Quietly, American Horror Story is already heading toward its 13th season. And these days that’s no small thing, whether you’re a Ryan Murphy fan or not. Since 2011, and at practically a season-a-year pace (it only skipped the 2020 and 2025 installments), Hollywood’s most controversial and prolific creator has explored all his obsessions with a cast that has always surprised… and that this new season would be no different, with a kind of “greatest hits” lineup.
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On September 24 we’ll see what comes of the experiment, but for now we know it won’t be a continuation of Coven, season 3, but rather a kind of mixture of what we’ve seen so far. In fact, Sarah Paulson plays six or seven roles, and Jessica Lange plays the four characters she’s played over the years. And they aren’t the only ones returning.
“Evan Peters will play five characters, and of course Kathy Bates, and Emma Roberts, and Billie Lourd. It’s like The Avengers! They’ve come together to defeat the big bad“. In fact, Murphy has said that even the actors who over the years had resisted coming back, had no choice but to say yes to the idea. So American Horror Story fans are in for a treat while the rest of us don’t understand a thing that’s happening.
“I told Jessica Lange and she said ‘Shit, now I have to do it.’ They’re all in one season, and it’s 13 episodes because it’s called 13. I’ve spent many, many months and many years writing it. I want to do 13 in a special way”, he said. Meanwhile, Murphy keeps churning out projects: since 2020 alone he has had 22 series on the air at the same time. And there are more to come.
