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I read the Washingtonians story.

posted 12 years ago by DeusExKatrina
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Never watched the episode because I heard it was too campy. So I read the story instead and... it was extremely campy. People dressed up in yanky and redcoat garb, historians recast as a secret society? Would have been far, far more chilling if it had been more realistic and included more context.

I admit, though, that the raw concepts they express were chillingly brutal: the first continental congress being dismembered, the cherry tree symbolism. If the Masters of Horror ep is supposed to be more campy than the very campy original story I'm guessing they must have toned down the brutality of those concepts, yes/no?

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[–] gamer_12 9 years ago

I believe Bentley Little wrote the story and as someone who has read most everything he's written, he does tend to get very campy at times. I find his stuff fun though as they are all pretty much satires of some aspect of American culture.