Streaming services, cable TV and Primetime television are fighting for your viewership now more than ever. UNBINGED is here to help you weed through it all, with reviews of the latest shows that highlight what we love, what we hate and what we love to hate-watch, too. Pages from bestselling books are coming to life for the small screen as beloved horror series (Amercian Horror Story: Delicate), primetime cop series (Irrational), and new sci-fi thrillers (The Other Black Girl) seek novel programming ideas. This month, we look at the newest series based on the printed word.
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American Horror Story: Delicate (FX/Hulu)
In the 12th season of American Horror Story, an actress attempts to have it all by adding a baby to the mix only to discover that sinister forces are conspiring against her. Sound familiar? It should. The latest season of the brazen horror series is based on the book Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine, a modern, somewhat feminist take on Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, but it takes gaslighting horror to campy and grotesque new levels.
Anna and Dex (Emma Roberts and Matt Czuchry) are a wealthy New York couple attempting to become parents with a helping hand from science. While going through IVF, Anne begins losing her sense of self. She seems to have become forgetful, or at least events are triggered to make it appear that way.
AHS featured player Emma Roberts is front and center testing her dramatic chops as a soon-to-be mother on the edge of insanity. As her pregnancy grows, so does her paranoia, her forgetfulness, and her frustration at her inability to make anyone believe her. Roberts does a fine job here, while Czuchry plays her somewhat suspicious husband Dex with a smirking obnoxiousness that makes you want to punch him in the kisser (not unlike his best-known role as Logan in Gilmore Girls).
As for the much-touted Kim Kardashian, who plays Anne’s best friend and publicist…
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