Warning: This recap of the “Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag” episode of American Horror Story: Cult contains spoilers.

Imagine your very favorite food — french toast, macaroni & cheese, a Cornish game hen — served on an upturned frisbee and tossed onto your placemat. Almost nothing seems appetizing when it’s served so disrespectfully. That’s how something as delightful as Evan Peters doing an impression of Andy Warhol somehow isn’t fun. This week’s episode of American Horror Story was so bad it was actually embarrassing. God, remember when everyone was mad at Freak Show for not being good enough, yet it had that amazing Pepper episode, sumptuous production design, moving musical numbers, and Jessica f***ing Lange? Cult is worse than mere garbage, it’s a betrayal of American Horror Story‘s fans (and apologists) and it’s time we finally admit this to ourselves. What a blunder this season has turned out to be.

Stunt-casting Lena Dunham as Valerie Solanas was an okay enough concept — this show has dabbled in true crime before — but there are so many ACTUAL historical cults to draw upon, so why did AHS need to posthumously slander this (mentally ill) woman by suggesting she and her militant feminist friends were behind the Zodiac murders? Are we to believe that the Zodiac killer featured in Hotel was Dot-Marie Jones under that hood? And is the overall message of this season that leftists, feminists, and gays are the ones who’ll truly resort to murder for their politics, but Kai is merely a clever opportunist? And why is this show content to simply TELL us that people join cults without convincing us why they’d resort to murder? And what are any of the characters trying to do anymore? And as viewers of a horror show, what are we supposed to be afraid of here exactly? Exactly none of this is working. “Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag” was a true low-point for this series, a dreadful episode of what is officially American Horror Story‘s worst season. Hey let’s talk about it if you want!

We began with a homely woman angrily turning a trick in an alley for $5 and then using the proceeds to angrily buy bullets for her pistol.

Meet Valerie Solanas, the real-life radical feminist lesbian who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and became infamous for attempting to murder Andy Warhol.

He did not die from this attempt on his life, but it’s widely believed he was forever traumatized by it. Solanas, meanwhile, spent time in prison and later died in obscurity nearly homeless. OR DID SHE? (She did.) But this episode of American Horror Story: Cult would have us believe that Solanas’ mental illness-hastened actions were merely the beginning of an actual crime spree that would be so nightmarish it would later be attributed to one of the most-feared serial killers of modern times. Stay tuned!

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