American Horror Story is an ongoing TV where every series is different from the other. The actors stay they same yet the characters that they are playing change as well as the time and the place. So far there is 5 seasons: Murder House, Asylum, Coven, Freak show and Hotel. The target audience for AHS would be an explorer. This is because Ryan Murphy attempts to make you really think about what is going to happen next by having twist in the plot line that wouldn't happen on a mainstream show. It also makes you think about all of the series connect together to form on big story.
The preferred reading to this text would be to understand deeply the issues that are tackled throughout the 5 series. The viewer will be shocked by the gore that takes place through out the show but they will not be too lighthearted as they would already know what they are getting themselves in for when watching this. The viewer will be hooked by the miseries that are set in place for the plot from the very beginning of the show. AHS celebrates the classic representation of horror by the main characters in the seasons of ghosts, mental institution patients, witches, freaks and vampire's. The viewer would also be interested in these aspects of horror. There is a running theme of how a persons hamartia can effect all of the people around them in a domino effect leading to a tragic end to the person who has this fatal flaw. This would the reader to think about their actions and what they can do to the people around them. The ideologies that this show expresses is that everybody has some sort of evil inside them whether it be on a large scale or small scale; just one little thing can tip this person over the edge leading to them going a little crazy and hurting those around them. AHS tries to make us aware of this by having a character which started of kind and ending up hurting those around them in every season.
An oppositional reading to this text might be that they think some of the violence and plot lines in the show are over the top and do not need to be in there to help the story line progress. If somebody had a religious background they may get offended by some of the references against holy things; for example in asylum the nuns are shown as being evil and not really caring about the people who are in the asylum. They would understand the reasoning of why they show characters go on a downward scale to evil but would go against it saying that the show does not actually have any reference to the world we live in because of the 'mythical' creatures that are main in every season. Some may say that by putting in all over the gore it takes away from the ideologies that are shown leading to people being disturbed and no longer willing to progress along the season.
If somebody was in a situation where they were watching this show when their parents
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