American Horror Story: Delicate is back to do what AHS does best

polygon.com:

American Horror Story: Delicate is obviously pulling from a variety of sources: It’s based on Danielle Valentine’s book Delicate Condition, but its first half is full of nods to Dead Ringers and Rosemary’s Baby. This isn’t anything new — throughout the good seasons, the bad seasons, and (most frequently) the desperately uneven sequences, American Horror Story has pulled liberally and chaotically from the horror genre. It’s a series that can be almost hauntingly unreliable. However, even at its most unstable points, there is one thing that AHShas always been able to rely on: allowing certain actresses to let their freak flags fly.

In this case, two performers serve as the series’ prime creative outlets. In one corner, we have franchise mainstay Emma Roberts, playing Anna, a young actor struggling with conceiving a child and falling into a rabbit hole of conspiracy and satanic pacts. Roberts doesn’t get anything as maliciously gleeful as, say, her role as a witch in AHS: Coven, but she’s game for anything, no matter how ridiculous — she approaches solemn scenes and scenes where she has to vomit a seemingly endless amount of black bile with the same enthusiasm. And playing the devil on her shoulder is Kim Kardashian, the show’s token bit of stunt casting this season, as her brash publicist, Siobhan. It’s a role that she’s received solid notices for, allowing Kardashian to fit into a long line of scene-chewing AHS stars.

Since the show’s second season, AHS had given up on the pretense of being a straightforward horror series. Instead, it’s best when it blends its gory free-for-all with obvious camp, allowing actresses like Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, and Lily Rabe (among many others; AHS loves nothing more than finding some new, weird spot for a recurring performer) to go as hammy or vicious as they want to for multiple seasons. In the aforementioned Coven, Bates plays both an unrepentant racist serial killer and a comically hysterical