When Ryan Murphy announced that American Horror Story's seventh season would be "about the election that we just went through
,"
many people assumed that meant the series would become markedly more political.
But it turns out that 2016 election backdrop is more of a jumping off point for the "Cult" throughline of the anthology's Season 7 than any actual parallel to the fallout of the presidential election.
"I think, because Ryan had made the initial announcement about Trump, people are expecting it to be political and everything else," explained executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall to IGN at the 2017 summer TV Critics' Association press tour. "It's not going to be this giant attack on Trump."
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,"
many people assumed that meant the series would become markedly more political.
But it turns out that 2016 election backdrop is more of a jumping off point for the "Cult" throughline of the anthology's Season 7 than any actual parallel to the fallout of the presidential election.
"I think, because Ryan had made the initial announcement about Trump, people are expecting it to be political and everything else," explained executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall to IGN at the 2017 summer TV Critics' Association press tour. "It's not going to be this giant attack on Trump."
Continue reading…
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