![]() ![]() Murphy, who directed the first episode, clearly watched The Shining many, many times during the off-season, because Hotel is full of shout-outs to Kubrick’s classic, with everything from the carpet to the sight of a creepy child standing at the end of a long hallway bringing the film to mind. Judging from that, it’s going to be a good season.Īmerican Horror Story: Hotel takes place in the Hotel Cortez, a downtown LA deco throwback that’s seen better days - not that you’d know it from the place’s opulent decadence. Should I focus on the visuals, or setting? Lady Gaga’s much-hyped TV acting debut? And then it hit me - the key is to judge American Horror Story on where it lives and breathes, in the realm of sheer, bizarre what-the-fuck-edness. It’s left me asking myself how to best evaluate the debut episode of the new season, Hotel, premiering tonight on FX. Part of it’s been simple fatigue and desensitization we’ve been here before and we’ve seen that, so for AHS to shock, series creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk don’t just need to go further - they’ve got to sustain it over a 13-episode run. Some were certainly better than others I found the gonzo madness of Asylum to be incredibly entertaining, while Coven and Freak Show each seemed to lose steam midway through. Subsequent seasons followed a similar methodology, and basically lived or died by their ability to escalate both the drama and lunacy. The first season, centered around a Los Angeles family in a haunted home, made its name by constantly crossing boundaries and outrageously upping the stakes, leaving the audience to wonder just how the story could sustain itself into a second season (as it turns out, it never had any intention of doing so creator Ryan Murphy revealed at the time the AHS would be an anthology show that rebooted itself annually). Here, we look at American Horror Story's seasons, ranking them from the very worst to the absolute best.More than any other show in recent memory, American Horror Story is built on its ability to one-up itself on a weekly basis. ![]() In each, there's notable attention paid to the details required to transport viewers to another time and place, be it a dank mental hospital in the 1960s or a haunted, woodsy summer camp smack dab in the middle of the 1980s.įor all the show's successes, however, not every season is a winner. American Horror Story's seasons also take place in different locales and in various time periods. It's enormously fun to watch these reoccurring actors tackle multiple characters and a variety of extremely different - and seriously heady - scenarios. Many of the show's actors appear in different roles throughout the series, including Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Lady Gaga, and Angela Bassett. ![]() Haunted houses, serial killers, insane clowns, mental asylums, and sadistic doctors are only a handful of the myriad creepy components that make up the addictive show. The show, created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the FX network, is an anthology series, meaning each season is its own rollercoaster ride offering a new, distinct brand of terror. For nine seasons (with more on the horizon) American Horror Story has taken deep dives into some very dark realms. ![]()
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