American Horror Story: Cult Episode 2 "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" Review

Ally, Ivy, and Oz meet the new neighbors. Kai runs for city council. Detective Samuels investigates a murder. A blackout terrorizes Ally.

This was a really entertaining and interesting episode that did a good job of building off of where the last episode left off but I would say that there wasn't a whole lot new stuff to this episode. Like the only new thing was the introduction of the new neighbors after the murder that happened at the end of the last episode these new people move into that house and they are a very interesting couple so I'm very curious to see what's all going to happen with them. And I really kind of enjoyed and found it interesting how as Oz is becoming more panicked and freaked out about what's going on around him he is relying more on Ivy then he is Ally so that was really kind of interesting to watch how all of them reacted to that. And then I really enjoyed how Winter tried to calm Oz down by telling him that the best way to know whether you're dreaming or not is to ask someone and I just really enjoyed how that came into play later in the episode. And then it was fairly interesting to see everything that happened to Ally and how she was still very freaked out but tried her best to live a normal life again even though a lot of stuff keeps happening to sort of ruin that. And then everything with Kai was really interesting with how he first put on this very like friendly persona but then as soon as someone sort of questioned what he was doing or what he was saying he got very aggressive. And I do really like how they continued off of doing what they did last episode which was playing with ideas of what is real and what isn't as well as in this episode sort of building off of a lot of like the internal fears that some people have that they don't want to show because I don't want to be perceived as racists or something like that. Then the ending of this episode was really great when the blackout happened and just all the different problems that came out of that with everyone just everyone really messing with Ally when she wasn't in the right sort of mind at all she was really freaked out and I'm just really curious to see what's going to happen after how this episode ended. So just overall this was a really entertaining really great episode and I can't wait to see where they're going to take this story.