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The '''first season''' of the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] television series ''[[American Horror Story]]'' originally aired between October 5, 2011 and December 21, 2011. The season was produced by [[20th Century Fox Television]], and the executive producers were [[Dante Di Loreto]] and series creators [[Brad Falchuk]] and [[Ryan Murphy (writer)|Ryan Murphy]].
The '''first season''' of the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] television series ''[[American Horror Story]]'' (later retitled '''''American Horror Story: Murder House'''''<ref>{{cite news|last=de Moraes|first=Lisa|title=FX picks up third season of ‘American Horror Story’|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/fx-picks-up-third-season-of-american-horror-story/2012/11/15/1431d834-2f54-11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_blog.html|accessdate=November 16, 2012|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 15, 2012}}</ref>) originally aired between October 5, 2011 and December 21, 2011. The season was produced by [[20th Century Fox Television]], and the executive producers were [[Dante Di Loreto]] and series creators [[Brad Falchuk]] and [[Ryan Murphy (writer)|Ryan Murphy]].


''American Horror Story'' was created by Murphy and Falchuk. The season centers on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from [[Boston]] to [[Los Angeles]] after Vivien has a [[stillbirth]] and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted by its former inhabitants.
''American Horror Story'' was created by Murphy and Falchuk. The season centers on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from [[Boston]] to [[Los Angeles]] after Vivien has a [[stillbirth]] and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted by its former inhabitants.

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The first season of the FX television series American Horror Story (later retitled American Horror Story: Murder House[4]) originally aired between October 5, 2011 and December 21, 2011. The season was produced by 20th Century Fox Television, and the executive producers were Dante Di Loreto and series creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy.

American Horror Story was created by Murphy and Falchuk. The season centers on the Harmon family: Ben, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a stillbirth and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the home is haunted by its former inhabitants.

The first season of American Horror Story was well received by television critics and fans. The cast was generally praised, particularly Jessica Lange.[5][6][7] The series drew consistently high ratings for the FX network, ending its first season as the biggest new cable series of the year.[8] The first season was nominated for various industry awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Drama Series and Lange won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Plot

Main article: List of American Horror Story episodes

American Horror Story's first season follows the Harmon family: Ben (Dylan McDermott), Vivien (Connie Britton) and Violet (Taissa Farmiga), who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien gives birth to a stillborn baby and Ben has an affair with Hayden (Kate Mara), one of his students. On arrival, they learn that the previous owners of their new mansion, a gay couple, apparently died in a murder/suicide. Their neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) and her daughter Addie (Jamie Brewer) become frequent, if sometimes unwelcome, guests. Addie, who has Down syndrome, seems to have a supernatural connection with the house's mysterious past. Larry Harvey (Denis O'Hare) also harasses Ben and murders Hayden, when Hayden arrives to try and resume her affair with Ben. The house also "comes with" Moira O'Hara (Frances Conroy/Alexandra Breckenridge), a housekeeper who, to men, appears as young and seductive, but, to women, old and matronly.

Ben begins seeing patients out of his home office. One in particular, the possibly psychotic Tate Langdon (Evan Peters), takes a keen interest in kindred spirit Violet, who suffers from depression. Ben is unaware that Tate is both a ghost and the son of Constance. As the family settles into the home, bizarre and often violent events begin to occur with increasing regularity. It is soon revealed that there have been upwards of 20 violent deaths in the home over the course of its history, so much so that it is known on sightseeing tours as "The Murder House". The family struggles with their own personal tribulations, oblivious to the reality of their home even as more people die and take up residence as ghosts. Upon exploring the attic, Vivien discovers a bondage suit. Unknowingly, she has sex with Tate whom she mistakes for Ben in the bondage suit, shortly after making love with him, resulting in the rare occurrence of becoming pregnant with twins by different fathers. Several ghosts in the house, including Hayden, conspire to drive Vivien mad so that they can raise the babies as their own.

