American Horror Story: Asylum is the second season of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story. This season's theme is sanity and the relationship between science and religion, and follows the antics that occur at Briarcliff, a Catholic-based asylum for the criminally insane in 1964 northern Massachusetts. Wrongfully imprisoned inmates, including alleged serial killer Bloody Face, Kit Walker, alleged nymphomaniac Shelley, and lesbian journalist Lana Winters, all scheme to escape while trying to make sense of mysterious extraterrestrial life. While a sadistic staff schemes to dethrone head nun Sister Jude Martin. But things are not how they seem when an innocent nun and psychologist's dark secrets are uncovered. The main cast includes veteran actors of the series Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Zachary Quinto, and Lily Rabe, with Lizzie Brocheré, James Cromwell, and Joseph Fiennes making their debut. Special guest stars include Ian MacShane and Chloë Sevigny. Other returning cast members who made brief appearances include Frances Conroy and Dylan McDermott. (en)
American Horror Story: Asylum is the second season of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story. This season's theme is sanity and the relationship between science and religion, and follows the antics that occur at Briarcliff, a Catholic-based asylum for the criminally insane in 1964 northern Massachusetts. Wrongfully imprisoned inmates, including alleged serial killer Bloody Face, Kit Walker, alleged nymphomaniac Shelley, and lesbian journalist Lana Winters, all scheme to escape while trying to make sense of mysterious extraterrestrial life. While a sadistic staff schemes to dethrone head nun Sister Jude Martin. But things are not how they seem when an innocent nun and psychologist's dark secrets are uncovered. (en)