American Horror Story
AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 10/10CampyKnowingly over the top and enjoying every minute of its own excess.This show: 9/10Monster horrorCreatures and slashers, fear made physical.This show: 8/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 8/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 8/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 8/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Lady GagaKathy BatesAngela BassettSarah PaulsonEvan PetersDenis O'Hare
Written by
Brad FalchukRyan MurphyHalley Feiffer
Starring
Lady GagaKathy BatesAngela BassettSarah PaulsonEvan PetersDenis O'Hare
Written by
Brad FalchukRyan MurphyHalley Feiffer
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American Horror Story Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 7.9 | ||
| S2 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 8.7 | |
| S3 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.7 | |
| S4 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | |
| S5 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.7 | ||
| S6 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 6.4 | ||||
| S7 | 7.1 | 6.6 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 5.9 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.0 | |||
| S8 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 8.0 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 7.9 | ||||
| S9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 8.3 | |||||
| S10 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 3.9 | ||||
| S11 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 5.0 | 4.8 | ||||
| S12 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 3.3 | |||||
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About
"Horror anthology that reinvents itself every season"
An anthology horror series where each season resets with a new setting, story, and cast of characters, though many roles are played by the same recurring actors. Seasons have covered haunted houses, asylums, witch covens, freak shows, hotels, cults, and apocalypses. The tone swings between genuinely unsettling dread and campy, over-the-top melodrama, often within the same episode. It's stylish, gory, and unpredictable, carried by committed performances from a rotating repertory cast. Quality varies wildly season to season, so it rewards viewers willing to treat each one as its own gamble rather than expecting consistency.
Watch it for
the chance to watch the same actors transform into wildly different characters each season.
Maybe skip if
you need consistent quality or coherent plotting across a season.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Murder House2011
8.082K128h 40m
When the Harmon family relocates to a stately mansion in Los Angeles, disturbing secrets start enveloping each of their lives. As they slowly learn about the mysterious and deadly history of their new house, psychiatrist Ben, Vivien and their teenage daughter Violet find themselves surrounded by all manner of menacing spirits, living and dead.
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Asylum2012
8.375K139h 10m
From Nazis and serial killers to mutants and aliens, no one is safe inside the walls of the Briarcliff Mental Institution. In a house of healing that is anything but, troubled nun Sister Jude rules with an iron fist and Dr Arden conducts strange experiments on the facility's patients.
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Coven2013
8.066K139h 43m
The few remaining Salem descendants are under assault by forces of ignorance and hate. The young witches seek refuge at Miss Robichaux's Academy in New Orleans, including new arrival, Zoe, who harbors a terrifying secret of her own. Fiona, a Supreme Witch with unimaginable powers, is determined to protect the Coven, but her obsessive quest for immortality will lead her to cross paths with a voodoo queen and a murderous slave owner cursed with eternal life.
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Freak Show2014
8.058K1310h 44m
In 1952, in the quiet, sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, a troupe of human "curiosities" has just arrived in town, coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike.
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Hotel2015
7.849K1210h 39m
Homicide detective John Lowe traces a series of grisly murders back to the stylish Hotel Cortez in Downtown Los Angeles and its infamous residents.
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Roanoke2016
7.740K106h 47m
After a disturbing incident, a young couple move into a seemingly perfect home built in the 18th century. However, the building's proximity to the site of the Lost Colony's disappearance and with horrific events happening at the house the couple start to sense something dark underneath the façade.
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Cult2017
7.140K118h 35m
Set just after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the seventh installment follows a community torn apart by a dangerous cult leader who uses fear as a weapon.
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Apocalypse2018
8.145K107h 18m
After the nuclear apocalypse, the world's chosen elite survive in secure Outposts created by the mysterious Cooperative. On the American West Coast, Ms. Wilhemina Venable and Ms. Miriam Mead run Outpost Three with an iron fist. The unexpected arrival of Michael Langdon, a Cooperative representative determined to save society with a secret paradise, throws their order into chaos. However, underneath the surface of humanity's salvation lies a battlefield for the final conflict between good and evil.
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19842019
7.832K96h 15m
In the summer of 1984, five friends escape Los Angeles to work as counselors at Camp Redwood. As they adjust to their new jobs, they quickly learn that the only thing scarier than campfire tales is the past coming to haunt them.
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Double Feature2021
6.635K107h 37m
A struggling writer, his pregnant wife, and their daughter move to an isolated beach town for the winter. Once they're settled in, the town’s true residents begin to make themselves known.
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NYC2022
5.823K106h 37m
Mysterious deaths and disappearances ramp up in the city. Meanwhile, a doctor makes a frightening discovery, and a local reporter becomes tomorrow’s headline.
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Delicate2023
5.318K95h 46m
After multiple failed attempts of IVF, actress Anna Victoria Alcott wants nothing more than to start a family. As the buzz around her recent film grows, she fears that something may be targeting her and her pursuit of motherhood.
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Season 13
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Season 14
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Lady Gaga The Countess, Scáthach
Kathy Bates Madame Delphine LaLaurie, Ethel Darling, Iris
Angela Bassett Desiree Dupree, Marie Laveau, Ramona Royale
Sarah Paulson Cordelia Goode, Lana Winters, Bette Tattler
Evan Peters James March, Jimmy Darling, Kit Walker
Denis O'Hare Spalding, Stanley, Larry Harvey
Emma Roberts Madison Montgomery, Maggie Esmerelda, Anna Victoria Alcott
Jessica Lange Constance Langdon, Elsa Mars, Fiona Goode
Lily Rabe Misty Day, Sister Mary Eunice McKee, Shelby Miller
Frances Conroy Myrtle Snow, Gloria Mott, Moira O'Hara
Crew
Brad Falchuk
Ryan Murphy
Halley Feiffer
Charlie Carver
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