By VICTORIA CREARY
Contributing Writer
The FX hit series American Horror Story is back and better than ever this season.
Set to premiere on October 9th, the show has its biggest cast yet! New comers to the show include actresses Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Patti LuPone, Gabourey Sidibe, and Emma Roberts.
They’ll be joining beloved veterans of the show Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Taissa Farmiga, Lily Rabe, and Frances Conroy. This predominately female cast can be attributed to the season three storyline being all about witches. The story is set to take place in both New Orleans and Salem during the infamous witch trial.
For those of you who don’t know each season of American Horror Story follows a completely different storyline. Actors who return for another season always play a different character.
Season one of the show followed the Harmon family as they were settling down in a new home in California which they would later find out was nicknamed “The Murder House” because of all the deaths had taken place on the property.
Season two however was a lot darker, taking place in an insane asylum and trying to figure out whom the infamous murderer Bloody Face was.
Although both seasons did very well racking up Primetime Emmy Nominations and wins, most viewers found season two a bit darker than the previous season. Most fans including me missed the whole star crossed lovers storyline that was in season one.
In an interview with Taissa Farmiga with Deidre Behar of the Clever News YouTube channel, she confirmed that there will be a love story in season three. The only concern that fans have now is whether the love story will be about Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga’s characters as it was in season one or Emma Roberts and real life boyfriend Evan Peters’ characters.
Teasers for the show have depicted real life voodoo dolls, seemingly dead bodies in coffins only to be revealed as alive when scratching their face, and a woman swallowing a snake whole and then letting it poke it’s head out of her mouth in the end.
Although the teasers for the show are very creepy, they don’t say a lot about what the season has in store for American Horror Story fans.
It seems as though creator Ryan Murphy wants to keep us guessing up until the season premiere on October 9th. Just when we think we know the entire cast for the show Murphy tweets about someone else being added to the list.
Earlier this month Murphy tweeted about actor Danny Huston joining the cast as Jessica Lange’s on screen boyfriend. More recently the opening credits for the show were released, while Murphy posted this on his twitter page the caption read “Here it is! The sexy scary main title for AHS: Coven. Can you spot the clues?”
I guess no matter how much information about the show is given to the media we’ll just have to wait until the premiere to find out more. This season will definitely be full of plot twists and mind blowing moments. The show is set to premiere on FX on October 9th, just in time for the start of the Halloween season. Anyone that wants a good scare should definitely check it out.
