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Fan subreddit for the hit TV franchise American Horror Story. Visit r/AmericanHorrorStories for the Hulu exclusive spin-off.



Episode Discussions:

S1 Murder House

S2 Asylum

S3 Coven

S4 Freak Show

S5 Hotel

S6 Roanoke

S7 Cult

S8 Apocalypse

S9 1984



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1

Title scene/ intro

By intro I mean the bit just after the first scene in every ep which always has same music. ( reminds me of ants scuttling around )

Not sure if this has been said before. WHY! Do they make the intros seem so scary and creepy but the actual show/ episodes nothing like it. I’ve found this with AHS and AHStories. Especially Stories, the intros have literally nothing to do with the episode. Like they do have some links to the show but barely.

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2025/01/31
20:04 UTC

18

Me watching the first episode of Hotel like

3 Comments
2025/01/31
01:08 UTC

0

Ok, hear me out....

I want to see Evan Peters play Jack White in literally anything.

3 Comments
2025/01/31
00:57 UTC

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Franchise Rankings!

With AHS 13 on the horizon, i took a look back at the whole franchise and here’s my current ranking.

Seasons Ranked:

  1. 1984
  2. Coven
  3. Hotel
  4. Red Tide
  5. Cult
  6. Freak Show
  7. Apocalypse
  8. Murder house
  9. NYC
  10. Roanoke
  11. Asylum
  12. Delicate
  13. Death Vally

AHStories ranking:

  1. AHStories 3: TapeWorm
  2. AHStories 3B: X
  3. AHStories 2: Dollhouse
  4. AHStories 3B: Clone
  5. AHStories 3B: Thing Under The Bed
  6. AHStories 2: Aura
  7. AHStories 2: Bloody Mary
  8. AHStories 3: Bestie
  9. AHStories: Ba’al
  10. AHStories 3: Daphne
  11. AHStories 3B: Leprechauns
  12. AHStories: The drive-in
  13. AHStories 3: Organ
  14. AHStories 2: Drive
  15. AHStories 2: Lake
  16. AHStories 2: Facelift
  17. AHStories: Feral
  18. AHStories 2: Milkmaids
  19. AHStories 3B: Backrooms
  20. AHStories: Rubber woman
  21. AHStories: Game over
  22. AHStories: Naughty list

AHStories seasons ranked:

  1. AHStories season 3.
  2. AHStories season 2.
  3. AHStories season 1.
12 Comments
2025/01/30
17:44 UTC

177

Just watched Delicate. WTF was that

Kim K playing herself, Emma Roberts on lithium, Billie Lourd and Leslie Grossman woefully underused, and a plot like low hanging bruised fruit.

It didn't even feel like an AHS season. Who wrote this, the two bowl cuts in Apocalypse?

73 Comments
2025/01/30
14:26 UTC

6

looking for the letter and news article that inspired Apocalypse

does anyone remember the letter written anonymously by a billionaire or something talking about wanting to plan the end of the world and figuring out how to keep people as "the help" to keep them alive and living a good quality of life and basically depopulating the world??

I remember Ryan Murphy saying that this served as inspiration for apocalypse. It was very much a fringe and weird thing that aligned with a lot of the "we need to colonize mars" stuff at the time. I am not some weirdo doomer but in the last couple years I have been drawing parallels from some of the themes of the letter and the direction that the govt has been moving in as far as all the rolling back protections in order to increase incarcerated cheap labor. I'd like to reread the letter, but i'm having trouble finding it. I don't remember a lot of the details of it.

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2025/01/30
07:09 UTC

86

I'll be your mother until you die

Season 3, Episode 5. Fiona bringing life to a stillborne baby girl in her griefstricken mothers arms, after she damaged her own daughter permanently. This will always be one of the most impactful moments of screen history for me. Fiona has done some irrefutably awful, selfish things, but I'll never see her character the same after this. It makes me sad that people like myself will never have a healthy loving relationship with their mother, but so glad for those that get to experience such true enduring love.

14 Comments
2025/01/30
03:28 UTC

11

Cape Fear is the best intro to any season up to this point.

First watch and I've been pleasantly surprised by Cape Fear. The cinematography, the ambiance, the music work, the set design, the characters. It really does feel like the best intro on the show so far to me at least, which is unfortunate because I heard it ends very bad.

It's the first episode to actually pull me in and entice me thoroughly into the show since like the big 3. I love the isolation, the location chosen, the "The Shining" type of reason to come out to this place. The town feels like what Cult should've been. A place so isolated that felt so repulsive yet so intriguing at the same time that you'd lose your mind just by living in it for a few days, instead of some idyllic suburb. It also does the moving to a new old house trope way better than Roanoke too in my opinion. The monsters of this season are actually scary and intriguing and not some true crime write-in (thank the lord).

Overall a pleasant surprise and a positive thing about the later seasons of the show. I'm really sad it couldn't be kept up.

10 Comments
2025/01/29
23:01 UTC

723

No particular context

11 Comments
2025/01/29
19:57 UTC

14

I have just started the Sims4 with my Coven and Madison is already hitting on Kyle!

1 Comment
2025/01/29
19:51 UTC

1

Freakshow question.

Might be a spoiler if you haven't seen it yet.

What happened to the frankenstein Bette and Dot Dandy made? Was it just for shock value because I don't think it did anything for the plot.

