American Horror Story: 10 Reasons Asylum Is The Best Season
8. It Was A Murder Mystery
At the core though, Asylum was a murder mystery - and the best bit was, the whodunnit wasn't sprawled out over thirteen weeks. Murphy's other show Scream Queens can be accused of extending its mystery into boredom, but Asylum kept you guessing (well for five weeks). It was the end of Episode 5, "I'm Anne Frank Pt. 2," that hero of the hour Oliver Thredson was actually exposed as the psychopathic Bloody Face in a twist that almost no one saw coming.
The story may have got a little farfetched in the middle, with Lana and Thredson both returning to the Asylum almost as if nothing had happened, but the pair got a fabulous showdown back in his murder lair to round off the final third of the season. Even then the show continued for two more episodes, leaving us to ask "will the horror ever stop?"
Then there was the poor demise of Adam Lambert which opened the series and wasn't resolved until the end. It was during the finale that we found out it was Thredson's son, Bloody Face Jr., who was picking up where daddy left off, and there was a real sense that the horror had come full circle. Ending with Lana and Johnny Morgan's face-off was the icing on the cake for continuity.