American Horror Story Analysis

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American Horror Story was created by Ryan Murphy. The series, which is still airing to this day, aired on October 5, 2011. This series uses crude comedy that is full of adult innuendos. In each season, the viewer experiences a different theme and setting. The first season is centered on a man, his wife, and their home. The second season is centered on an insane asylum and its patients. The third season is centered on a coven of witches in New Orleans. The fourth season is centered on a circus. The fifth season is centered on a hotel and vampires. The common element in every season is horror. Murphy plays with the different elements of horror by including gore, killing, the psychological, and the paranormal. Murphy also plays with the taboo …show more content…

This season was a bit boring and confusing. It centered on nuns and doctors in the asylum. They are all trying to “help” the patients, but due to some deep, dark secrets, the help becomes deadly. Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) and Sister Mary Eunice (Jessica Lange) are nuns who work to serve as nurses to the insane. However, Sister June is haunted by the memory of a hit and run she committed, and Sister Mary Eunice is possessed by the devil. This leads the once superior Sister June, along with the other patients, to be hunted and preyed upon by Sister Mary Eunice. Some of the characters are also wrongfully committed in the asylum because of the ignorance of the early and mid- 20th century, about such topics as homosexuality. The doctors are also serial killers that blame the mentally ill patients for the murders that they commit. This storyline jumps to several different storylines, which became so confusing, I wanted to end up in an asylum! There are even alien abductions- some real and some imaginary. There are just so many changes in the characters’ lives that it can become confusing to the viewer. Although it was good, it was too murky and bland to completely stay in tuned throughout the whole …show more content…

The characters are those same characters you see when you go to your local carnival and pay five dollars to see their unique features. There is the Bearded Lady/Ethel Darling (Kathy Bates), her lobster-handed son Jimmy Darling (Evan Peters), the three- breasted woman/Desiree Dupree (Angela Bassett), and her husband, the strongman/Dell Toledo (Michael Chiklis). There are also some real characters that have real deformities. For example Ma Petite (Jyoti Amge) and Amazon Eve (Erika Ervin) are real women who actually are two feet tall and seven feet tall. There are also conjoined twins, Bette and Dot (Sarah Paulson). They have a murderous clown killing each one of the freaks one by one. If you are afraid of clowns, I recommend you not to watch Twisty (John Carroll Lynch). There is also Twisty’s protege, Dandy (Finn Wittrock), who follows in Twisty’s footsteps. Jessica Lange reappears again as the owner of the carnival, Elsa Mars. Mars has a love and protective streak when it comes to the freaks. The episodes show the demons and the pressures that weigh down on the workers of the carnival. You get to see how they are exploited and forced to do things because of their differences compared to normal society. This season was fun, artistic, horrifying, and completely

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