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American Horror Stories – Season 1, Episode 1

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Aired Jul 15, 2021

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A teenager and her parents move into a forsaken home with a grim past. As the family makes renovations, a darkness takes root within them.

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Drew Gregory

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07/30/2021

The first two hours of American Horror Stories are a Ryan Murphy Weakest Hits. Literally, this first episode revisits the origin show's titular Murder House and some of its murderers.

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Inkoo Kang

Washington Post

07/30/2021

The definitely lower-budget but winkingly fun episodes channel the juiciest elements of that season, a barbed sendup of Los Angeles narcissism with a love-hate relationship to Old Hollywood and a deliberately queasy teen romance.

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Juan Barquin

AV Club

07/16/2021

C

It is deeply stupid from the get-go, but there's a playfulness to the way it approaches the story it's chosen to tell first.

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Andy Swift

TV Line

07/16/2021

At this point, I no longer care about these guys. Their brutal murders cannot come soon enough.

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Paul Dailly

TV Fanatic

07/16/2021

2/5

If you thought American Horror Story: Apocalypse ruined the concept of the Murder House forever, then allow us to introduce American Horror Stories Season 1 Episode 1 and American Horror Stories Season 1 Episode 2.

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Matt Fowler

IGN Movies

07/15/2021

6/10

The first episode is then allowed to creepily morph into something less resembling tainted innocence and more embracing dark and dreaded spirits finding, and enabling, one another.

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Synopsis

A teenager and her parents move into a forsaken home with a grim past. As the family makes renovations, a darkness takes root within them.

Director: Loni Peristere
Creator: Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy
Executive Producer: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, John J. Gray, Manny Coto
Screenwriter: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
Network: Hulu
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date: Jul 15, 2021