American Horror Story on FX

[Mikey-Bizzle]

The opening scene with Tate in this weeks episode was ****ing amazing i thought! Loving this show so far!

[Ramplate]

Yeah I think this and Person of Interest are my two favorite new shows

[Neverending]

This show is borderline pornography.

[Ramplate]

You must be watching different pornos than I do

[Neverending]

http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/futu...s/#more-207826

(WARNING: STORY CONTAINS SPOILERS) The status of American Horror Story leads Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott and the Golden Globe-nominated Jessica Lange remains in flux in the wake of the FX horror hour’s season one finale last night. But if Britton, McDermott, Lange or supporting player Frances Conroy return to the show for a second campaign, it will be as entirely different characters in a brand new storyline featuring a fully (or at least mostly) new cast. Co-creator and exec producer Ryan Murphy and FX president and GM John Landgraf laid out for reporters during a conference call this morning that Horror Story was packaged from the start as a seasonal anthology. “The (haunted) house is done,” Murphy stressed. “Every season of the show will be a different haunting. That’s always been the plan. Every season of the show will have a beginning, middle and end, and all new characters and setting.” But that doesn’t mean that this year’s performers won’t be back. It’s just that McDermott and Britton won’t be starring as Ben and Vivien Harmon, respectively, nor Lange as creepy neighbor Constance Langdon. It would have been tough to pull that off, anyway, since the Harmons all were dead by the time the season drew to a close.

“We’re still negotiating with a handful (of the cast members) about returning,” Murphy said. “We’re also meeting with new actors whom we’ve targeted roles for. I will say that Connie and Dylan will not be playing the leads of the show in the second season. We’d love for them to come back and do something, maybe a smaller role or a cameo.” The word during the first season of AHS was that the leads had one-year contracts, though Landgraf said today that this wasn’t true of all the players. “We make longterm deals as a matter of course,” he noted. “We haven’t yet picked up the option on anyone.” The show’s second season will eschew the haunted house approach that proved so successful during the freshman season. Murphy insists, “There are all kinds of different American horror stories to tell. There are serial killing stories, prison stories, true crime stories…Each year of the show is designed to be a little miniseries unto itself. The only thing we’re not open to doing is a season on vampires.”

The unique plan to essentially gut a show and start from scratch every season with new characters and storyline carries plenty of risk for American Horror Story considering its popularity. Since premiering in October, it has been the number one new scripted series on basic cable in adults 18-34 and generated by far the highest ratings for a first-year show on FX since the network started doing originals roughly a decade ago. Asked if he was concerned about starting over after enjoying such success and potentially alienating viewers, Murphy replied, “Yes, we’ve thought of that. We too loved those characters and will mourn them and miss them. But the aspects of the show that people love, including the mystery and love story, will be there, albeit with new actors and characters. But you know, this has always been the plan from day one. We just weren’t interested in doing another season with those people trapped in the house…I’ve always wanted to do a kind of Mercury Theater approach, with a (rotating cast) and each year do kind of like a little novella.”

The other advantage in casting the series as a yearly anthology, Murphy added, is that it increases the potential talent pool of performers. “There are a lot of actors who have their own careers and don’t want to make a five-year commitment. This gives people who haven’t done TV before an opportunity. Our shooting schedule is like three or four months every season, so it’s like commiting to a film really. I get a lot of calls from film actors who want to dabble in TV but don’t know how to do it. Being on a series where all of the characters’ stories are done after a season is a way in for them. That’s been the plan from the beginning with this show.”

Landgraf said that the series will again premiere in the fall for season two (late September or early October 2012), calling AHS “a great fall Halloween show. The intent on the network side is for it to become a Halloween tradition for people who love the genre.” He also expressed that he’d had “complete optimism” in the series from the outset despite its bold concept and atypical setup. “I was very confident from the beginning that it would work. And the idea of starting from Ground Zero and rebuilding the entire show every season is exciting.”

[thebtskink]

Originally Posted by thebtskink

Eh.... second season? The show is fun and all, but how could they do that without an entirely new family or the family moving to a different haunted house?