On Halloween, the one day in which the dead can walk the earth among the living, Violet learns that Tate is an infamous school shooter, who killed a library full of his fellow teenagers (as well as crippling a teacher and setting Larry Harvey on fire) as a ploy to punish his mother Constance for having Tate's younger (and deformed) brother euthanized. Addie is run over by a car, leading to Constance failing to get her corpse moved to the house property to imprison her spirit so that she can be reunited with her brother's ghost. Vivien meanwhile learns from the "Murder House Tour", that the house was the home of a back alley abortionist and that the monstrous ghost in the basement of the house is the ghost of the doctor's son, who was killed by a patient's vengeful boyfriend and resurrected as a monstrous "Infantata" monster.

Faced with the monster Tate is and her own romantic feelings for him, Violet kills herself, something she doesn't realize was successful until weeks later when she realizes she cannot leave the house. Tate convinces Violet to lie and help her father commit Vivien to an insane asylum, as Ben is convinced that the second father of her child is a neighborhood security officer. Meanwhile, Constance enlists the help of a psychic (Sarah Paulson) to help her talk to Addie; when Violet realizes that Tate had sex with her mom and encountering the gay couple, who she discovered was murdered by Tate, she breaks up with him and tells Constance about what Tate did. Constance discovers from the psychic, to her horror, that Tate's child with Vivien will become the Anti-Christ. When Moira and Violet tells Ben the truth about her being a ghost, Tate being the "rubber man", and the evil in the house, he has Vivien freed from the asylum.

Vivien gives birth to the twins in the house, with Moira recruiting the more benevolent ghosts of the house to help deliver the children. Sadly, Vivien and one of the children die, leaving Ben with sole surviving twin. Ben is murdered by Hayden, who hangs him to simulate a suicide, but Hayden is kept from getting the surviving child by Constance, who is helped by the ghost of a lover who Hayden murdered. Constance hides the child and tells the police that Ben killed himself out of grief for his wife's death and that Violet (whose body is never found) ran off with the surviving child.

Now trapped in the house, the Harmons (Vivien, Ben, Violet, and the deceased twin) team up with Moira to keep further families from the house by fake haunting the place every time it is sold. Tate meanwhile has consigned himself to living with Hayden, both of which have been blocked out by the Harmons using a trick that Tate taught Violet when she first died. Elsewhere, Constance (who left town to create a cover story regarding the Harmon child she is now raising) returns to Los Angeles but finds that her grandson (The Anti-Christ) has murdered his nanny, after returning home from getting her hair done.

Cast

Main article: List of American Horror Story characters

Main cast

Recurring and minor characters

  • Frances Conroy as Moira O'Hara, the housekeeper (11 episodes)
  • Kate Mara as Hayden McClaine, Ben's student and former lover (8 episodes)
  • Lily Rabe as Nora Montgomery, Dr. Montgomery's wife (7 episodes)
  • Matt Ross as Dr. Charles Montgomery, a surgeon who built the house in 1922 (6 episodes)
  • Alexandra Breckenridge as Young Moira O'Hara (6 episodes)
  • Jamie Brewer as Adelaide "Addie" Langdon, Constance’s daughter (6 episodes)
  • Christine Estabrook as Marcy, the Harmons' real estate agent (6 episodes)
  • Morris Chestnut as Luke, a security patrol officer (6 episodes)
  • Michael Graziadei as Travis, Constance's young lover (5 episodes)
  • Zachary Quinto as Chad, the most recent former owner of the house (4 episodes)
  • Teddy Sears as Patrick, Chad's partner (4 episodes)
  • Shelby Young as Leah, Violet's bully-turned-companion (3 episodes)
  • Sarah Paulson as Billie Dean Howard, a medium (3 episodes)
  • Rebecca Wisocky as Lorraine Harvey, Larry's wife (3 episodes)
  • Eric Close as Hugo, Constance's husband (2 episodes)
  • Brando Eaton as Kyle Greenwell, a victim of the Westfield High shooting (2 episodes)
  • Ashley Rickards as Chloe Stapleton, a victim of the Westfield High shooting (2 episodes)
  • Alessandra Torresani as Stephanie Boggs, a victim of the Westfield High shooting (2 episodes)

