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‘American Horror Story: NYC’ Finally Has a Strong Same-sex attracted Main Character
American Horror Storyloves to shake things up, from a current spinoff, to a season getting split into two parts for two distinct stories. NYC isn’t different, choosing to deliver its story in an unusually slower pace and in two episodes released per week. Where Season 11 really tries something new is through Joe Mantello’s traits of Gino Barelli. Place in 1981 on the edge of the AIDS crisis, Gino has no idea of what is to come. Instead, his attention is on solving a series of murders targeting gay men. He will even risk his life to stop this threat to his people. Gino is the foremost addition to NYC because of how unlike he is to other lgbtq+ men in prior seasons of AHS. They were rotten in many ways, oftentimes leading to their downfall. Queer women fare better and Gino raises up to their rank of authority and depth.
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Gino Barelli can’t pose that his boyfriend Patrick (Russell Tovey) is a closeted NYPD detective. He’s pissed gay men are dying and no one cares. The character has a short fuse, which could seem
‘American Horror Story: NYC’ Review: Gays and Guts
In the first ten minutes of American Horror Story: NYC (★★★☆☆), a doctor uncovers the first signs of AIDS, a closeted leather daddy is decapitated, and Sandra Bernhard threatens someone with a knife.
If this were any other TV series, it might exit most viewers puzzled, but in the 11th season of Ryan Murphy’s crown jewel, it’s par for the course. Yet, even with its rapid-fire start, the most surprising aspect of this horror illustrate is how tame it feels.
Set in 1981, AHS: NYC follows Russell Tovey as Patrick, a closeted gay detective who begins realizing a series of gruesome murders may be a serial killer searching for gay men. Patrick’s loved one Gino (Joe Mantello) is upset when Patrick won’t go on the tape about the murders, and decides to use his own power as the editor of a queer publication to try and get the public to care
Charlie Carver rounds out the central triptych as a young gay dude named Adam whose companion gets abducted by the killer.
As the central mystery ramps up, red flags rise, and the first two episodes generate a slow-burn mystery rather than diving headlong into unse
REVIEW: Queerness in 'American Horror Story'
(Note: This post will only refer to the first three seasons of American Horror Story -- partially because the fourth season is still running, but mainly because I’m boycotting it due to its increasing similarity to “Glee.”)
The first period I watched an episode of “American Horror Story,” I was tricked into it. After 50 minutes of confusion, eye-rolling, and general disdain, I swore I would never monitor another episode. My confusion turned to curiosity and I couldn’t help but look up the plot of the first two seasons. Needless to declare, I was still lost, possibly more so -- AHS plots aren’t easily summed up (or readily understandable in general). Finally, on the basis of a recommendation from people whose judgment I reliance, I decided to seize the plunge and offer the show a strive. I was very fast obsessed with it, and I was pleased to find that queer characters were more than noticeable -- not that much of a surprise, given that one of the show’s creators, Ryan Murphy, is an out male lover man.
The gay couple in Murder House (Season 1) are my favorite AHS queer characters. Yes, they are ghosts. Yes, they bicker through 95% of t
American Horror Story: NYC's Genuine Horror Lies in Gender non-conforming History
American Horror Storyoften uses the supernatural to watch at the very authentic. The monsters in its stories -- which possess ranged from alien invaders to The Antichrist himself -- tend to sparkle a light on far more mundane acts of horror and cruelty. American Horror Story: Asylum, for instance, arrayed its various unreal creatures around the very real traumas of institutional abuse, while real-world serial killers like Richard Ramirez and Jeffrey Dahmer have made cameos in previous seasons. As outlandish as the series gets, its funhouse terrors usually stand in for all-too real ones.
The new season, American Horror Story: NYC has dropped any pretense of the supernatural -- at least during the first four episodes. Instead, it focuses on the most tragic corners of queer history in Recent York City during the early 1980s when the first four episodes are set. In the process, it finds more than enough horrors to saturate its quota, as adequately as revealing the very real dangers faced by the LGBTQIA community at that time.
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