![]() ![]() ![]() The fifth season, Hotel, takes place in Los Angeles, California, during 2015 and focuses on the staff and guests of a supernatural hotel. The fourth season, Freak Show, takes place in Jupiter, Florida, during 1952 and centers around an American freak show. The third season, Coven, takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2013, and follows a coven of witches and their enemies. The second season, Asylum, takes place in Massachusetts in 1964 and follows the patients and staff of a criminally insane institution. The first season, Murder House, takes place in Los Angeles, California, in 2011, and centers on a family in a haunted house. Other notable actors such as Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Adina Porter, Finn Wittrock, Jamie Brewer, and Leslie Grossman appear in five of the seasons. Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe have returned most frequently, with each having appeared in nine seasons, followed by Frances Conroy who appears in eight, with Denis O'Hare appearing in seven, and Emma Roberts and Billie Lourd set to appear in their sixth. Many actors appear in more than one season, usually playing a new character though sometimes as a returning character, and often playing multiple characters in a season. The first installment in the American Story media franchise, seasons of AHS are mostly conceived as self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters in a new setting within the same fictional universe (which the show occasionally utilizes for crossovers between seasons, and shares with episodic spin-off American Horror Stories), and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle, and end." Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events. In the darkness of bands such of Joy Division is an uncanny, harrowing connection to the human soul, and on “American Horror Story” this resonates to the utmost extent.American Horror Story is an American horror anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX. A WHOLE NEW MEANINGįor a season dwelling largely on the subject of addiction and the dead-ends that come as a result of trying to satisfy a void that cannot be filled by substances, accomplishments and people, songs like “The Eternal” take on a whole new meaning in this context. ![]() With lyrics such as, “Try to cry out in the heat of the moment/possessed by a fury that burns from inside/cry like a child, though these years make me older/with children my time is so wastefully spent,” late vocalist/lyricist Ian Curtis conveys the inner workings of a tortured, mourning soul. Take Joy Division’s “The Eternal” for example. FAR BEYOND SIMPLE FRIGHTĪlthough on a surface level, these songs have the ability to produce a sinister, uncomfortable feeling in the back of one’s head, there is a purpose that far transcends simple fright. While the show’s score itself plays horrifying tricks on the mind, especially that of “Hotel’s” revamped, grisly title sequence, these legendary songs linger in a certain macabre tone to provide their corresponding scenes with an unease that is not a simple task to shake. Additionally, the oft-overused yet never aging “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus served as an eerie, discordant background to The Countess (played by Lady Gaga) revealing some of the hotel’s darkest secrets contained within the walls and chipping paint - literally. ![]() In episode one alone, the sounds of post-punk pioneers Joy Division echoed through the neon-tinged shadows. Accompanying the grimy, blood-stained hallways in the art deco-laden Hotel Cortez is an array of songs from some of the most prolific post-punk and gothic acts of the ‘80s. However, something not being talked about nearly as much as Lady Gaga ’s acting debut is this season’s soundtrack. For a show that has decidedly veered away from the elements that made previous seasons “Murder House” and “Asylum” some of the most intriguing, albeit bleak, television in recent years, “Hotel” is a welcomed return to the rather distraught and complex world of co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. When it comes to FX’s hit show “American Horror Story,” now in its fifth season “Hotel”, words such as “unsettling” and “disturbing” are no exaggeration. ![]()
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