- Summary: Season two of the horror series begins with newlyweds Leo and Teresa stopping at Briarcliff Manor, an abandoned Catholic sanitarium. In the 1960s, Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) and Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) had opposing ideas about treatment for the inmates who lived there.
- Genre(s): Horror
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 2 premiere date: Oct 17, 2012
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 23
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Mixed: 5 out of 23
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Negative: 2 out of 23
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80So far it works.... Asylum feels like a more focused, if equally frenetic, screamfest. It's also gorgeously realized.
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80Asylum delivers a much more evocative nightmare gallery without losing any of the franchise's provocative, look-ma-I'm-screaming bravado.
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60American Horror Story: Asylum reintroduces the first season's nightmarish craziness but also sets it within a coherent basic history. It helps too that the new cast appears to be so tight.
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38If Freddy Krueger married Regan from "The Exorcist," and they moved to "Shutter Island" with "Agnes of God" on "Friday the 13th," they'd all end up in this Asylum.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 30
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Mixed: 4 out of 30
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Negative: 2 out of 30
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