Ryan Murphy Needs To Stop Stabbing His Best Shows In The Back With Terrible Endings – Looper

If you’re wondering what makes Murphy’s conclusions so unfulfilling, you probably haven’t watched enough — or any — Ryan Murphy shows. Take “American Horror Story” as an example where, throughout most of its most popular seasons, it’s seemed confused about how it should cap off the story (since “AHS” is an anthology series, each season is a standalone tale). The second season, “Asylum,” is often regarded as a series high point thanks to its extremely twisted narrative, but how does it end? Aliens. It ends with aliens. Why? Well, Murphy introduced aliens briefly during the season for reasons unknown, and rather than try and figure out a way to make it make sense, the season just … ends. Two seasons later, “Freak Show,” an utterly bizarre season that involved both a murderous clown and a German snuff film, ended with everyone going to heaven, which felt like an utter copout after a truly, completely weird run of episodes.

Meanwhile, 2022’s “The Watcher” — a show that, honestly, probably should have run for about three episodes before wrapping up its story — added in a ton of sensationalized and ultimately untrue details into the actual story of a family who received odd, threatening letters at their new dream home until they moved out in terror. In real life, the suspect was never found, so naturally, Murphy creates a character out of thin air and pins it on them, using the flimsy excuse that she was … jealous of the house, only for her to admit later that she was lying. Great! Then what was this all for?