“She acts as if it’s owed to her,” Ally insists, before waxing poetic about Jill Stein’s push for green energy and labeling GMOs. Ivy wants Ally to be stoked about their son seeing a Black president and then a women president but Ally thinks Hillary is too entitled. Ally’s wrapped herself in a self-righteous fleece blend blanket and is cradling her giant mug of lesbian tea, refusing to accompany her nice paper plate wife Ivy to a rally that honestly I do not see the actual point of. Harrison votes for Gary Johnson, Meadow writes in “Oprah,” Ivy and Winter vote for Hillary, Gary Longstreet aka Chaz Bono (who arrives triumphantly with Kai sporting a severed, bloody arm, b/c nothing can take him away from MAGA) votes for Trump, as does, obviously, Kai.Īnother time jump lands us the day prior to the election. Winter and her pals are in line, chanting “pussy grabs back” and dissing The Patriarchy, there’s a surly Harrison, an idiotic Meadow (who declares herself truly unfit to vote for anything besides the Emmys), and Ivy triple-checking with Ally that she’s not gonna lodge a protest vote and instead help her make! history! In the booth, though, Ally can’t bring herself to vote for Hillary and instead votes for Jill Stein. This week’s episode contains several time jumps, and opens on Election Night. And by “anything” I mean TERRIBLE MURDER. Kai is smarter than Trump and smarter than Trump’s ideas, and better than Trump at convincing a member of just about any demographic group that he uniquely understands their pain and is uniquely willing to do anything to soothe it. Throughout “11/9,” which occurs almost entirely in flashbacks to the fall and winter of 2016, we witness a surprisingly charismatic Kai manipulate frightened people by responding to their fear and anger with brutal absolutes, swift action and unwavering loyalty that is essentially sadistic but somehow masquerades as compassion. Kai may trumpet Trump’s words and policies when he’s on the mic, but behind the scenes it isn’t Trump or Trump’s politics he loves so much as it is Trump’s ability to strategically harness fear. These feel like pretty thick envelopes baby, I think we both got into Smith!”Īs American Horror Story: Cult gains distance from its early premise, which summoned a dark familiarity from an audience who possibly saw themselves in Sarah Paulson’s wild, panicked, guttural scream at CNN’s announcement of apocalyptic election results, Kai’s titular Cult reveals itself to be ten parts wacky and zero parts partisan. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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