Welcome to Shock Treatment: The American Horror Story Fan Podcast. This week, co-hosts Doc Rotten and Thomas M provide a spoiler full recap and review of American Horror Story Asylum Episode 12 starring Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, James Cromwell, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto and more. Doc and Thomas delve deep into each amazing and creepy chapter of this season’s final episode, The Madness Ends,... 

Welcome to Shock Treatment: The American Horror Story Fan Podcast. This week, co-hosts Doc Rotten and Thomas M provide a spoiler full recap and review of American Horror Story Asylum Episode 9 starring Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, James Cromwell, Adam Levine, Zachary Quinto and more. Doc and Thomas delve deep into each amazing and creepy chapter of the series’ ninth episode, The Coat Hanger, a... 

Welcome to Shock Treatment: The American Horror Story Fan Podcast, this week co-hosts Doc Rotten and Thomas M provide a spoiler full recap and review of the season two premiere of American Horror Story Asylum starring Jessica Lange, Even Peters, James Cromwell, Adam Levine and more. Doc and Thomas delve deep into each amazing and creepy chapter of the series’ first episode Welcome to Briarcliff,... 

American Horror Story returns to FX on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 for its second season. Now considered a mini-series, this year’s title will be American Horror Story Asylum. The story shifts from the haunted Harmon House to the church-run psychiatric hospital, Briar Cliff Manor. Many of the season one cast members return (Jessica Lange, Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters) but as brand new characters.... 

With “Afterbirth,” the season finale for American Horror Storie’s first year, the show ends 45 minutes in and then aimlessly, pointlessly meanders around for 15 minutes of epilogue. In fact, in many ways, the final episode loses much of the footing it gained with its last four of five weeks and derails into a uneven mess. It also ends on a predictable and boring note, taking its sweet... 

Holy crap, didn’t see that coming. Or, maybe I did, just a little. With “Birth,” American Horror Story goes full-tilt dark with its 11th show and next to last episode for its first season. Everything goes south for most every character as Ben (Dylan McDermott) drags Vivien (Connie Britton) back to the Harmon House just in time for her to give birth to the twins. The house is buzzing with anticipation... 

With episode 10, “Smoldering Children,” American Horror Story reveals a terrifying secret and opens its arms to a number of the remaining human, living characters as they all dance closer and closer to the dark supernatural dimension hiding in the basement of the Harmon House. Never holding on to their darlings for long, the writer’s unleash a Gatling gun of horror onto the Harmon family... 

With episode nine, “Spooky Little Girl,” American Horror Story continues its trend in solid horror television programming. Full of ghosts, weird behavior, murder and mayhem, this episode gets nasty, dismembering and disfiguring its victims at hands of the Harmon House’s original owner, Dr. Charles Montgomery (Matt Ross) – oh, and Hayden (Kate Mara) has some fun with the bloodletting... 

While American Horror Story gets better and better with each episode, it also continues to adopt the LOST character-centric approach. However, determining which character it is concentrating on can be a challenging puzzle. In “Rubber Man,” the title suggests that it may be the man in the latex suit, but it could also be Vivien (Connie Britton) and her downward spiral, or even Nora Montgomery... 

With “Open House,” episode seven of the first season of American Horror Story, the FX creep show finally shows signs of hitting its stride. The first six episodes have been shaky as the writers struggle to discover a descent balance between story and mood. To borrow a beloved term from another fan-favorite, LOST, this episode was Larry-centric, focusing on the back story and motivations...