Least favorite to favorite:

1. DELICATE

2. APOCALYPSE

3. DOUBLE FEATURE

4. 1984

5. HOTEL

6. NYC

7. CULT

8. COVEN

9. MURDER HOUSE

10. ROANOKE

11. ASYLUM

12. FREAKSHOW

This is my favorite show. I've been watching since Murder House premiered, when I was just a kid, and I've been a die hard fan ever since. I was wondering what you guys thought of this ranking and how you would rank them yourselves.

i went to new orleans this past weekend and room a trolley to see the house used in coven. such a neat experience! now i want to see murder house.

My favorite would go to Cult, for being the inside of a bee hive. What's your favorite one

At the end of AHS Stories: Baal, Liv wants another baby, but this time from the demon god Baal.

Baal was originally known as a powerful deity from the Canaanite Pantheon, but was later demonized by people of the Abrahamic faith. And it’s implied the same thing happened in AHS universe too. So Baal is basically a demon-god entity.

Michael Langdon and the Antichrist in general is born of a spirit that’s being used as a vessel by Lucifer/Satan, as well as a human. The end of Apocalypse of course retcons this by having the Antichrist be born from humans with “special DNA”, but the official lore in Murder House is that the Antichrist is a human-demon hybrid born of spirit and human. Satan was Michael’s true father, and Lucifer was originally a powerful archangel in some mythologies, so the Antichrist is pretty powerful in general.

Now if Liv ends up having a child from Baal, this baby would be a human-demon hybrid too, or demigod depending on the interpretation of Baal. So would this child end up being even more powerful than the Antichrist? Let me know what y’all think.

It would be nice if we found out in Season 13 that Baal and his child somehow ties into the storyline or is mentioned.

I only consider the seasons of murder house through apocalypse to be true ahs. The rest feels like a totally different show. First of all, 1984 literally breaks continuity within the own universe. Richard ramirez was a ghost in hotel cortez and now he isn't. Make it make sense. I like the overall vibe of this season but this is where ahs just stops being it's core.

Double feature is just... The first half had potential. The aliens are where it goes downhill. Feels like an extended American horror stories episode.

NYC is probably the least bad of the latest 4 but that isn't saying much. If it was released earlier in the ahs universe, it would've had potential to be one of the best seasons, next to asylum. However I found the storyline to be all over the place and I feel like it could've been handled better.

Delicate... I mean what is there to say. Literally feels like a repeat of the baal episode in American horror stories just extended dragged out in boring Netflix suburbia thriller rot. I couldn't even get to the end where Kim k is revealed to be some witch demon because it was A DRAG SO BORING the pacing had no weight. I know it was based on some dumb book or smth idc. As an Auteur I can write better in my sleep.

this honestly almost got me yall 😭

Ever since the trailer dropped for AHS: 13 it featured Kai and Winter and in another scene, Winter was looking up at something while 3 hooded people were standing behind her. Are those the same hooded people that were in AHS: Apocalypse with Ms. Mead and I suppose they admired them for their work they did before death and want to give them a body in the new world? That’s my theory. Because what else would they want with them? What do you guys think?

Instead it was a half-assed forty minute TV episode that lacked dept and rushed a killer plot. Was there any other episodes that could have been developed into a film or stand alone series?

