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The first episode of asylum is great, it set up the characters theme settings well, the bloody face introduction is great, the first half of asylum is awesome but sadly fom me the second half let's it all down

I watched this season from start to finish when it first premiered nearly 10 years ago(I was 15 y/o). I recently binge watched it over the weekend with a more mature perspective, and hands down it is the best season of AHS to date. The acting, the storyline, the intensity of the whole thing - everything is just too good. If you're going to start watching AHS, I would start with season 2.

"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 couple Leo Morrison (Adam Levine) and Teresa Morrison (Jenna Dewan) are in honeymoon, visiting and having sex in the twelve most macabre locations in the United States of America. They arrive at the last one and visit the notorious Briarcliff Asylum and soon they are haunted and attacked by evil forces. In 1964, the young Caucasian Kit Walker (Evan Peters) is secretly married to the black Alma Walker (Britne Oldford) and they are in love with each other. Out of the blue, aliens abduct Kit and Alma, and the young woman disappears. At the Briarcliff Asylum, the cruel Sister Jude Martin (Jessica Lange) administrates the place supported by Monsignor Timothy Howard (Joseph Fiennes) that she secretly desires him. When the evil Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell) arrives at Briarcliff with the intention of using his patients in his cruel experiments. Sister Jude unsuccessfully tries to get rid of Dr. Arden, but Monsignor Howard does not accept her request. When the notorious serial killer Bloody Face arrives at Briarcliff, the ambitious lesbian journalist Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) uses subterfuges to interview him, but things do not work as she planned.

"Welcome to Briarcliff" is the first episode of the Second Season of "American Horror Story" with a creepy and cruel beginning. Two of the lead characters, Sister Jude Martin and Dr. Arthur Arden, are evil and brilliantly performed by Jessica Lange and James Cromwell. The lead plot has intriguing storylines in the present and in the past, with great performances of the cast. The mystery of the aliens' abductions is probably the most intriguing so far. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Welcome to Briarcliff"

Why are these directors still using this annoying and horrible fad of shaking the frames in the picture? I cannot stand it, makes me not want to watch, I was so distracted I couldn't get into it.