Unlocked from the Archive: Did American Horror Story Do Its Romantic Poetry Homework?
Shelley, er... Ozymandias was a man, you philistine. Or so the quote goes.
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American Horror Story: Cult, Shelley, and the Patriarchy
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When I finally finished American Horror Story: Cult on Netflix, then promptly went to sleep and dreamed that a man who looked not unlike Donald Trump was chasing me with a knife. I did it to myself, watching it so late at night. But it might also be true that Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk did it to me. I admire the way that this season was able to tap into contemporary American fears about politics, sex, and violence in a way that felt contemporary.
