American Horror Story Roanokes Confusing Timeline Ruined The Season

American Horror Story: Roanoke’s Confusing Timeline Ruined The Season

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American Horror Story season 6, subtitled Roanoke, was an interesting idea, but its confusing execution of multiple timelines held it back.

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American Horror Story Roanokes Confusing Timeline Ruined The Season

American Horror Story season 6, subtitled Roanoke, was an interesting idea, but its confusing execution of multiple timelines held it back. American Horror Story has always been a pretty complex show when it comes to plotting, constantly sporting dozens of characters, and often jumping between time periods. It’s often succeeded in pulling off the balancing act necessary to make that worthwhile, leading to some of the FX anthology program’s best seasons. Other times, things get too convoluted, dragging down viewer enjoyment of the story.

Roanoke isn’t necessarily any kind of unanimous pick for the worst season from fans, as the fact that each season is so different from the next lends most of them to amass a certain level of fan following. Still, it’s rare to see Roanoke mentioned among the best of the American Horror Story lot, which tends to focus on praising earlier seasons like Murder House, Asylum, and Freak Show. Coven also gets a lot of love from some segments of the fanbase.

On the surface, Roanoke’s plot structure might seem like a welcome change of pace, focusing as it does partially on a dramatized recounting of “actual events” within the universe of the show. In practice though, this setup served to undercut much of the season’s flow, making tension hard to come by.

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AHS: Roanoke’s Confusing Timeline Ruined The Season

To start off, one major problem caused by American Horror Story: Roanoke’s split timeline, and show within a show setup, is that the audience immediately knows that every character telling the story is in no danger of death in the reenactment portions. An additional dramatic problem caused by this setup is that the viewer spends the first half of the season getting attached to characters that aren’t actually real, the versions of people like Matt and Shelby depicted in the My Roanoke Nightmare series. In the second half of season 6, stars like Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sarah Paulson are now playing entirely new people with an entirely new dynamic, the actors that played Matt and Shelby.

This leads to a really confused narrative structure, especially when the actress that played The Butcher decides to act like the killer in real life, only to be confronted by the real version. While meta plots have become more and more common in recent years, American Horror Story: Roanoke is often too meta for its own good, and almost at times seems in love with its own perceived cleverness. The acting is still top notch as usual, and there are some great scary moments, but the plot progression is all over the place, and having two versions of almost every character does nothing but make things more muddled.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/american-horror-story-roanoke-season-6-timeline-problems-ruined/

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