American Horror Story: 10 Reasons Asylum Is The Best Season
3. It Tied Everything Up
The second season of Horror Story may have been sprawling in its narratives, but everything was nicely tied together with no loose ends - just how we like it. From Doctor Arden's midway demise in the crematorium to the Monsignor's fall from grace, no one was left unaccounted for by the time Episode 13 bowed out.
Talking of which, by the time we got to the finale, there were very few of the cast still knocking around in the land of the living. The "Briarcliff Exposed" segment filled in the gaps between the '60s and modern day while it wrapped up the stories of Sister Jude and Kit. We also found out what Lana did post-Briarcliff and saw the exposure of Bloody Face II.
The various Lana timelines was a successful storytelling technique which allowed us to literally close the book on the season's most interesting character in a modern-day setting, and still find out what happened to everyone else. Albeit everyone died, but it was only right that some of the characters managed to get their happy ending. It may not have been particularly horrrific, but seeing a reformed Sister Jude was a ray of happiness in the bleakness of the story.