
@@OwMeEd I definitely recommend Roanoke as well, as it also diverts from that and is probably my favorite season.
I 10000% agree with your original comment, especially with regards to Murder House. Super disappointing as it made it seem like there was never actually any danger because they all die and get to live happily ever after as ghosts anyways, by the end they treat it like its a super power.
I stopped after freakshow. It's just gone so downhill
I tried Cult(? I don't remember) but honestly I was so annoyed by the "oh an interacial couple move into a house in the south and are threatened by the most hollywood version of 'dumb southern people' they could even ever think of creating to really make you understand that southern ppl are uber racist >:^("
So tone deaf, pathetic and it literally makes no sense. I think this was during the whole Trump era so it was some really annoyingly political season clearly aimed to hate on trump supporters or whatever.
"Obviously she's divorced, because she's a lunatic". Elvis has no mercy.
Elvis more like Evils ..?
He gave no F@@ks…😂😂😂😂
@@eelkezuidhoek3865 Coincidence? I think not lol.
The most unbelievable thing about this show, was the fact that the house only costs 100,000.
Considering that's it a legit haunted house that you'll have a 90% chance at dying after buying it, Im not surprised its less.
@@kevintyson1947 if that's the case I'm surprised it hasn't been teared down.
Legit thought they same thing.
"Satan: I've come for your soul
Me: Are you paying rent because I still have student loans"
I mean, it's kind of a common trope in media that haunted houses are pretty cheap.
That’s the part of the show that made sense it’s 100k because they said they were prepared to let it go for that much in order to sell it because it’s something no one wants. 95% of the show made zero sense whatsoever and is literally the worst story I’ve ever seen created
A mother and teenage son bonding by watching AHS together? Um, that sounds twisted enough to just be a part of the show anyway. Would ANYONE actually WANT to watch this with their mother!?
Ikr wtf 😭
When I used to watch it (I watched some seasons- the last being Roanoke) I would have to pause the show any time my mother came in as I looked at her like she caught me watching porn or something equally as brutal and messed up. Eventually she watched 2 seasons and was like ‘Ah, I understand now. That’s such an upsetting, screwed up show to watch.’
My mom despises AHS!! She tried to force me to stop watching it... But I'm grown 😂😂💯
NGL I have- me and my parents are fans of the earlier seasons
Better method than the one usually employed by hollywood elites to get closer to children.
Manipulating your son into loving you by making a game in which you die and become a ghost and have him burn down the house you died in and say goodbye to your ghost.
Top tier parenting. 1000 IQ
Every episode is basically a longer Dhar Mann
video but its "scary"
Man watches entire season of AH Stories, INSTANTLY REGRETS IT!
this is so accurate
Kyle: "You know, I've learned something today.."
“Son hates mother’s video game, you won’t believe what happens to her”
How dare you slander Dhar Mann videos like that
Speaking of this being kinda a copy of black mirror, that "game over" episode sounds a lot like the "Playtest" episode of black mirror that was done WAY better. I've been watching Ryan Murphy shows since Nip/Tuck like 15+ years ago and it's amazing how regardless of subject matter, they all essentially turn out the same - this convoluted, masturbatory, off the wall insanity nonsense that's just as outrageous as it can possibly be.
Agree - Ryan Murphy shows tend to start off with cool ideas then take a sharp turn off a cliff into an abyss of awful.
Game Over and Playtest are literally nothing alike except they both have video games I guess? And I suppose black mirror is just a “copy” of the twilight zone.
"Hey son, I hate how we're not close, so I basically bankrupted myself to make a game about your favorite show for you to play, and it has sex scenes in it"
The people in Hollywood are all such psychopaths that they can't even remotely think like a normal human.
None of us were born sane
@@СамоубийствоМышь Well no, cos you're Russians
MY MOM SAID THE SAME THING 😂😂😂
"Oh and also I don't actually own the rights to the franchise, so if I release the game to recoup the insane development cost, I'll instantly get sued and the product will be pulled off the shelf."
I think that's just good parenting. My son wanted me to read Garfield with him so instead I sold the house and made Garfield 2. I'm sure he'll forgive me one day for those years we were homeless. I still haven't read any Garfield but I researched that Bill Murray Garfield movie so I'm basically an expert. Why won't my son respect me?
“Imagine being this far into development and you don’t even know the source material”
You’d be surprised with how incompetent a multi-million dollar costing writing/developing team can be when they just decide to do there own thing rather then pay attention to earlier media. It is so appalling how much it has happened in recent years in all sorts of media. I recently played Halo 5 and my gosh that game manages to miss literal basic day one writing 101 information that it’s amazing the writers even got payed with the final result
I was about to say that
One more comment and Elvis will be hit the "hurrr durr gaymerfence"
Reminds me of what happened with Netflix's Castlevania....
Remember the DOOM films, Super Mario film and the somehow existing Resident Evil film franchise? Cause I sadly do.
