Maybe 'American Horror Story' shouldn't have given a mass shooter a happy ending
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Most of the characters on American Horror Story don’t deserve a happy ending. There are a few true heroes scattered around its seven and three-quarters seasons — the life-loving witch Misty Day, the well intentioned Kit Walker, Cordelia Goode, and Lana Winters come to mind — but the vast majority of the characters are by design the kind of people who kill, rape, exploit, and murder others. That’s the genre and that’s the show.
American Horror Story draws most of its drama from pushing their characters, many of whom started out as decent people, to the limitations of their humanity. By the end of each season, the truly bad are often punished and the good left to thrive. The gift of a happy ending, even if that ending doesn’t include survival, is how AHS lets the audience know which character’s motivations were defensible according to its own morality. Read more...
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