American Crime Story

[Carolina]

After seeing the last couple episodes, I'm surprised but relieved Norman Blachford (Michael Nouri's character) wasn't murdered as well.

This season's been alright, but it hasn't riveted me the way the OJ season did. The Lee Miglin episode is still head and shoulders the best episode of the season and I don't expect either of the last two episodes to change that. I definitely agree that this story could have been done in 6 or 7 episodes, especially considering FX lets them go long.

[Ginger]

I enjoyed the finale. The part about his father going on TV to try to sell the rights to his story was over the top and as it turns out, was fictional. (He did try to sell the rights to the story, but only after his son was dead and not on TV.)

Ryan Murphy seems to want to trace everything back to Cunanan's father because "nobody is born a monster. Nobody is born a psychopath or a sociopath". I don't know about that. I can believe that Cunanan was born a sociopath. His father was shady, but I don't think it was on a level that would turn somebody into a serial killer. Cunanan's siblings, who are perfectly normal, seemed to be inconvenient to the story Ryan Murphy wanted to tell.

Darren Criss did a great job. I hated him with a passion when he was on Glee. And I can't say I like him now because whenever I see him now I see somebody who beats people to death with hammers or suffocates them by wrapping their heads in duct tape, while dancing to Phil Collins.

Mar 9, 2018 14:59:25 GMT -4 Carolina said:

After seeing the last couple episodes, I'm surprised but relieved Norman Blachford (Michael Nouri's character) wasn't murdered as well.

I was spoiled by real-life information because I knew that there were no more people to be murdered. It took a little bit of the suspense out of several episodes.

[Carolina]

Mar 22, 2018 20:00:40 GMT -4 Ginger said:

I enjoyed the finale. The part about his father going on TV to try to sell the rights to his story was over the top and as it turns out, was fictional. (He did try to sell the rights to the story, but only after his son was dead and not on TV.)

Antonio D'Amico's suicide attempt was also likely fictional. Apparently it wasn't in the book and there's nothing to suggest it ever happened.

Ryan Murphy seems to want to trace everything back to Cunanan's father because "nobody is born a monster. Nobody is born a psychopath or a sociopath". I don't know about that. I can believe that Cunanan was born a sociopath.

I don't think I agree with Ryan Murphy either. Charles Whitman, the UT bell tower shooter, had a brain tumor and Richard Speck, who murdered eight nurses, was found to have his amygdala and hippocampus encroaching. There's nothing to suggest Dennis Rader, the BTK killer wasn't born a sociopath. While I do think most serial/spree killers are created, at least to partially, through circumstance, the three I just listed may have been "born" killers.

Mar 9, 2018 14:59:25 GMT -4 Carolina said:

After seeing the last couple episodes, I'm surprised but relieved Norman Blachford (Michael Nouri's character) wasn't murdered as well.

I was spoiled by real-life information because I knew that there were no more people to be murdered. It took a little bit of the suspense out of several episodes.

Yeah, it did take the wind out of the sails a little bit knowing that all the murders had been shown at the halfway mark. Really the problem was probably that this just shouldn't have been a ten episode series. All it needed was seven or eight episodes.

I'm glad that they brought back Judith Light for the final episode. I like to think that even during filming they recognized that the Lee Miglin episode was their best and wanted to call back to it. Judith Light and Mike Farrell deserve Emmy nominations.

[save lilo!]

I finished this last night and promptly had a dream about watching a friend’s ex being reported on as a serial killer.

Penélope was awful until the end.