The first half of last season was addictive but deteriorated towards the end. I still watched the entire season but ended up hating the two main characters and was relieved when everyone died and ended up haunting the house they'd moved into at the beginning.
So with that somewhat finite ending the producers have made a wise choice to completely change the setting and period but retain the best actors in new roles.
Evan Peters (Tate) returns as Kit who is committed to Briarhouse asylum after murdering his wife - he has no memory of this and maintains it was aliens. The alien abduction theme is a good touch (James Wong must of sneaked this in) and it's really creepy, the aliens aren't shown in their entirety, just their horrible spider finger hands performing those particular probes they do best. Jessica Lange is now Sister Jude and is still a powerhouse scene stealer. Zachary Quinto is yet to make an appearance but he's first in the credits so should feature heavily.
New to this season are reporter Sarah Paulson and her girlfriend Clea DuVall, patient Chloe Sevigny, monsignor Joseph Fiennes and James Cromwell as towering Dr Arden who like Dr Moreau seems to be conducting disturbing experiments on the patients and releasing his results into the surrounding woods.
It's still outrageous, a bit silly a bit sexy and riddled with cliques but the strong visuals, adult themes and fantastic characters make this work.
YES - the truth is out there.