7 Comments
2025/01/29
18:10 UTC

251

Liz Taylor: the friend we all need

Context if you need it: This young couple Justin and Babe (Darren Criss and Jessica Lu) who are “influencers” were being very snobby and rude to Iris (over the phone in this scene) and caused her to have a mini breakdown.

7 Comments
2025/01/29
15:24 UTC

12

The ending of Delicate was…definitely something

Aside from the weird and sometimes emotionless acting, the season was alright to me but then the finale just ruined it all…

10 Comments
2025/01/29
04:38 UTC

7

When AHS: Apocalypse was announced/airing, what were your favorite theories or hopes that would happen this season?

The lead-up to the premiere of AHS: Apocalypse was a wild one. There were so many theories being thrown around about what would happen, how the Witches would come across Michael Langdon organically, how they'd pick up the deaths of the other members, etc.

Which were your favorite theories about how the season would turn out?

Mine was that the Murder House would be purchased by the coven ("we'll buy more houses if we need to") to house new members and that Michael would be sent there by Constance once his antichrist powers manifested, thus putting him in direct conflict/care of the Witches 😂

6 Comments
2025/01/28
22:35 UTC

0

murder house car

theyre driving a volvo xc90 ok taste🥹🥹🤞

0 Comments
2025/01/28
21:54 UTC

138

one of the most underrated Sarah Paulson characters........

13 Comments
2025/01/28
21:35 UTC

7

I've just finished watching death valley and here are my thoughts.......

Ok, I know I'm about to make some people mad, but I really liked this season. It's extremely overhated. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but I fucking enjoyed it. This is probably the campiest ahs season yet. So I will go over some positives first and then the negatives. First of all, those black and white parts were everything! Yeah, the timeline was a bit confusing, but they were so damn good! I loved all the conspiracy theories they managed to fit in. And the vintage sci fi vibe was amazing! Like visually, those parts were stunning! I wish the whole season was in black and white and maybe set in a different decade. It really works for the vintage yet futuristic vibe of the season. And some of the modern day parts were also great! Like the concept and the ideas were there, the plot itself was good. Now, there is one pretty big issue I had with death valley: the actors that were chosen for the group of students. I'm sorry, who the fuck casted them? Like I can't believe we went from the stacked red tide cast to whatever this was. Like I guess they weren't horrible, but they were mid as hell at best. Like sure, in the later episodes I got used to them, but couldn't we get someone else to play them? But back to the positives. the plot itself is actually really interesting. I just wish we got like a full death valley season with the og cast. That would easily be top 5 material. So my conclusions are that this season was camp, weird and really fun to watch. It's far from being bad, but defenitly not as good as some other seasons.

https://preview.redd.it/d4mmhupbzsfe1.png?width=1284&format=png&auto=webp&s=1291d18845544f84aaa01803125665a22ef76308

14 Comments
2025/01/28
21:31 UTC

10

Favorite seasons?

40 Comments
2025/01/28
20:54 UTC

15

Kit walker should have been in season 10

That would have been amazing

7 Comments
2025/01/28
08:20 UTC

4

I wonder... When Mallory died from poisoning in Apocalypse, did Cordelia temporarily regained her full power?

10 Comments
2025/01/28
07:41 UTC

8

I need more

I am so obsessed with AHS and I need more!!!!!! Coven is literally the best thing I’ve ever seen and I need more seasons with all the classics!! Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Jessica Lange (though I think she retired from acting), Frances Conroy, Lily Rabe, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, and Taissa Farmiga !! And also Cody Fern because he’s literally so hot and I’m obsessed with him. I really really want more !!!!!!!! And again I’m seriously in love with Cody Fern. But I need something Coven-level to come out!

8 Comments
2025/01/28
02:57 UTC

8

What is the difference between American Horror Story and American horror stories?

And is American Horror Stories worth the watch?

19 Comments
2025/01/27
17:49 UTC

0

I still don't know what to think about Coven

Sometimes I wonder if it's really that bad, or if it was a conscious path and response to teen shows/movies like 'The Craft', 'Sabrina, the Teenage Witch' and 'The Vampire Diaries'. Are the series' creators masterminds or have they been carried away by trends?

24 Comments
2025/01/27
15:11 UTC

191

New to this Sub so apology if this is a not a hot take but HOW is nobody talking about Apocalypse being the best season by far?! the way it incorporated other season characters, the plot twists and theme change ! it had everything. Am i alone on this or what?! ratings arent amazing either.

172 Comments
2025/01/27
13:36 UTC

439

Kit Walker is my fave - who is yours?

Kit, Kit Bo-bit, banana-fanna Fo-fit, fee-fi-mo-mit, Kit!

46 Comments
2025/01/27
11:59 UTC

207

When Gaga slaps, you better listen

The way The Countess says “Mind” just scratches a special itch in my brain 🖤

23 Comments
2025/01/27
11:52 UTC

3

I tried digital Fan art again

I did this drawing of Myrtle Snow from Coven and Apocalypse with a mouse and it is my fourth attempt at fan art. My other three were okay too but I really like this one. So far I have done - Cordelia, Montana, Ally and Myrtle. Montana is my fav drawing But I think Myrtle is my second fav of my drawing.

The result

The reference

0 Comments
2025/01/27
10:13 UTC

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2025/01/27
02:16 UTC

2

NYC Chapter

I just finished NYC and my biggest question is was big daddy even real? Or was he more of like a grim reaper type of figure ?

9 Comments
2025/01/27
01:11 UTC

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