American Horror Stories Season 2 Episode 7 Review

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American Horror Stories has delivered yet another startling episode. «Necro» crafts its uneasy atmosphere immediately with its cryptic opening scene and the horror series capitalizes on it. The latest episode of the horror series benefits from its steady pacing and the strength of its narrative, as well as the sound performances from Madison Iseman, Cameron Cowperthwaite, and the various members of the episode's supporting cast.

Written by Crystal Liu, who has written a number of episodes of American Horror Story dating back to 2014, «Necro» certainly benefits from her expertise. The latest episode of the horror series carries the sentiment of American Horror Stories and the original series through both Liu's script and Logan Kibens' direction.Kibens' experience with a series like Snowfall serves her well with a few of the complicated and gritty scenes that «Necro» contains.

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«Necro,» whose title is an abbreviation of necrophilia, or a sensual attraction toward the dead, provides a glimpse into what viewers can expect. The opening sequence of American Horror Stories follows an ominous blood trail that ends with a young girl breastfeeding from her dead mother's corpse. This opening already establishes a unique connection between the dead and the episode's living characters. Naturally, the opening sequence of «Necro» isn't the strangest or most unsettling scene the episode has to offer.

Following the breastfeeding scene, American Horror Stories transports viewers to present-day California. It is here that «Necro» begins to introduce its main conflicts. Sam (Iseman) works as a mortuary cosmetologist and as she tries to connect with her boyfriend Jesse (Spencer Neville)