American Horror Stories (TV Series) Bloody Mary (2022) User Reviews

This wasn't bad!

[tonyandsilvia1994 · 6/10 · 27 August 2022]

Now then! I did not see this coming. This actually wasn't bad at all. Gory without being over the top, and genuinely a little bit creepy. It was also great to see Quvenzhané Wallis. I think the last time I saw her was in Annie (which my daughter has seen dozens of times). She was pretty good in this, in fact all the main characters were well cast. It goes to show casting actors based on their ability is better than casting people because of who's in their family.

This episode goes to show you don't need over the top gore or random acts of humping to be effecting. Hopefully this means things are looking up for the series. Here's hoping.

This one was alright but is it gonna be the same twist every second episode now?

[Volanis4 · 7/10 · 19 August 2022]

People who have seen 2x03 know what I'm getting at with the twist.

This time it was watchable but the bar is pretty low. You have to do some mental gymnastics to make it work logically and part of the newsspeak dialogue was placed in inappropriate moments (even teenagers wouldn't talk like that in That situation) but it didn't tank the episode this time. Overall it was an improvement.

mid

[hsdmsstq · 5/10 · 23 August 2022]

It was no dollhouse or ghost lock door episode. Those were better. This one was not as bad as the bella thorne one. I hated he bella thorne one. The puss one was not very good either. I don't like ryan murphy. Personality i would like to investigate ryan murphy's private life and see a documentary that gives the details of his therapy sessions cause i know nothing good could come out of them.

So awful

[pixih-15048 · 18 August 2022]

Ppl told me this season would be better than last... what happened? One of the worst things I've ever watched 😂 not even worthy of disney channel it was that bad.

Bloody Mary

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 20 August 2022]

A bad ending and one we saw coming, but other than that was good entertaining horror. A spooky villain, teen drama with one dropping after another, but the ending ruined it for me.

Finally, Something That Is NOT "the Formula."

[setgetsiin · 6/10 · 19 August 2022]

"The Formula" being the typical white girl black guy nonsense. It's a force feed from the media at this point, nobody likes it. Not even those who have multicultural DNA, like myself.

I could also pull a reverse uno complaint like someone else did with the lack of Caucasian people but there's a lack of Native Americans, Latinos, Koreans, Indians, Japanese and the Sami Folk...but unfortunately, there's very little Melting Pot anymore in Real Life. I MUCH prefer this style and format: A story about black girls in a black area and black school talking about black things (but then they ruined it by getting all preachy...so there's a loss of several stars: The story would have been perfect WITHOUT that constant force fed agenda nonsense). People will change when they want to change. Not when you force it...something everyone can agree upon.

So for those reasons, I actually really enjoyed this one. The colors made SENSE for a change.

Aside from having to say that, I predicted very early on what the premise was going to be. I knew that to get earthly pleasures, the sister had to kill the little sister but wanting all the knowledge...made me think otherwise, but either way: I knew one of them had to become Bloody Mary by the end. I knew this about 6m into the show, but it was still worth the watch.

Finally something without an agenda

[RealisticCritic · 7/10 · 2 September 2022]

So, since I've been hammering the other episodes pretty heavily, I decided to rate one I thought was pretty decent.

I was initially going to rate it a 6, but then I increased it to a 7 simply because it was kind of refreshing.

They still had to have the obligatory "white male tells black female about her 'advantage'" trope in there, however, which was pretty unnecessary. Just have to include some kind of dig.

But overall, good take on the Bloody Mary legend and nice change up with the sister being the villain, the protagonist getting tricked, but also changing things up to where Mary actually isn't necessarily a "force of evil" either.

Overall a nice episode of a series (both versions) where I've been more disappointed than satisfied. Why do I keep going? Idk, maybe it's because I'm hopeful beyond hope at this point.

Waste of time

[turbobentley-03558 · 1/10 · 21 August 2022]

How the hell are people giving this above 2 stars?! Seriously the least scariest episode made. It should be on the Disney channel. I think someone lost a bet for this to be made.

I was about to give up on this show.

[jonorandolph · 8/10 · 18 August 2022]

Finally! Well acted, well written, well paced and directed, This is the sort of horror I would like to see moving forward in the show.

While not unpredictable, as this "Genie wish trope" has been done a few times, I didn't find myself rolling my eyes at cringey dialog and vapid characters like i have in the rest of this season.

This actually feels like it lives up to title of American Horror Story.