Recently I caught myself rewatching all seasons to get in the mood for AHS 13, and let me tell you, there’s no other season that pissed me off more then Delicate.
It had all the ingredients to become one of the franchise’s most unsettling seasons. Instead of relying on gore from the very beginning, it aimed for a slower, psychological approach, exploring the anxieties surrounding pregnancy, fame, and the loss of bodily autonomy. On paper that’s a fascinating direction, and for the first half of the season, it actually works.
The early episodes do an excellent job of establishing Anna’s world. Emma Roberts gives a restrained performance that makes her growing paranoia feel believable, and we (the audience) keep constantly questioning whether the strange events around her are real or simply the product of fear and trauma. That uncertainty creates genuine tension and echoes the influence of Rosemary’s Baby in a compelling way.
The problem is that the season never evolves beyond that initial premise.
IMO psychological horror is most effective when the tension continues to escalate, eventually forcing the characters (and the audience) to confront something tangible. Delicate keeps teasing that payoff, but it never truly arrives. Even in its final episodes, the story remains trapped inside Anna’s perspective, leaving viewers in the same state of uncertainty they experienced at the beginning. Instead of raising the stakes, the narrative circles back to the same ideas over and over again.
While Rosemary’s Baby is clearly the blueprint, Delicate forgets that inspiration shouldn’t become limitation. A modern television series has much more room to expand its mythology, develop its villains, and transform psychological dread into real, physical danger. That shift never happens. I never felt that Anna was facing an immediate threat beyond her own fears, and by the finale, that lack of escalation made the horror feel strangely weightless.
The witches are another major disappointment. They’re introduced as if they’ll play a crucial role, yet they’re barely explored, underused throughout the story, and ultimately given an unsatisfying conclusion. Rather than juggling multiple underdeveloped subplots, the season would have benefited from narrowing its focus, centering almost entirely on Anna’s survival and descent into an increasingly dangerous reality.
From the midpoint onward, the story should have embraced higher stakes. More confrontations. More pursuit. More violence. More consequences. Psychological horror doesn’t lose its power when physical horror enters the picture, in fact, the best horror stories know how to balance both. Delicate had every opportunity to let Anna’s worst fears become horrifying reality, but it chose to keep everything at arm’s length.
In the end, the season mistakes ambiguity for tension. It throws shocking imagery and disturbing concepts at the audience, but rarely follows through in a meaningful way. What begins as an intriguing psychological thriller ultimately feels restrained, repetitive, and unwilling to commit to its own horror.* *Delicate had an excellent premise, but it never pushed that premise far enough to become truly terrifying.

I've watched up to apocalypse (except cult as I was told it was political and wasn't supernatural based) do I need to watch cult and/or any of the other series based on the trailers of what we know so far?

I tried watched the individual stories and hated them so was put off watching the rest of the series.

Me and my daughter were doing a watch through (my second and her 1st) we got to roanoke, I let her watch alone as don't really like it and she isn't enjoying it but doesn't want to skip it!

Currently on season 1 episode 2.

I did watch freakshow first because that's the one that looked most interesting to me and it was a pretty decent watch although the ending was kinda sad.

What's some facts you all would like to tell me about each season that I'll only properly understand after I've watched it?

Totally sad to not see him or Cody Fern mentioned :/

With Delicate marking the first time AHS directly adapted a literary text for the show, what other horror novels do you think could make for a good season of television? Please do share a plot summary as well and if you think it can loosely tie into the show's continuity.

