American Horror Story: Ryan Murphy Doesn’t See The Series Ending Any Time Soon – Looper

“American Horror Story: Roanoke” differed from the previous five seasons of the show in that the 2016 season switched things up — the first five episodes of the season presented a mockumentary of a haunted house plot, and then Episode 6 became a found-footage format about a reality show set inside said haunted house. This also meant that the actors, who typically return to play different characters each season, actually played multiple roles within the season itself. As Murphy mentioned, this grounded the series after the Grand Guignol-esque soap operas that the previous seasons portrayed.

Murphy’s “AHS” boss, FX Networks chairman John Landgraf, told Deadline at the time of its three-season renewal through Season 13, “It could be one of those weird things where we keep going, and it ends up being 20 seasons, I don’t know.” Time will tell if Murphy gets his wish and the show gets to the magic number of 20 seasons. 

For now, he can at least count on the show getting to spooky number 13. Landgraf said of Murphy’s desire to take the number of seasons to horror’s unluckiest number, “[Murphy] liked the idea of being sure it was going to go to 13 as opposed to maybe 11 or 12 … , that number was significant to him, and we thought that was cool.”