When the first season of American Horror Story aired on television, the program was a miniseries. This means that after the first season, the story for the first season was over. Then, the second season began, and the story was independent of the story of the first season.
The miniseries structure gives the creators of the program, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the opportunity to recast their favorite actors and give them completely different roles in each successive season.
American Horror Story is a lively television show that is full of surprises. Matt Zoller Seitz from vulture.com agrees that this new season is just like the last two, in which the plot took head-spinning twists during every episode. The show is known to have some of the most gruesome scenes aired on American television. Ryan Murphy has to maintain his reputation for supplying viewers with shocking scenes and surprising plots.
Jade Chambers commented, “They [Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk] always have strange scenes and creatures that you would never guess would be able to be aired on television.”
Each season contains several controversial topics that follow both historical and modern story lines. Normally, directors try to tip-toe around controversy. American Horror Story confronts such controversy head-on.
The program explicitly presents the severity of the real world.
Rosie McLaughlin believes that the show is called a “horror story” because it’s supposed to scare the viewer with the realities of the evil that lay within the human heart. She believes we watch it to push our own comfort zones.
The creators of this show are trying to teach us that we should stop turning our heads at the blatant horrors in everyday life.
