Red Haze

This episode is called "Red Haze" but should be called "Ends of Days"; it has such heart-pumping mayhem. I'd recommend two viewings of this episode and a seatbelt because Max Winkler has no mercy as the episode gains momentum. As stated in the trivia section of this IMDB entry, a brilliant and harrowing continuous shot compresses the madness of the last 4 years of all our lives into 15 heart-racing minutes. Uncertainty, paranoia, desperation, numbness to catastrophe, and that need to help in the face of tremendous odds (and all reason). The performance of Nash and Vance continues to be brilliant as the most unusual "buddy cops" in television history. Murphy, Baitz, and Baken are more than successful at making the viewer feel the anxiety of chasing a serial killer while the serial killer chases you!

Grotesqueirie is a sight for sore eyes. Nash and Vance are on fire. Niecy Nash specifically, is nothing short of poignant and amazing in her portrayal of Lois. This show feels like it was supposed to be an early season of American Horror Story, it has everything a lot of the old American Horror Story want back in their modern seasons. This episode features a continuous 16 minute long one shot scene that succeeds in making you feel like you are right there in the moment losing your mind with the rest of the characters as multiple story changing and distressing things happen all in less than a span of half the episode. Ryan Murphy has not done something like this since Ratched. Praises to Niecy Nash always!!!! THE GOAT!!!!