American Horror Story season 7 will be about the recent US election
Asked whether it would feature a character based on Trump, the co-creator said 'Maybe'
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Past seasons of American Horror Story have centred on a murder house, a coven of witches and a mental asylum for the criminally insane, but the latest will have the most horrifying setting yet: the 2016 US presidential election.
“Well I don’t have a title, but the season we begin shooting in June is going to be about the election that we just went through,” creator and producer Ryan Murphy said this week. “So I think that will be interesting for a lot of people.”
Asked by Andy Cohen during his appearance on Watch What Happens Live whether there would be a character based on the election’s victor Donald Trump, Murphy replied: “Maybe.”
Anthology show AHS has moved between very different settings from season to season, but this is the biggest departure yet.
It isn’t the only franchise/series to riff on recent political shifts, with The Purge: Election Year centring on D.C. riots and even sharing a tagline with Trump’s 2020 campaign.
Last season’s Roanoke theme was kept a secret right up until broadcast, but, clearly, Murphy couldn’t wait to share the new one this time around. He previously promised the seventh outing would have a "big hook" that will keep things "narratively strange".
It will be interesting to see how well the topical theme works given how fast-changing the current political climate is; something the soon returning Veep has struggled to come to terms with.
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