@@minami5512 At least that had quality writting
@@livingcheese2910 to be fair, Resident Evil is just Milana Jovavitch and her husband burning money
The way she refused to just watch the show was amazing
“Game over” was awful. The twist at the ending - it was a game in a game!- felt like it wasn’t the original ending. My guess is the show runners originally wrote the show to have the Murder House burn down for real, but realized they need to keep it around to milk more nostalgia for future episodes when their now-crappy and tired show (which inexplicably keeps getting renewed) rises to even greater levels of stupidity
Game Over was awful. Rubber Woman was quite good, I thought.
"Imagine being this far into development and you don’t even know the source material."
Pretty much sums up how Hollywood turns a game into a movie. Oh, the irony.
tbh people will hate it anyway even if they know the source material, cause it's not the same thing. GIS did know their source material and people still hated it. I guess gamers think their game is cool and no one should watch it but play the game itself.
@@Immolator772 what's gis
@@absolutezer0367 ghost in the shell.
Sounds like phase 4 of the MCU considering the black widow director literally admitted to not knowing that multiple avengers don’t have superpowers-calling black widow the only non super powered avenger…then Loki made Tony’s sacrifice pointless by having a drawer full of infinity stones (which is impossible cause if the universe they came from doesn’t exist then neither can the leftover stones) or having a world ending threat in The Eternals almost destroy the world (yes the director of the Eternals literally wanted to sabotage the entire MCU by destroying the entire world in their film)…so yeah
@@Immolator772 Oh, I know. We just can't win :P
"Imagine being this far into the game production and not knowing the source material"....
Idk sounds like Hollywood when they make a movie adaptation in general
I wonder if the writers have EVER spoken to an actual game developer at any point in their lives
Seems kinda fitting. Ryan does zero reserch on video game development to make his show, and the mom in it does zero research on the show to make her videogame.
@@starkillersneed as an actual indie video game developer it just makes me laugh lol
@@starkillersneed no, they just read kotaku articles from their writer friends in the industry.
I'm gonna say no.
or an actual human
What really sucks is how much this devalues the series. People, who’ve never seen anything AHS, are gonna watch this and think the whole series is garbage. In fact, I wasn’t sure about Double Feature myself after seeing this. Total cash grab for HULU.
Hey Putt-Putt, I played the demos of your games when I was a kid 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Yeah normally Hulu's stuff is at least entertaining trash
It's schlock. From the very beginning its B-Movie premise and execution at best. But it's silly, self aware schlock. This is just garbage, completely irredeemable garbage.
Pal, I am in the middle of watching AHS and I don't see anything good. Unless this show is supposed to be a campy horror satire then it's really fucking terrible. I mean I'm loving it. But it's not what id call good.
L
"Hey son, there's a convention for that show you really like that I have literally no interest in on this weekend."
"OMG Mom! Wow! I can't believe it! We can spend some time together!"
"What? Ew. No. I'm going. Here's some clothes, have fun with your father."
RIGHT i was so confused by that why wouldn’t she bring her son to the fucking convention of his biggest interest??
Im ctfu 😭
I liked AHS up until they tried to start making all the seasons connected and tried to retcon how meta they could be and then they just kept getting more ridiculous!
Its fine in small amounts like having a previous guest character in the hotel season or mentioning something from a previous season is ok. But they just butchered it in the apacolypse season by making it about the coven witches instead of focusing on the other aspects of the theme. And the worst part is they had to rush the ending because of this.
Season 1 to 4 were awesome
@@neoluthuli3254 more like season 1-3 plus 6 and the new season
7,8,9 has to be the worst seasons of AHS I don’t even remember what the 7 season name was 😂😂😂
@@lifeamood397 cult
I never understood why people scoffed at meta humor, but Game Over explained why. It's meta to the point of being confusing, tacky, and ridiculously convoluted.
It tried to be a more updated version of Roanoke, but at least what Roanoke had going for it with its "show within a show" premise is the Millers were unreliable narrators, or at least could've been. I at least liked the reveal of the "real" Butcher. Usually AHS has a problem with keeping villains scary by showing them too much, but the Butcher in the 2nd half of Roanoke genuinely scared me.
@@briankaslewicz6130 I actually enjoyed roanoke and finished it in 1 day while other seasons took me forever to finish because of how bad they were. Roanoke of course has its flaws like any other season but I really enjoyed the concepts and most were executed pretty well
I feel like when they want to make a story like this on netflix they should try and do the chose your own adventure thing they did with blackmirror.
I think that would open up a lot and encourage different writting paths.
I also think it would lend itself to meta humor much more.
It’s not entertaining
There are worse meta plots I've seen, so this is just masturbatory normality now.
I always thought each season was too long. They start out strong, then meander up to an 'epic' ending. So I thought that the short form would actually be better for them. But, no. It's just the meaning part for every episode.
"Meaning"?
@@VicenteTorresAliasVits meandering
I felt like your name seemed familiar, and your bio says you're a horror author. I mostly read online rather than regularly-published authors like Stephen King (I find most of the stuff that gets published/ends up in the local library does absolutely nothing for me). But I _do_ still feel like I recognize you...
What have you written that I may have read?
Hope I'm not being too bothersome. Regardless, have a lovely day =)
I’ve played plenty of indie horror games by lone devs that “borrow” an IP and have convoluted plots, confusing mechanics and a nonsensical twist ending so this all makes sense. The episode should actually end with the mom throwing a tantrum about Steam pulling the game for copyright infringement.
