Let’s give credit where it’s due – the pilot episode for the show was one of the most buzzed-about of 2011, and for good reason. A great balance of scary, campy, and genuinely touching, which this show can do better than any other when it puts its deranged mind to it.
WHAT HAPPENS IN SEASON 5 OF AMERICAN HORROR S SERIES
Burn!” (named after an excellent film of the same name that we recommended watching before the series kicked off) has been the standout so far for perfectly executing a full-scale undead invasion and making both Nan ( Jamie Brewer) and Zoe ( Taissa Farmiga) into kick-ass horror heroines, giving otherwise bland Cordelia (Paulson) the gift of second sight, showing Fiona’s (Lange) softer side (in a brilliant scene where she breathes life into a stillborn baby), and giving some due screen time to the gloriously batty Myrtle Snow (three-season vet Conroy) before lighting her up like a Char-Broil. But with all this season’s bitchy backstabbings, clumsy race conversation, and zombie porn, “Burn, Witch. Which is fine – not every episode needs to be a game-changer, and they still have four episodes left to really land one if they so choose. It’s interesting – while the current witch-centered season has been far and away the most popular and commercially successful, it hasn’t been particularly standout in terms of actual quality. Let’s sharpen our knives and dig in! Top 5 5. But we’ve picked through the entrails of Seasons 1-3 (so far) to highlight a few of the best episodes… and one of the weakest. What might have started as a sly genre experiment (“Can we really kill off the entire cast before anyone realizes it’s an anthology?”) has evolved into a bold, boundary-shattering, and totally unique meditation on the skeletons in America’s closet – including, to name just a few: racism, homophobia, bullying, religious intolerance, misogyny, infidelity, school violence, and our treatment of the mentally ill and differently-abled.įans of the show would likely agree that almost every episode of AHS is worth a watch.
Nor has any show nurtured such a wonderfully offbeat stable of core performers ( Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Zachary Quinto, Frances Conroy, Lily Rabe) while delivering some of the best guest stars around ( Jessica Lange – still a grand dame Special Guest Star in the classic sense, in my book – Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Danny Huston, Chloe Sevigny, Gabourey Sidibe).
No other show has delivered the heady brew of laughs, scares, sex, and WTF that AHS serves up on a weekly basis. For the past three years, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s gleefully unhinged genre anthology American Horror Story has truly been the television gift that keeps on giving.
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