Episodes

See also: List of American Horror Story episodes
No. # Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code 		U.S. viewers
(million)
11"Pilot"Ryan MurphyRyan Murphy & Brad FalchukOctober 5, 2011 (2011-10-05)1ATS793.18[9]
22"Home Invasion"Alfonso Gomez-RejonRyan Murphy & Brad FalchukOctober 12, 2011 (2011-10-12)1ATS012.46[10]
33"Murder House"Bradley BueckerJennifer SaltOctober 19, 2011 (2011-10-19)1ATS022.59[11]
44"Halloween (Part 1)"David SemelJames WongOctober 26, 2011 (2011-10-26)1ATS032.96[12]
55"Halloween (Part 2)"David SemelTim MinearNovember 2, 2011 (2011-11-02)1ATS042.74[13]
66"Piggy Piggy"Michael UppendahlJessica SharzerNovember 9, 2011 (2011-11-09)1ATS052.83[14]
77"Open House"Tim HunterBrad FalchukNovember 16, 2011 (2011-11-16)1ATS063.06[15]
88"Rubber Man"Miguel ArtetaRyan MurphyNovember 23, 2011 (2011-11-23)1ATS072.81[16]
99"Spooky Little Girl"John ScottJennifer SaltNovember 30, 2011 (2011-11-30)1ATS082.85[17]
1010"Smoldering Children"Michael LehmannJames WongDecember 7, 2011 (2011-12-07)1ATS092.54[18]
1111"Birth"Alfonso Gomez-RejonTim MinearDecember 14, 2011 (2011-12-14)1ATS102.59[19]
1212"Afterbirth"Bradley BueckerJessica SharzerDecember 21, 2011 (2011-12-21)1ATS113.22[20]

Production

Conception

What you saw in the finale was the end of the Harmon house. The second season of the show will be a brand-new home or building to haunt. Just like this year, every season of this show will have a beginning, middle and end. [The second season] won't be in L.A. It will obviously be in America, but in a completely different locale.

— Murphy on American Horror Story's second season.[21]

Creators Murphy and Falchuk began working on American Horror Story before their Fox series Glee began production. Murphy wanted to do the opposite of what he had done previously and thus began his work on the series. He stated, "I went from Nip/Tuck to Glee, so it made sense that I wanted to do something challenging and dark. And I always had loved, as Brad had, the horror genre. So it just was a natural for me."[22] Falchuk was intrigued by the idea of putting a different angle on the horror genre, stating that their main goal in creating the series was to scare viewers. "You want people to be a little bit off balance afterwards," he said.[23]

The dark tone of the series is modeled after the ABC soap opera Dark Shadows, which Murphy’s grandmother forced him to watch when he was younger to toughen him up.[24]

From the beginning, Murphy and Falchuk planned that each season of the series would tell a different story.[21] After the first season finale aired, Murphy spoke of his plans to change the cast and location for the second season.[25] He did say, however, that some actors who starred in the first season would be returning. "The people that are coming back will be playing completely different characters, creatures, monsters, etc. [The Harmons] stories are done. People who are coming back will be playing entirely new characters," he announced.[21]

In February 2011, FX officially announced that it had ordered a pilot for a possible series from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, with both Murphy and Falchuk writing and Murphy directing. Dante Di Loreto was announced as executive producer. Production on the series began in April 2011.[26] In July 2011, FX officially announced the project had been given a series order consisting of 13 episodes.[27] On August 2011, it was announced that Tim Minear, Jennifer Salt, James Wong and Jessica Sharzer had joined the series as writers.[28]

Casting

Casting announcements began in March 2011, with Connie Britton first to be cast, portraying female lead Vivien Harmon.[29] Britton stated that she took a risk in taking the role of Vivien. When Murphy presented the role to her he said "This is something we've never seen you do before. It will be turning what you've just been doing on its ear." She was intrigued by what he had presented her and ultimately decided to take the part.[30] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, series co-creator Ryan Murphy stated that he had told Connie Britton, early on, that her character Vivien would die in the first season. "We’ve really had the whole season mapped out from the beginning," he said. "In the meetings with the core actors, the three leads being Connie, Dylan [McDermott] and Jessica [Lange], as we tried to snare them we were able to say this is where you start, this is the middle, and this is where you end up. So, yes, I was able to tell Connie really the whole run of the series."[31]