Which horror games would those be?
Do they actually get taken off?
In my 30 something yrs on this earth I've personally never played any game like this, but I understand everyone has different tastes and that's fair.
I personally enjoy watching and playing a lot of lower budget indie films & games many of them are better than the more expensive and more popular mainstream stuff!
Impo this show may have worked a bit better if there had been better direction,a more interesting concept & story line,cohesiveness and pacing throughout it's entirety ☝️oh, and it should've probably make some sense too!
Suspending belief obviously isn't new in horror but this was just a mess and it hurt my brain.
I can kinda see what they were aiming for with this one, but the concept just didn't work out at all & it all came out really bad.
They surely did nothing to bring anything good to the already tainted table of the original AHS series.👻 (Just my 2¢)
We'll have to see what's next!
The Elvis the alien fandom is eating good this week.
I Bet.😂
I Bet.😂
Factual statement
Indeed we are, indeed we are
Ong😩🤤
listening to this plot synopsis was actually genuinely painful, its literally just like empty, meaningless dribble. is it meant to be like a clever meta narrative or something? its the most convoluted trash I've seen in a long while, i really have no idea what the writers were going for.
I'm kind of really enjoying the current AHS season. They're giving a lot of screen time to Frances Conroy and she's a god damn treasure! I'm also happy to see Macaulay Culkin's role wasn't just some one off character that gets killed 10 minutes into the first episode. I'm pretty sure he's going to get killed, but it's been four episodes and he's still alive, so that's good.
Yeah, so far the new season is pretty good. I hope Macaulay sticks around as a series regular, I have enjoyed his performance a lot so far.
yes, i've honestly really enjoyed this season (and i was someone who didn't watch the last 2 seasons bc they were really boring)
Did they use rape as shock value yet?
@@toomuchbongwater not gonna lie, I loved Apocalypse. 1984 was such a disappointment, though. They had such a great era and a theme to work with and they gave us a fat, wet steamer. 💩
@@mugiwaerouma Oh yeah, that's like a free square in your AHS Bingo!
$100k for such a huge house! Dont care if it's haunted. That's a steal.
Fr
the original asking price was 600k but it was on the market for so long they accepted the 100k, I guess nobody wanted to risk death for a nice house except for this insane game dev lady
@@ElvistheAlien he responds! :O
even down payment for la would be insane for some mortgage.
It's interesting to see that Hollywood actually believes a single, middle aged mother could make a HD FPS game for console, on a topic they don't even know about, single handedly, without experience in the industry.
Bitter people much?
single, middle aged and mother doesn't seem relevant, bet theres a lotta ppl make games that fit that. More like she has seemingly no experience.
@@Momofan69 Are you ok? You think a single, middle aged mother doesn't have enough responsibility? They have enough time to make a game that takes about 150,000 man hours to make, herself? While being a single mother and sole income earner?
People like you make me sad, how about we actually glorify women for how hard being a single mother is, instead of actling like it's something one can do "between making AAA video game titles".
@@clickbaitrater8945 I think he misconstrued your comment to be misogynistic when you mentioned the single mother thing. As if he thought you meant being a single mom is bad and/or women can't be developers. Cut him some slack, mate.
Her having wrote three thirsty girls into a video game for her son is giving me seriously skeevy vibes lol.
She wrote into her game for her son a scene where a guy and girl have sex but the guy climaxes too soon. She wrote that for her son.
haha I wasn't the only who noticed 😅
@@MrSkeltal268 haha 😂
@@MrSkeltal268 Lmao that's true, what a weird and specific writing choice to put in a video game geared towards teenagers.
@@MrSkeltal268 Well obviously she's trying to teach him how to be a considerate lover. I just don't see what your problem is with that, Anthony.
;-)
:-O
Could you just imagine the casting call for that one guy? "We need someone who looks like Steve Harvey." Two people show up. Steve Harvey, and the other guy who got the part. He wasn't even an impersonator, his friends just always told him he'd look like Steve Harvey if he grew a mustache, and so he did, and then one day he steals a cameo from Steve Harvey himself. Why am I going on about this? It's the set-up for my super meta AHS fanfic coming soon: Steve Harvey's Revengeance!
Commenting so that when it's completed, just reply to me with the link 🤠
@@Blurry_face_1411 "We ain't family, son, but this is gonna be one hell of a feud," Steve Harvey said, sitting in the middle of the six interlocking hexagrams he'd drawn upon the exact center of the abandoned Family Feud set. The stage lights came on by themselves, red and ominous, all creaking to shine upon Steve Harvey, creating additional hex patterns as they criss-crossed toward their master. The ghost of Ray Combs appeared before him.
Combs, a former host of the show, had hung himself in the mid nineties. He had hosted the show during the times Steve Harvey struggled as a homeless comedian. Steve Harvey felt they had some sort of common ground that only he could understand. Regardless of that, the ghost could feel Steve Harvey's rage, and was immediately bound to the angry mustached man's will.
