American Horror Story: 10 Worst Characters

10. The Extra Terrestrials

The Extra Terrestrials in Asylum weren’t so much bad characters as they were completely wasted. Asylum is probably the busiest season American Horror Story has done to date, and as a result some arcs were bound to get truncated.

AHS: Asylum already included an examination of the torture of mental patients, Nazi science and serial killers without adding the alien angle in there. Ryan Murphy’s trademark unflinching portrayal of horror would work fantastically with alien invasion, but with Asylum it just... didn’t.

The worst thing is it means we may never get a full season exploring an alien arc. The X-Files went dark at times, but with the exception of the controversial Home episode, everything Mulder & Scully did looks tame compared to AHS. When it was announced that Apocalypse would be linked to other seasons in the AHS series, many fans were anticipating a return of the Extra Terrestrials. In the end, it was Coven, Hotel and Murder House that were exhumed, with Murder House particularly feeling like clutching at the straws of fan service.

If that’s a sign they’re running out of ideas, Murphy could do a lot worse than bringing the Extra Terrestrials back for Season 9.