Betrayed Your Friends

[ZegMaarJus · 7/10 · 26 April 2023]

This Episode begins with Bianca, she talks with her friends about Bloody Mary. The girls see Bloody Mary. Lena and Elise go to class, they see Bloody Mary in the mirror. Bloody Mary is threatening the girls, she will kill them if they did not do what she says. Lena has been killed on the most cruel way possible. Maggie has been killed, Bianca and Elise found her. Bianca and Elise arrived at the cabin. Elise admits that she killed Lena and Maggie. Elise knocked down Bianca. Bianca killed Elise. Bianca cries because she killed her own sister. Bloody Mary comes out of the mirror, Bianca goes into the mirror. Bianca is the new Bloody Mary. Solid Episode of American Horror Stories Season 2, really nice story about 4 friends who in the end aren't friends anymore!

Who writes this crap?

[collin_nuke · 4/10 · 18 August 2022]

I had faith that Ryan Murphy would step his game up for the second season and I was poorly mistaken. I just can't get over how cheesy and corny these episodes are.. the script is just trash and the acting is so corny. They could have done something so great with Bloody Mary and instead it was just so rushed, so lame, poorly written and bad acting. Dominique was the only plus!

Best episode

[ivanbusuiok-65238 · 10/10 · 18 August 2022]

Overall it was very entertaining. It had unexpected twists that didn't ruin the story, descent protagonists performances, excellent acting of Dominique and unique spin on the whole "bloody Mary" legend.

Don't know what the excitement is about

[mjsreg · 4/10 · 24 August 2022]

Perhaps the high ranking reviews are from desperate teenagers hoping AHS will have at least one good episode this season, but I am not impressed.

It was an OK story but one that has been told in various ways many times before (and far better), but was (yet again) predictable and quite boring - unless one is a twelve year-old.

If you're a fan of horror and of AHS skip this

[long_for_cali · 1/10 · 25 August 2022]

This is the low point. The cash in. The call it in. The I am doing a favor for a friend episode.

There is nothing to see here that is better than the rest of the season.

None of the cast should receive another offer. The pacing wasn't good. It felt like it was stretched from a minute parable to a full episode to get it out the door.

Sometimes you feel like the writer wanted it to be a slow burn other times you feel like there was a camera angle from an '80s soap opera trying to build intensity because the actors could convey proper feelings in the shot.

Great episode

[speeddmon · 10/10 · 18 August 2022]

Finally a damn good episode to watch. Besides episode 2 the rest of the show has been not much on the horror side to me. I agree with another reviewer this would have made for a good season itself, hopefully we'll get a sequel episode in the future. Nice acting from a mostly all black cast as well.

not againnnnn

[willalveyyy · 3/10 · 18 August 2022]

I am giving this episode 3 stars for Dominique Jackson and for not much else. I feel like she has some power in acting in sinister roles, and her final moments in the episode are pretty solid. I really wanted to like this show/season, and the original series will always hold a placement in my list of top favorite shows ever, but i am starting to dread watching each week. They never really hit the MARK. I don't even know if they come close. Too underbaked, too cheesy, and really quite unoriginal.

Good episode

[gildo-66844 · 9/10 · 18 August 2022]

I liked this episode, had some good creepy parts and I hope the last two are just as good. Some of these episodes like doll house and Bloody Mary could have been a season, was a good night horror to watch!! One of my favorite episodes of the season!

Oh come on yall...

[tfree45 · 1/10 · 18 August 2022]

How was this better than "Milkmaids" Reviews on this show are so skewed and make no sense. Episode 1, 2, and 4 have been the best so far but this? Theres no way yall think this is good.

Basic story. Things don't add up

[chunpok · 2/10 · 18 August 2022]

Starting with 5 stars -3 star for the plot.

1) How many years since Blood Mary became Blood Mary? Century and a half? It is a long period. Why does she get free now? Especially you make Blood Mary so powerful, causing hallucinations through mirrors or reflections to be exact. It should be so easy to lure many "victims" to free her, just like what she does. And why are there so people missing but she is still there in the mirror?

2) There is a reference to Mami Wata, mother of water in the African culture, according to Wiki. Linking water and reflections is a smart move. But the reference is thrown to the audience in the last few minutes, no explanations or elaborations. This makes the reference a bit random. And it's also a miss that Blood Mary should be able to show herself in reflections of water and even the knife. Here just mirror. Cool effect tho.

3) Why does Elise have to kill to get innocent blood? Can't she steal blood?

I saw a comment pointing out there are very few actors of other races. I agreed but once I found that it's about the black culture. I think this is a safe move and I am okay with it. Still looking forward to the perfect balance between diversity and faithfulness.

