Ryan Murphy Has Seen Your ‘American Horror Story: Election 2016’ Memes, Will Make Them A Reality
If there’s one thing 2016 taught us, it’s this: be careful what you joke about on Twitter, because it just might end up coming true. You mightactuallysee serious politicians arguing on the debate stage about the size of their junk. You mightactuallyend up with a president whose main hobby is going on Twitter rants. AndRyan Murphymightactuallyturn the 2016 presidential election into his nextAmerican Horror Story.Yup, that’s the newly revealed theme for the seventh season FX’s horror anthology series, which premieres this fall.
Murphy revealed theAmerican Horror Storyelection theme during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live. “Well, I don’t have a title,” he said, “but the season that we begin shooting in June is going to be about the election that we just went through. So I think that will be interesting for a lot of people.” Host Andy Cohen followed up by asking whether a Donald Trump character would appear the show, but Murphy would only respond with “maybe.”
The producer had previously revealed that season 7 would be a “modern-day story.“American Horror StoryregularsSarah PaulsonandEvan Peterswill once again return, but their roles have not been revealed. Interestingly, Murphy has additionallyteased the returnof severalFreak Showcharacters in season 7. So go ahead and make your best guesses as to how the ghost of Dandy or an extremely elderly Elsa might fit into all of this. I’d also be curious to see if characters fromMurder House,Coven, orHotelmight pop up, since all of them take place roughly in the present.
On the one hand, anAmerican Horror Storyseason about the election does feel fitting. The 2016 race was the very definition of an American horror story, and if Murphy wants to tap into real-life fears and anxieties there’s no better way to do it. On the other hand… I don’t know, guys. What’s Murphy going to show us that’s more grotesque than what’s already happening on the news every day? But like it or not, we’re clearly going to be reliving last year’s events over and over again for the foreseeable future. Just yesterday, we reported thatZero Dark Thirtywriter Mark Boalis penning his own TV miniseriesabout the election.
Certainly, Murphy’s not the only artist to envision the 2016 election as a literal horror show. Remember Danny Elfman’s spooky score for the second presidential debate?
