Five years and primetime seasons ago, the “American Horror Story” franchise began making bones chill on television sets across the country. The FX Original show quickly became ‘must-watch’ programming every Wednesday night during the fall season.
In the first five seasons, we have seen the likes of actors like Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and Evan Peters. As advertised, Season 6 did not disappoint, bringing back most of their main core of American Horror Story regulars, along with Lady Gaga who won a Golden Globe for her performance in Season 5, Hotel.
Season 6 was the most mysterious of them all so far. The FX television network turned the name and theme of the season into a guessing game, as they made their anxious audience wait until the season premiere to reveal its identity.
“American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare” is the name of this fall season’s thriller. This true story-like autobiography format will have their audience watching from the edge of their couch and thinking twice about turning the lights off in the middle of the night.
The season began like that of a show that you would normally see on a network like Investigation Discovery, as a “dramatic re-enactment” of what actually happened, with the “real” people narrating in the background. This dramatization was seemingly added as something that would make the folks watching at home feel as though it was more real.
Six episodes in, the season seems like it’s over. The Roanoke horror story mystery had come to an end with the death of “The Butcher” (Kathy Bates), and it seemed like (almost) everyone lived happily ever after.
Seeing as though most “American Horror Story” seasons are 12 or 13 episodes long, this left the world puzzled. Then like every other season, the big twist. Everyone is invited back to the house, including both the “real” people from the horror story, and their doppelgangers that played them.
Only eight episodes in now, and it’s nothing but sleep-with the-lights-on terrifying leaving the viewer with a frustrating cliff-hanger at the end of each episode. Unless you’re binge watching on Netflix in the summer of 2017, you’ll have to wait a week at a time until you can solve the shows next mystery.
Usually saving their scariest episodes for as close to Halloween as possible, the remainder of this season is shaping up to be a good one.
One mystery of season 6 remains. Who will be the only survivor?
