It’s becoming clear that, 30 years into his career, Ryan Murphy views television shows, at least the ones he oversees, not as shows but as a list of checkboxes: A lengthy collation of popular ideas and opinions to be ticked off one by one, jammed into chapters clocking in at roughly 40 minutes and spare change, strung together in seasons comprising 7 and 10 episodes.
This is as true of “American Horror Story,” a series apparently made to show off how much he likes horror (so much, it turns out, that rather than celebrate one sub-genre each season, he celebrates all of them), as it is of “The Politician,” now in its second season on Netflix, his insufferably smug attempt at skewering American politics along generational lines, cultural.
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