When the Harmon family moved into their new home in Los Angeles that would then turn out to be called the Murder House back in 2011, American Horror Story achieved something truly unprecedented on the small screen – it created electrifying, daring and ambitious horror that spared no character. Yes, in pure Ryan Murphy fashion the show was messy, uneven and far exceeded its reach on occasion, but what it succeeded in doing was prove horror worked as an extended narrative beyond the feature film format, which had grown stale and predictable. It proved that if you gave your characters enough time and rope, they’d hang themselves and do so in profound and unsettling ways.
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