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American Horror Story Season 1
File:American.horror.story.jpg
Promotional image of the series.
No. of episodes12
Release
Original networkFX
Original releaseOctober 5 (2011-10-05) –
December 21, 2011 (2011-12-21)
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List of episodes

The first season of the 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 series creators Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy and Dante Di Loreto

American Horror Story was created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The series 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.[2][3][4] The series drew consistently high ratings for the FX network, ending its first season as the the biggest new cable series of the year.[5] The first season was nominated for various industry awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Drama Series and Lange won Best Supporting Actress.

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 routinely and frequently affects the Harmons' lives. 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.

Violet commits suicide, something she doesn't realize was successful until weeks later when she realizes she cannot leave the house. Vivien gives birth to the twins in the house. The first dies moments after birth, but the second lives. Vivien dies during labor. Constance realizes that the surviving baby's father is Tate, and urges Ben to flee the house. In so doing, Ben is confronted by Hayden who murders him by forcibly hanging him. Upon finding Ben's body, Constance abducts his baby. Ultimately it is believed by the police that Ben hanged himself in grief, and Violet "whose body is never found" ran away with the baby.

Now trapped in the house, Ben and Vivien vow to work with some of the other ghosts to scare away any new tenants and spare their lives, and successfully do so with the next family that moves in. The series then jumps ahead three years to reveal that Constance has continued to raise the Harmons' son in secrecy. She discovers, however, that he has violently murdered his nanny.

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)
  • Alexandra Breckenridge as Young Moira O'Hara (6 episodes)
  • Jamie Brewer as Adelaide "Addie", Constance’s daughter (6 episodes)
  • Kate Mara as Hayden McClaine, Ben's student and former lover (8 episodes)
  • Christine Estabrook as Marcy, the Harmons' real estate agent (6 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)
  • Matt Ross as Dr. Charles Montgomery, a surgeon who built the house in 1922 (6 episodes)
  • Lily Rabe as Nora Montgomery, Dr. Montgomery's wife (7 episodes)
  • Michael Graziadei as Travis, Constance's young lover (5 episodes)
  • Morris Chestnut as Luke, a security patrol officer (6 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)
  • Sarah Paulson as Billie Dean, a medium (3 episodes)

Episodes

See also: List of American Horror Story episodes
№ # Title Directed by Written by Original air date U.S. viewers
(million)
11"Pilot"Ryan MurphyRyan Murphy & Brad FalchukOctober 5, 2011 (2011-10-05)3.18[6]
22"Home Invasion"Alfonso Gomez-RejonRyan Murphy & Brad FalchukOctober 12, 2011 (2011-10-12)2.46[7]
33"Murder House"Bradley BueckerJennifer SaltOctober 19, 2011 (2011-10-19)2.59[8]
44"Halloween (Part 1)"David SemelJames WongOctober 26, 2011 (2011-10-26)2.96[9]
55"Halloween (Part 2)"David SemelTim MinearNovember 2, 2011 (2011-11-02)2.74[10]
66"Piggy Piggy"Michael UppendahlJessica SharzerNovember 9, 2011 (2011-11-09)2.83[11]
77"Open House"Tim HunterBrad FalchukNovember 16, 2011 (2011-11-16)3.06[12]
88"Rubber Man"Miguel ArtetaRyan MurphyNovember 23, 2011 (2011-11-23)2.81[13]
99"Spooky Little Girl"John ScottJennifer SaltNovember 30, 2011 (2011-11-30)2.85[14]
1010"Smoldering Children"Michael LehmannJames WongDecember 7, 2011 (2011-12-07)2.54[15]
1111"Birth"Alfonso Gomez-RejonTim MinearDecember 14, 2011 (2011-12-14)2.59[16]
1212"Afterbirth"Bradley BueckerJessica SharzerDecember 21, 2011 (2011-12-21)3.22[17]

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.[18]

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."[19] 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.[20]

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.[21]

From the beginning, Murphy and Falchuk planned that each season of the series would tell a different story.[18] After the first season finale aired, Murphy spoke of his plans to change the cast and location for the second season.[22] 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.[18]

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.[23] In July 2011, FX officially announced the project had been given a series order consisting of 13 episodes.[24] On August 2011, it was announced that Tim Minear, Jennifer Salt, James Wong and Jessica Sharzer had joined the series as writers.[25]

Casting

Casting announcements began in March 2011, with Connie Britton first to be cast, portraying female lead Vivien Harmon.[26] 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.[27] 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."[28]

Denis O’Hare joined the cast in late March 2011 as Larry Harvey.[29] Jessica Lange joined the cast in April 2011 as Constance, marking her first regular role on television.[30] 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."[31]

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."[32] 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.[33]

In May 2011, Taissa Farmiga and Evan Peters were the last actors to be cast, portraying Violet Harmon and Tate Langdon, respectively.[34] Farmiga said that she loved Violet "immediately" and that "She had spunk to her, she had attitude."[35] 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."[36]

Filming

Murphy was looking for a house that could be appropriately creepy but also attractive.[37]

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.[37][38] An adjoining chapel was removed from exterior shots using CGI.[39]

The series is filmed on sets that are an exact replica of the house.[40] Details such as Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass windows, and hammered bronze light fixtures, were re-created to preserve the look of the house.[37]

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.[41] 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.[42] 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".[43]

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 Pending
Best Actor on Television Dylan McDermott Pending
Best Actress on Television Jessica Lange Pending
Best Supporting Actress on Television Frances Conroy Pending
Best Guest Performer on Television Zachary Quinto Pending
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 Pending

The FX network has submitted the series to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the miniseries category for its 64th Primetime Emmy Awards.[44] Nominations will be announced by the Academy on July 19, 2012. The award ceremonies will be held on September 15, 2012.[45]

Reviews

American Horror Story has received generally positive reviews from critics. The first episode scored 61 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 29 reviews.[46] 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."[47] Chuck Barney of the San Jose Mercury News said "Most TV shows, after all, quickly fade from memory. This one will haunt your dreams."[48] 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."[49] 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.[50] 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."[51]

Ratings

The pilot episode gained a 1.6 ratings share among adults aged 18–49 and garnered 3.2 million viewers,[52] and totalled 5.2 million between two airings.[53] This was the best numbers FX had ever received for a series premiere.[54] 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.[55] The episode was seen by 3.2 million viewers total in 59 countries.[56]

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.[57] The seventh episode had a viewership of 3.06 million, receiving a 1.8 ratings share in the 18-49 demographic; a series high.[58][59] The season finale was watched by 3.22 million viewers and received a 1.7 ratings share in the 18-49 demographic.[60] The first season tied with the TNT series Falling Skies as the biggest new cable series of the year among adults 18-49.[5]

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.[61]

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