"American Horror Story" New Episode Tonight

American Horror Story

Second shows from people who've had a giant hit are nearly always flops...

 

Good thing its not a sophomore effort by the creator or the writer, then. Ryan Murphy has both Nip/Tuck and Glee (and the show Popular) under his belt, and writer Tim Minear has been the writer of a number of the fan favorite episodes of Angel, Firefly, Wonderfalls and more. He has had the misfortune to be behind several failed shows, but none of those were shows that failed on the basis of poor scripting.

Anyway, I'm cautiously optimistic about this one, because I would love a good horror serial.

 

Yeah, I don't know if this will work at all, but I really hope it will. It's sounds great.

 

I was going to pass on this till the newer trailer came out last week or so. Im kinda getting a modern day Addams Family type of vibe from it???

 

Connie Britton is in this because of her work in Friday Night Lights I'm going to give it a shot.

 

American Horror Story's scary credits

 

Well did any of yall watch it Wen? I did, it is strange but in a good way, and right in time for Halloween!

 

Damn, forgot.

 

10-11PM | FX
American Horror Story

"Ben returns to Boston where the horrors are even greater than in L.A. Baked bean candy? Scary."

 

EW Cover Story

 

American Horror Story
Episode: Open House
NEW
S01, E07

"Moira persuades a buyer to make an offer while Constance and Larry work against her efforts."

10:00 - 11:00 PM FX

 

A 1.7 ratings share?

Now that's scary.

 

That's interesting, actually.

But think about it; who's this show's audience?

The quadrant of the audience who watches horror (generally younger males) don't want to watch horror that would pass the TV censors.

 

American Horror Story
Episode: Rubber Man
NEW
S01, E08

The man in the rubber suit is revealed.

10:00 - 11:00 PM FX

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Well, I would call it a sector, not quadrant.

As far as target audience is concerened, ask Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. They're trying the shotgun approach on this project--
just fire everything at the audience and see what hits; and putting content on writing is a shame, as far as

 

Well, I would call it sector instead of quadrant.

As far as target audience, ask Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. They're trying the shotgun approach on this project--
fire everything at the audience, and see who it hits, however by putting content over writing they're somewhat short-
changing themselves. American Horror Story has some very talented people writing for it, Tim Minear in particular.
He's practically the two-headed man with Joss Whedon; they're good friends, and their writing is identical in many ways.
Back in the day, he worked for Oliver Stone. Why steer people like Tim towards patently obvious schlock?

I hope the show levels out.




Ed/ And I have no idea how I double-posted this mess...

Ed/ future ref. Do Not Take Calls And Post At Same Time.

 

I don't know. The Walking Dead seems to be doing okay.

It would be interesting to take a survey of self-reporting viewers of horror and see how their tastes skew; I know I'd be very happy to see an ongoing horror serial that could keep up tension week in and week out rather than relying on soap opera subplots or gore or humor and hot leads. But I imagine such a thing would be very difficult to pull off. There's a reason horror tends to work better at the story than the novel length, and that movies often rely on jump scares and gore -- it's very very difficult to keep someone scared for an extended time, and it's even more difficult to pace the ratcheting of the tension so as not to lose your viewers.

 

American Horror Story
Episode: Smoldering Children
NEW
S01, E10

Violet learns the rules of the house; Larry's condition is explained; Constance is interrogated by the police.

10:00 - 11:01 PM FX