American Horror Story - Season 9, Episode 04: True Killers
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The ninth season is complemented by a strange incident in the summer of 1984 in a camp. In this camp, five friends managed to escape from Los Angeles to work as advisers at Camp Redwood. Everyone is adjusting to their new jobs but discovering that there is more terror in this place. Now, everyone is quickly discovering that there are tales of camp fires that are haunting everyone's past.
Even with the show burning through reveals and cast members at a very high rate, there are still surprises to be had, thanks in no small part to the greater American Horror Story universe being a place where the supernatural, while rare, does exist.
It's hard to say if the third and fourth episodes of American Horror Story: 1984 represents the new season settling into a comfortable rhythm, but the pair of episodes definitely hit the sweet spot for this famously wild series.
The resurrection powers of Satan are now in play, which means that anyone who is dead - or subsequently killed - is eligible for resurrection. Doh! Ryan Murphy'd again.
As the fourth episode of the season concluded, there is an even higher anticipation as we draw closer to the mid-season, the potential for a major twist lurking in the shadows coupled by the continuation of a nightmare that seems to have no conclusion.
While "1984" finds effective ways to play in the genre, the homage-y elements have been done just as well elsewhere, if not better, and it seems a little too comfortable mimicking the structure of past seasons.
