“In the first episode of its new season, “American Horror Story” made a case for itself, once again, as a series designed to make us our greatest fears, even if the cure it provides at the end of the journey is merely witty distraction.
“Caution is warranted: The previous season, subtitled “Cult,” had seemed in its early going like a sharp and shrewd comment on the collapse of mutual trust among Americans in the aftermath of the 2016 election, before collapsing itself.
“But the early going of “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” was, if nothing else, made with clever timing to confront an issue as pressing this year as post-election anomie was last year: The idea that things might finally, actually, just end.”
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