Ryan Murphy said Wednesday on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” that the upcoming season of his critically acclaimed FX anthology series “American Horror Story” will focus on the 2016 presidential election.
“I don’t have a title, but the season that we begin shooting in June is going to be about the election that we just went through, so I think that will be interesting for a lot of people,” he told host Andy Cohen.
“Wow,” Cohen said. “Will there be, like, a Trump?”
It appeared that Murphy wasn’t ready to talk specifics: “Uh, maybe,” he said.
Murphy is the prolific producer behind “Nip/Tuck,” “Glee” and another anthology series, “American Crime Story,” which revisited the O.J. Simpson trial in its first season and won the Golden Globe for best limited series. FX has already confirmed that two more “American Crime Story” installments are underway — the second, slated to air in 2018, will focus on Hurricane Katrina. The third will revolve around the 1997 murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace. A fourth is expected to tackle the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Murphy’s “American Horror Story” comments come as a surprise because the show’s past seasons have been about fictional events — usually of the supernatural variety. Viewers knew almost nothing about the show’s most recent season before it premiered in September. The move certainly fueled fan theories and generated buzz for the show’s sixth season, which was eventually revealed to be about a couple whose paranormal encounters in a rural North Carolina mansion inspire a documentary called “My Roanoke Nightmare.”