This wouldn't just be petty vengeance. This would be unholy revengeance.
oml lol
Dolly Parton once lost to someone else at a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
My thing is, he doesn't even look like Steve Harvey. Y'all saw one black man with a mustache and thought Steve Harvey? Really? 🤦🏾♂️
" It's been 84 years." That was placed perfectly. I was laughing my ass off.
No no no, you see, they added the "S" so it's completely new and original
Ryan Murphy is the new Dick Wolf of television.
Dick Wolf: This isn’t just Law & Order, this is Law & Order: Las Angeles.
Ryan Murphy: This isn’t just American Horror Story, this is American Horror Stories.
Ryan Murphy has a exclusivity contract with Netflix, but he-s allowed to do Spinoff's of his Netflix series on other platforms. There's the reason why he is doing this shit.
Alien and Aliens would like to have a word with you
@@N1ght_walk Ryan Murphy literally said multiple times that it’s a spinoff.
I have a theory that this new AHS season is split up into a “double feature” because Ryan Murphy is so bad at writing full seasons without making them convoluted or feel like they’re going on too long
That’s true. He can’t end anything to save his life. I think what made Roanoke good was because that show-within-a-show concept turned it into a few smaller stories he had to end instead of one big one.
Well I already broke it to his ass on Twitter that he sucks at short stories just like I do & needs to stick to what he's good at, longer stories. And I'm also scared that because 10 is shorter that it's gonna suck (pun intended) just like AHStories. Writing short stories is fucking HARD. Writing horror shorts is even harder, especially when you love twists n turns & character developemnt like he does. (like I do too, lol) It just doesn't work well.
@@WhiskeyBlack777 season 10 is fucking great are you good?? This is the best season we’ve had since Hotel.
@@juicydave693 6 was better then 5 and 10
Tbh at least this season has better actors than last season
I can’t stand Ryan Murphy productions’ entire aesthetic and tone and the kind of characters they have and the sassy “meme-creating” dialogue they’re given. He was able to keep a lid on it for the first two seasons and harness it for proper use in the third season and everything else has been various degrees of bad for the most part.
Seriously. The dialogue in anything Ryan Murphy is by far the worst thing about it, and that’s saying a lot. He must be a real micromanager, or something, I don’t really know how the relationship between showrunner and screenwriter works. But it’s crazy how even the shows and episodes he doesn’t have a writing credit on sound the same.
My roommate has a particular hatred for his dialogue, once she walked into the room when I was attempting to give Pose a chance- mind you the only thing of his she’d seen at that point was AHS, a very different show- and within minutes she was like “This is that fucking guy isn’t it, what’s-his-name, Murphy”
And if I remember correctly I googled and he wasn’t even credited as a writer for it
God, thank you.
@@akabaneolivia9550 a year went by and this became even more true somehow lol
uhh I hate endings like "and then he woke up". cheers, thanks for that unimaginative twist
yeah just take me through the whole thing before telling me that it was all useless information!
I like it when it’s done right. Which is almost never.
i feel like black mirror's "playtest" did a good job and this was like a horrible meta ripoff of that
@@hyde1893 playtest was good because instead of using it as a copout ending when you have no other ideas it actually had relevance to earlier points in the story and was a consequence to the characters actions. As sad as it is that the bar is ‘omg this ending actually makes sense in the story and isn’t totally random’ 😭
We were taught that the "iT wAs AlL a DwEaM' ending was bad IN PRIMARY SCHOOL ENGLISH ffs
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become Family Guy's Manatee writing staff.
It doesnt matter how you die. You end up in murder house.
This comment is incredible
"I promise you, by the time this season ends it will be so much worse." That made me die.
"The writers assume the only ones watching this are the ones thatve been watching since the beginning" this is true. No would would sit through this shit for any reason other than theyve been stockholmed syndromed into waiting and watching each episode in hopes that its good. Its me. Im bitches
I'm bitches too! And I hoped the same thing. But I certainly wasn't expecting them to save the worst episode for the last.
Yeah most people who aren't fans of the original series probably fell off after the first episode if it is as bad as he says.
@@rh7474 it is as bad as he says,I took a break from watching american Horror Stories and I wish I had stayed that way knowing only 3 seasons but it just got progressively worse and worse and then this came out and I had so much hope I was like ok this is it,they can improve on it now but they worsened things somehow. It's god awful,I don't recommend this to anyone.
I once asked a friend of mine what's the big deal with AHS was, his response in the most deadpan tone imaginable was "it's horror porn" and I knew I would never watch it.
Yes. It’s horror porn. You got it right.
Some storylines are genuinely interesting and it has pretty aesthetics.
@@susiem.2068 like coven and freakshow
@@susiem.2068nah the show is terrible only woman watch this garbage lmao
It had too much s3x stuff for me 😂 I like the pg 13 horror with ghosts running around the last girl trying to solve mysteries scooby doo style
Imagine watching "Hellraiser: Hellworld", and thinking "That's a perfect idea for an episode!"
Haha. I was thinking the same.
My personal opinion is that the Rubber(wo)man double episode is an edgy 15 yr old lesbian's American Horror Story Murder House fanfiction.
say it louder
Actually
I have read and listen to creepypastas made by amateur writers that feature more creativity in a single story than entire seasons of American Horror Story.
