American Horror Story

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Season 2
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 5, 2011
Season #: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
  3. Negative: 2 out of 23
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Critic Reviews

  1. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Chris Conaton
    Oct 17, 2012
    60
    American Horror Story: Asylum reintroduces the first season's nightmarish craziness but also sets it within a coherent basic history. It helps too that the new cast appears to be so tight.
  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Oct 16, 2012
    50
    Asylum has some good special effects, just not much of a story to hang them on.
  3. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Oct 17, 2012
    42
    Ultimately, it's the exact same tedious show they've been making, under one name or another, for years now.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Oct 17, 2012
    40
    The series remains a collection of moments (creepy, campy, revolting) and stock characters, designed more to provoke and earn the "TV-MA" rating than to interact.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Oct 16, 2012
    40
    The bad news is that this potentially rich stew of frights and kink has been underspiced: Asylum, so far, doesn't have the energy or the over-the-top inventiveness that Season 1 eventually displayed.

Awards & Rankings

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#68 Best TV Season of 2012
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#7 Most Discussed TV Season of 2012
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#8 Most Shared TV Season of 2012

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User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 749 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 644 out of 749
  2. Mixed: 54 out of 749
  3. Negative: 51 out of 749
  1. aasta12211995
    Oct 18, 2012
    10
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  2. gordee101
    Oct 18, 2012
    10
    This season is going to be a very fun ride! Jessica Lange is fabulous as always, the other returning cast members seem to be doing well withThis season is going to be a very fun ride! Jessica Lange is fabulous as always, the other returning cast members seem to be doing well with their new roles, and while after the premiere it does seem like a hodgepodge of different spooky story lines, there is no doubt that the show won't stop being one of the most entertaining things on television.… Full Review »
  3. AReviews
    Jun 26, 2013
    10
    Asylum is scary and disturbing, walking on the same tone of complex and fantasy, mixes science fiction with horror which is great, it is tenAsylum is scary and disturbing, walking on the same tone of complex and fantasy, mixes science fiction with horror which is great, it is ten times scarier than the first, but less funnier, and short on the slow parts.… Full Review »
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