"Mental illness is the fashionable explanation for sin"
The cast from the first season (Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe), supported by some new faces (Joseph Fiennes, Lizzie Brocheré, James Cromwell), returns to us in a new story, with new, no less impressive characters.
This time the story is set in the sixties of the last century, in a notorious mental institution, under the administration of the Catholic church. The patients range from completely insane criminals, through severe mental illness, to people who don't belong there at all. The story follows a young man accused of massacring several women and a journalist who wants to write a first-hand story about him at all costs.
In my opinion, the series is still more of a psychological drama and thriller than horror, but in the second season there are more horror elements, and there is also a bit of SF. "Asylum" has all the qualities of the first season, and the finale, although in a similar manner, was done much better. However, the second season left a slightly weaker overall impression on me.
8,5/10.
The cast from the first season (Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Zachary Quinto, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe), supported by some new faces (Joseph Fiennes, Lizzie Brocheré, James Cromwell), returns to us in a new story, with new, no less impressive characters.
This time the story is set in the sixties of the last century, in a notorious mental institution, under the administration of the Catholic church. The patients range from completely insane criminals, through severe mental illness, to people who don't belong there at all. The story follows a young man accused of massacring several women and a journalist who wants to write a first-hand story about him at all costs.
In my opinion, the series is still more of a psychological drama and thriller than horror, but in the second season there are more horror elements, and there is also a bit of SF. "Asylum" has all the qualities of the first season, and the finale, although in a similar manner, was done much better. However, the second season left a slightly weaker overall impression on me.
8,5/10.