American Horror Story - TV Episode Recaps & News

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Episode 12 Afterbirth

American Horror Story Finale Recap: Merry Ghostmas And to all a good night.
Episode 11 Birth

American Horror Story Recap: Twin Set Time for those babies to be born.
Episode 10 Smoldering Children

American Horror Story Recap: Better Off Dead “Ladies and gentlemen, the ham.”
Episode 9 Spooky Little Girl

American Horror Story Recap: My Two Dads The stakes are no longer just really gory, they’re the end of the world.
Episode 8 Rubber Man

American Horror Story Recap: More Butts, Less Butt Torture The identity of rubber man is revealed.
Episode 7 Open House

American Horror Story Recap: How Deep Is Your Swimming Pool? “Every pregnant woman worries they’ve got a little devil in them!”
Episode 6 Piggy Piggy

American Horror Story Recap: Brains for Lunch “I’ve just come from a meeting with Lifetime, they’re interested in making a pilot of me.”
Episode 5 Halloween Part 2

American Horror Story Recap: Historical Reenactor Orgy Halloween finishes up with oh so many ghosts.
Episode 4 Halloween (Part 1)

American Horror Story Recap: Halloween Is the Dead-People Version of Anytime Minutes “You’re screwing that twink trainer of yours, and I need gourds!”
Episode 3 Murder House

American Horror Story Recap: I Love the Eighties (Murders)! Another murder in the house happened in 1983, and there’s a Camaro reference to prove it.
Episode 2 Home Invasion

American Horror Story Recap: Ghost Story And a stabbing.
Episode 1 Pilot

American Horror Story Recap: Welcome to Amity/Glee/Tuck/Horror/Nipville This show does not waste time.

Episode 12 Madness Ends

American Horror Story Season Finale Recap: Say Good-night, Bloody Face-y A surprisingly moving end for our Asylum characters. Except for that one guy. He got it good.
Episode 12 Continuum

American Horror Story Recap: The Queen of Candyland Forward in time, then back, then forward again.
Episode 11 Spilt Milk

American Horror Story Recap: Lactose Intolerance “There’s so many questions, I don’t even know where to begin.”
Episode 10 The Name Game

American Horror Story Recap: So You Think You Can Trance Crazy crazy bo bazy banana-fana fo fazy …
Episode 9 The Coat Hanger

American Horror Story Recap: No Wire Hangers, Ever Was this kind of a good one?
Episode 8 Unholy Night

American Horror Story Recap: Bad Santa Merry early Christmas, you godless pinheads.
Episode 7 Dark Cousin

American Horror Story Recap: Angels and Nun Demons Well, we guess it can’t be rainbows and colostrum every week.
Episode 6 The Origins of Monstrosity

American Horror Story Recap: Baby Needs Therapy Little girls with blonde braids: not dangerous. Little girls with red braids: not dangerous. Little girl with brown hair: murderers.
Episode 5 I Am Anne Frank, Pt. 2

American Horror Story Recap: His Thoughts Be Bloody (Face) So now we know who the serial killer is.
Episode 4 I Am Anne Frank, Part 1

American Horror Story Recap: When I Think About Jews, I Touch Myself Last night we pole-vaulted over the boundaries of good taste with an episode titled “I Am Anne Frank.”
Episode 3 Nor’easter

American Horror Story Recap: Cecil B. Very Uncomfortable Wait … so how many Bloody Faces are there?
Episode 2 Tricks and Treats

American Horror Story Recap: Laughing All the Way to the Mossy Bank There was a young priest and an old priest.
Episode 1 Welcome to Briarcliff

American Horror Story Recap: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Naked Ass This whole season is going to be like a Marilyn Manson video.

