From People.com (Link: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20588541,00.html):
Diehard fans of American Horror Story might want to mentally pack for chillier weather in the fall ? say, a sweater and a straitjacket ? because the second season of the shiver-inducing FX series will move the action from sunny southern California to the East Coast ... and take place in an asylum run by Jessica Lange.
"[Season 2] is set on the East Coast at an institution for the criminally insane that is run by Jessica," the show's creator, Ryan Murphy, said during a panel discussion on Wednesday.
Lange won an Golden Globe and a SAG Award for playing the nefarious neighbor to Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton in season one.
Murphy added that the new season will have no connection whatever to the first beside returning cast members (all playing different characters), and that it is set in another period. There'll be new costars as well, like The Voice judge Adam Levine.
Murphy had already teased that clues to where the second season would be set were hidden in the first season ? specifically in a scene involving a fortuneteller explaining how places like asylums and prisons feed on negative energy.
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What do you think? I'm somewhat wary of returning cast members playing different characters, but I'm sure I'll get over it.
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ITA, although I do think Ryan Murphy has such a creative mind when it comes to twists and turns, hopefully he will do something drastically different to the actors/actresses, like give Jessica Lange jet black hair and missing teeth or something, then I can get past it.
And I will also be drooling over Adam however you spell his last name as long as he is shirtless.
I have to admit, I'm slightly worried that it will basically be a completely different show. I loved AHS the way it was so this makes me a little nervous.
I am, however, completely stoked that Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, and Zachary Quinto will be back!!! And Adam Levine, best news ever!!
I think I will be happy regardless. Who knows, this might be so much better. Ryan Murphy tends to have great ideas that fizzle out over time so maybe switching everything up each season will be good for the show.
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I'm ok with the returning actors. Sometimes a director and an actor have a good rapport. You see it a lot with movies (Tim Burton/Johnny Depp jumps to mind). I'm not as excited about the new setting. I'd just prefer the setting of a haunted house with a family at the center over an institution. But I loved the show and am still looking forward to its return.
And I love Adam Levine, and am interested in seeing him on the show!
Who thinks that Adam Levine's character could be Constance's other son...you know, the normal one she referred too last season?
I'm interested to see what Ryan Murphy has in store. He's definitely creative so I know the new concept can work but it may take more than one episode for me to dissociate Jessica Lange and Evan Peters from Constance and Tate. That said, they're both dynamic actors and I'm sure their new roles will be completely different from last season's (i.e. Tate will probably shave his head and portray some patient from the late 1800s).
I'm bummed we have to wait until October, though.
There won't be any connections to last season.