Wow, I gotta say I’m really enjoying this season, and this episode in particular was great. It reminds me, as it does everyone I’m sure, of Murder House, which is the best season of the show IMO. AHS is always unpredictable, almost every episode in a season brings some sort of shock twist or turns things upside down, but it’s really hard to pull that off in a way that makes sense even within the context of the wild nonsense we’re seeing. 1984 does this successfully, because even though there are characters galore, there’s enough characterization to go around. It’s not just gore for gore’s sake. Like, I feel like I get Mr. Jingles, I even get the Night Stalker, inhuman as he’d like to seem, etc…

It also helps my appreciation of the season that Emma R. is so on point with this character. The execution of Brooke was great to see and the reveal of who gave her the lethal injection was rewarding because it went straight to the question I posed in my last post: what is the psychologist’s (Donna, I guess is her real name) plan for Brooke??