Possibly the most striking thing about how AMERICAN HORROR
STORY: ASYLUM has wrapped itself up is that, in a show and season so imbued
with a love of and homage to cinema, “Madness Ends” really went to bat for the
power of television. Really, Ryan Murphy’s extended, warped odyssey through a Massachusetts
mental institution could not have been told any other way. Brutal, soap operatic,
involved, indulgent and even massively transformed from beginning to end,
ASYLUM laid down with grace via a 60 MINUTES-esque sit down and a horrifying
exposé reminiscent of Geraldo Rivera’s own investigations of the squalor at
Staten Island, New York’s Willowbrook State School.
Posted by Samuel Zimmerman
Jan 25, 2013