Brad and Ryan need to improve at some point if they want to keep their show on air.
If you haven't, you should check out a show called Channel Zero
I wish more of those things were adapted into shows and movies. There is so many unique and interesting ideas within online stories. SCP is a treasure trove for unique science fiction concepts. I’ve been genuinely scared by RUclips indie horror and ARGs over the years. Yet here was are stuck on American Horror Story recycling the same bull shit over and over.
Some of the classics like Borassca, the Tommy Taffy/Third Parent Series, and the Left/Right Game go beyond being just amazing creepypastas and are just straight amazing pieces of horror literature. And that's not even getting into the absolute goldmine that is the SCP Foundation.
I had to pause the video to write this. I also haven't seen this season either. They stole the haunted movie plot from "masters of horror", which came out in the early 2000s.
Why can writers not write convincing woman game developers? They preach diversity of gender roles yet are the worst offenders for creating the most unconvincing competent female characters, have they never met a woman over the age of 20 before? Actually knowing how writers behave in their free time its probably likely they've never spoken to a woman that isn't on payroll or in high school💀💀💀
are you talking about this show writers or every writer in general or only male writers or what? this seems like you are just assuming how every writer behaves
the writers are gay men, so it's likely they're writing women the way they think women act/sound etc based on the perspective of a gay man
Seriously, they couldn't just have her be a preexisting video game developer? She had to be hiring people in her garage somehow who are never shown?
It because they only care about diversity as far as they can get paid they don't care about having good representation buy only how much money they can make off of pandering to marginalized groups.
“It’s super meta and I hate it.” That’s exactly what I said after watching it. The one with the “youtube bros” just plain pissed me off, even after they all justifiably died at the hands of Machete Santa. Baal and the movie theater one were okay and I wanted the one about cannibals to be about werewolves. I was so hoping for one single werewolf feature, although I’m really not sure why. It would have just been different and few things about this project were different at all.
Did you see the nazis & werewolves episode of Creepshow (season1)? Not too bad. Might get your fix there.
@@TexasHollowEarth I think I did see that one! It was actually pretty good. Very Dog Soldiers-like.
Machete Santa.
*genuine laugh
Well played.
@@TexasHollowEarth i've never watched it, so the 'nazis & werewolves' thing caught me off guard
@@somedummyonyoutube3362 the episode is called “Bad Wolf Down”.
The episode I enjoyed the most was the backstory to the butler in coven with the doll house. Very good! Pay and hire that writer pls 🤣
I really enjoyed that one too! It was its own story but also answered a question about a character.
I just imagined Robot Chicken M. Night Shyamalan popping up in the corner of the screen like, _"What a twist!!"_
I wasn’t even aware ahs was still making seasons…………….
I was wondering if they were still making anything since the pandemic hit and it turns out it’s this.
I stopped paying attention after Roanoke
Season 10 “double feature” is actually REALLY good so far
@@TheCamSays Season 10
@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access I suggest you return for season 10 and...Ignore the previous ones
I have to admit I’ve considered trying to design a game to get closer to my son, but thinking maybe like a janky, thrown together 8 bit game that we could laugh about
Honestly, I think the kid had it down pat in one line of dialogue. “You could’ve just watched it with me.” I find it kind of problematic how the solution to her issue with her son is just doing the original plan but better. Because if you’re a parent and your kid is into something like a game, book, or show or something then I can guarantee they will respect and enjoy it more if you just sit down with them to partake in some way rather than just more merchandise related to that hobby as a gift. I know it’s horror, and not needing a moral center, but most of the best horror does have a moral center such as how to handle depression in Babadook or subliminal race issues in Get Out. This could’ve been great if it focused on the mother learning to interact with her son instead of pandering to him. If you have a niche or different interest than your family I know you feel the same. You’d rather your mother or father actually watched the show or you play the game as opposed to them just buying you its associated merch. A story about this dichotomy could’ve been great, even still with self referential fan service. But instead it’s ONLY the fan service…
Oh Hell No, No, that was so so long. The edit button is DEFINITELY a friend you might want to consider getting to know before hitting the send button. Less is MORE!. xo
"Subliminal race issues in get out"
Lol right. "Subliminal" lololol
@@nignamedmutt7270 Subliminal. As in, below the threshold of conscious awareness. The race issues the movie targets are a metaphor for the way people can act towards a minority in modern culture without being aware of it. Like speaking butchered Spanish to a Mexican or mentioning basketball to an African American. The more overt horror is meant to convey this. The movie is giving a *subliminal* message through it’s more overt plot. Subliminal =/= Subtle all the time, especially in horror.
This is a perfect example of a series that started off on an amazing foot, and just spiraled quickly into awfulness as it continued.
AHS has reached a point where nothing makes sense and their plots are littered with holes. They hire average actors and have given up on their writing. So many GOOD horror stories to adapt yet they keep picking the lamest plots.
Here is my take on the AHStories now that its over
The first episode was fine. Yes, it was recycled from the first season except instead of moody Violet who is an "emo" teen, we have a teenage sadist. It sound ridiculous but at least it was a big change from the original Murder House other than her two dads. I was actually feeling bad for her when Paris Jackson and her friends exposed her to their livestream and I was still paying attention all the way to the end of the episode. It is up there of being one of the best ones.
