AMERICAN HORROR STORY, NEW CONCEPT OF TV SERIES

American Horror Story

Today, The Grandma is at home. Times are changing and new ones are arriving but meanwhile this happens we are assisting to the reborn, they never died, of totalitarism, dictatorships and fascist forms of government.

It's a normal process when something better and different is going to happen and something old resists to die and to lose privileges and status. The Grandma has been remembering last events of the European history and how closer European citizens are of repeating the mistakes of the past if they aren't brave enough to stop these new forms of totalitarianism, xenophobia, racism and intolerance.

The Grandma is a great fan of American Horror Story (AMS), a TV Series that talks about all these things and helps to think about the future not forgetting the past, learning from them and fighting against the eternal arriving of The Antichrist, which has a lot of shapes, but only one objective: destruction, isolation and poverty in the name of the ignorance, stupidity and untolerance.

American Horror Story is only a mirror, a reflex of our society with all its problems and some different stories with a common idea, the great struggle between God and Devil to establish their power over a population which is everytime worrier about money and matherialistic things and forget the essence of the Humanity: respect and tolerance. AHS is not very different of Star Wars -fight against the dark forces of the Emperor- or Harry Potter -fight against the dark power of Voldemort-.

Before watching a marathon of American Horror Story, The Grandma has studied the last lesson of her Elementary Language Practice manual (Vocabulary 20).

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American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end. Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events.The only actors to be present in all iterations are Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson with Lily Rabe and Frances Conroy appearing in all but one of the seasons each.

The first season, retroactively subtitled Murder House, takes place in Los Angeles, California, during the year 2011, and centers on a family that moves into a house haunted by its deceased former occupants.

It centers on the Harmon family: Dr. Ben Harmon, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the house is haunted by the ghosts of its former residents and their victims.

More information: AMS-Murder House

It's hard to keep good help.

Constance Langdon, AMS, Murder House

The second season, subtitled Asylum, takes place in Massachusetts during the year 1964, and follows the stories of the patients and staff of an institution for the criminally insane.

In 1964, at Briarcliff Mental Institution in Massachusetts, Sister Jude Martin and Sister Mary Eunice McKee maintain the institution that was founded by Monsignor Timothy Howard to treat and house the mentally and criminally insane. Psychiatrist Dr. Oliver Thredson, and scientist Dr. Arthur Arden, treat the patients within the facility, which include lesbian journalist Lana Winters, accused serial killer Kit Walker, and alleged murderer Grace Bertrand.

More information: AMS-Asylum

If you look in the face of evil, 

evil's gonna look right back at you.

Sister Jude, AMS, Asylum

 

The third season, subtitled Coven, takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, during the year 2013, and follows a coven of witches who face off against those who wish to destroy them.

Set in the year 2013, the season follows the dwindling descendants of the witches who survived the Salem Witch Trials and their struggle to hide their identity in the modern world. Those who share this genetic affliction are being subjected to violent attacks from outside forces, such as voodoo practitioners and witch hunters. Zoe Benson, a young teenager completely unaware of the existence of witches, discovers her identity as a Salem descendant after a violent accident that causes the death of her boyfriend. She is sent to an all-girls boarding school in New Orleans which aims to protect and house young women who carry this unique bloodline, and keep them from the dangers of the outside world.

More information: AMS-Coven

In this whole wide wicked world,

the only thing you have to be afraid of is me.

Fiona Goode, AMS, Coven

The fourth season, subtitled Freak Show, takes place in Jupiter, Florida, during the year 1952, and centers around one of the last remaining American freak shows and their struggle for survival.

In Jupiter, Florida in 1952, German expatriate Elsa Mars is the ambitious owner of one of the last struggling freak shows in the United States, entitled "Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities," and is seeking her own fame and stardom. She recruits conjoined twin sisters Bette and Dot Tattler, whose two heads share one body, as new members of her troupe after their identification by the police as fugitives since Bette's recent murder of their overprotective mother during an argument.

When the sisters arrive, they are welcomed by their fellow freaks: Elsa's subordinate and confidante Ethel Darling the bearded lady, her lobster-handed son Jimmy Darling, Paul the Illustrated Seal, the giantess Amazon Eve, the legless Suzi, pinheads Salty and Pepper, the youngest Meep, and the dwarf performers: ex-convict Toulouse and Elsa's most significant companion Ma Petite, who is the smallest of the group.

More information: AMS-Freak Show

 

People don't come to see freaks in the heat of day. 

They come in the evening. When the darkness moves 

in and speaks of mystery. The unknown. When logic loosens 

its vice grip and the imagination comes out to play. 

The night allows the stars to shine and we come alive.
 

Elsa Mars, AHS, Freak Show

The fifth season, subtitled Hotel, takes place in Los Angeles, California, during the year 2015, and focuses on the staff and guests of a supernatural hotel.

