Amerin Horror Story: NYC Premiere Rep Season 11, Episo 1: Serial Killer Targets Gay Men

Contents:

• AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!
• 14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK
• AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?

AMERIN HORROR STORY RETURNS TO THE '80S WH A GAY SERIAL KILLER STORY SEASON 11 PREMIERE — GRA AHS: NYC!

The Last Call Killer preyed on gay men New York Cy the Eighti — and he seems to be an spiratn for Ryan Murphy's latt season of the horror show. ) targetg gay men.

Eher way, the MO of the latter killer seems le wh the Last Call Killer, who, acrdg to Elon Green’s Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York, preyed on gay men New York Cy the Eighti and Neti. Here seems even more real-life issu (and perhaps another killer) e to play, as The Native is a real paper that famoly reported on the AIDS crisis when mastream media ignored , and Go’s abductn mirrors the murr of film-dtry journalist Addison Verrill by radgrapher Pl Baton, famoly wrten up the Village Voice 1977 unr the headle “There’s Nothg Gay About Murr.

” The article foced, aga, on how ps seemed to be ignorg the murrs of gay men. Amerin Horror Story: NYC tak place the 1980s and centers around a serial killer who is targetg gay men. Unfortunately, the ps are dog nothg about , bee ’s the 1980s and they’re all pretty homophobic — except for Patrick (Rsell Tovey), a gay p who is the closet and do want to do somethg, but is still reluctant to expose himself to his bigoted peers, which, like, unrstandable.

14 WTF AHS NYC PREMIERE MOMENTS: SERIAL KILLER TARGETS GAY MEN, EPIMIC LOOMS '80S NEW YORK

Whely, but we do know he is a gay man who kidnapped Go and tortured him; he wears large aviator-style glass that rmble Dahmer’s; his hair is parted that same exaggerated si part; and he wears basilly the same exact striped-polo-shirt outf that Evan Peters did when he portrayed the serial killer Murphy’s te-crime show about Dahmer. The te-crime miseri told the story of serial killer Jefey Dahmer, who targeted gay men the 1980s. Season 11 of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falch's horror anthology is fely light on the supernatural or science fictn at this pot, and stead seems to be focg on the real-life horrors of beg a gay man New York Cy the 1980s.

Takg place 1981, there are two loomg threats to so many of the gay men who make up this season's st so far -- though some of them may be a part of the danger themselv. The first threat seems to ht around the rners of the real HIV and AIDS crisis that slammed to the gay muny around this time, and was promptly ignored by everyone thory bee was seemgly enmic to that culture -- or at least that's what they wanted to believe. The other threat is much more immediate, as there is a serial killer lurkg the gay hot spots around the cy.

For his first trick, he dismembered an airle pilot who went to one of those unrground plac where gay men hooked up. This troduced to Patrick (Rsell Tovey), the closeted tective who is the only hope for the gay muny on the police force bee the rt of the ps really, really, aggrsively and vlently do not want to re about someone killg gay men.

AMERIN HORROR STORY: NYC IS THE GAYT SEASON YET, BUT IS ANY GOOD?

It uld even be that the weakened immune system of HIV is why the gay men uld wd up more sceptible to what we're gog to ll Covid-80. It do seem that Murphy and his team are tryg to tap to somethg we all recently experienced, but filtered through this very real and sry time for gay men wh another largely unknown disease.

The first moment we got nfirmatn that Patrick was gay was when his boyiend Go (Joe Mantello) me home to him.