After watching the first two episodes of Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story: NYC," it's easy to see why "AHS" alum Evan Peters skipped out this year. The show's 11th season, set in 1981, centers on a community of gay men being stalked and killed and is the only season to not feature Peters aside from Season 9, "1984." So either Peters has a thing against the '80s (although, he did appear in the first season of "Pose"), or Murphy couldn't find a way to write him in. Think about it. After topping Netflix charts for weeks in Murphy's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," what would he have played here? Another white guy stalking and killing gays?
As with every other season of "AHS," Murphy strategically concealed details for his latest up until the very last minute. When the title and core cast were revealed in late September, it didn't take difficult mental math to add up '80s Manhattan, Patti LuPone, Sandra Bernhard and Denis O'Hare to arrive at a general presumed theme that lands somewhere between "'Queer as Folk' if it was set in Hell" and "gays can literally never catch a break."
