7/11/2023 0 Comments Ratched netflixA queer woman going up against the dual power structures of the medical system and the Catholic Church, Lana miraculously manages to emerge triumphant-riding off into the sunset, middle finger up. ![]() ![]() It has all the lurid maximalism of any Murphy production (Nazis! Demonic possession! Adam Levine getting his arm torn off in the cold open!), but also an emotional core in Paulson’s performance. More than seven years and as many seasons later, Asylum still stands as the best of American Horror Story’s small library of installments. ![]() The season before, the actress had had a small supporting role as a medium counseling the residents of the namesake Murder House in Asylum, she took the spotlight as a muckraker committed against her will to a ’60s-era mental institution. Sarah Paulson’s first leading role in the sprawling Ryan Murphy multiverse was as journalist Lana Winters in American Horror Story: Asylum, the now-sprawling anthology’s second season.
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