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Peters also plays six different cult leaders (or icons with a cult-like following) throughout the season, including Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones, and Andy Warhol. In “Cult,” Evan Peters plays Kai, a creepy but charismatic psychopath who invokes fear in order to build a following and gets darker and darker as he rises to power (from the City Council to the Senate). This is not about Trump or Clinton, but about somebody who has the wherewithal to use. “And everyone’s still losing their shit, and there is no real discussion. “Everyone lost their shit after this election,” Murphy said. What’s her end game? Has Ally become our new favorite character now that she’s a stone-cold killer? More Manson callbacks to come.Although the show is set in the backdrop of a Trump victory, “Cult” is more about cults of personality, and the idea of what happens when somebody uses fear and uncertainty to rise to power. One of the cult members runs to his car in a panic because…well, he’s the mole. She’s killed ceremonially in the basement in front of the cult, by Kai’s hands alone. He’s convinced she’s the mole, since Ally found bugs and tape recorders, which Winter denies being hers. (Why won’t anyone kill him already?!) He questions her loyalty…and pulls out the train ticket she offered Beverly. Later, Winter shaves Kai’s head and his beard, making him look even more eerily similar to Manson. Has Ally actually changed, or is she trying to save herself? Does she have a master plan? She aims to shoot Kai, but Ally shoots her first. There is no female rage: there’s just rage everywhere. Valerie Solanas passed the torch to her, and Kai is screwing it up.
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Ding dong, Bebe is here! And she is not happy. Manson gives him some cult-running advice: don’t trust the women. In his room of dead relatives, he has conversations with the undead Rudy Vincent and the ghost of Charles Manson (played by Evan Peters, a dead ringer here). Kai’s paranoia has reached a fever pitch. At the Butchery, Winter, racked by her guilt, tries to help Beverly escape with a train ticket. After everything she’s been put through, she’s snapped.
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Beverly, however, isn’t selling the story. Kai blames it on the “Woke Warriors” who must have targeted Longstreet for his beliefs, saying the deaths are on the senator. Oh yeah, where have these guys been? Anyway Kai has him mercilessly killed– and left outside disemboweled.īeverly is on the scene with the report, this time clearly begrudgingly and helpless. go to Planned Parenthood to find lists of women who want abortions to target. Seriously, is there nothing this woman can’t do? Kai, after popping a pill, introduces the cult to the idea of Helter Skelter – but they need to do it bigger. Paulson is convincingly terrifying as Susan Atkins. The AHS cast reenacts the infamous murders, with Billy Eichner, Sarah Paulson, Leslie Grossman, and Billie Lourd playing Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian, respectively. (Kai even gets maced.) After unsavory coverage by the local news, Kai riles up his cult devotees: it’s the fake media! (Drink.) And then it’s time for a tale from the master. Fighting breaks out, in an echo of the Charlottesville rallies. He’ll be a legend! She strokes his ego, hard.īack in the present day, Kai is holding a rally in a park for his senate run when protesters approach. Female rage is about to explode Trump is hammering away at the dam that’s keeping it pent up.
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Politics perhaps? Wha? Well, she’s an old-school feminist but her favorite politician of all-time is Donald J. Remember her? (She was a SCUM believer alongside Valerie Solanas, who incited the female cult members’ rage while secretly reporting to Kai.) She sees potential in him. Two weeks later, Kai is in anger management with…Bebe Babbitt. He slaps her, and she threatens to press charges. He bashes Clinton and debates Winter’s friend, who mocks him and other alt-righters. (Oh, simpler times.) He can’t possibly win! Who would ever vote for him?! Oh, hi Kai. Winter and her Vassar squad are laughing at Trump in the debates. Loyalty is the buzzword of the week–who has it and why. Evan Peters continues his on-point impersonations of famous cult leaders with a pretty good Charles Manson, while the rest of the cast plays the rest of the Helter Skelter devotees. SCUM and Helter Skelter duke it out for ultimate domination of Trump’s America on AHS this week.