For one reason or another, we find ourselves especially interested in analyzing ratings for “American Horror Story,” even more so than any other show. Maybe a part of that stems from how the show follows a familiar-but-interesting trajectory year in and year out. The premiere tends to draw extremely good ratings, only to then start […]
If you remember back to an Entertainment Weekly cover story earlier this fall, one of the big takeaways from executive producer Ryan Murphy’s comments was that the upcoming fifth episode of “American Horror Story: Roanoke” was going to be a pivotal turning point in the show. This is where there would be an enormous twist, […]
For much of the past week or so, we’ve wondered a simple question when it comes to “American Horror Story: Roanoke“: What in the world is going on? It felt in some ways as though this show, which started with some sort of humble beginnings, was going fully off the deep end and on a […]
On Tuesday, the news was first announced that “American Horror Story” was renewed by FX for a seventh season, and we do think that this news is certainly worth celebrating. While we haven’t necessarily loved the past few years of the show, we remain an advocate for the show continuing to try new things and […]
We considered the first two episodes of “American Horror Story: Roanoke” to be something special, a throwback in ways to the earlier days of the series where things were a little more scary than silly. Then, things went a little weird in episode 3 and we had all of that crazy stuff go down with Matt […]
While this may not qualify as particularly exciting news, we are still certainly rather glad to hear it: “American Horror Story” if officially coming back for a season 7. This announcement was made officially today by FX, with FX Networks / FX Productions CEO John Landgraf passing along the following statement: “Ryan [Murphy], Brad [Falchuk] […]
Great news: “American Horror Story: Roanoke” has officially now caught up with its competition from one year ago. In the latest ratings data that was released (and by that, we’re talking live+same day figures), “Chapter 3” drew a 1.7 rating in the key 18-49 demographic. This marks only a slight decrease from the episode before, […]
Three episodes in to “American Horror Story: Roanoke,” and it certainly feels as though we’re only going to be getting stranger and stranger from here on out. We’re meeting more and more people, we’re seeing the fourth wall being broken courtesy of Lee and her daughter Emily, and ultimately we’re getting a sense that the […]
While the headline above may sound crazy, it’s not as out-there as you may think: We could see another season of “American Horror Story” at almost any moment. Speaking in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, show co-creator Ryan Murphy made it clear that there has been someone working on another season of the show […]
One of the biggest calling cards for “American Horror Story” at this point, at least in terms of ratings, is that the show tends to take a pretty hard fall following the premiere. It doesn’t really seem to matter if the show is good or not. Ultimately, this happened again this year for their new […]
