These Are the 25 Best Episodes of TV in 2018 | TV Guide

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8. ‘House by the Lake,’ ACS: Versace

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story was, for better or for worse, told in reverse, beginning with Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) murdering the fashion icon and then painstakingly detailing how Cunanan became a killer. “House by the Lake,” shows Cunanan’s first kill: his one-time friend Jeff Trail (Finn Wittrock). It is gruesome and terrifying, not just because of the gore, but because Criss and Cody Fern, playing their mutual friend David Madson, are respectively demented and paralyzed with fear. The murder itself prompts revulsion, but it’s the subsequent drama when Cunanan takes Trail hostage on a doomed road trip that provides the episode’s gripping tension. Even though viewers know the awful outcome, Cody Fern’s desperate performance somehow makes the past seem present and the inevitable seem almost changeable as we root for him to run. –Malcolm Venable

These Are the 25 Best Episodes of TV in 2018 | TV Guide

These Are the 25 Best Performances on TV in 2018 | TV Guide

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21. Cody Fern, AHS: Apocalypse and ACS: Versace (FX)

Over the course of the past 12 months, Cody Fern went from an unknown actor to one of the most talked-about rising stars. He kicked off the year with a heart-wrenching and scene-stealing performance in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace as David Madson, a good friend of Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) who ultimately became one of his first victims. This performance led to another collaboration with Ryan Murphy, with Fern taking on the role of conflicted (but sexy!) Antichrist Michael Langdon in American Horror Story: Apocalypse. While Fern embodied Michael as the hardened and vindictive spawn of Satan in the post-apocalyptic world, it was the flashbacks to his childhood — where Fern brought to life Michael’s inner conflict between his desire to be good and his unwavering fate to destroy the world — that already has us clamoring for the actor to take his rightful place alongside Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters in future seasons of the horror anthology. –Sadie Gennis

9. Darren Criss, ACS: Versace (FX)

Here’s the thing about Darren Criss: We knew that dude from Glee. Glee! The high school musical where, as Blaine, Criss sang pop songs and did some very fancy prancing. He did some prancing in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story too, albeit while watching a terrified john, bound in duct tape, beg for his life. In Ryan Murphy’s chilling tale of how gay killer Andrew Cunanan came to rob the world of Gianni Versace’s brilliance, Criss became someone else entirely — no, he became two people: a cunning, dangerously narcissistic grifter, and a drugged-up monster addicted to S&M sex and the thrill of taking life. It’s an astonishing performance, one that literally bared everything. Criss deservedly won the Best Actor in a Limited Series Emmy for his portrayal, but more than anything, Darren Criss erased any preconceived notions about who we thought he was or what he could do. –Malcolm Venable

These Are the 25 Best Performances on TV in 2018 | TV Guide

king-langdon:

I feel so bad

Incredibly bad that there’s fan accounts that are so afraid of even posting something that can be taken the wrong way. Listen I may talk a lot but my biggest problem is with stalker fans and rude people who purposely ignore when we try to stop them for stalking Cody’s family. Never will my problem be that you make your content the way you please. What is there to be frighten of? Don’t be. Some go to far with memes but honestly if you don’t think what you upload is bad then stick by it especially knowing that you mean no harm. There’s a difference between everyone, some are in constant awareness and others choose to ignore it.

ALSO there’s no such thing as being a good fan. We are all fans some just Overstep boundaries. Do not think there’s a mold you have to follow

This is sooo important. 

DO YOU, DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

You fandom life is meant to make you happy, so please just be happy in it. We all are different and therefore post different things.

Good and bad fans are such awful concept.