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American Horror Story: Asylum (TV Miniseries)

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American Horror Story: Asylum

2012

Ryan Murphy (Creator), Brad Falchuk (Creator) ...

Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Zachary Quinto, Lily Rabe ...

7.5

21,578

TV Series. Horror TV Miniseries (2012-2013). 13 Episodes. American Horror Story: Asylum is the second season of the American horror television series American Horror Story. Announced on October 31, 2011 and premiering on FX on October 17, 2012, the premise of the second season marks a departure from that of the series' first season, featuring all new characters and a new location. Thus, American Horror Story has been deemed an anthology series. American ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	James Poniewozik Time	"It works (...) 'Asylum' feels like a more focused, if equally frenetic, screamfest. It's also gorgeously realized"	POS
United States	Matt Roush TV Guide	"'Asylum' delivers a much more evocative nightmare gallery without losing any of the franchise's provocative, (...)"	POS
United States	Jen Chaney The Washington Post	"This new 'Horror Story' is nearly as depraved, unapologetically over the top and engrossing as the first season was"	POS
United States	Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly	"Does it add up to a coherent whole? Impossible to say so far. 'Asylum' is, in its opening episodes, more energetic and impishly funny than its predecessor"	POS
United States	David Wiegand SFGATE	"'Asylum' is all in great and occasionally gory fun, and the cast members deliver the over-the-top dialogue with a heaping topping of relish"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"The series remains a collection of moments (creepy, campy, revolting) and stock characters, designed more to provoke (...)"	POS
United States	Linda Stasi New York Post	"If Freddy Krueger married Regan from 'The Exorcist', and they moved to 'Shutter Island' with 'Agnes of God' on 'Friday the 13th', they'd all end up in this 'Asylum'. Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG

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