American Horror Stories (spin-off of AHS series)

[Himmel]

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An American Horror Story spinoff series has been announced by the show's co-creator, Ryan Murphy. Murphy took to Instagram to share a photo of a cast Zoom call which consisted of numerous familiar fan-favorites from previous American Horror Story seasons.

He shared that the group "reminisced about the good times" and discussed a new project he has planned. A spin-off for the horror anthology series is currently in the works, called "American Horror Stories", which will be "one hour contained episodes."

At the moment, no other details are known about the spinoff series aside from what Murphy shared on social media.

[kevin87]

On one hand, having it contained to 40ish minutes would be good, but on the other, they could just not try to drag out AHS into as many episodes as they have in the past..

[Lutz]

After HOTEL it felt like they’ve been giving each season the number of episodes they needed to tell the story. Especially MURDER HOUSE and ASYLUM felt like they had a lot of filler. APOCALYPSE and 1984 felt about right.

This would be more interesting if they were making each one as a single AHS universe self contained movie. They could do what AHS has been doing for years giving great actors scenery to chew but instead giving genre directors creative freedom to make a movie. Then release a season of five or six movies a year.

[Himmel]

Ryan Murphy Shares Spinoff Details

[Himmel]

[Himmel]

Casting Announcement

Ryan Murphy has more scares in the works as he assembles the cast for American Horror Stories, which will feature Glee alum Kevin McHale, Pose actor Dyllón Burnside, Riverdale‘s Charles Melton and The Prom‘s Nico Greetham.

Murphy confirmed the four actors’ casting in an Instagram post shared on Wednesday. According to sources, Danny Trejo has also been cast in the spinoff project.

[BLeClair12]

I'm intrigued by this, mostly because AHS is usually a show that has some really strong concepts marred by bloated seasons that force them to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall, little of which actually lands.

[Himmel]

http://youtu.be/_oyH8Rd6IOM

[HorrorBlu]

Watched this last night when it went up. First episode is a two-parter, so basically a 90 minute movie about a new family who moves into the Murder House.

[samlop10]

How is it so far for those that have seen the first two episodes?

I dropped out halfway through season 3 of the original series. It was very hit or miss for me. I liked season 2 a lot, season 1 was kind of ‘meh’ for me, and season 3 couldn’t decide if it was a comedy or a horror show. Obviously you can do both at the same time but to me it felt like the show didn’t know how to handle being both at the same time.

Every since then I’ve heard pretty mixed things on the rest of the seasons so I’ve never bothered to pick it up again. There’s too much good TV out there and the main series just doesn’t seem to cut it anymore.

[HorrorBlu]

Originally Posted by samlop10

season 1 was kind of ‘meh’ for me

This was basically a 90-minute re-do of season 1, so if your reaction to that was "meh", it will likely be the same here for the premiere episodes.

[samlop10]

Originally Posted by HorrorBlu

This was basically a 90-minute re-do of season 1, so if your reaction to that was "meh", it will likely be the same here for the premiere episodes.

Thanks. I’ll wait to see how it fares the rest of the season.

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This is basically AHS: Lifetime Original

[Lutz]

It’s still novel for me that we can get a 90min TV movie with no heterosexual characters.

[TsMkLg068426]

Originally Posted by Lutz

It’s still novel for me that we can get a 90min TV movie with no heterosexual characters.

I mean we are in Woke era so you know Hollywood than again didn't care since the theme was always like that when it came to murder house and they are not the first gay couples to die in that house if remember correctly from AHS first season.

[TsMkLg068426]

Didn't get the point of current episodes a re-hash of first season into 80 minutes and with new characters while hinting the originals still in the house (obviously).

If episode three is like this than I will have to quit and wait for the new AHS season.

[HorrorBlu]

Episode 3 "Drive-in" was just simple B-movie fare. Less pretentious than the usual Ryan Murphy output. I was into it.

[kevin87]

Drive In was better than either Rubber(wo)man episodes, but was still kind of meh. It finally got interesting then it went off. The idea of not dragging a storyline out into more than 10 episodes is nice since AHStory tends to fall apart near the end each season, but having them be 40ish minute solo episodes isn't great either. Should at least have them run 60 minutes, maybe up to 90ish like Into the Dark, essentially making them TV movies not episodes.

[kevin87]

Oof, The Naughty List was kind of embarrassing... it came off more like Christmas-based episode of Into The Dark than an AHS franchise episode.

[jayman3]

Originally Posted by kevin87

Oof, The Naughty List was kind of embarrassing... it came off more like Christmas-based episode of Into The Dark than an AHS franchise episode.

By far one of the worst produced AHS episode I’ve seen. But having seen

[Show spoiler]Danny Trejo dressed as Santa shooting candy cane arrows was something I never thought needed in my life.