Ep. 2 however was straight ass. The female Tate (that's what I call her) was horrible, her line delivery is the worse than what I've seen in a while...miraculously...and this episode felt so short and rushed. Everything got resolved too quickly like Paris and her friends wanted to murder Scarlet for revenge but one threat from female Tate and they back off and accepted the apology from their murderer. THEY ARE DEAD WHY DO THEY CARE?! It was just too unbelievable. I guess Ryan Murphy heard about the whole 'murder husband' fanfic trope and made it into 'murder wives.' This episode is just shit.
Episode 3 was fine, there was still bad acting but at least the story was a new concept we haven't seen yet. But I did laugh aloud twice, when the serial killer from AHS9 was dying with his own monologue and in the end when the two mains were having sex and I seen that the 'murder movie' was on Netflix and the world was ending outside and the screen just went to black.
Episode 4 would've been more therapeutic if Jake Paul and the other douchetubers were playing themselves. It was ridiculous and Danny Trejo deserved better. I had to shake my head at the rushed explanation of what creature it was and I wanted to swallow a bullet when I seen that last guy freak out and cry over 5 million subscribers when he's bleeding out and seconds away from death.
Ep. 5 was better but still stupid. I'm not a gigantic fan of Billie Lourd but for some reason, her being there made the episode better in a way. I did sorta liked the twist of her husband being a greedy cheater the whole time and I was okay with her getting revenge on him since he was basically gaslit her into an asylum. Not the best one but it was alright.
The sixth episode was actually fine for the first 15 minutes. I just hated when the exes and the scam artist went deep into the woods and had a standoff over several corpses. Cody Fern was on here too and I personally like him for the Apocalypse stuff...before the flashbacks. If it wasn't for those flashback episodes and the finale, Apocalypse would've been a top tier season. But I'm getting off-track. I'm just saying that he didn't save the episode and I fucking despise their child (Ik he was kidnaped and was raised in the woods for ten years but he did hesitate for a second to kill his parents) and if there was one AHStories that I would like to see is a continuation of this one but the parents as ghost kill all the cannibals and their kid as revenge. It sounds dark but that would be a good episode if done right.
Episode 7 was sad. They brought Dylan McDermont and Jamie Brewer back for no reason. You explained it better than I could but yeah, these are my thoughts and thanks for reading till the end if you do.
Episode 6 was probably my favorite of the bunch. It wasn't perfect, but nothing made me cry harder ever than when the kid remembered the "boo" thing, it was kinda embarrassing for me lol
thanks, nobody asked
@@INFILTR8US at least 20 people asked.
@@jacobbachman4014 clicking doesn't count, smart guy
@@INFILTR8US nobody asked for you to respond.
I used to watch AHS with my parents, every episode was absolute agony for me. It just made me so uncomfortable and just ugh, I only sat through it because I liked spending time with them. Season three was alright but I tapped out at season four and my parents (and my brother and I because we wanted to give it one last shot) after the first episode of five. Turns out we all kind of thought everyone else liked it and never said anything till that fucking drill strap on.
Certain scenes just make it unwatchable.They have to throw in a Rape/Sexual Assault/Cheating scene EVERY SEASON except maybe Apocalypse.
@@FluffyBunniesOnFire who needs a murder house, I want a house where every member of the family shares a dream where they are in the most embarrassing and boundary-violating situations possible, cringing their souls and spirits away as they are convinced they are the only ones having those dreams
I couldn't agree more. Most show turn garbage after they doing it long enough
wait really? you didnt like a single episode from the first 4 seasons? i thought season 1 and 2 were the best ones from all the seasons the show has had
@@xakirax_8864 AND THEYRE (the rape/sexual assault/cheating scenes ) SO GRAPHIC AND TRIGGERING TOO
I love how in a world where AHS is also a huge cultural phenomenon, the giant house (that would be worth 2mil in my current city even without being famous), was only $100k? the first house I bought when I lived in a goddamned flyover state was $100k. in a tiny dead end town 10 years ago. you mean to tell me that famous landmark is just sitting on the market for nothing??? incredible.
Why are glitches always shown as just the character blinking and turning into static? I hate it....
I'm sure real glitches like stretching characters and flickering textures can be scary, especially when you don't expect them
Writers fucked up again, oh well
@@raphangelo299 that could make the scene even better. Like she's running from Twisty and suddenly makes that Black Ops 2 giraffe head glitch? I'd shit my pants
Because it's very easy to produce such effects in post-production. You could learn how to do it very quickly by watching a RUclips tutorial.
I watched this with people who were fans of the series and I tried SO HARD to not laugh out loud while watching…
It’s meta in such a bad way
i'm a new fan and when i was watching american horror stories, i just live, laugh and left.
Honestly i like ahs for it's aesthetic and themes but i never watched a full season. Also sex and nudity is ironically a turn off for me in horror media and there's tons of it here
It was all worth it for the line, " Maybe I can find a ghost that can last for more than two pumps.", a giggle worthy line at least
All of the endings aside from Ba'al were just terrible like they didn't even know how to end them. I was straight up confused by Drive-In's ending and thought I missed something.
