Some thoughts on the premiere of the extremely gay “American Horror Story: NYC”

The 11th season of American Horror Story premiered last night and, in case you haven’t heard, it is gay, gay, gay.

Obviously, most installments of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s horror anthology series have been pretty gay, but this one is possibly the gayest yet.

The new season, subtitled NYC, takes place firmly within the world of the city’s early 80s gay scene. FX dropped the season’s first two episodes last night, and after watching the premiere I, along with fans on Twitter, have some thoughts.

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Here’s what’s happening this season, because FX was super cagey about it ahead of the premiere: It’s 1981 and New York’s gay men are being menaced by both a serial killer and a scary new virus. So at first glance NYC feels a lot like a mashup of Cruising, the 1980 thriller starring Al Pacino, and And the Band Played On.

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Except the virus isn’t HIV, it has something to do with the mangy deer on Fire Island, which Billie Lourd’s scientist character Hannah is investigating.

Meanwhile, this is the killer:

im sorry but is that austin wolf? #AHSNYC pic.twitter.com/m7Ni3TRivB

— azan bucci (@stupidloaf) October 20, 2022

And no, it is not noted adult film performer Austin Wolf. That is definitely Bane, the Batman villain. The show wants us to call him “Big Daddy,” but we will not be doing that because that man is 100 percent Bane.

I KNOW Ryan Murphy's gay ass is NOT doing a whole season about the gays being killed after we done watched Dahmer have a Caesars Palce buffet of us on Netflix chile