American Horror Story: Delicate Season-Premiere Recap

Life is cyclical for a woman trying to get pregnant or not. Bleed, intercourse, wait, bleed again. You sex again. Wait again. Maybe you try IVF. Wait again.

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Your friendships, career, and romance are continuing, yet you track your time in 28-day cycles on a hated iPhone app.

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American Horror Story: Delicate's opening reflects infertility's painful pace. The episode opens with a flash-forward and closes a week later with a house invasion.

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Young Hollywood star Anna Victoria Alcott (Emma Roberts) is horrified when she wakes up in bed in the middle of the night holding a stranger's hand

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in the cold air in her luxurious concrete-chic Brooklyn Heights apartment. If she stares at her crimson hands and clutches her stomach,

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we think she miscarried from the trauma. We realize the stakes when we see it again an hour later. Anna completed her third egg retrieval and implantation.

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Dexter, an art gallerist, scolds Anna for nearly missing their latest egg retrievals without seeming like a dick. Anna questions his love, but he assures

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her that their infertility is not her fault. Matt Czuchry's irrepressible slipperiness makes him unsuitable for the role of a devoted husband, but Dex could believe it.

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However, he responds to Anna's moods. He recommends playing their favorite game, which is like constructing backstories

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