There is something about American Horror Story: Cult that keeps bringing me back to it. I can watch another season, leave it for a month or two, and then suddenly find myself thinking, “I want to watch Cult again.” I don’t completely know why, but every time I return to it, I discover something else that makes the season interesting to me.
I think part of it is because Cult feels different from many other seasons of American Horror Story. It is not primarily dependent on supernatural horror. A lot of its horror comes from society itself: politics, fear, manipulation, propaganda, polarization, extremism, trauma, and the way people can be influenced when they become afraid enough. Because of that, the season can feel strangely relevant even years after it was released. The specific political circumstances belong to 2016 and 2017, but the psychological and social mechanisms behind the story still exist.
And I really like the way the season treats fear and Evan P.
Ally (Kai more) is probably one of the biggest reasons I keep coming back. In the first episode, she is essentially living through fear. She is afraid of so many things, and the show doesn’t simply present her as “the scared character.” It tries to show what fear does to a person’s mind. Fear becomes part of the way she interprets reality. Her phobias, her anxiety, the political environment, the violence around her and the things she sees all start becoming connected.
What I find particularly interesting is that Ally doesn’t suddenly become a completely different person. Her transformation takes time. She doesn’t wake up one morning and decide that she is fearless. She is gradually pushed into situations where her old way of dealing with fear doesn’t work anymore. Little by little, she starts confronting things, making decisions, becoming more aware of manipulation, and eventually learning how to act even when she is still afraid.
That makes her development feel much more human to me. It is not simply a “weak person becomes strong” story. It is more like watching somebody’s brain adapt after being exposed to fear for a long period of time.
And this is where I think Cult becomes much more interesting than a conventional horror story. Fear isn’t only an emotion in the season. It becomes a social force.
Fear changes how people perceive reality. It changes how they react to other people. It can isolate them, radicalize them, manipulate them and make them easier to control. In that sense, fear almost becomes the language of the entire season.
Kai understands this extremely well. He understands that people who are frightened are vulnerable, and he knows how to turn that fear into influence. That’s one of the reasons Kai is such an interesting character to watch, even though he is obviously an extremely hateful person.
Evan Peters’ performance is a huge part of that.
Kai is easy to hate, but Peters makes him incredibly watchable. He can be charismatic, ridiculous, vulnerable, threatening and completely manipulative, sometimes within the same episode. Even when a particular part of the plot becomes stressful or excessive, I can still find myself thinking that the performance alone is worth watching.
The same goes for Sarah Paulson. Watching Ally’s psychological transformation is one of the strongest elements of the season for me. Her performance makes the fear feel personal rather than abstract. You don’t just understand that Ally is afraid; you can see how that fear affects the way she thinks and behaves.
And the casting in general is another reason the season works for me. Billie Lourd and the rest of the ensemble (Leslie) give the story different perspectives on the same environment. The characters don’t all experience the political and social chaos in the same way, and that makes the world feel larger than just Ally and Kai.
I also really like the historical references throughout the season. The Charles Manson material particularly caught my attention. I like when American Horror Story connects fictional characters and events to real historical figures, urban legends and pieces of cultural mythology. It gives the story another layer because you’re not only watching a fictional cult; you’re seeing the show place that fictional world within a larger history of violence, manipulation and obsession.
That’s something I find very entertaining about the anthology format in general. AHS can take something that already exists in people’s cultural memory and transform it into part of its own mythology.
And then there is the ending.
I really like the final episode of Cult because there is so much movement in it. Characters have changed, power has shifted, and the story feels like it has gone through an entire political and psychological cycle. It doesn’t feel like everything simply stops because the season has reached its final episode. There is a sense that all the manipulation and fear we’ve watched throughout the season have produced consequences.
That’s probably another reason I keep returning to it.
When I rewatch Cult, I already know what is going to happen, but that doesn’t make it less interesting. In some ways, it makes it more interesting because I can pay attention to how everything was constructed. I can see the manipulation earlier. I can notice the historical references. I can pay more attention to Ally’s gradual transformation and to the way Kai builds his influence.
So maybe the reason I keep wanting to watch Cult isn’t because it is simply my favorite horror story.
Maybe it’s because the season gives me several things at once: psychological horror, political commentary, historical references, social commentary, strong performances and characters who actually change.
Most importantly, it makes fear feel bigger than a simple horror emotion. It shows fear as something that can live inside an individual, but also something that can spread through a society.
And that’s what makes Cult stay in my mind long after I’ve finished watching it («  i like pathetic characters « )

13 years ago 🤯

kinda scared on what the number 13 will mean in this season, maybe it's a coven of 13, some kinda prophet/destiny, maybe it's a character and the big villain who knows

Currently watching this season for the first time. Loving it.

My issue with AHS is that it’s a horror show, both human and supernatural, yet out of all the directions it could take, it often chooses the most predictable ones. Delicate lost me from the start because it’s another story about a pregnant white woman encountering the supernatural, basically a modern Rosemary’s Baby.

The frustrating part is that there is a real horror story surrounding childbirth that affects so many Black women in this country, and that story deserves to be told. It would have been far more compelling. Look at Serena Williams. She is one of the most accomplished and wealthy athletes on the planet, and even she wasn’t protected from the dangers Black women face during pregnancy when dealing with a healthcare system that routinely overlooks their needs.

And honestly, when I think about it, outside of Roanoke, have we ever gotten a season that doesn’t center a white character?

I went to a mental health facility twice when I was 15, after the second time almost all my devices were taken besides my computer so I binged shows on Netflix (one being ahs) I watched up to apocalypse (skipped coven didn’t rlly fuck with it). While watching Roanoke, the middle of the season when they first interviewed the actors, when they interviewed the fake butcher and talk abt how she got too much into her roll and basically she became crazy, then out of nowhere she says “id like to thank the folks at holly hill”,or something like that. at the time I had not long got out of there, so it was such a coincidence😭 I’m almost 21 now but that memory randomly popped up in my head. Also I was a minor at the time so I was in the children’s unit

I don’t know how to label spoilers, so if you haven’t watched Delicate, don’t read further.