Also who just thinks "Hmmm I want to bond more with my son. I know! I'll make a video game from scratch!"
Writers that don't know how video games work.
What was confusing about the drive in ending? It was bad but I understood the guy sold the rights of the movie to Netflix before it was destroyed thus infecting basically the entire world. It wasn’t realistic in the slightest but not sure what was confusing about it. Also the cannibal ending was fine. Ended in pretty much the way I expected to.
Ahs has notoriously bad endings. It's like the writers get carried away at the start and before they know it they are out of time/episodes with no ending in mind
@@ssharkbait I think I might have mentally blanked whenever it said he sold it to Netflix because to me it just went from them leaving his exploding trailer to them boning out of nowhere while the city fell into chaos
In defense of the lady who wrote the video game to get closer to her son instead of just watching AHS. I would rather learn game design and write a video game than sit through Apocalypse.
Honestly, 1984 is my favorite season overall. Granted, I like the classic slasher style thing, but I just felt like it was a nice break from the dogwater that is AHS.
I just want at least 1 character I care about present through the season. If everyone is an asshole, why am I there?
I liked it as well. Honestly I started watching the first episode randomly, after the opening credits, and didn't even realize it was another AHS season until the end. I find this current season a real bore.
I really liked 1984 as well. It was fun, clever, nostalgic.
My only criticism is that they didn't use enough serial killers, hear me out- There are far more scarier killers than Ramirez that were active in the 70s and 80s. Fuck, Richard Chase was literally called a vampire and in that world he very well could've been.
@@merchantfan A show I surprisingly liked even though everyone was an asshole at some point was the tv series of The Mist, too bad it only had one season I think
i think they wanted to make a black mirror like episode and failed horribly
Black Mirror can't even get the Black Mirror formula to work 100% of the time, and even then the times they break the formula intentionally have resulted in some of their most beloved episodes, e.g. San Junipero. Black Mirror is at its best when it's not actively trying to be like Black Mirror, so any show which tries to ape it by aiming to be like Black Mirror can only hope to be an inferior imitation of a well regarded show at its weakest points.
@@tjenadonn6158 that made so much sense, I love it. San junipero is definitely in my top 3 black mirror episodes so I know what you mean.
I say let them keep the spinoff. Hopefully it will be home to the half drawn ideas so we can keep the mainline series coherent and get back to the strength of season 1-2 (4 to some) and double feature which is so good so far
Idk why the writers feel the urge to have their shows be needlessly convoluted. If they'd focus on one straight simple idea, the shows would be so much better
It’s just goosebumps for adults, just as corny
Don't disgrace goosebumps like that. It was the fun kinda corny
Goosebumps scared me more than AHS ever has or will lol. The books anyway. That show they produced did not do R.L Stein's works justice.
Hey, don't compare Goosebumps and American Horror Stories,
that's like comparing diamonds to a turd.
@@frightinthenightproduction4059 THIS IS TRUE - the choose your own adventures fricked kid me up lmao aldskfaj
@@basementdwellercosplay true, ahs is the bad kind of corny
Having now watched all of the "vampire" part of double feature, I can tell you with certainty that it is one of the dumber storylines I've seen, and bad vampire fiction is one of my guilty pleasures. I think at this point Sarah Paulson is the only reason I keep coming back.
Also about Murder House being recycled--literally every season is Murder House when you think about it.
Could you elaborate? I’ve only watched two or three seasons, so I’m curious as to what you mean.
@@unconcernedcitizen4092 Murder House: Oh no, the dead can't leave this building.
Asylum: Oh no, the crazies can't go home.
Freakshow: Oh no, we can't leave this site.
Hotel: Oh no, the dead can't leave this building.
1984: Oh no, the dead can't leave this site.
@@frightinthenightproduction4059 I mean they have a basic similarity but I wouldn’t say every season is the same
For example, murder house is good, apocalypse is shit
But they do leave the site
And there's actually living serial Killers in Freak Show
If anything the serial Killers are the thing that keeps coming back
You can't say pumpkin, apple and cherry pie are the same thing just because they all have crust
OH ALSO: conveniently leaving out seasons that don't fit the example is kinda lame
@@KingOfGaymes I will agree that Apocalypse is shit. That season is the most egregious offender despite it breaking the formula. I'll never get over the fact that Michael got killed by a fucking car. oH hE DiDnt kNoW hE hAd HiS pOwErS yet. Like wot? If I have a bullet proof vest on but I somehow am not aware of it, that doesn't render the protection non existent.
There was probably only 2 decent episodes this season and yet it is getting renewed for a second season.
Meanwhile Truth Seekers, a wonderful horror comedy show, got cancelled after just one season. People just want bad horror I don't understand
@@joshuazeeman7553 Shit Truth Seekers was canceled?
soo much talent in that series
I mean the most recent thing with the actor going to an ocean town was really good idk how it’s gonna turn out in the long run though
I just want to say I’ve been watching you for a few years now and your videos have aged like a fine wine. I’ll go back to watch your older videos expecting to cringe, but I just laugh like it’s the first time I’ve watched them. I got my boyfriend interested in your channel, and he’s gone through and watched plenty of your videos in his own free time. It makes me happy that we have one more shared interest to add to the pile. Keep it up man you’re the best!
