American Horror Story: Cult feels like they’re exploiting the current political clima

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Although Ryan Murphy has insisted Cult “is not about Trump or Clinton,” but it uses the toxic political divide as a jumping-off point,” says Brian Lowry. But this series “is too blunt an instrument to effectively probe that terrain, using the equivalent of an axe where a scalpel is required,” he says, adding: “If the producers wanted to weigh in with any gravity on today's cultural schism they should have developed something new instead of trying to squeeze those aspirations into the blood-rimmed contours of American Horror Story. As is, the resulting scheme plays like a gimmick at its worst, and at its best, an awkward fit.” PLUS: Cult ends up rendering all political sides as caricatures, it tries to make the Trump era scarier than it is, how those terrifying posters were created, and ranking every season