Watching a television series that flows
smoothly, attracts the viewers undivided attention, and frightens, seems near
impossible, but thanks to the marvelously choreographed American Horror Story,
that is all achievable by the push of some buttons. American Horror Story is a television
program that has graced its viewers with its presence since 2011, with
horrifying, but illustrious stories that are changed every season and it
currently contributes quality television to the entertainment world. American
Horror Story is not the most popular television series in the U.S. and it
continues to receive numerous amounts of criticism; however it deserves much
more praise and viewers for its perfectly synchronized and well-thought storyline
that is sure to keep any viewer from detaching his attention from the
television and completely captivate them.
To
commence, American Horror Story is an anthology series that began in 2011 and
is currently on its fourth season. The show has a different narrative and cast
each season and every storyline is crammed with popularized horror topics from
the United States, ranging from extraterrestrial beings to undead corpses, or
zombies. The first season of the show, titled Murder House, focuses on the
Harmon’s, a family that moves into a beautiful and affordable house that has a significant
history of homicides and crimes and eventually the house and its undetected
inhabitants begin to unravel their true character and threaten the Harmon
family’s safety. The second season of the show, titled Asylum, is about
Briarcliff Manor, a facility for the mentally insane that follows the stories
of its faculty and patients and brings a wide array of horror topics that range
from Satanism to Nazi experimentation. The third season of the show is called
Coven, the season follows a coven of witches in New Orleans that must fight for
their survival as a race and are confronted with enemies that include: voodoo
practitioners, witch hunters, and witches in their own group. The fourth season
of the show titled Freak Show, follows on of the last surviving freak shows in
America and its struggle for survival and acceptance into a society that
condemns them for their abnormalities. The wide array of topics presented in
every individual season demonstrates that AHS is a superb television series
that deserves at least one hour of any persons undivided attention. It also
substantiates the claim that the producers and writers for AHS are ingenious
and extremely creative, because they seem to never fail at creating new and
interesting storylines.
The first category to consider when
criticizing AHS is the acting that it contains and, more importantly the
synchronization of the cast that AHS includes. The cast is extremely talented
and well-organized, it even includes critically acclaimed actors like Jessica
Lange, who never fails to showcase her brilliance and talent through a
multitude of characters. It also has many actors that can superbly portray the
role of a disturbed person, which is impeccable for the type of atmosphere and
environment that AHS creates. Furthermore, the cast is near perfection, because
each TV persona somehow manages to compliment the rest of the cast through
their magnificent acting. Also many of the characters have terrorizing and
disturbing scenes that are sure to intimidate any great actor, so the actors
have to be able to record those scenes without seeming too awkward or
unnatural, which they have been capable of achieving up to the most current
episode. For all these reasons AHS as garnered an abundance of awards and
nominations from prestigious award shows, such as the Golden Globe Awards and
the Emmy’s. To conclude, the acting in AHS is one of the many reasons why it is
such a great anthology series and why it deserves much more attention than it
presently receives.
Another
imperative aspect that the show demonstrates is its excellent storylines and
how well the storyline is able to flow throughout the series. The creators of
AHS are somehow able to include up to 5 horror topics into just twelve episodes
without making it seem too jumbled or out-of-place. This completely amazes its
viewers, because in season 2 of AHS the creators were able to include Nazi
experimentation, aliens, demonic possession, serial killers, and mutated
humans. This was accomplished very expertly and it constantly left viewers at
the edge of their seats, but it did receive some complaints from people who
declared that it was too much for an individual season and that it left AHS
creators with fewer topics to incorporate in future seasons. Furthermore, many
of the seasons bring up interesting topics and themes that provide many viewers
with harsh realities that were once not fully realize. For example, Freak Show
is able to perfectly demonstrate how American society in the 1960’s was
incredibly judgmental and narrow-minded when it came to people that had physical
abnormalities. Another thing I have noticed is that not many television series
can incorporate more than one storyline, because it just ends up becoming a
huge mess that is not easily understood. Supernatural, for example, has
numerous amounts of storylines, and is extremely hard to explain to any person
who does not watch the series, mainly because of all the themes incorporated
over its ten seasons. Also Supernatural is not as terrifying as American Horror
Story, although both shows are categorized as horror shows. In conclusion, the
creators of American Horror Story are able to incorporate many topics into one
season of the show and can generate an outstanding storyline that attracts an
array of viewers and a larger audience.
Another
criteria I will be suing to evaluate this anthology series is how well the
producers and creators were able to incorporate new types of scenes and how
departed the producers stayed from their previous shows. The producer of AHS is
Ryan Murphy and he is known for an abundance of other television series that
include: Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Popular. Although I really enjoy watching Glee
because of the musical numbers that appear in each show, I do not like that
Ryan Murphy has been incorporating a musical number for every episode of
American Horror Story: Freak Show, as of late. I feel this particular way
because I believe that he should be making his shows unique and incomparable to
each other and by recycling old ideas into his new series it gives me the
feeling that he is not trying his best. Nonetheless, I still enjoy watching
American Horror Story and I still believe that the producers and creators do an
excellent job at creating new scenes.
As a result, American Horror Story is an
excellent television series that has received many loyal fans and continues to
grow both in popularity and brilliance. The series is already on its fourth
season and has been renewed for its fifth season because of its increasing
popularity and how climatic every individual season is. However you will find many
opinions that certain seasons are not as exceptional as others, or that the
recent AHS seasons have ben unattractive to people and are losing the spark
that originally drew them in, but I disagree because AHS never fails with its
disturbing brilliance and dramatic scenes that seem to captivate me at every
moment. Ultimately American Horror Story is an incredible show that deserves
more praise for its storyline, acting, and cast.
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