Denis O’Hare joined the cast in late March 2011 as Larry Harvey.[32] Jessica Lange joined the cast in April 2011 as Constance, marking her first regular role on television.[33] Lange was attracted to the role because it didn't require a 22-episode commitment like a series on a broadcast network. "That was huge for me!" she said. "I wasn’t about to commit to, you know, six months. It was cable, rather than network. …I’ve been offered network [shows] before, and determined not to do it, just because I can’t make that kind of time commitment."[34]

Dylan McDermott was cast as the lead Ben Harmon in late April 2011. His character was initially described as "a handsome and masculine but sensitive therapist who loves his family but has hurt his wife."[35] McDermott stated that he wanted to do the role to break away from his previous role as Bobby Donnell in the ABC series The Practice. "This was exactly why I wanted to do this show—to change it up and do a different kind of character. People think of me as the guy from ‘The Practice’ …I wanted to turn that [notion] on its head and hopefully I’m doing that [with this show]", he said.[36]

In May 2011, Taissa Farmiga and Evan Peters were the last actors to be cast, portraying Violet Harmon and Tate Langdon, respectively.[37] Farmiga said that she loved Violet "immediately" and that "She had spunk to her, she had attitude."[38] Murphy has described Tate as the "true monster" of the series, adding: "To Evan’s great credit and the credit of the writers, I think Evan’s done an amazingly difficult job making a monster sympathetic."[39]

Filming

Murphy was looking for a house that could be appropriately creepy but also attractive.[40]

The pilot episode was shot on location in a house in Country Club Park, Los Angeles, California, which serves as the haunted house and crime scene in the series. Designed and built in 1902 by Alfred Rosenheim, the president of the American Institute of Architects' Los Angeles chapter, the Tudor or Collegiate Gothic-style single family home was previously used as a convent.[40][41] An adjoining chapel was removed from exterior shots using CGI.[42]

The series is filmed on sets that are an exact replica of the house.[43] Details such as Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows, and hammered bronze light fixtures, were re-created to preserve the look of the house.[40]

Due to a "very aggressive" production schedule and the series' pilot shoot having to wait for co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's other show, Glee, to wrap its second season production, it was announced that the show's first season finale would be thirty minutes shorter than planned. An option was given to Murphy by the network to drop the thirteenth episode altogether and air an hour-long finale, but Murphy came up with a plan for a ninety-minute one.[44] The episode aired on December 21, 2011.

Title sequence

The opening title sequence was created by Kyle Cooper and his company Prologue. He also created the title sequence for the AMC series The Walking Dead and the 1995 film Se7en. The theme music was composed by sound designer Cesar Davila-Irizarry and musician Charlie Clouser.[45] The sequence is set in the Harmons' basement and includes images of postmortem young children, unborn (or aborted) babies in jars, skulls, a Christening dress, a nurse's uniform, and a figure holding a pair of bloody hedge clippers. Murphy described the sequence as a mini-mystery and stated that "By the time you see the ninth episode of this season, every image in that title sequence will be explained".[46]

