S6E1

Chapter 1

American Horror Story · 2016-09-14 · 44 min

FLICKFEEL

from 26 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

A young interracial couple move into a farmhouse in North Carolina after purchasing it with their life savings. However, unearthly phenomena begin occurring and things are not what they seem.

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

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 26 comments — 14 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 14 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

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

openingending

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.

Reddit24 read

“That literally felt like 20 mins of actual show and 40 mins of the fondue/taco bell commercial.”
jlucchesi324▲ 596about 0–100% inread it ↗
“once the creepy stuff started happening it really pulled me in”
BlakeTheBagel▲ 498about 15–100% inread it ↗
“This episode had suspense, scares, and atmosphere. Last season pulled off atmosphere well, but in my opinion simply wasn't scary. This episode actually got me jumping.”
BlakeTheBagel▲ 498about 0–100% inread it ↗
“a first episode that was actually creepy”

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.

Chaz Bono as Lot Polk
Colby French as Officer
Larry Cedar as Auctioneer
Grady Lee Richmond as Ishmael Polk
Maya Rose as Nurse Miranda
Orson Chaplin as Cain Polk
JJohn Farzad Strong as Doctor

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