American Horror Story

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Season 8
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 5, 2011
Season #: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 133 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 97 out of 133
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 133
  3. Negative: 19 out of 133
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  1. Darkhope25
    Nov 15, 2018
    0
    This is the worst season! Where is American horror story vibe? Where is interesting story and something really terrifying? I am super fed up with this stupidity and absurd... I hope that next season will be the same as the previous 7...
  2. frylock904
    Dec 26, 2018
    0
    So, this has easily been by far the worst season of American horror story they've produced. I honestly don't know where to begin, let's just start with the title of the show "American HORROR story" HORROR is in the **** title and yet it's nowhere to be seen, this is the first season where I can honestly say I wasn't the least bit even startled the entire time this was going. This is likeSo, this has easily been by far the worst season of American horror story they've produced. I honestly don't know where to begin, let's just start with the title of the show "American HORROR story" HORROR is in the **** title and yet it's nowhere to be seen, this is the first season where I can honestly say I wasn't the least bit even startled the entire time this was going. This is like someone took "pretty little liars", mixed in a little bit of current season "supernatural" and **** it out onto your screen, there is far too much drama and far too little substance, the story is inconsistent, the characters are all terrible, it feels like the writers were coked out of their minds for this entire thing. I swear there are about 40 different scenes this season that are purely just them "stylishly" walking in slow-mo while the camera pans around them upside down and through hallways, plus this **** terrible music every single time something with the witches is occurring
    "lah lah laaah lah laah lah". I seriously had minor motion sickness at the end of this, there are no redeeming factors to this season, none.
    This season and coven is what happens when you try to make MA rated show based around what teenage girls would like
    Disclaimer, coven was by far the second worst season thus for me, but this ties it. My ranks for this show are now, from best to worst 1. Asylum 2. Roanoke 3. Murder house 4. Circus
    5. Cult 6. Coven 7. Apocalypse 8. Hotel

    As a last thing, I can understand putting social issues in a show, to address something, most of this season seems like a forced battle of the sexes, for literally no reason but to do it, we have enough of this **** to deal with IRL, can we just watch some scary **** happen to take us away from that once a week.    … Expand
  3. azothsolar
    Sep 26, 2019
    0
    This season is absolutely terrible. Boring dialogue, boring characters and they really phoned in the story. Cody Fern is awful. I can't understand why people said his performance was good. This is by far the worst season of American Horror Story. It's so bad, it's actually laughable.
  4. MarceloPaz
    Oct 6, 2018
    2
    I must confess that I stopped in the second episode due to the confused beginning of it, I will wait a little longer to try to review and say what this season has happened to me
  5. KongRules01
    Sep 24, 2018
    0
    First two episodes have been HORRIBLE, Shaping up to the the worst season yet.
  6. Yurchik
    Nov 4, 2018
    0
    men evil, women good and not important, that all - the witches and sorcerers worshipped the devil!
  7. haberle
    Dec 20, 2018
    1
    I have nothing against gays or other groups. But **** stuff doesn't work at all. Since season 1 it goes only absurdly downhill. Most of the seasons I couldn't look beyond 2 episodes. Maybe that was funny in the early 80s. I try it over and over again, but have only been disappointed over and over again.

    If I want to watch a transvestite show, I visit the appropriate clubs (with a    I have nothing against gays or other groups. But **** stuff doesn't work at all. Since season 1 it goes only absurdly downhill. Most of the seasons I couldn't look beyond 2 episodes. Maybe that was funny in the early 80s. I try it over and over again, but have only been disappointed over and over again.

    If I want to watch a transvestite show, I visit the appropriate clubs (with a high-quality program). American Horror Story on the other hand is superficial and embarrassing. This has nothing to do with horror-story anymore. Grotesque yes, but grotesque isn't scary. However, stupidity can increase to scary, that might fit.    … Expand
  8. daebu_char
    Sep 22, 2020
    3
    So this was really disappointing. When I initially heard this season would be returning back to the Murder House, and not only that--the witch coven from season 3 would be returning as well, I was ecstatic. What could *possibly* go wrong with bringing back all the fan favorites and wrapping up all their story arcs in a glorious doomsday-like setting with the prophecised antichrist figureSo this was really disappointing. When I initially heard this season would be returning back to the Murder House, and not only that--the witch coven from season 3 would be returning as well, I was ecstatic. What could *possibly* go wrong with bringing back all the fan favorites and wrapping up all their story arcs in a glorious doomsday-like setting with the prophecised antichrist figure that was briefly hinted at in the season 1 finale appearing as the main villain, right? In many ways, I felt like we were going to go back to the series' roots and come full circle. I was positive this would be the best season of the entire anthology series, periodT. Well, no. Far from it. While I was quite happy to see some of my favorite characters back (as well as Queen of AHS Jessica Lange), a lot of that fun stuff was kind of pushed aside in favor of giving more screen time to new and quite frankly downright annoying characters. The antichrist turned out to be an extremely bland and boring character whose whole shtick was that he was an Instagram model with superpowers. I mean, it was all very 'Charmed' and teen supernatural drama. The writing has deteriorated so much in comparison to the earlier seasons that it actually made me quite sad and depressed. I mean, this series used to have amazing characters like Tate Langdon, Lana Winters, Sister Jude, Liz Taylor... oh well, it was a good run. I guess it's time to move on and look for real horror elsewhere!… Expand

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Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Kevin Fallon
    Sep 13, 2018
    80
    Vignettes of people reacting to the world’s end carried more emotional heft than Horror Story is known for, and the depravity that follows doomsday is, as depicted here, suitably chilling. Yet at the same time, we’re watching Leslie Grossman shriek hilariously entitled freakouts and Joan Collins purr sassy one-liners while a Ryan Murphy-approved troupe of impeccably bone-structured twinks preen in fabulous clothes (and occasionally without!). It’s fun!
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Sep 13, 2018
    50
    I call the premiere of American Horror Story: Apocalypse "silly," but that's hardly the worst thing in the world. The fast-moving pre-credit sequence, directed by Bradley Buecker against a deceptively sunny Los Angeles backdrop, was packed with malevolent chuckles.
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  3. Collider
    Reviewed by: Haleigh Foutch
    Sep 13, 2018
    60
    It’s the end of the world and American Horror Story is back with a bang, it’s just too early to tell if there’s any real structure worth sticking around for after the the shock and awe.
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