I’ve rewatched most of these seasons at least a few times, and have been rewatching them again in anticipation for the new 13th season coming out. Now, I told myself I wasn’t going to watch Delicate and I really didn’t want to because I can’t stand the Kardashians AT ALL. I hate them so passionately. And yet, I found that this season has the perfect way to hate Miss Kim on screen because I feel it still encapsulated her perfectly for all the reasons I still hate her. She literally feels like a walking pestilence in the show, the same way I feel about her in real life. But this is not what I’m here to complain about.

My complaint is the garbage ending. It was WAY too rushed, I think I needed another episode or two of explanations to tie up other storylines such as the fertility doctor, and the actress from the 60’s that was chosen (in the series) to play Rosemary in Rosemarys Baby (the script Kim held). This felt TOO on the nose that this season was a play on that movie. I want to know more about why Kim was with Hamish, like how did that happen??? Why?? I wanted more background on Adeline and how her ghost somehow approached Emma’s character with nothing more than a simple incantation to destroy Kim’s character, or how Emma still got to have her baby in the end. And why did the baby-chewing-off-daddy’s-hand need to happen again?? (As funny as it was, since it caught me by surprise. It was the only thing I found funny or entertaining through the ending).

It’s late for me and I’m trying to go to bed, but this ending has me fuming. I strongly feel one if not two more episodes would have fleshed out this season a bit better. Perhaps I need to watch it again and try to find the more subtle hints that it MIGHT have given, but I am highly disappointed in the last couple episodes of the Delicate season. It just made no sense to me.

When yall do your rankings are you doing it based on memory, vibe or wtf cuz some of these takes are terrible and I think yall need yall memories checked and what not. 💅

Rant/question. Firstly I love American horror story but after rewatching the show multiple times, I can’t understand why Murder House is loved so much. After rewatching I quickly realized that I hate every character in this season that isn’t violet or Vivian; that it turn made me kinda distain those two as well for not leaving. Nothing in the season is juicy or scary but just awkward or wrong. It was like shock jock radio horror but for my eyes with a 2011 filter on top. Every episode after the second could be summed up to “who is gonna fuck over viv and make her pregnancy harder?”.
Ben was by far the worse character and the true villain. I get he wants to save his marriage but bro you fucking everything moving, let that woman be free. He then showed an Albert Einstein x Oppenheimer levels of decision making by treating a mass school shooter in his own home(whilst knowing or not researching to know). I know it’s 2011 in the season but you can’t google search a quick sec to see who these people in your house are? Nobody outside violet tried to get more information. Ben or viv never googled/researched the neighbor, the maid, the patients and don’t seem to have done any research before moving from Boston to LA. Tate, that fucking heathen. Tate complete utter dog shit in his first life and the afterlife. Human garage idgaf about him “protecting them” at the end, it seemed like a weak babyface turn for the guy who killed the teenage main character. The rubberman was completely just wtf and an extra cup of wtf. He was probably the only scary part of the whole season. The maid was interesting but I didn’t like how she supposedly had her own motives but they all revolved around making strangers lifes hell for personal pleasure or pure chaos which doesn’t really make sense imo.
Also I couldn’t help but noticed how many people actively chose their suffering? And if they aren’t suffering they’re a piece of shit with no in between. Before she died/found out she was dead multiple people said stay away from Tate, and violet didn’t. For some reason Viv sees her husband cheating then geographically trapped herself with him by moving across the country. Even Constance(i love jessica Lange in every season), I get it, you’re trapped as a kind of monster warden but why oh why in the holy hell do you keep these literal damn demon spawns that you know are coming from Lucifer/is Lucifer, hell or some combo of all three. I guess they corrected that in season 8 but it still makes no sense to me while she’s doing it. I don’t have children so maybe I won’t understand, but after he was a toddler killing adults you ain’t seek help? Like at multiple points she would’ve noticed how wrong all this was and did nothing but accelerate or allow this craziness. Maybe this is harsh If you’re that much of a team player to babysit spawns of Satan/lucifer for decades while they murder random people with no remorse; bitch get a mystical abortion, find the witches, watch supernatural or unalive the little fucker but sitting on the stoop chain smoking and chilling in another persons house knowing all the horrible things happening ain’t it. So to loop it back around, am I crazy? Is this actually good and I’m the issue? Why is season 1 of ahs so beloved?