American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2)
The second season is about sanity and control. The story takes place in 1964 and follows the patients, doctors and nuns who occupy the Briarcliff Mental Institution, located in Massachusetts, and was founded to treat and house the criminally insane. The wardens who run the institution include the stern Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), her protégé Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe) and the founder of the institution, Monsignor Timothy Howard (Joseph Fiennes). The doctors charged with treating the patients at the asylum include psychiatrist Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) and the sadistic scientist Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell). The patients, many of whom claim to be unjustly institutionalized, include lesbian journalist Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson), accused serial killer Kit Walker (Evan Peters), nymphomaniac Shelley (Chloe Sevigny) and alleged murderer Grace Bertrand (Lizzie Brocheré). Briarcliff’s inhabitants are routinely subject to supernatural and scientific influences, including demonic possession and extraterrestrial abduction.
Best Things About Season 2:
• Something about a naughty nun is just really alluring to me and the rest of the population.
• Evan Peters in old-timey garb is quite a beautiful sight.
• The societal strains of being “different” were brought to light, which is pretty cool for a mainstream show.
• Sister Mary Eunice goes from being a good girl to a sex-crazed bad girl, something a lot of us can relate to.
• You literally have no idea how it’s going to end, or what exactly happened.
Worst Things About Season 2:
• Adam Levine just decided to die right away which really, really sucked.
• This is the absolute scariest season of the show. Chances are you couldn’t sleep alone for awhile. Not that you wanted to (wink wink).
• Jessica Lange’s character’s death was super sad and depressing and she’s just such a bad-ass, it’s hard to see her fall.
• Once again, Evan’s character is soooort of a player and ends up having way too many babies and baby mommas and it’s just a literal nightmare situation.
• With the aliens, and the murder, and the insanity, and the twists I honestly don’t really know what happened which is annoying when you devoted hours of your life to the show and lots of boxes bottles glasses of wine.
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