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American Horror Story – Asylum, Episode 2 Tricks and Treats

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American Horror Story – Asylum, Episode 2

Tricks and Treats

Aired Oct 24, 2012

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Mystery & Thriller

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An exorcist is called to Briarcliff to help save a troubled farm boy; Sister Jude's darkest secret is revealed.

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AHS: Asylum's characters become more fully formed in an episode that refuses to contain its gleeful insanity and wandering plot.

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Zachary Quinto

Dr. Oliver Thredson

Joseph Fiennes

Monsignor Timothy Howard

Sarah Paulson

Lana Winters

Evan Peters

Kit Walker

Lily Rabe

Sister Mary Eunice

Lizzie Brocheré

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Gwen Orel

Wall Street Journal

08/16/2016

Spankings! Nuns having sex! Bondage! Lots of fun for fetishists this week. Very fitting for Halloween.

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Julieanne Smolinski

New York Magazine/Vulture

08/09/2016

3/5

We begin this episode much the way I wish every episode of every television show would begin: with Adam Levine being stabbed.

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Jeff Jensen

Entertainment Weekly

08/09/2016

Twilight in The Asylum, and a devil is on the loose.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/20/2018

Last night's episode was fun and kept us guessing, but we did get the whiff of plain old mess a couple of times throughout.

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Price Peterson

TV.com

08/15/2016

The first episode of each season of American Horror Story will be a messy, barely coherent dare to the audience to get out while we can, and then Episode 2 hooks us permanently. Because I AM HOOKED NOW.

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Christian Law

We Got This Covered

08/15/2016

American Horror Story: Asylum has already provided an exorcism plot that was better than every film about exorcism released this year.

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Synopsis

An exorcist is called to Briarcliff to help save a troubled farm boy; Sister Jude's darkest secret is revealed.

Executive Producer: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, Tim Minear
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 24, 2012