‘American Horror Story’ seasons 6 and 7 could come within single year

Are we about to get an overload of “American Horror Story” on the air? We’re not going to say that at the moment, but we can at least confirm now that show co-creator Ryan Murphy is looking for the first time to put two seasons of the series on the air at the same time. It’s a crazy concept, but something that he is looking to explore.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly as a part of its new cover story all about the show, Murphy made it clear that they are trying something new right now that could lead to there being so much more of the series than we’ve ever had a chance to see before:

“Next year we might do a fall American Horror Story and a spring. We have to decide … We’re doing something that we’ve never done before on the show where we’re doing two different groups of writers rooms. Some of our writers will be bouncing around but a whole different group coming in late August. The next thing we’re crafting up is very, very different than this. Not smaller. But just not opulent. More rogue and more dark.” 

We admit that for a minute, our reaction to this was to do almost do a double-take and make sure we read it properly. This could be a terrible idea of you get audiences completely overexposed to all things “American Horror Story.”

However, at the same time we have determined that there is something about this idea that could work. One of our biggest criticisms of the franchise for a long time has been that the seasons go completely off the rails over time. We’d much rather have two tight, excellent seasons of eight or ten episodes than one that was 13 that proves to be a little too crazy. We’re not sure we’d sign off on two 13-episode seasons in a single year’s time.

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