‘American Horror Story’ Season 6: What’s It All About? (Recap)
Spoiler alert: the entirety of the season 6 premiere of “American Horror Story” is spoiled below.
Except in this one, famous people play famous people, re-enacting something that may or may have not taken place in a very old house in North Carolina.
The title would suggest a connection to the legend of the Roanoke colony, an early attempt by the English to establish a permanent settlement in present-day North Carolina.
Through one episode, the connection between the show and that legend remains unclear, however.
There are people getting shot and ending credits full of edgy shots of the American flag and guns and bloodstained money.
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All of our favorite cast members are here to introduce “My Roanoke Nightmare.”
Matt, turns out, is a traveling salesman who spends a lot of time in Raleigh, two hours away.
Sarah Paulson is drinking rosé and chopping vegetables and sees a pair of adult twin girls walk creepily through her house.
Lee is addicted to opiates, a sad tale that feels like it wouldn’t really wind up in a haunted house show, but hey, you gotta fill an hour somehow.
Spooky things are happening at night, like a wine bottle rolling into Lee’s room.
The two women are too busy arguing to notice the commercial break sneaking up on them.
Turns out to be just a TV on, playing a home movie of some kind…
According to Matt, locals and neighbors do weird stuff all the time to drive out new property owners and swoop in and take the property for cheap after driving down the property values.
[...] apparently the reason Matt and Lee and Shelby don’t pack up and leave is that they spent all their money on the house and have nowhere they can really go if they don’t stay.
The woman Shelby hit with her car miraculously gets up and staggers off; Shelby runs after her into the woods and promptly gets lost, because she’s alone in the woods at night and you don’t even have the sun to figure out cardinal directions and that sort of situation really sucks, especially if you’re fleeing a murder house and hit someone with your car and then find creepy string art installations in the trees, like Shelby does.