The American horror story episode 2 an anthology serie that focus on an insane asylum called Briarcliff.
Briarcliff, a former tuberculosis hospital, is now an insane asylum run by the Catholic church. The year is 1964, and the asylum houses some seriously disturbed individuals. The day to day administrator is Sister Jude Martin who works under the general supervision of the director Monsignor Timothy Howard. Her chief nemesis however is their in-house medical officer, Dr. Arthur Arden, who is frequently seeing patients in the night – patients who die and are disposed of immediately. A new doctor, Oliver Thredson, arrives at Briarcliff assigned by the courts to examine and report on Kit Walker. He’s appalled by conditions he finds there and the fact that they still use electroshock to treat homosexuality.It’s Halloween and a major storm is expected in the area. Sister Jude decides to have a movie night in an attempt to calm the patients. She is being tormented by someone who knows about the auto accident she had before becoming a nun and sends her a newspaper clipping about the accident dated 1949. She turns to the bottle, a problem she had previously overcome. Meanwhile, a possessed Sister Mary Eunice wreaks havoc in the asylum, killing one of the patients and makes sexual advances to an incredulous Dr. Adler. A new arrival at Briarcliff Manor claims to be Anne Frank. She stabbed a man who made an anti-Semitic remark. Convinced that Dr. Arden is a Nazi, Sister Jude hires a Nazi hunter, Mr. Goodman, to look into his past. He tells her of Operation Paperclip where American officials created false biographies for known Nazis and helped them relocate in the West. Monsignor Howard is called out to a local hospital to tend to the creature that was found in the schoolyard – and he obviously knows who she is. Sister Jude receives a call from Mr. Goodman confirming that Dr. Arden is a former Nazi who escaped at the end of the war. A deadly new inmate threatens Sister Jude’s chance of release from Briarcliff. Grace’s obsession with the aliens turns violent. (Reference: IMDb)
However, someone said that Lana Winter, who is a homosexual journalist fabricated the whole story. And finally got both the fortune and the fame. And killed the innocent ‘small bloody face’.
This is a complicated story in which contains the philosophy of religion, the discrimination, the homosexuality and the fight between the conscience and the fame.
This is a really amazing TV play I would recommend to you all.
Don’t miss it!
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