That kid's face when he burns down the house makes that whole scene impossible to take seriously. Honestly, it looks like a video I would've made when I was a child
It feels like they wanted to tackle the meta aspects of both AHS' fandom and IP itself but went far too self indulgent and egotistical in their writing to actually say anything worth of value. If you want to see something that does this better, try any of these:
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare/Scream
- Cabin in the Woods
- Shadow of the Vampire
- Funny Games
Glad to see someone saying it out, I still do not understand why this show is so high rated on IMDB or why they continue making new seasons
Season 10 is FIRE right now I pray it doesn't fall off 🤦♂️
Agreed. It’s the best it’s been in years
If by fire you mean the most boring garbage to ever be made, sure
You probably haven’t even watched it lol 😂
@@user-ft7xi7on8p right i’ve been watching it and it all feels so forced and even the aesthetics ( what i usually stay for if the story is bad) r boring and bland. and i just don’t buy main character as a family kinda guy LIKE CMON U CANT GO BACK FROM DANDY
@@salthesteamengine then you must not be actually watching the same show as I have because HE'S NOT A FAMILY MAN! HE LET'S HIS DAUGHTER TAKE A PILL THAT MAKES YOU A VAMPIRE FOR FAME FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! that doesn't sound like a "family man" 🤦♂️ and he doesn't treat his wife the best either.
I feel like the ghosts are stupid selfish people who forget after they kill someone out of entertainment/boredom they have to live with them. They remind me of the meeseeks from Rick and Morty, “well he roped me into this!”
Wholeheartedly agree. I could only sit through the first two episodes. The rest is just absolute drivel with no plotline or any substance whatsoever. So fucking boring.
"American Horror Story is bad"
"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
American horror story might be good if they picked a story and stuck with it, instead of cramming 18 parallel stories into each season
In Double Feature, the vampires move just like the "GrubHub but everyone is in incredible pain" meme and it's so funny.
Stories was awful, can’t believe it got renewed for a 2nd season.
What? For real?!
5:06 ah that drawing is still beautiful years later.
I was looking in the comment for someone who also recognize the painting of Modryn Oreyn, thanks.
_”Haha guy’s look we made the show on the show! What’s that you ask? No, it’s not a comedy why does everybody always ask me that?”_
Contrivance is a staple of the never-ending series.
I love the ability of modern-day ghosts to use cellphones but I keep wondering: who ends up paying the bill?
"I'm going to make a game about a franchise I neither know, own, or have any rights for." Yeah, checks out.
And she must have made the whole game all by herself, because every employee ever would have told her that this is the Michael Jordan of bad ideas. Which of course makes sense, since loony women can totally do the work of hundreds of professionals working 80+ hours a weak for 3+ years straight.
Amazing to think that an AHS production would be bad! Who would have guessed??? Its not like it started already pretty bad and continued to progressively get worse until people legitimately begun to have such a warped opinion of what a decent show was that they thought the earlier seasons weren't so bad.
I dunno bro American horror story is actually good. I watched all the seasons except the newest, every one of them I found thoroughly entertaining. This shit is nothing like the actual series and is really stupid
The first seasons were good. It’s camp
It’s fine if you enjoyed it, I tried to and could not. There were so many dropped plot lines and inconsistencies. I’m not a “turn your brain off and enjoy” kind of person, so when something is poorly crafted and scripted it’s particularly noticeable to me and AHS has always been a good concept and poorly executed to me.
This just sounds like THE MOST EXPENSIVE WAY to write out a house that you no longer can legally film in and a way to justify your weird plot holes from now on lmao
elvis roasting ahs is my favorite thing ever
The second IT WAS ALL A GAME just broke me.
unfortunate how this series has completely dropped down the drain
so damn sad man. I loved watching this
The 10th season of the original show is actually really good and reminds me of the earlier seasons of AHS, just fyi if you’re ever curious. It’s at least MILES better than this god awful spinoff lol
@@jaykay1899 I’m still wondering if he honest and truly did this to try to keep us quiet while we waited for AHS season 10
Its getting a 2nd season, dont worry.
I was surprised with the new season of american horror story red tide, I actually really like it feels like its fresh and new again
Yeah I think this will be one of the better seasons. I’m so invested.
i also really like it ! apocalypse really rattled my faith in the show & 1989 was decent but this one feels really fresh
I’m super obsessed with it. So refreshing to actually be excited for new AHS episodes again, plus Frances conroy is giving me LIFE this season. She’s so amazing
Ah yes the classic "I need to get closer to person X so I'll work many many hours on project Y instead of being close to person X" storyline... timeless
I really don’t know how we went from this to the surprisingly very well done season 10 so far.
The expectation on folks with fun ideas to have an infinite supply of fun ideas is never gonna end well.
I was just thinking about this from a game-design perspective.
How could these events actually be implemented as a game with gameplay and game mechanics?
I guess this would probably be kind of like a Telltale "game", which is basicly a movie, where you have to press a button now and then to keep watching.
I guess the "it was all a dream" conceit evolved to "it was all a game"