The new season of “American Horror Story” premiered its 90-minute show for the fourth season.

Since “American Horror Story”changes its plot every season, fans of the show only know the overall theme. They can only guess the plot through small teasers and tweets from the creator of the show, Ryan Murphy. Fans know minor things about the show to begin with, but they don’t  know that much about the plot.

There was a lot of hype about this season because of all the information that Murphy was putting out the Internet.

Murphy released cast interviews with new actors and, for the first time ever, he released the main title sequence before the show actually began. The sequence included a change in the theme song to make it sound more like a carnival. He even told Twitter that Jessica Lange will eventually sing a song by Lana Del Rey. This made fans of the show extremely excited for the new season to begin.

There were many great things about the first episode such as Elsa Mars’ (Jessica Lange) shocking surprise ending and the multiple scenes involving Twisty the Clown (John Carroll Lynch). With all the excitement and energy people had about this season, there still seemed to be downsides to the first episode. Murphy stated in an interview that “American Horror Story: Freakshow”was going to be really similar to “American Horror Story: Asylum.”. Since “Asylum” was probably the scariest season from the show, viewers expected to be more frightened than they actually were.

“The episode was more gory than scary,” Freshman Ayanna Edwards said.

The pilot also didn’t give that much insight to the story.

“The episode didn’t really tell us about the plot, it just kind of introduced the characters,” Freshman Benjamin Cook stated.

However, the episode didn’t even mention the entire cast. It failed to bring up certain stars of the show such as Angela Bassett or Emma Roberts until the very end when they showed a preview for the next episode. This gives fans more of a reason to watch next week’s episode, but it’s kind of annoying to watch the first episode of a show when certain promoted stars aren’t even featured.

Sure, the episode was extremely twisted and exciting, but it didn’t meet everyone’s expectations. Of course, dedicated fans to the show know that “American Horror Story”always surprises its’ audience, so people cannot wait to see what next week’s episode has in store.

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