Set in the year 2015, the season follows the strange and dangerous happenings that seem to center around the retro Hotel Cortez in downtown Los Angeles, California, initially built as a secret torture chamber to fulfill the violent desires of founder James March. Detective John Lowe arrives at the hotel, based on intel from an anonymous tip, to investigate a grisly string of murders, each of which exemplify a sin in violation of one of the Ten Commandments. He has become estranged from his wife Alex, who suffers from depression, and his daughter Scarlett, after the disappearance of their son Holden five years earlier. As the season unfolds, the Lowes discover that the disappearance of Holden may be related to the strange activities at the hotel, led by March's fashionista widow Elizabeth Johnson, also known as the Countess -who was turned into a vampire by her former lovers, actor Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova -and her current lover Donovan.

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We're not going for the art, dumbass. 

We're going for the hunt.

The Countess, AMS, Hotel

The sixth season, subtitled Roanoke, takes place in North Carolina during the years 2014–2016, and focuses on the paranormal events that take place at an isolated farmhouse haunted by the deceased Roanoke colony.

Set in the years 2014-2016, the season follows the supernatural events that occur in a renovated farmhouse in North Carolina, which is situated on the land where the Roanoke Colony moved after their infamous 1580s disappearance. In 2015, Shelby Miller, her husband Matt, along with Matt's sister Lee Harris recount their harrowing experience living in the farmhouse a year prior in a popular documentary series titled My Roanoke Nightmare, including their encounters with the ghosts of the house's previous residents, the violent ghosts of the Roanoke Colony, the cannibalistic Polk family who live nearby, and the beautiful, yet terrifying Celtic goddess, Scáthach.

More information: AMS-Roanoke

I want to leave.

Shelby Miller/Audrey Tindall, AMS, Roanoke

The seventh season, subtitled Cult, takes place in the fictional suburb of Brookfield Heights, Michigan, during the year 2017, and centers on a cult terrorizing the residents in the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Set in the year 2017, the fictional town of Brookfield Heights, Michigan, is left divided upon the wake of Donald Trump's election as president. Local restaurant owner Ally Mayfair-Richards is left utterly distraught, along with her wife Ivy. Despite the help of her psychiatrist, Dr. Rudy Vincent Anderson, Ally becomes increasingly unstable in the following weeks, as her long repressed phobias begin to re-emerge, and they begin to affect her relationships with her wife as well as their son Oz.

Across town, misogynistic alt-righter Kai Anderson rejoices at the election results, enticing him to pursue political power by running for city council, led by radical feminist Bebe Babbitt and with the help of his reluctant, liberal sister Winter, who the Mayfair-Richards household hire as their nanny. As Ally attempts to re-adjust to regular life despite her growing anxiety and paranoia, she becomes terrorized by a group of masked assailants, donned in clown attire who are only present when she is alone, leaving those around her to wonder if she was truly attacked, or if they were merely hallucinations.

More information: AMS-Cult

You're not a conservative. You're a reactionary. 

You use fear and the fantasy of a time that never was 

when people left their doors unlocked.
 

Sally Keffler, AMS, Cult

The eighth season, subtitled Apocalypse, takes place in California during the years 2018-2021 and features the return of the witches from Coven as they battle the Antichrist from Murder House and attempt to prevent the apocalypse.

In the near future, the Antichrist, Michael Langdon brings about the apocalypse by instigating nuclear warfare. The chosen survivors of the aftermath, heiress Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, her personal assistant Mallory, hairstylist Mr. Gallant, Gallant's grandmother Evie, talk-show host Dinah Stevens, young adults Timothy Campbell and Emily, amongst others, take refuge in a fallout shelter named "Outpost 3", run with an iron fist by Wilhemina Venable and Miriam Mead.

Flashbacks to three years before the apocalypse reveal that "Outpost 3" was an all-boys warlock school led by John Henry Moore that unknowingly harbored the Antichrist, in hopes that he would rise as the first ever male Supreme. The witches' council of Cordelia Goode, Zoe Benson and Myrtle Snow are summoned and quickly discover how dangerous Michael is to their coven when faced with his evident powers, as he resurrects deceased witches Queenie and Madison Montgomery . The coven, with the aid of the warlocks, attempt to save humanity by discovering new witch Mallory's intense powers, learning more about Michael's mysterious origins and how to defeat him to prevent the apocalypse. 

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 Satan has one son…

but my sisters are legion, motherfucker.

Cordelia Goode, AMS, Apocalypse

Although reception to individual seasons has varied, American Horror Story largely has been well received by television critics, with the majority of the praise going towards the cast, particularly Jessica Lange, who won two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performances. Kathy Bates and James Cromwell each won an Emmy Award for their performances, while Lady Gaga won a Golden Globe Award.

The series draws consistently high ratings for the FX network, with its first season being the most-viewed new cable series of 2011.

More information: Variety

 I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' 

which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, 

and also it's their form of happiness.

Denis O'Hare