You've probably heard that American Horror Story is going downhill many times. There's no consensus about when exactly things went wrong but most people tend to think this way. The brand new season proves them all right. It lacks everything that made audience fall in love with the show in the first place.
New York, the 1980's. A local gay community constantly has sex in all sorts of creepy, germ-infested places, uses drugs and occasionally gets murdered by leather guy named (bear with me) Big Daddy. Also there's a new virus on Fire Island that affects deers. That's pretty much all events in this episode. Self-explanatory, as one of the characters states.
American Horror Story used to be genuinely scary and groundbreaking with its ensemble cast and fresh takes on familiar plots. Not anymore. A show that has a killer named Big Daddy and that wastes screen time to explain what the handkerchief code is can't possibly be chilling or, at least, taken seriously. Season 11 just started but it already has the potential of becoming another nail in the show's coffin.