American Horror Story: Asylum

American Horror Story: Season 2

 

            For anyone who has watched American Horror Story, you will know that every season is its own storyline. No continuation, it’s a completely fresh start. Now, so far, my favorite season by far is Season 2: Asylum which takes place in an insane asylum (Hence, the title…) . There is one thing about the season that bothers me. SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ IF YOU PLAN ON WATCHING IT! Season 2, in a short summary, is about a serial murder in 1964. He attacks women, skins them, and cuts off their heads. The main character of the season (one of them, anyway) is named Kit Walker. He is a white man who is married to a black woman named Alma. Clearly, interracial relationships are frowned upon during this time. One night, after Kit gets home from work, there are lights filling his house and loud noises and his wife disappears. Next, a reporter named Lana Winters goes to the Asylum under false pretenses to expose the poor conditions of the Asylum. In short, they believe Kit is a murderer and killed the women because of a bitterness about how he wasn’t supposed to be able to love his wife and one night, he snapped and killed his wife.

            The basis of this story revolves around the Devil who possesses an innocent nun after he is exorcised from a young teen boy.  Now, the Devil aspect was very uniquely done and I very much enjoyed it. It made a lot of sense and it helped us to discover secrets about the past of the head nun, Sister Jude. She used to be a heavy drinker and a woman who had many affairs. Then, one night, after she hit a young girl with her car in a drunken stupor, she went to join the congregation. IT was perfectly written with twists and turns, greatly developed characters, insane plots, and a very enticing storyline… Until they brought in the aliens. It turns out that Kit’s wife was actually abducted by aliens and wasn’t really dead. Kit is like..their experiment and they made sure he and Alma had a baby. We never find out why they wanted Kit, why he was special, or why they brought back Grace to have Kit’s other baby. I find it to be a large hole in the plot line. Though I was absolutely in love with the storyline, I cannot get over their combining of Nazis in World War 2, the legend of Anne Frank, God, the devil, religion, murder, psychology, and aliens. The story takes place in an earlier time, (60's or 70's) and yet, they have aliens with technology far more advanced that we never get to see or learn about. While each individual story intrigued me completely and caught my attention, I believe it was a bit much combining them all into one plotline. They did it seamlessly so that everything seemed to go together, but it had my head constantly spinning.