Okay American Horror Story. Consider my mind blown. When we last left the Millers they had escaped The Butcher, the hillbillies, and the $40,000 farm house. They had finished their story in documentary land and we could assume they were off embarking on a semi-normal life again. However, Chapter 6 takes a turn somewhere I didn't even think about and I am so excited to see what comes next. Here's where we are after the hour...
This Ain't A Song For The Brokenhearted
The episode opens just like another documentary would. Apparently the show within the show, My Roanoke Nightmare, was the television success story of 2015. Of course the network was hungry for a sequel...so now we go to Cheyenne Jackson as the "genius producer" Sydney Aaron James, and he is pitching a reality show in the farmhouse as Season 2. Here's the real selling point though - the real people from the documentary as well as the actors who played them will all be locked in the house together during the 3 days of the blood moon. Now my first thought is: no chance in hell the Millers will go back there if their story was true. My second thought is: I hope Gaga is there.
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| The role of a lifetime... |
If you were wondering what happened to the Millers after the show aired, Shelby and Matt split up. Seems she got a little too friendly with Dominic Banks (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who played her husband in the re-enactment scenes. Lee has been painted as a villain and her life is pretty miserable. The viewers of the show believe she killed Mason and they are pissed the mystery was never solved. Matt is willing to go back to the house (again, whyyyyy) and Shelby hopes that being locked in the house with Matt will help them reconcile. Lee agrees to be part of Season 2 as well because she feels she was portrayed badly in Season 1.
On his quest to get this new reality show started, Sydney goes back into interview mode and we meet The Butcher actress, Agnes Mary Winstead (still Kathy Bates). She is cray cray. Apparently she got a little toooooo into character and after they finished shooting the re-enactment scenes, she had a total breakdown and stumbled through the streets of Hollywood with a cleaver in hand, talking like The Butcher. She then spent some time in a mental health facility. Agnes is super calm in this interview though and is eager to get back to the show. Sydney informs her that there is no chance she will be allowed anywhere near the house and serves her with a restraining order. She flips out and starts talking like The Butcher as the camera crew leaves. You better watch out Syd. Apparently she will smite thee.
We also learn that the actors who played Shelby and Edward, Audrey Tindall and Rory Monahan (still Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters) fell in love during My Roanoke Nightmare and got married. It's noted that she's quite a bit older than he is. Also, he's a douchebag with 3 brain cells. If you're curious about what happened to the actress who played Lee in My Roanoke Nightmare, Monet Tumusiime (still Angela Bassett) now has a drinking problem. I guess she also got a little too much into character?
When They're Calling You Out
Sydney actually owns the farmhouse now. He bought it from Matt before they started shooting the re-enactment scenes. So, the re-enactment scenes were shot in the same house...but no one died during filming? That seems odd. For Season 2 Sydney enlists a crew of people to rig areas in the house to shake, break, and make noises to help get the reactions out of the stars of the show. His assistant, Diana, is not thrilled with any of this. She's especially pissed off when a crew member "accidentally" saws his own head off with a chainsaw on camera and Sydney wants to keep everything on schedule immediately after the body is taken away. She gets in her car and drives away, talking into her own dashboard documentary camera. Diana stops her car suddenly when she sees a woman in colonial garb and then decides she has no intention of finding out who that person is. She starts to drive again...and is grabbed by something dead and creepy in her back seat. The picture goes fuzzy and words pop up on the screen that tell us Diana's footage was recovered but her body was never found.
The Millers and the actors begin arriving at the house and we see the happy newlyweds wondering through the dining room discussing Rory's next project. Someone is outside the window though...looks like the Butcher and she smashes the glass instantly. Audrey had a run-in with Agnes recently after she won the Saturn Award for best actress, beating out The Butcher. The 911 call is hilarious. Audrey is now not on board with this reality show and Sydney guarantees her that Agnes is nowhere on the grounds. He then takes away everyone's cell phones and replaces them with phones that have a working camera only. On his way out, Sydney also tells Matt he is rooming with Shelby and Matt opts to sleep in the basement instead. Ouch.
The Millers all make dramatic exits from the main room and Monet, Audrey, and Rory grab a bite to eat in the kitchen. They discuss how they all feel that The Millers' story was bullshit because they filmed My Roanoke Nightmare in the house for 8 weeks and nothing happened. However, their shoot was in the summer and not during the blood moon...which now appears outside the kitchen window. Matt enters and points it out to everyone but he's mocked by the actors. Words then flash on the screen telling us all but one person died in those three days of filming. WHOA!
Just A Face In The Crowd
There's a knock on the door. Dominic has arrived and Shelby is pissssssssssssed. Sydney promised her Dominic would not be part of Season 2 and yet here he is. Matt wastes no time trying to beat the shit out of him. The commotion interrupts Lee and Monet trading insults in the kitchen ("I'm a drunk because of you, you murdering bitch!") as well as Rory's post-sex relaxation in the hot tub outside. He and Audrey broke that in right away. Audrey had already gone upstairs to shower and missed the fight...but she ends up with her own confrontation as Mr. Piggy is waiting in her bathroom when she climbs out of the tub.
Everyone rushes to Audrey as she runs down the stairs in her towel screaming. Rory hands Audrey off to Dominic and runs upstairs, cursing Sydney's name. He searches the bedrooms ready for a fight but instead of Mr. Piggy...he encounters the two nurses and they stab the shit out of him. Right at that moment Matt walks into the dining room and sees MURDER written on the wall. You'll recall that the letters M,U,R,D, and E were written on the wall last time as the nurses were mangled by The Butcher before they could complete the R. Mission accomplished. Matt walks into the kitchen where the rest of the group has congregated and says "R is for Rory."
The episode ends there and I love what's happening on this show right now. The re-enactment actors have their own identities, quite unlike the people they played in the re-enactment, and the idea to throw them all together during the blood moon is brilliant. Again, I think the Millers continue their path of complete stupidity in participating, but we know that because of this at least two of them do not survive the three days in hell. Maybe all three of them? Who is the one person that survives? Shelby? Matt? Lee? And then they pin the murders on Lee because everyone believes her to be a murderer anyway? I'm not sure where this will lead but I sure as hell can't wait to find out. 
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