u know... i was thinking about why i hate the 2nd half of roanoke so much, and... i landed on 2 things, which are: 1) it started off with an objectively GREAT premise (easily the most unique premise they’ve tackled on AHS so far) that it then shot 2 heck by replacing it with, essentially, just a rehash of the found footage genre and... 2) it relied on the ‘real people’ actors (lily, andré, and adina, who really carried the whole season on her back tbh) to sell the melodrama of the reenactments; the events described and reenacted were bizarre and unbelievable, but we suspended our disbelief because we could feel like these weren’t actors but real people talking about and responding to these events. but then in the second half it completely FAILED to maintain the ‘real people’ vibe. it collapsed into the same hammy, cheap, and unrealistic garbage that the rest of the seasons of ahs have, with people just not acting how people fcking act so that they could squeeze in a zinger or meta-commentary or a joke about how stupid feminists are. also i don’t care, a documentary series wouldn’t have developed a dedicated con or fandom, but, again. the writing just had people not act how people fcking act for the sake of a send-up of fandom culture, same as the send-ups of hollywood/actor shallowness, feminism, etc.