History YMMV / AmericanHorrorStories

** In "Feral," Jay and Addy lose their three year old son on a camping trip, and spend the next ten years searching for him whilst grappling with guilt and grief, and are repeatedly scammed by people taking advantage of their loss, with Jay in particular also being stated to be the target of harassment from people who believe he killed his son. When they finally reunited with their son— after briefly believing him to have been cannibalized years ago— he has gone fully feral, and tells the creatures to eat his parents, and they slowly realize this before they're gruesomely eaten alive.
* WTHCastingAgency: Kaia Gerber and [[Creator/ParisJackson Paris Jackson’s]] casting announcements for "The Rubber (Wo)man" were met with with worry that they were only cast due to nepotism (being the daughters of Creator/CindyCrawford and Music/MichaelJackson, respectively), and that their acting would be subpar. After the episodes aired, this criticism was only heightened towards Kaia whose acting was widely panned, whist Paris left many pleasantly surprised.

* JustHereForGodzilla: For a number of the viewers that started watching in 2023, the series only appeared on their radar when an episode of the then-upcoming Season 3 was stated to be based on WebVideo/TheBackrooms.

* WTHCastingAgency: Kaia Gerber and Creator/ParisJackson's casting announcements for "The Rubber (Wo)man" were met with with worry that they were only cast due to nepotism (being the daughters of Creator/CindyCrawford and Music/MichaelJackson, respectively), and that their acting would be subpar. After the episodes aired, this criticism was only heightened towards Kaia whose acting was widely panned, whist Paris left many pleasantly surprised.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Many fans were apprehensive of Paris Jackson’s casting, only to be pleasantly surprised by her performance in the first two episodes.

* WTHCastingAgency: Kaia Gerber and Paris Jackson's casting announcements for "The Rubber (Wo)man" were met with with worry that they were only cast due to nepotism (being the daughters of Creator/CindyCrawford and Music/MichaelJackson, respectively), and that their acting would be subpar. After the episodes aired, this criticism was only heightened towards Kaia whose acting was widely panned, whist Paris left many pleasantly surprised.

** SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Season 2 was much more warmly received than season 1.

* CompleteMonster ("[[Recap/AmericanHorrorStoriesS1E3DriveIn Drive In]]"): [[AttentionWhore Larry Bitterman]] is a [[MadArtist horror-obsessed filmmaker]] who experiments with the human brain to find a way to achieve the ultimate movie experience. Taking inspiration from [[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} MK Ultra]] to create his own masterpiece, ''Rabbit Rabbit'', Bitterman hides subliminal triggers within his movie that result in people slaughtering each other and themselves. After his own editor mutilated herself and six people were killed because of him, Bitterman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for assaulting Tipper Gore when she protested against his movie. Longing for his revenge, Bitterman sent his movie to the Starlite movie theater in Los Angeles to replicate and exceed the original massacre in modern day, killing over a hundred people. Bitterman's cruelty truly comes to light when it is revealed that he made a deal with Creator/{{Netflix}} to release ''Rabbit Rabbit'' on the internet, throwing everything into chaos [[FameThroughInfamy for a chance to be remembered]] as one of the greatest directors of all time.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: "Rubber (Wo)man" was criticized for feeling like a condensed and watered down version of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse''. We have another troubled teenager with parents who have a fallout after an affair, who romances a psychopathic ghost.

** In "Ba’al," Liv is terrorized by a demon who seems to be after her baby, whilst her husband patronizes her concerns until she has a mental breakdown. It turns out her husband, his mistress, and their friends had instead been gaslighting Liv into believing she was seeing and hearing the demon until she was seen as insane, all so that she would be placed in an asylum with Mattie receiving her inheritance. The misery she is put through makes her triumph at the end all the more satisfying.

** In “Ba’al,” Liv is terrorized by a demon who seems to be after her baby, whilst her husband patronizes her concerns until she has a mental breakdown. It turns out her husband, his mistress, and their friends had instead been gaslighting Liv into believing she was seeing and hearing the demon until she was seen as insane, all so that she would be placed in an asylum with Mattie receiving her inheritance. The misery she is put through makes her triumph at the end all the more satisfying.
** In “Feral,” Jay and Addy lose their three year old son on a camping trip, and spend the next ten years searching for him whilst grappling with guilt and grief, and are repeatedly scammed by people taking advantage of their loss, with Jay in particular also being stated to be the target of harassment from people who believe he killed his son. When they finally reunited with their son— after briefly believing him to have been cannibalized years ago— he has gone fully feral, and tells the creatures to eat his parents, and they slowly realize this before they’re gruesomely eaten alive.
* WTHCastingAgency: Kaia Gerber and Paris Jackson’s casting announcements for “The Rubber (Wo)Man” were met with with worry that they were only cast due to nepotism, and that their acting would be subpar. After the episodes aired, this criticism was only heightened towards Kaia whose acting was widely panned, whist Paris left many pleasantly surprised.

** In “Ba’al,” Liv is terrorized by a demon who seems to be after her baby, whilst her husband patronizes her concerns until she has a mental breakdown. It turns out her husband, his mistress, and their friends had instead been gaslighting Liv into believing she was seeing and hearing the demon until she was seen as insane, all so that she would be placed in an asylum with Mattie receiving her inheritance. The misery she is out through makes her triumph at the end all the more satisfying.