‘AHS’ Season 6: ‘The Thing That You Think You’re Watching Is Not What You’re Watching’

American Horror Story Season 6 is off to a creepy, mysterious start. We’ve seen parallels to Murder House and to Freak Show. We have questions about the structure of this season and are wondering where some of our AHS favorites are in this year’s story. And now Ryan Murphy tells Entertainment Weekly the following.

“You’ll see starting in episode 6, the show has a huge turn and the thing that you think you’re watching is not what you’re watching.”

Adding to the intrigue is this comment from co-creator Brad Falchuk.

“Nobody gets what we’re doing. No matter what you think it is, it’s not that.”

So what do we think so far? Well, there have been some clear parallels or connections to previous seasons of AHS. Let’s start with Murder House. In both seasons we have a couple who moved across the country after experiencing a miscarriage and moved into a haunted house. And it was actually in that first year of American Horror Story that the Roanoke mystery was mentioned by none other than psychic Billie Dean Howard, played by Sarah Paulson, who plays Shelby in this season of AHS. Violet tries to use the Roanoke curse later in the episode, but it doesn’t work. Then there’s the pig we’ve seen this season that reminds us of Ben’s patient and his fear of the Piggy Man, and the murderous nurses of this Roanoke series reminds us of the nurses who were killed by the serial killer who inspired the cult whose members came after Vivien and Violet (in Roanoke, Lee has a daughter named Flora) in American Horror Story: Murder House. These are just a few of the similarities between the two.

Ryan Murphy has also teased that in American Horror Story: Roanoke we will learn the origin of Freak Show favorite psychopath Dandy Mott and that we will see many more Freak Show characters.

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But if the thing we think we’re watching isn’t what we’re watching, then what are we watching? Well, co-creator Brad Falchuk says that you could think of the season as being in three parts. Episodes 1 through 5 is part one. Episodes 6 through 9 are part two. And Episode 10 is the third part. At each turn, you’ll see a turn that changes everything you were thinking about American Horror Story: Roanoke up to that point. The first big twist comes in Episode 6.

So what could this mean? Well, of course, American Horror Story fans have come up with some theories about how Season 6 will play out. Here are some of them.

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One of the characters that we have yet to see is Lady Gaga. Or have we seen her? Refinery 29 notes that she had this to say about her role this year.

“The character I’m playing this year in Horror Story, she’s quite grounded. That might sound ridiculous once you see who she is, but she’s very ‘in the earth.'”

Couple that with the tree in this year’s logo, the fact that in the last episode, Lee found her daughter’s hoodie in the top of a tree, and that the show opens this year with shots of trees, and there’s the possibility that Lady Gaga is a tree. Or is trapped in a tree or something.

The next one is really fascinating, and is brought to us by Vanity Fair. What if Roanoke is a retelling of American Horror Story: Murder House? In Murder House, Billie Dean Howard was looking to do a TV show. And she was obsessed with the mystery of Roanoke. What if Sarah Paulson is really Billie Dean playing Shelby who is a dramatized version of Vivienne? One more thing that supports this theory is that Angela Basset described her role in this season of American Horror Story as follows.

“[She] would imbibe a little bit too much, and yet was very intuitive also, and maybe Sarah [Paulson] was somehow the boss of me.”

So maybe Lee is an employee of Billie Dean — a producer as well as an actor or something. And we know that some of this season is being shot at the location of Murder House. Maybe, just maybe, that final episode that Falchuk says is like a part all its own will take us full circle back to Vivienne and Ben.

One more before we go. What if Lily Rabe and Andre Holland aren’t the real Millers after all? What if the twist in Episode 6 of American Horror Story: Roanoke is that Lily and Andre are the actors describing what happened to the real Millers: Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Sarah Paulson? This could also tie in with the Billie Dean theory above.

The speculation and theories are bound to continue all the way through this season of AHS. Check out the video below to see some cool ways the seasons seem to be connected so far.

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