Overall, the story is quite basic. There are interesting references but none of them helps. Things just don't add up.

Good ep but if you like rooting for the main character...

[evanconet · 8/10 · 22 August 2022]

Wow we got a good one of here! Great acting, interesting story, nice twist at the end. Gave me tales from the crypt vibes and I did not see the ending coming- i liked the fact that Mary was like "yea if you don't do it I am not going to kill you... its your choice" very cool concept. But MAN did the protagonist get the worst of it for doing nothing! First she doesn't even want to play the Bloody Mary game but her big sister makes her. Then her guidance counselor does turn out to be creepy (they didn't go into that enough). After that her friends die and she wont be able to go to Yale wow that's terrible... oh YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS IT? Her sister turns out to be a psycho murderer who killed her friends and is about to kill her...okay she gets out of that phew. Then in attempt to free Mary out of her curse she gets TRAPPED FOREVER?! Friends? Nope? College? Nope? A sister you looked up to and trusted? Nope. Well at least your not stuck in a mirror-oh. These are not complaints i liked the ending just felt so bad for the protagonist- talk about a tough week.

Dumb

[Bettercallpaul94 · 1/10 · 28 August 2022]

Hated the portrayal of Bloody Mary, acting was really, really bad too. Characters were shallow and the show can't live up to the first episode of the second season. Stop taking ridiculous liberties with stories that have amazing potential as originals. What they were trying to do with this one just failed.

I'm going to finish the rest of the season as it comes out but I just don't feel the same level of happiness and anticipation when starting these episodes. It feels like a chore to watch it now.

Stick to the formula from the first episode of the season and it'll all be fine. There was no politics, no unnecessary gore, no pandering or anything of that sort.

Standout of season 2 so far

[iwilldie4u · 9/10 · 22 August 2022]

I really enjoyed this episode. I liked all the fun, AHS snappy lines with killer delivery from the actors. I thought the acting was solid, for all of the cast. I also liked how it was just a really grounded well told story visually and I was able to get into the narrative, feel like I was in the world, connect with the characters, and follow the story. Super awesome mood throughout but especially in all the flashback scenes. The classic filmmaking style worked with the story being told, the characters, and the world.

I do wish all the other episodes had been up to this level this season, but most have been disconnected in the storytelling from the story they were telling. And bizarre. And not in a good AHS way.

Bloody Mary also packed that extra 'ta-da' elegance so it still felt exactly like what I expect of American Horror Stories and the Ryan Murphy world. Cool one! Cheers to AHSS for S2E5.

Just bad

[tjwzkpn · 1/10 · 18 August 2022]

Domineek cannot act. The dialogue was traSh, the girls were good but thats it. Please cancel this before they do a season 3, all eps have been bad and ridiculous.

AHS has done it's time

[mylfo · 4/10 · 25 August 2022]

Each episode becomes worse. This one exhibits the height of bad acting, bad directing, and an horrific script. This type of show is fine for pulp but the AHS franchise should be ashamed of the B grade depths it has sunk to. I give it a 4 because I actually finished watching it. AHS give up or grow up please.

Plot holes even a toddler could fill

[MsHoneyBee · 8/10 · 20 August 2022]

I agree with basically everyone. I don't like when stories have no diversity. That's the same for Black stories. I'm Black and I don't wanna only see Black people in my media. There is natural diversity in the world and it sucks that film and tv people can't find neutrality. Now I will say, this episode blatantly took place in Missouri which has some large, mostly Black communities, however, that community wasn't the main feature of this episode, even with the poverty coming into play with the older sisters wish, that doesn't mean the cast can't be diverse. Anyway! That's really a secondary issue with this episode. Anyone of any color can summon Bloody Mary so I wish that would have been considered...

Anyway, I thought this was one of the better episodes but that ending... it was just terrible and stupid to me. Let's go ahead and punish the good girls. That's fun. The ones who don't do the terrible things are killed... by their friend??? Cool.

Also, why did that child think she needed to kill someone to get like two tablespoons of their blood? Her lack of common sense was out of character for someone who was basically the bread winner and provider for her family. I get feeling like you want more but uh... that's one extreme to the other. And stabbing someone in the eye doesn't always kill them...

Also, at the end, only one jar was offered to Bloody Mary so why kill the other girls?

Someone else said also, at this point, why hadn't Bloody Mary already escaped? There were a million and one people she could have tricked into doing this...

That ending was one big plot hole which easily could have been filled by saying she had to stay in the mirror for this many years before being released, but it might have been a little harder to deal with all that unnecessary death among the friend group...