Forbidden Fruit features poisoned fresh apples injected with
snake venom by Venable and Ms. Mead (they have a talk about Mead being a
machine with memories she can recall, except for a “beautiful blonde boy” she
loves but is a blue), Coco just tearing her assistant asunder with biting
insults (this is basically her typical language…she’s the Ryan Murphy - Emma
Roberts sub archetype who has no other way of speaking to people, with nary a
thought or feeling that isn’t knifing its way into some human target),
Satan-devotee Langdon startled by Lourd’s seemingly spiritually empowered Coco
devotee (Lourd’s Mallory claims somebody seems to be inside her wanting to come
out, but when trying to will flame to “outburst” for Coco it doesn’t work,
leading to—you guessed it—more ridicule and humiliating verbal thrashing),
Langdon admitting to Ms. Mead that he’s the boy she loves and she was
programmed by those he works in concert with, yet another paternal figure and
her troubled relationship (Adina Porter, who knows something secret about
Langdon, and her son, Jeffrey Bower-Chapman, admittedly tired of his
overbearing mother, both as self-absorbed as the rest of the bunch), Langdon
with his shed blood and live snakes resting in worship within the pentagram,
The Returning Coven Witches (Paulson, Roberts, and Frances Conroy) “reawakening”
Coco, Mallory, and Porter’s Dinah, the snake venom murder from bobbing for
apples that leads to a massacre of puking victims collapsing while Venable and
Mead look on attentively, Venable stunned by Mead turning on her with a gun
while Langdon approvingly watches, and a cool “Halloween celebration”, where
Venable set up a masquerade ball in order to lull the Outpost 3 “guests” into a
false sense of reverie. I was left disappointed because Brock kills girlfriend,
Coco, when he remerges after attacking a couple of radioactive cannibals and Erika
Ervin, Venable’s “muscle”, getting some brief revenge via knife to the
forehead, only for Paulson’s Cordella Goode to resurrect her. It was fun while
it lasted. 2.5/5
*It was cool to see outside the Outpost through a brief sequence where Brock reemerges into the series, surviving with packed heat via shotgun, the knife equipping him with the chance to surprise victims who pushed the wrong buttons.
**Venable just orchestrating with Mead the plan of using snake venom injected in apples found in a box inside a horse's carriage, eventually backfiring on her, did pleasantly throw me for a loop. I guess I wasn't expecting so many to die in such an early episode. But this is about so much more than a select group holing up in an outpost, seemingly only protected for a brief period of time.
***Still visually va-va-voom, the use of candles lit and a melancholic and sinister darkness and mood just haunting every room in that place. I just wish I had just one person I felt something other than distaste for in this series. That is par for the course in American Horror Story. Fern, as Langdon, is incredibly charismatic and enigmatic, though. He's very much a pot stirrer and doesn't appear to have anything but bad intentions.
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