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'American Horror Story: 1984': Emma Roberts' Brooke gets shaded for her 'basic dumb girl shenanigans'

Seriously, Brooke, do you come from a planet where the entire horror genre does not exist or what?

The most ironic thing about the horror genre is how every single character acts as if they have never seen a horror flick in their life. And Emma Roberts' Brooke Thompson on 'American Horror Story: 1984' is no different from that - an observation that fans were quick to notice.

Brooke is your stereotypical naive princess with a traumatic past. She has a break-in at her house, where the attacker promises to return and kill her as 'Satan' will guide him. Despite all of this, she jumps at the opportunity to go to a secluded lakeside camp with her young adult friends, like the concept of horror doesn't even exist on whatever planet she lives in. She is hesitant to indulge in snorting cocaine like her campmates do on the way, but the better judgment probably snoozes for the rest of her time in the camp so far as she decides to go check up on a stranger they have picked up on their way to the camp. All alone. 

All of this, after she has been told the story about the killing spree that the camp's former terrorizer Mr. Jingles went on some 14 years ago. Brooke and her friends know that there's this masked murderer who stabbed people and chopped off their ears to tie them in a necklace as a souvenir, but it still doesn't occur to her that maybe the venue isn't all that safe, you know? Maybe, they should make a run for it the way normal people do.

Oh, but she runs shortly after when she gets chased by the murderer into the forest, and of course, she trips and falls, before somehow making her way back to her friends. And after her friends don't believe her, this 'dumb white girl' jumps at the first chance she gets to answer a call on the payphone attached to the cabin. Seriously, do people in horror flicks not live in a world where mankind has seen this genre yet or what? Or maybe this is Murphy's genius satirical spin on the classic dumb decisions people have made in most horror stories so far. Guess, only the future episodes will answer that. But if viewers are to be believed, Brooke's instincts on how to function in a remote lakeside campsite with her attacker on the loose are definitely not to be trusted.

The only saving grace for most fans right now is the fact that Roberts is playing the role, and therefore they want to continue watching it just to see what more hilarious, questionable and extremely stupid stunts Brooke pulls before she realizes maybe it's time to bid the camp goodbye. But then again, the show must go on, and as this one fan correctly puts:

'American Horror Story: 1984' will air on Wednesdays at 9pm only on FX.