According to Bryan Bishop’s article on The Verge, “More than any other show in recent memory, American Horror Story is built on its ability to one-up itself on a weekly basis” (Bishop 1). American Horror Story is a television series that has been on air for five years and was just recently renewed for a sixth season. In the five years of American Horror Story it has only continued to impress their audience. With every new season the ratings just continue to rise. Each season has jumped around five percent in ratings. So far in this season, which is American Horror Story: Hotel, it has received a fifty-five percent rating in the first five episodes of a typical thirteen episode season. The show is an anthology series, meaning every season or
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The show, again, is an anthology series, meaning every season or episode is different. American Horror Story has never retold the same story in a similar fashion or continued on from a previous season’s story. In fact, in Grace Drake’s article, “Everything you need to know before you binge-watch American Horror Story” she said, “American Horror Story is one of the only shows on television that… keeps reinventing itself every season, consistently engaging viewers regardless of their final opinion of the content” (Drake 1). Drake then goes on to tell the content of each season and how each season provides the viewers with a good scare. Each season involves some type of horror that audiences find appealing. Many people are intrigued by certain types of horror and American Horror Story provides a wide variety. Season one has ghosts that have died gruesomely in the house that have made them be stuck there for the rest of eternity. Season two shows the reality of the awful treatment of mentally insane people of the 1960’s. Season two also includes a more life-like horror that actually happened. Season three follows the tale of witches and the powers that they possess, which might get a scare out of some people. Season four gives viewers freaks, people who were rejected by society for their looks and were “saved” by Elsa Mars and put in her freak show. Lastly, the current season, has blood-thirsty vampires, as well as ghosts, and a hotel with a grisly past filled with murder and mystery. This aspect of the show relates to appeal and horror, a big part of making people like a
The show, again, is an anthology series, meaning every season or episode is different. American Horror Story has never retold the same story in a similar fashion or continued on from a previous season’s story. In fact, in Grace Drake’s article, “Everything you need to know before you binge-watch American Horror Story” she said, “American Horror Story is one of the only shows on television that… keeps reinventing itself every season, consistently engaging viewers regardless of their final opinion of the content” (Drake 1). Drake then goes on to tell the content of each season and how each season provides the viewers with a good scare. Each season involves some type of horror that audiences find appealing. Many people are intrigued by certain types of horror and American Horror Story provides a wide variety. Season one has ghosts that have died gruesomely in the house that have made them be stuck there for the rest of eternity. Season two shows the reality of the awful treatment of mentally insane people of the 1960’s. Season two also includes a more life-like horror that actually happened. Season three follows the tale of witches and the powers that they possess, which might get a scare out of some people. Season four gives viewers freaks, people who were rejected by society for their looks and were “saved” by Elsa Mars and put in her freak show. Lastly, the current season, has blood-thirsty vampires, as well as ghosts, and a hotel with a grisly past filled with murder and mystery. This aspect of the show relates to appeal and horror, a big part of making people like a