Episode 13 The Seven Wonders

American Horror Story: Coven Season Finale Recap Burrito Supreme? No, just a new witch-type Supreme.
Episode 12 Go to Hell

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: The Axeman Bummeth A major player becomes gator bait.
Episode 11 Protect the Coven

American Horror Story: Coven Recap The third-to-last Coven was in no way like a dried-up Hot Pocket.
Episode 10 The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: ***Flawless To the gypsy who remains — and is remains, amirite, Misty?
Episode 9 Head

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: Bees in the Trap Patti LuPone finally sings! Catatonically and depressingly, but we’ll take it.
Episode 8 The Sacred Talking

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: Someone Else, Say ‘Swamp Witch’ Fiona: “less Samantha and more Endora with every day.”
Episode 7 The Dead

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: The Dead “Are you James Franco?”
Episode 6 The Axeman Cometh

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: Someday My Mince Will Come Séances and spirit boards.
Episode 5 Burn, Witch. Burn!

American Horror Story Recap: This Girl Is on Pyre Things are heating up. Literally.
Episode 4 Fearful Pranks Ensue

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: Old Hens, New Tricks Happy Halloween, Fiona.
Episode 3 The Replacements

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ Wrong We have found the Seven Wonders, and they are all in this show.
Episode 2 Body Parts

American Horror Story: Coven Recap: Fried Chicks Like we’re supposed to believe someone as fabulous as Jessica Lange would use the Marimba ringtone …
Episode 1 Bitchcraft

American Horror Story: Coven Premiere Recap: Schoolhouse Wreck If you thought that you’d be spared truly dark stuff after last season’s Asylum … you thought wrong.

Episode 13 Curtain Call

American Horror Story: Freak Show Finale Recap: No Freakin’ Way So glad this is finally over.
Episode 12 Show Stoppers

American Horror Story Recap: Shallow Graves After tonight, is there anyone on this show worth caring about?
Episode 11 Magical Thinking

American Horror Story Recap: Neil Patrick Harris’s Butt We’ll watch Neil Patrick Harris in anything.
Episode 10 Orphans

American Horror Story Recap: Back to the Asylum For the second week in a row, the ending really got us.
Episode 9 Tupperware Party Massacre

American Horror Story Recap: Good and Dandy Stay away from Tupperware parties.
Episode 8 Blood Bath

American Horror Story Recap: Bloody Good Show These carnies are supposed to be broke. Where do they get these amazing clothes?
Episode 7 Test of Strength

American Horror Story Recap: Test of Strength Another song of the week!
Episode 6 Bullseye

American Horror Story Recap: Not So Fine and Dandy Someone needs to impose some rules on this show.
Episode 5 Pink Cupcakes

American Horror Story: Freak Show Recap: We’ll Have a Gay Old Time “Who cares, I want a new hat!”
Episode 4 Edward Mordrake, Part 2

American Horror Story: Freak Show Recap: Clowning Around This is the episode where it finally got good.
Episode 3 Edward Mordrake, Part 1

American Horror Story: Freak Show Recap: The Hair of Her Chinny-Chin-Chin I never quite understood why American Horror Story needs a Halloween episode.
Episode 2 Massacres and Matinees

American Horror Story: Freak Show Episode 2 Recap: Smooth Criminal This year, we’re doing a “songs from the future performed at a freak show in 1951” theme.
Episode 1 Monsters Among Us

American Horror Story: Freak Show Premiere Recap Contortionists of the world, unite and take over.

Episode 12 Be Our Guest

American Horror Story: Hotel Finale Recap: Closing Time Where’s Lady Gaga? This season finale really needs more of her.
Episode 11 Battle Royale

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Queenie for a Day You only get to be a ghost if you’re a main character or Naomi Campbell.
Episode 10 She Gets Revenge

American Horror Story Recap: Why Is Dying the Only Way? Only vampires and people who listen to too much Morrissey will understand.
Episode 9 She Wants Revenge

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: ’Til Death Do Us Party You’re still on probation, Ryan Murphy.
Episode 8 The Ten Commandments Killer

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Lowe Blows Almost everything makes sense! That never happens in Murphyland.
Episode 7 Flicker

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Ghouls on Film Thank God they were not zombies!
Episode 6 Room 33

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Mother Monster There is nothing at all interesting about John Lowe. Not one single thing.
Episode 5 Room Service

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Vaccine It All I might be almost, maybe, kinda, sorta, a little bit prepared to say that American Horror Story is good again. Almost. Maybe.
Episode 4 Devil’s NIght

