How the New Season of 'American Horror Story' Sets Itself Apart
This season of 'American Horror Story' is a whole other monster. Here's a preview and how to stream with Sling TV.
Haunted houses, covens of witches, insane asylums, vampires, aliens, slasher films and circus freaks. After eleven seasons, if American Horror Story viewers have learned anything, it's that the FX show knows how to play with traditional horror themes, archetypes and genres embedded in the collective American psyche. Some play better than others, but viewers can be assured that whatever they think AHS will be about, chances are, it will take a turn for the weird and unexpected.
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There are three major ways in which American Horror Story: Delicate – which premieres Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 10:00pm on FX – will differ from previous installments of the show. This will be the first season that co-creator Ryan Murphy won't serve as showrunner to the popular horror-anthology series he helped birth back in 2011. Whereas previous seasons were based around myth and urban legend, Delicate is based on specific source material (the novel "Delicate Condition" by Danielle Valentine). Lastly, this will also be the first time fans will be left with a cliffhanger ending, due to that only half of the episode production was completed prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike that began back in July.
AHS is known for delving deep into the supernatural – ghosts are given almost as much autonomy as the living, magic is real, and it's accepted as fact that dark forces are all around, puppeteering the thoughts and actions of anyone, living or dead, who happens to wander into their web of malevolence. Where AHS: Delicate departs from this is that the horrors being presented are far more nebulous and less defined than a house full of murderous ghosts or a butcher knife-wielding serial killer. Delicate is about pregnancy, and all its mundane horrors: the commonplace medical gaslighting women experience every day, the sheer physical trauma and gruesomeness that comes with growing another human inside of ones body, and the self-doubt that takes place when a pregnant person feels out of control of their own body.
What expectant mother hasn't felt like the proverbial Buddha, with strangers approaching them to rub their belly, as though for luck? Their bodies may feel as if they're no longer their own, but instead public property of the masses; after all, everyone has an opinion on what is best for baby, and the need to share that opinion, regardless of whether it was solicited or not. Should they express anger or frustration at this, all too often their emotional reactions are chalked up to hormones and brushed off.
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As much as viewers can expect Delicate to be a much more internal story than previous seasons, this is still AHS, so rest assured, the show's current showrunner Halley Feiffer has developed a season ripe with subtext, in which the sinister is alive and well. Is Anna Alcott (Emma Roberts), our expectant mother, really losing her mind from all of the commonplace medications taken when one undergoes IVF, or is she the target of outside sinister forces? Does her friend and confidante Siobhan (Kim Kardashian), truly have her best interests at heart, or is she a part of a larger conspiracy in place to somehow benefit from Anna's pregnancy? And who is Ivy (Carla Delvigne), the 'nurse' who keeps showing up at Anna's medical appointments, but seems to have no traceable affiliation to the hospital Anna is a patient of? We'll get these answers eventually, but if past seasons are any indication, the road getting there will be filled with (baby) bumps and bruises. - Sarah Griffin
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