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American Horror Story Season 2 Will Feature NEW House and NEW Cast

Truth rating: 9

(FX)

Well, this is kind of interesting.

Ryan Murphy, the man behind “American Horror Story,” just told reporters that the next season of the show will feature an entirely new haunted house and cast.

The show’s first season, which starred Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott as the Harmons, wrapped up on Wednesday.

“Every season of the show will be a different haunting,” said Murphy in a conference call. “What you saw in the finale was the end of the Harmon house, and the second season of the show will be a brand new home or building to haunt.”

In fact, explains Murphy, that’s how every new season will be structured going forward.

In addition to a new haunting, each season “will also have a new overriding theme. [Season 1's theme] was ‘infidelity.’ Next year will have a different theme and a new cast of characters to go with it.”

While Britton and McDermott (along with other actors) could “be coming back [and] playing completely new characters,” they’ll no longer be the show’s leads.

“Their stories are done,” explains Murphy.

It should be noted that some of Murphy’s past decisions about major cast changes on his other series, “Glee,” have turned out not to be set in stone.

Would you be excited to see a whole new world for Season 2 of “American Horror Story”?

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  • http://twitter.com/NickyDoll20 Nicole Miller

    Hmm I would’ve liked to have seen more of the story they left off on, but this sounds cool too. I just hope they don’t lose viewers because of the change because that’s usually what happens when creator change the characters like this.

  • Shagmegood12

    If it is done well, with an interesting story that grabs you from the first episode, it could be a great idea. Change can be a good thing. I will certainly tune in to see what happens next (and who it is happening too). Keep up the great work Mr. Murphy!!!

  • J_lyn

    I probably wont be watching if its done like this. It takes a while to warm up to characters and then by the time the you start to care about them its near the end of the first season. I think it will be hard to accept new characters especially since I liked some of the old ones. I personally think he killed to many of the characters in season one. Not one character had any chance of survival, he should have stopped at Violet, because it started to become very predictable. He killed Characters who really had no need to be killed, like Hayden. She really served no great purpose in dying or even being brought into the series other then an after mention. I enjoyed the show to an extent but would have liked to have seen more thought put into each episode it really felt like there was no plan for the characters, like it was being made up as each episode was written.

  • Newyorkcoolfrank

    No Jessica Lange, no watch.

  • http://twitter.com/KellyCEfron Nicole Miller

    They’re def bringing Jessica back, she’s nominated for a Golden Globe. She’ll come back, just probably not as the same character.

  • intoxication-demonstration

    If Evan Peters and Taissa Farmiga won’t be on the set, I honestly see no reason to watch it.
    They were the main love story within the movie. If Murphy is going to reenact it, I see no point. I also agree about Jessica Lange. No Jessica, no watch.

  • polo20chic

    NO! all wrong gotta keep the same faces. They wont be as intresting as the original cast, wpnt be watching if this happens.

  • Guest

    I think this is series suicide! Not only does it leave some many questions from the first season, but now they are going to start a whole new set of questions in the second season. Whats gong to happen to the little boy? Does Violet ever reconcile with Tate? Do any of these ghosts have a chance of actually getting released from the house? It is leaving wayyyyy toooo much open. I won’t be watching this show anymore. Especially if they use the same actor and actresses, but give them different character names. Series suicide!

  • Jess

    Dear Ryan Murphy,
    No. Bad idea.
    Sincerely, me (AHS fan)

  • Spiritbearpeace

    actually yes, I was wondering how he planned on continuing the story since he alredy killed all of the main characters, it would have been too boring. It’s good to know there’s another story to discover

  • Pink

    I would be okay with using a new set of characters IF the first season had answered all the questions they left in that first arc. It’s stupid and unfair to leave so many unanswered questions, and then start a new season with a completely different story and especially with the same actors playing different characters. That just completely prevents it from being able to cycle back to the original story and answer all those unanswered questions. As someone else said, this is series suicide. I get that they want to be original, but couldn’t they have figured out another way without pissing off so many viewers? I think the SMART thing to do if they wanted to have different characters in every season, is to have the new characters as they wanted in new stories but with NEW actors. Not the old ones! Every season could have a new american horror story with new actors, and then when it’s time for the series to start nearing it’s end, they could bring all those stories together to tie in to the original one so we get all the answers that we were hoping for. But using the same actors as new characters does not allow for that to happen. So, in a word, stupid move.

  • Trhewlett37

    the change is a good thing. i wondered and worried a bit if the house and cast would get stale. scary stories, ghosts, etc. get more exciting as venues and stories to be told have chage. that is why ghost hunters, etc. are so cool.

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