If you are worried that the American Horror Story could be coming to an end because of the monumental installment, there’s nothing to fret anymore as AHS’s co-creator Ryan Murphy has shared some great news to fans!
To mark the centenary occasion, the 53-year-old shared his all-time favorite AHS episodes.
Murphy told Entertainment Weekly that Murder House’s ‘Pilot’ episode (Season 1) is one of the best, saying: “The first, and always number one in my heart, for several reasons.
“One, Brad [Falchuk] and I spent so long on it… years on the pitch, years on the script, until [FX CEO] John Landgraf and [co-head of 20th Century Fox TV] Dana Walden and Brad and I got it to where we wanted. From rough idea to day one of filming took four years.
“It was a huge risk at the time, creatively and financially. Dana Walden has said to me several times it was one of the most out of the box ideas in the history of modern television, and I think she’s right.
“I remember John saying to me when I gave him the final pitch, ‘Wait a minute…you’re going to burn down the sets every year and start over every season?’
“I said, ‘Yes.’ He paused and then said ‘This scares me… but excites me, too. Let’s do it.”
Next was Asylum’s ‘The Name Game’ (Season 2), which Ryan revealed Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson’s favorite season.
He then named Hotel’s ‘Checking In’ (Season 5). “I love this episode for so many reasons, most of them Gaga. I loved working with her so much then, and now,” said Ryan.
“I am so proud of where she’s gone as an actress, but she always had chops, right from the minute she stepped on the set. She is a born actress.
“My favourite sequence in the episode was the vampire stalking with her and Matt Bomer.”
Then he went to Apocalypse’s ‘Return to Murder House’ (Season 8) with Murphy saying: “I love love love this episode, largely because I love love love Sarah Paulson so much.”
Ryan also listed Freak Show’s ‘Monster Among Us’ (Season 4) as one of his favorites.
He said: “I HATED making it. It was 105 degrees every day and I was covered in bug bites, but it was like out of a dream. The sets, the clothes, the actors in the ensemble.”
He also included Coven’s ‘Great Again’ (Season 3) in his list of favorites. “I honestly think Stevie Nicks saved my life when I was a teenager because I saw in her a way out, a way to be unique in the world and not give a s*** what anyone says or thinks about you. Just follow yourself. And your dreams.”
Murphy added: “It proved to me we didn’t have to have every season be a grand spectacle. We could be raw and rough and verité. It reinvigorated me in some way, after the operas we had done. This felt like an independent film approach. It felt like, ‘Ok…season 20? Bring it on.”
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