American Crime Story: The People V. OJ Simpson Is a Thrilling Ride Into Controversy

Three episodes into Making a Murderer, I quickly realized the docuseries—as groundbreaking and well-intentioned as it was—would provide no closure. So I gave up. When it comes to true crime, I want an ending. Whether or not you agree with its implications, the trial of OJ Simpson has one—and the first few episodes of…
In American Crime Story, Sarah Paulson's Marcia Clark Is a 'Feminist Hero'
According to Vanity Fair, The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story will explore the gender dynamics that underpinned the perception of prosecutor Marcia Clark. Played by Sarah Paulson, the series will tackle Simpson’s history of domestic abuse as well as Clark’s “presence as a powerful woman in the courtroom.”
Scream Queens Has Officially Been Renewed for a Second Season
Ryan Murphy’s comedy-horror series, Scream Queens, is getting a second season, and it’s not taking place at a summer camp as previously speculated. This time, the setting will be a hospital filled with cases of strange medical disorders. Unlike with Murphy’s show, American Horror Story, the actors will be returning in…
'I'm Not Black, I'm O.J.': The Trailer For American Crime Story Is High Art
You’ll always remember where you were when you watched OJ’s Bronco chase, you’ll always remember where you were when the verdict was read, and you’ll always remember where you were when you watched the trailer for Ryan Murphy’s newest piece of hobbled together, not-quite-there camp masquerading as good television, …
Scream Queens' Jamie Lee Curtis Pays Tribute to Mother Janet Leigh and Psycho
While actress Jamie Lee Curtis independently became a “scream queen” through her role as Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise, she also comes by her title through heredity. In 1960, Curtis’ mother Janet Leigh delivered one of the most iconic onscreen shrieks of all time as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho…
Finally, Angela Bassett Is Here to Save American Horror Story: Hotel
The first half of Wednesday’s episode of American Horror Story: Hotel was meandering and a bit slow, though it did properly and definitively identify lavender as the devil’s scent. (Thank you, Ryan Murphy.) The second half, though, got the jolt it desperately needed: a bit of plot tension and, more crucially, Angela…
Secrets, Lesbians & Bloodshed: A Scream Queens Slumber Party
“There are two things that always happen at a slumber party,” announces Kappa’s new co-president Zayday Williams (Keke Palmer). “Someone experiments with lesbianism and secrets are revealed.” What she forgets to add is that in the twisted universe of Scream Queens, someone (or multiple someones) will definitely get…
In Classic Ryan Murphy Fashion, Scream Queens Loses Sight of Itself
The broad plot of Scream Queens is fairly simple: A college campus is terrorized by a masked serial killer and a sorority—the killer’s primary target—tries to find out who’s murdering people while (poorly) avoiding getting killed themselves. That’s the story, sure, but is that really what Scream Queens is about?
New O.J. Simpson American Crime Story Promos Sadly Have Fewer Wigs Than Expected
On the heels of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: Hotel debut on Wednesday, two new trailers for another one of his shows, American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, have surfaced. For the record, there are a lot… fewer wigs in these trailers than we’d hoped for?
AHS: Hotel Premiere Includes Lady Gaga as Crazy Sex Vampire and a Rape Scene
A drag queen walks into an elevator with a cop and says, “You’ve lost something and now you’re frozen in time. Can’t go forward, can’t go back.” Not the set-up for an “amirite” joke but, apparently, an overly on-the-nose scene that hints at what’s going on in American Horror Story: Hotel, the follow-up to last year’s …
Scream Queens Pays Homage to the Grand Movie Tradition of Dork Makeovers
Fox’s new horror comedy Scream Queens is, as the title suggests, a sendup to the horror films that came before it, but that doesn’t mean that the show is solely paying tribute to the slasher genre. In fact, it looks like the entire mean teen movie pantheon is getting its due and last night’s trope victim was the teen…
Scream Queens Is Offensive, Tasteless, and Pretty Fucking Funny
“Name one bad thing that’s ever happened in a Best Buy parking lot,” a security guard tells her friend midway through the Scream Queens pilot. The joke, of course, is a reference to the death of Hae Min Lee, whose real-life murder—a story popularized by the podcast Serial—may have happened in the parking lot of a Best…
Evan Peters' Boneability on American Horror Story, Ranked
American Horror Story’s Evan Peters has—what some might call—a smoking hot quality and new stills from the upcoming season of the series, American Horror Story: Hotel, suggest that his awooooga-ness remains intact. Peters, now gussied up like a 1930s casanova (more specifically, an evil casanova), is still a total…

