I ranked my least favorite seasons of AHS to my favorite. I decided not to include the current season, Apocalypse, because obviously it’s not over, but it’s amazing so far! It was also pretty hard for me to rate these seasons considering that I loved them all for different reasons. (Warning: POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!)
7. Hotel
This season focused on the Hotel Cortez and the spirits who haunt its halls. A detective is drawn to the hotel to investigate a series of murders, making the spirits of the Cortez’s past revealed. The owner, James Patrick March, began the gory acts in the Hotel Cortez, and made it into the nightmare it is. While this season definitely left me on edge, it definitely wasn’t my favorite story.
6. Roanoke
Roanoke has such a strong history behind it, but it was a little hard to follow at first. The season is actually a fake documentary about Roanoke, and the cast of AHS are playing the roles in the documentary. A little confusing, I know. After the stories of Roanoke are recreated, the cast experiences real life hauntings in the Roanoke house.
5. Cult
Cult was chilling to say the least. It follows the 2016 Presidential Election and focuses on two main reactions of the election. One being utter shock, and the other being complete happiness. It goes deep into the psychological reactions these two groups had, and how it affected everyone’s lives.
4. Freak Show
This season was super creative. At first, it didn’t come across as dark or frightening compared to previous seasons. Jessica Lange stars as the Freak Show “leader,” Elsa Mars. She craves power and infamy, so she builds up her circus show. She soon becomes jealous of all the attention everyone else is getting, and lashes out.
3. Coven
Coven is a beautiful example of women empowerment. It is about Miss Robichaux’s Academy, a school where witches learn about their powers, and inevitably take the test of the Seven Wonders. This proves a witch’s ultimate power, and if they pass, they will become the Supreme.
2. Murder House
Murder House is definitely a fan favorite, and is hard to put it as number two, but Asylum will always have my heart. This season is about a family who moves into a house haunted by spirits of the past, who psychologically torment the new family. Evidently, it doesn’t end well for them. Murder House is tied into almost every season, the ghosts of the house are sometimes the history of future seasons.
1. Asylum
Asylum is hands-down (in my opinion) the best season in American Horror Story history. Every episode had something new to twist the plot. It takes place in the 1960s at the Briarcliff Mental Institution. It follows of the stories of treatments on multiple patients, and the physical/mental abuse the patients went through.