Originally Posted by Tolkien

Why would they need a new family or new house? Who says they have to die at the end of the season?

Originally Posted by Neverending

http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/futu...s/#more-207826

Tolk, you just got TOLD! lol.

Anyways, I'm excited for the next season, despite that craptastic season finale. Way to go out anticlimactic after an awesome penultimate episode, show.

[Tolkien]

You can all kiss my royally wide ass! lol.

Not paying attention to spoilers, I was very, very surprised by their fates in the end. Geez, talk about a morbid end for the Harmon family. Still though, at least we can always count on a fresh new season each year.

[Daniel]

I can't say I loved this show this season. Some episodes were great, others a total drag. Still, at the end of the day I kept tuning in to see more.

Whatever the case, I was happy to see the Harmon family have some sort of closure at the end.

[Nick1988]

I just watched the first episode of the first season, and while i found it to be kind of creepy, i really don't like the whole "**** suspense, lets just throw out as much scary **** as possible every 2 minutes ". I mean literally in the first 5 minutes wierd **** was happening in the house, and also it just seemed a bit stupid that this family is just gonna stick around like it's not big deal. I am going to contunue watching it, but i have a feeling this kind of horror isn't up my alley

[Daniel]

I's not terribly suspenseful, Nick, and they do have a metric **** ton of characters, so they throw a lot at you. Not dissuading you from watching the rest of the season, just warning you that it's going to get worse and not better.

[Nick1988]

Yeah i have heard good things about the show, but the kind of scary they are going for doesn't seem to be my type.

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[Alien]

I feel this could be like Heroes or Prison Break. A great 1st season and then down hill from there. I'm just not sure about casting a lot of the same actors in a new story.

[iv3rdawG]

Season one was a huge guilty pleasure and I can't wait for new season. That Halloween two-parter was great, plus it had Ashley Rickards and Alessandra Torresani.

[Neverending]

Originally Posted by Alien

I'm just not sure about casting a lot of the same actors in a new story.

It's interesting and different. I'll give it a shot.

[Tolkien]

Wow, Murphy really wasn't lying when he said the new season would be completely different.

But don't we still have unresolved questions brought up in the first season?

[Justin]

Is this show worth the time?

[Neverending]

Only if you're into weird and slightly pornographic shows.

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Tolkien

Wow, Murphy really wasn't lying when he said the new season would be completely different.

But don't we still have unresolved questions brought up in the first season?

Such as?

Originally Posted by Neverending

Only if you're into weird and slightly pornographic shows.

I can think of other shows that are a lot more pornographic that this. I remember a gimp suit but I don't remember any nudity, but I have proven time and time again that my memory isn't that good. I remember a sex scene but my memory says we didn't even get side boob.

I watched this show after it had finished airing and I still don't remember a lot of it, I think I need to get the DVDs and give it another watch through.

[Neverending]

The show might not have much sex and nudity, but it's all about fetishes. The S&M dude. The dad being into teenage girls. The daughter got raped by a demon or some s--t like that. The show is just weird and all about perversions. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just letting Justin know so he can brace himself.

[Alien]

Saying the show is like borderline pornography says to me I should expect something like TrueBlood. TrueBlood is all about its random sex scene (or orgy in the 2nd season) shoehorned into ever episode with full T&A galore.

[iv3rdawG]

Promo:

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

Seriously cannot wait for the new season. Out of all the shows currently airing I'm most interested to see how this is going to turn out. Also, should we change the title of the thread?

[Ramplate]

Creepy

[Tolkien]

I'm intrigued, but at the same time, annoyed that the story from season one isn't going to continue.

Oh well, at least this way, the show will always be fresh, right?

[Alien]

Originally Posted by iv3rdawG

Promo:

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

Seriously cannot wait for the new season. Out of all the shows currently airing I'm most interested to see how this is going to turn out. Also, should we change the title of the thread?

I thought it said Chloë Sullivan (as in the character from Smallville) it even sorta looks like her.