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In 2016, he launched his Half initiative, which aims to have 50 per cent of directorships across the super-producer’s slate filled with minorities – within a year of launching, Ryan Murphy Television’s director slate hired 60 per cent women directors, and 90 per cent met its women and minority requirement.

According to Sagaz, it is these efforts towards better representation and diversity which will be the legacy of the show.

Though his performance was widely acknowledged as the stand-out of the season, the decision to cast a cis man in the role of a trans woman felt outdated then, and even moreso today.

The franchise also has a lack of queer characters of colour, which was magnified by Hotel’s casting of five similarly good looking white men in key roles.

They’ve lost the trust of and trust in the adults in their life, a reflection of the aimlessness and fear that much of the younger generations still carry with them today.

A Timeless Fable of Hope

In my younger days, I had a very surface level appreciation of Battle Royale.

He gained notoriety chiefly for his shocking yakuza exploitation films, the Battles Without Honor or Humanity series. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun is a film that ends on a note that is as frightening as it is contemplative, reminding us that the cost of war and human cruelty on a governmental level is as spiritual and moral as it is material.

But it always struck me as a disservice to how well made the film is, because at the end of the day, it’s hard to disagree with the notion that this is Fukasaku’s best film. We see highly-strung homemaker Chad, elbow deep in Marie Antoinette-themed pumpkins, accusing his partner Patrick of infidelity. Our show is different.”

Erika’s character was part of a travelling “cabinet of curiosities,” some of whom had visible disabilities and deformities.

“Freak Show was about discrimination against people who are disabled,” she explains.

Ryan Murphy introduced the very first season of his TV show, dubbed Murder House, with a similarly down ending and nearly all the main characters meeting their demise to remain trapped in the house forever. Their love wasn’t a shameful secret, the basis for a coming out story, or any of the other usual tropes that have propelled LGBT+ representation on screen.

Isolated from civilization on an abandoned island, the personalities that defined their high school experience turn into deadly shades of their former selves.

His musings on the senseless and wanton violence against the Japanese citizenry during World War II were reflected by a staunch anti-nationalist streak in his war films.

Fukasaku’s yakuza films have often been interpreted by film journalists and scholars like Will Robinson Sheff and David Hanley to be “harsh-lit exposés of postwar Japan’s demoralized spirit”, “[conveying] the chaotic nature of the period”.

These images were indelibly etched into his mind, and then his art. The sheer charismatic menace that is Masanobu Andô as Kiriyama! AHS: NYC’s focus on Fire Island’s deer and ticks was a red herring, as the identification of Lyme disease and HIV/AIDS occurred around the same time.

AHS's Season 11 Ending Confirms Big Daddy's Killer Twist

Big Daddy Was A Metaphor For The Spread Of HIV/AIDs

American Horror Story: NYC episode 8’s ending suggested that Big Daddy was never a serial killer in the typical sense of the word, and that the leather-clad figure was never entirely real. Rather, AHS: NYC explained that Big Daddy was a visual representation of the virus, which stalked and killed various American Horror Story season 11 characters.

When Big Daddy followed characters around, he symbolized their infection with the HIV/AIDS virus, even if they didn’t know it yet.

A Cast and Director Working in Unison

On a technical level, the film has incredibly tight editing and special effects that shouldn’t be ignored. It’s in the title itself: they’re vignettes highlighting the transformation of humans into criminals as a borderline species metamorphosis. AHS: NYC’s killer is a very real threat that taps into a different fear than vengeful spirits, sadistic psychopaths, supernatural entities, or religious symbols.

The immense levels of Verhoeven-esque violence and general cruelty of these films were a key feature, not a bug. But even then, these minor characters and their performers are strong. American Horror Story was a first for me in that I was cast because of my acting abilities, neither my accent nor the tone of my skin were crucial to booking the role of Bruce."

Nevertheless, as the show progresses it continues to improve on representation.

“No matter your nationality, race or sexual orientation, you have a voice on that set, and your voice matters.”