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American Horror Story · Season 2 · FX

American Horror Story Season 2

American Horror Story Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.5/10. 13 episodes on FX from 17 October 2012.

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BollyMeter8.5/10American Horror Story: Asylum earned 84% on Rotten Tomatoes from 220 critics - the highest score among the classic seasons - with a critical consensus that the 1960s mental institution setting unlocked the show's social-horror potential more effectively than any subsequent iteration.

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Asylum is the season most critics and audiences identify as the peak of American Horror Story. Set in a 1960s Massachusetts psychiatric institution, it achieved 84% on Rotten Tomatoes from 220 critics - the series' strongest critical mark. The season braided together Nazism, demonic possession, alien abduction and serial murder without the seams showing, partly because Murphy and Falchuk kept the character psychology coherent even as the plot went to extremes. Jessica Lange's Sister Jude and James Cromwell's Doctor Arden anchored a season that used the asylum as a metaphor for a society that institutionalises anything it cannot categorise. Audience scores on IMDb placed it at 8.7, higher than Murder House and most subsequent seasons.

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The Room

84%critics positive · n=2208.7/10IMDb audience

Season Over Season

Discards the domestic haunting of Murder House for institutional horror with real historical grounding; the tonal control is markedly improved and the thematic ambition considerably higher.