"American Horror Story" is back for round 7 and this time there are clowns, lesbians, Billy Eichner, and, of course, the 2016 election. Within only the first two episodes, viewers have seen comical yet chillingly accurate reactions to the results of the 2016 presidential election and the various mentalities and attitudes that have emerged from the outcome. Only the first episode truly focuses on the election, beginning with a montage of video and audio clips of speeches and comments made by both Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton.

After the first few minutes, the election is referred to and some political names are dropped, like Jill Stein, but otherwise the focus is more on Ally's phobias and her life with her wife Ivy and their son. The brilliant Sarah Paulson gives a stunning performance as the emotionally fragile and volatile woman that is Ally, who begins to see murderous clowns everywhere she goes. The general consensus in the show is that she's losing her mind, but I'm not so easily convinced, considering their neighbors across the street were murdered by a group of people wearing creepy clown costumes. Anyway, Ally keeps seeing these murderous and sex-crazed clowns at the supermarket and basically everywhere she goes, but none of the security cameras justify her claims. While she thinks she's defending herself from these creepy clown people who keep chasing her, the camera reveals it's just her screaming and throwing wine bottles across the store.

After a few incidents, Ivy tells Ally she doesn't know how much more of this she can take and their marriage feels strained, especially after their son claims that he's seeing clowns now too. But in the second episode, Ally is somewhat vindicated when an actual murder occurs at Ivy's restaurant. Of course, Ally was alone again when she stumbled across the dying body of one of the restaurant's chefs, but the police eventually show up and the body is still there, which is a good sign for her mental stability, but not so much for the chef.

The second episode also introduces Billy Eichner's character Harrison Wilson, a gun-loving, gay beekeeper married to a woman. Harrison and his wife, Meadow, move across the street from Ally and Ivy and take up residence in the same house their friends were killed. Ally creeps on them for a little bit, because she's Ally, and runs away when she gets caught only to come back later in the the day with her wife to fetch their son, who wanted to take a look at Harrison's bees. And then we find out Harrison is gay and married his best friend because they made a pact to marry each other if they were both still single by whatever age, which feels so tired and overused but is implemented in the show in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way.

Meadow, who can't stay out in the sun for more than ten minutes at a time and runs an easy shop, makes some comment about lesbians being good for property values, which is weird, and then proceeds to throw in a stereotype of two for good measure. And still, there is so much more the mere two episodes touch upon, so if you want to know more, which you should, go check at the show on FX.