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Come On, Aileen I never quite understood why American Horror Story needed to have a Halloween episode.
Episode 3 Mommy

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Fountain of Euthanasia There are a lot of interesting stories going on here, but the one that I don’t give two Toblerones from the minibar about is the stupid killer.
Episode 2 Chutes and Ladders

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: March of Crimes God, I really hope AHS didn’t blow its load before episode three.
Episode 1 Checking In

American Horror Story: Hotel Premiere Recap: The Bed Bugs Bite There is no way the Hotel Cortez could exist in modern-day Los Angeles, because if it did, I’d be booking a room faster than you can type Kayak dot com.

Episode 10 Chapter 10

AHS Finale Recap: Lana Winters of Our Discontent After a fitfully promising season, AHS: Roanoke limps to the finish line.
Episode 9 Chapter Nine

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap — Revenge of the Millennials Enough with the “found footage” trope. It’s ludicrous and silly.
Episode 8 Chapter Eight

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: Deliverance From Evil We have a lot of questions after this letdown of an episode.
Episode 7 Chapter Seven

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: I’m Not Here to Make Friends “Chapter Seven” features some of the show’s most gruesome footage.
Episode 6 Chapter Six

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: The Nightmare Continues The season’s big twist is a stroke of genius.
Episode 5 Chapter Five

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: Nightmare’s End The big question: Where does everything go from here?
Episode 4 Chapter Four

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: The Blood Moon Holy exposition, Batman, this episode sure has a lot jammed into it.
Episode 3 Chapter Three

American Horror Story: Roanoke Recap: Small Medium at Large It’s official: Cricket Marlowe is my favorite person in Roanoke.
Episode 2 Chapter Two

American Horror Story Recap: Burning Man Like it or not, we’re stuck with My Roanoke Nightmare.
Episode 1 Chapter One

American Horror Story Season Premiere Recap: A Roanoke Nightmare American Horror Story has basically turned into The Blair Witch Project.

Episode 11 Great Again

American Horror Story: Cult Season-Finale Recap: Electoral Collage “Great Again” is less of a fright-fest than it is a fantasy.
Episode 10 Charles (Manson) In Charge

American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Winter Is Coming How will this inventive and insightful season end?
Episode 9 Drink the Kool-Aid

American Horror Story Recap: Kool-Aid and the Gang Why make Evan Peters dress up in bad wigs and a fat suit?
Episode 8 Winter of Our Discontent

American Horror Story: Cult Recap: The Gays of Our Lives There’s a lot of great, cutting Trump satire in this episode.
Episode 7 Valerie Solanas Died For Your Sins, Scumbag

American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Scum of the Earth Lena Dunham guest-stars as would-be Andy Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas.
Episode 6 Mid-Western Assassin

American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Beautiful Meadow AHS has never been more ambitious.
Episode 5 Holes

American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Nailed It! This is a gruesome, frightening, and downright unnerving episode.
Episode 4 11/9

American Horror Story Recap: Fake News “The fear in a small town in Michigan can infect the whole country.”
Episode 3 Neighbors From Hell

American Horror Story Recap: A-Tisket, A-Casket The clowns aren’t a figment of Ally’s imagination, but what if everything else is?
Episode 2 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

American Horror Story Recap: The People in Your Neighborhood This is a remarkably subtle and sinister story.
Episode 1 Election Night

American Horror Story: Cult Recap: Send in the Clowns Who will be the season’s biggest villain: Killer clowns or Donald Trump?

Episode 10 Apocalypse Then

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Finale Recap: The End Justifies the Mean It’s the Antichrist’s blood-soaked last stand as the season comes to a close in peak AHS fashion.
Episode 9 Fire and Reign

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: All My Friends Are Dead As the apocalypse draws nigh, humanity’s last hope may be … time travel?
Episode 8 Sojourn

AHS Apocalypse Recap: Are You There Satan? It’s Me, Michael A very special Halloween episode of American Horror Story.
Episode 7 Traitor

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: I Got the Voodoo for You Witches Are Cordelia’s powers fading because there’s a new Supreme on the rise?
Episode 6 Return to Murder House

American Horror Story Recap: The Crossover Event of the Century Sarah Paulson makes her directing debut in a standout episode that returns to where the series began.
Episode 5 “Boy Wonder”

American Horror Story Recap: Stevie Nicks! From now on, every AHS episode should feature a 10-minute musical performance.
Episode 4 Could It Be … Satan?

