Hunter Ingram A new season of “American Horror Story” is still TV’s best leap of faith. Each season, the FX anthology series takes pleasure in deploying a twisted new nightmare that offers up its cast of familiar faces to whatever fresh hell awaits.
For fans, showing up for each year for the promise of something different dares “AHS” to do its worst –– and sometimes it does.
But even then, it’s hard to say no to another taste. In 2011, when creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk unveiled the show’s first season, now known as “Murder House,” it was a game changer.
An unbridled mashup of horror, Hollywood and history, that inaugural season was wild and inventive –– let’s not forget Dylan McDermott wept while masturbating within the first hour.
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