Reception

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominated work Result
2011 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Screenplay Jessica Sharzer ("Afterbirth") Won
Satellite Awards 2011 Outstanding Performance in a Television Series Jessica Lange Won
Best Genre Series American Horror Story Won
2012 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Jessica Lange Won
38th Saturn Awards Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series American Horror Story Nominated
Best Actor on Television Dylan McDermott Nominated
Best Actress on Television Jessica Lange Nominated
Best Supporting Actress on Television Frances Conroy Nominated
Best Guest Performer on Television Zachary Quinto Nominated
64th Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Miniseries or Movie American Horror Story Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Connie Britton Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie Frances Conroy Nominated
Jessica Lange Won
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Denis O'Hare Nominated
Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie Mark Worthington, Edward L. Rubin, Ellen Brill ("Open House") Nominated
Beth Rubino, Charles M. Lagola, Ellen Brill ("Pilot") Nominated
Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Robert Ulrich, Eric Dawson Nominated
Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Chrisi Karvonides, Conan Castro ("Halloween (Part 1)") Nominated
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or Movie Fabienne Bouville ("Birth") Nominated
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or Movie Monte C. Haught, Samantha Wade, Melanie Verkins, Natalie Driscoll, Michelle Ceglia Won
Outstanding Main Title Design Kyle WJ Cooper, Juan Ruiz Anchia, Gabriel Diaz, Ryan Murphy Nominated
Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries or Movie (Non-Prosthetic) Eryn Krueger Mekash, Kim Ayers, Silvina Knight, D. Garen Tolkin Nominated
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special Eryn Krueger Mekash, Hiroshi Yada, Michael Mekash, Christopher Nelson, Kim Ayers, Christien Tinsley, Jason Hamer Nominated
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special Gary Megregian, David Klotz, Steve M. Stuhr, Jason Krane, Jason Lezama, Timothy Cleveland, Bruce Tanis, Simon Coke, Zane Bruce, Jeff Gunn, Lance Wiseman ("Piggy Piggy") Nominated
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or Movie Sean Rush, Joe Earle, Doug Andham ("Piggy Piggy") Nominated
Outstanding Stunt Coordination Tim Davison Nominated
69th Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film Jessica Lange Won
Best Television Series – Drama American Horror Story Nominated
Kerrang! Awards 2012 Best TV Show American Horror Story Nominated

The FX network submitted the series to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the miniseries category for its 64th Primetime Emmy Awards.[47] Nominations were announced by the Academy on July 19, 2012. The award ceremonies will be held on September 15, 2012.[48]

Reviews

American Horror Story has received generally positive reviews from critics. The first episode scored 62 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 29 reviews.[49] Ken Tucker from Entertainment Weekly awarded the pilot episode a B+, stating "AHS is pretty much all scare, all the time: a whole lotta screams, sex, jolts, mashed faces, psychotic behavior, and dead babies."[50] Chuck Barney of the San Jose Mercury News said "Most TV shows, after all, quickly fade from memory. This one will haunt your dreams."[51] Hank Stuever from The Washington Post said in his review that "Overdoing things is one of Murphy's trademark flaws, but this show has a captivating style and giddy gross-outs."[52] The New York Times' Mike Hale calls the show "a more classically minded chiller," taking into mind the success of HBO's True Blood and AMC's The Walking Dead.[53] However, not all reviews were favorable. Alan Sepinwall of HitFix gave the series a D−, saying, "It is so far over the top that the top is a microscopic speck in its rearview mirror."[54]

Ratings

The pilot episode gained a 1.6 ratings share among adults aged 18–49 and garnered 3.2 million viewers,[55] and totalled 5.2 million between two airings.[56] This was the best numbers FX had ever received for a series premiere.[57] Taken together with equally strong numbers for the station's returning original series – Sons of Anarchy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League – the episode helped make October the most-watched month on FX ever.[58] The episode was seen by 3.2 million viewers total in 59 countries.[59]

Ratings increased as the season progressed, with the fourth episode receiving a 1.7 ratings share among adults 18-49, a tenth of a point higher than the pilot episode.[60] The seventh episode had a viewership of 3.06 million, receiving a 1.8 ratings share in the 18-49 demographic; a series high.[61][62] The season finale was watched by 3.22 million viewers and received a 1.7 ratings share in the 18-49 demographic.[63] The first season tied with the TNT series Falling Skies as the biggest new cable series of the year among adults 18-49.[8]

American Horror Story's November 2011 international premiere across Europe and Latin America, on Fox International Channels, drew rankings of 1st or 2nd among all Pay-TV in most metered markets for its time slot. In the UK, it premiered on non-terrestrial channel FX, with 128,200 viewers. The second episode saw an increase of 27%, receiving an overall viewership of 158,700.[64]

Home media release

American Horror Story - The Complete First Season
Set Details Special Features
  • 12 Episodes
  • Audio Commentary of the Pilot episode by Ryan Murphy
  • Behind the Fright: The Making of American Horror Story
  • The Murder House presented by Eternal Darkness Tours of Hollywood
  • On the Set of American Horror Story
  • Overture to Horror: Creating the Title Sequence
  • Out of the Shadows: Meet the House Ghosts
Release Dates
Region 1 Region 2
September 25, 2012 (2012-09-25)[1] October 15, 2012 (2012-10-15)[2]

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