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: Could It Be … Backstory? Michael Langdon is maybe, probably, definitely Satan.
Episode 3 Forbidden Fruit

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: Surprise B! The Coven is back and they are taking names!
Episode 2 The Morning After

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: Rubberman Can! There are still no witches. Where my coven at?
Episode 1 The End

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Recap: No Whimpers, All Bangs It’s the end of the world as we know it and there’s a lot of strange happenings among those chosen to survive as a new season kicks off.

Episode 10 The Future Perfect

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: Happy Evacuation Day It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel … nonplussed.
Episode 9 Blue Moon

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: One Small Step Mamie Eisenhower gives up her body for the national cause.
Episode 8 Inside

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: Hope for the Future Sarah Paulson says the word “fudge.” More than once. That’s good television.
Episode 7 Take Me To Your Leader

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: There’s Been an Incursion These aliens lurking about seem to be dead set on making everyone pregnant.
Episode 6 Winter Kills

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: These Are Winter Problems Part one wraps up the bloodier-than-usual winter in Provincetown. Onto Hollywood and aliens, baby!
Episode 5 Gaslight

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: Pottery Barn Hell Baby Eli is barely five minutes out of the womb and his sister is chomping his foot and his mom is turning into a Pale Person? Tough break, kid.
Episode 4 Blood Buffet

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: The Occipital Lobe An origin story of the black pills, Belle Noir, and the Chemist satisfies some speculations, but speculating is more fun than getting answers.
Episode 3 Thirst

American Horror Story: Double Feature Recap: Rosebud Nothing quite like seeing a father and daughter bond over murder and blood-drinking. Truly heartwarming stuff.
Episodes 1 and 2 Cape Fear / Pale

American Horror Story: Double Feature Premiere Recap: Perfectly Ordinary If you’ve ever lost sleep wondering just how talented you are, if at all, the two-part premiere of Double Feature is gonna really froth you up.

The Latest American Horror Story News

last night on late night 10/25/2021

Let Leslie Grossman Play Erika Jayne on American Crime Story To Sarah Paulson’s Tom Girardi.
trailer mix 8/13/2021

AHS: Double Feature Trailer: ‘Something Weird Is Going On Here’ You don’t say? “Part 1: Red Tide” begins August 25.
american spinoff story 8/13/2021

The Ryan Murphy-verse Expands With American Love Story and Sports Story Our latest American Horror Story continues.
shutdowns 7/21/2021

AHS’s Newest Horror Story Is an On-Set COVID Shutdown An actor tested positive for the virus, pausing production a month ahead of the premiere.
burn out 6/22/2021

Sarah Paulson Says Filming Roanoke Was Her Personal American Horror Story “I just don’t care about this season at all …”
tv 6/3/2021

We Now Know When the Funny Vampires Are Coming Back Can you believe we went this long without Matt Berry?
ahs 3/19/2021

Ryan Murphy Gets You Beach-Ready With AHS Season 10 Theme Reveal Time to work on your bodies before heading to Provincetown, and no, we’re not talking about hitting the gym.
trump tv 2/1/2021

What American Horror Story: Cult Got Right—and Very Wrong—About the Trump Era Debuting less than a year after Trump took office, the anthology series’ messy attempt to speak to the moment was both flawed and prescient.
vulture lists 10/28/2020

The 40 Scariest TV Episodes to Watch This Halloween Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, The Haunting of Hill House, and more.
vulture quizzes 5/18/2020

Which Ryan Murphy Show Is This Hot White Guy In? Are you well versed enough in the Murphy oeuvre, or devoted enough to the appreciation of a specific type of male beauty, to ace this quiz?