
After the death of her fellow microcephailic performer at Elsa’s freak show, Pepper falls into a deep depression and is brought to live with her emotionally abusive sister. In season four, which takes place 12 years earlier in 1952, she is one of the members of Fräulein Elsa’s Cabinet of Curiosities, one of the last remaining freak shows in the United States. In season two, which takes place primarily in 1964, she is an inmate at Briarcliff Manor. The first character to appear in more than one season was Pepper. Naomi Grossman as Pepper 20th Century Fox Television The world allows for seasons to brush against one another, and conjured cameos out the wazoo.Īpocalypse might be the series’ first official crossover, but here’s a handy guide to every character that’s appeared in more than one season, and helped turn AHS into a grand universe of anthology television. For the most part, the laws of paranormal (ghosts are bound to the property they died on except on Halloween only very talented witches can completely resurrect the dead) generally stay consistent throughout the whole series. Murphy built consistency into the series, even as he experimented in new genres and formats.
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The anthology series typically features a whole set of fresh characters and storylines with each season, but in the fourth ( Freak Show) creator Ryan Murphy revealed that his series was a built on a shared mythology, ultimately building towards a literal crossover event, bringing together cast members new and old. I don’t know what we’re going to do.This week’s American Horror Story: Apocalypse premiere will be the series’ first official crossover season.

“A lot of what I was going to shoot was dependent on a very specific moment, it was a weather-dependent show,” he said at the time. Shooting delays concerned Murphy, because he originally had a “weather-dependent” plan for Season 10. In May 2020, Season 10 shooting was delayed, which meant that the season couldn’t start on or around Halloween, as per usual. Like many shows, the COVID-19 pandemic affected the production of American Horror Story: Double Feature. “There's both a lightness and a darkness with Macaulay Culkin that I'm attracted to,” he’s said.įor what it's worth, there's no indication that AHS veteran Bates officially signed on for this season internet sleuths have noted that Bates may have been replaced by another AHS vet, Frances Conroy. Murphy is thrilled to have Culkin doing the show. “And he paused and he goes, 'This sounds like the role I was born to play.' So, he signed up right then and there.” " I told him he has crazy, erotic sex with Kathy Bates and does other things,” recalled Murphy in a May 2020 interview. There’s also a brand new star rolling up for Double Feature: Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin. There are several actors who have appeared on more than one season, like Paulson and Evan Peters, who are both returning to AHS after missing only one season of the show (Season 9). Separate seasons' plots don’t necessarily intersect in the American Horror Story universe-but locations, characters and actors do. Who will be in American Horror Story Season 10? People suspect the winner was Sirens sharp teeth and a beach location for Season 10 seem to say it’s a possibility. In response, Murphy switched out “Plague” for “Sirens," but never tweeted out which choice was the final winner. When the final choices were “Bloody Mary” and “Plague,” many followers wanted a “recount”-turns out, many fans didn’t want to watch a show about a plague while still in the midst of a very real pandemic.



At the time, it was unclear whether the final choice would be an upcoming season story or something entirely new. In April, Murphy ran a Twitter poll, tweeting out a list of four possible storylines for “expanding the universe” and asked fans to vote on their favorite.
