The creator of Glee, a series based on a high school show choir, Ryan Murphy confirmed yesterday that the show will end after its next season. After three months of Glee actor Cory Monteith’s death, Murphy declared this at a Paley Center event. It was only last week that Glee paid a touching tribute to the late actor’s character, Finn Hudson.

Murphy also said that the sixth season and the series finale, was formerly meant to be based on Finn and his relation with a self-proclaimed singer, Rachel Berry, a character played by Lea Michele, Cory’s girlfriend in real life. He further said that after the tragedy they are still trying to figure what is going to happen next, as they will be revising the entire finale after Cory’s death.

Although, Fox has still not confirmed that Glee is going to end, but in the month of August, the Chairman of Fox Entertainment, Kevin Reilly said that he was not expecting the show to go for more than two new seasons. Murphy further said that the series’ set finale will be honoring Finn, which proved to be a breakthrough role for Cory, who was also paid a special Emmy’s Tribute in September. The honor was not well received by few people, who claimed that the late actor was less accomplished than some of his co-actors, including James Gandolfini from ‘The Sopranos’ and Jean Stapleton from ‘All the Family’.

Apart from being the creator of the show, Murphy is also the executive producer of Glee. He’s also popular for producing the Drama ‘Nip/Tuck’ for FX and also the mind behind American Horror Story, which is now airing the third season.

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In the first season of American Horror Story, co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk took a look at the deterioration of the American family with infidelity being the wedge of choice for The Harmon family. The creators relied mostly on old horror tropes, such as the haunted house (if these walls could talk…), ghosts (your past infidelities/mistakes will always haunt you), and the like to convey their message of what pain love and passion can bring to your soul. However, those tropes were, for lack of a better word, “surface based” and fit the scheme for  great horror story for those people in need of a simple good scare.

Some people who I’ve spoken to about American Horror Story season one have always rehashed certain scenes or scares that wowed them, but never to rarely have they discussed the significance behind the scares or the analogies they provided. With American Horror Story: Asylum on the other hand, the scares are mental, with the ‘surface’ horror tropes taking a bit of a back-burner role this season.

The psychological horror of AHS: Asylum is visceral in its depth as the “surface” horror was in American Horror Story‘s first season. I equate the trials and tribulations of Kit, Lana, Grace, and Shelly to the tagline from Alien, except that while they aren’t in space, their screams are still not ‘heard’ within the walls of Briarcliff. The thought of knowing there is nothing wrong with you, but society still deems you as insane and will go to extreme lengths to solidify their truth is purely frightening and is way more scary than a man in a rubber suit. In fact, while Bloody Face might be terrorizing the citizens of Briarcliff in 1964, his presence in the present part of the storyline is basic horror movie fodder, much like Rubber Man was.

Before anyone attacks me, I know Rubber Man’s presence during season one of American Horror Story can be analyzed from here to Kingdom Come. With that said, he still was a “surfaced” horror trope of sorts, a ghost (Tate) with a mission to impregnate Vivien Harmon and an agent of the Murder House, much like Bloody Face is during the present day story of AHS: Asylum. Maybe Murphy and Falchuk are saying that while most people in modern times think they know what true fear is, they might want to try to live in a very conservative 1960s America, where voices were silenced with the swipe of a pen, a slash of a scalpel, a thump on a Bible, or by the prejudices of society. Again, I would take on Rubber Man or Bloody Face any day than to have my rights rescinded from me or my voice, my identity, silenced because of ignorance.

At the end of the day, the scares of American Horror Story: Asylum have a little more depth than its predecessor and aim for the mind more than the senses ala last year’s terror mission. With that said, it doesn’t mean Murder House is inferior in a sense, or less scary per se. It is just a flavor of an American Horror Story pie, which had a sweet and succulent message in each serving. And like any pie out there, people have their particular favorites; and while I will most definitely take a slice of the Murder House pie any day, I’m currently in the mood for piece of Asylum.

Which American Horror Story arc do you prefer so far? Murder House? Or Asylum?

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