American Horror Stories Season 2 Already Looks WAY Better Than Season 1
The official trailer for American Horror Stories season 2 suggests the new scares and storytelling will be far better than season 1. American Horror Stories serves as a spinoff to Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story, with the newer anthology even bringing back characters and locations from the original series. However, while American Horror Story follows one terrifying tale per season, American Horror Stories sees a new plot in each episode.
American Horror Story, which debuted in 2011, has produced some of the most acclaimed seasons of horror television in history, with the series already renewed through 13 seasons. While the first few seasons of American Horror Story were met with critical acclaim, the same wasn’t true for its first official offshoot, American Horror Stories. The spinoff, which generally starred young actors new to the American Horror Story family, lacked consistency in quality between episodes, leading American Horror Stories season 1 to receive disappointingly mixed reviews from critics.
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Despite a lackluster first season, American Horror Stories was renewed for season 2, perhaps due to the strength of its best-received episodes, “BA’AL” (starring Billie Lourd) and “Feral.” While the first season may not have consistently lived up to expectations, the trailer for American Horror Stories season 2 suggests a big jump in quality for the new plotlines. The episode titles themselves had already teased a proper use of the format, with American Horror Stories season 2 adapting some of the most popular themes, like “Bloody Mary,” that wouldn’t suit a season-long story. Alongside teasing the returns of seasoned American Horror
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