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Ryan Murphy and his team have created magic realness and characters we will never ever forget. Brilliant just begins to describe this series with heart. Bravo!

Rarely am I surprised by a film. Even less rare am I left speechless. It has already all been done and said, right? Turns out the answer to that question is no. This incredibly brilliant and quiet film reintroduces family and humanness to a world that desperately needs to see the transformative power that tragedy and suffering can bring to a family and community. Molly Shannon is a revelation. She is purely breath-taking in her nuanced and authentic performance. The family that surrounds her in this film is brilliantly cast and subtly and not so subtly used to portray emotion and experience and raw realness. I cannot wait to see this film again and to share it with everyone I care about.

It took me awhile, days in fact, of discomfort to realize how offended I was at the BS that was Star Wars: The Force Awakens. There is no story, no drama, nothing special and bizarrely poorly acted cameos by some surprising actors that want to turn criticism for their bad acting into deflections about 'body shaming' or some such bizarre defense against actual valid criticism. This movie is not about anything. It is a feeble attempt to squeeze one more dollar from a public that loved the original star wars but in a way that took about ten minutes to write and twenty minutes to film the actual acting. The guest cameos were so poor that I cannot believe any intelligent director did not cut them from day one and demand better. I know I expect a certain level of entertainment when I go to a film and this was so far below standards that I may never see another Lucusfilm production.