Option 1: Choose a season of American Horror Story to review and analyze. Choose one or two major recurring themes/ issues in the season and explain how they reveal certain ideologies and/ or
anxieties at play in American culture. Explain how the show represents the theme(s)/ issue(s), what social experience/ discourse it connects to, and what commentary/ message it presents (in other
words, what does the show have to say about, for instance, our current ideas about nuclear/ patriarchal family). You must provide a list of the episodes where the theme(s)/ issue(s) appear.

Option 2: Choose a season of American Horror Story to review. Define what subgenre of Gothic/ horror it illustrates or participates in and how (for instance New England Gothic, California Gothic,
Southern Gothic, Women’s Gothic, Black Gothic, etc). Define the characteristics of the genre, themes/ concerns it typically engages, and provide examples of how/ where this appears in the season.
provide a list of the episodes which most strongly manifest the elements of the subgenre.