Season 2 of
American Horror Story debuts on FX tonight at 10p and this season it takes place in an Asylum.
The season starts off in the present with newlyweds Leo (Adam Levine) and Teresa (Jenna Dewan) spending their honeymoon touring the most haunted locations in American. The two of them stop off at Briarcliff, a now deserted mental Asylum, to check out the place. At first it just looks like a run down building with no one inside, but then they hear noises and start to investigate them. That will bring them to a location where something shocking will happen.
Then we will go back to 1964, Kit Walker (Even Peters who played Tate last season) is working at a gas station. We will follow him home where we find out he is married to an African American woman, which for those times is something you would keep secret. Something will happen to them that night that will have him institutionalized at Briarcliff.
When we get out first glimpse of the place we will meet Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), a stern nun who runs the facility. She is not afraid to abuse the patients, and she has a secret past that will shock you. Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe who lost part of her head last season) is Sister Jude’s helper and the new nun still has an innocence about her. Monsignor Timothy Howard (Joseph Fiennes) is the liaison between the Church and the Asylum and is oblivious to what goes on there.
Then there is Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell) who is a sadistic doctor who will use unorthodox treatments on the patients there. So controversial that patients will go missing never to be heard of again. Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) is a guest to the facility and his methods of treating patients is much different than the way Asylum does as you will see next week when he makes his debut.
Then there are the patients. Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) is a reporter who goes inside on the pretense she is there to do a story about their bakery, but really wants to talk to Kit Walker. She will sneak in one night and get attacked by one of the patients. She will be held there against her will as a patient because Sister Jude says she needs to be there because she is a lesbian. Sister Jude will blackmail her lover Wendy (Clea Duvall) to have her committed and she will accept her bribe. Shelly the Nymphomaniac (Chloë Sevigny) is just as her nickname describes her. Finally there is Grace (Lizzie Brocheré) she claims she is sane and we don’t know why she is in there.
This season is nothing like the last one. In fact I think it is so much scarier and better; and last season was pretty f*cking awesome. Since I have only seen the first two episodes, it seems like each week we will get to know a new patient and we see what happens to them and learn why they would still haunt the place today. Next week’s story was so scary, I have to admit I hid under the covers as I watched. It is just that terrifying. The show goes to a whole new level of fright this season and it will keep you interested from the first second until the last. Even though you will be scared sh!tless, you won’t be able to turn away from this show and want to know what happens next. I know I can’t freaking wait!
