Fans of the American Horror Story anthology series on FX don’t have to worry about their show being cancelled. It’s already been renewed for a fifth season. Freak Show got off to a great start but will the big ratings continue? Will this be the biggest season yet? Stay tuned.
American Horror Story: Freak Show takes place in the quiet town of Jupiter, Florida in 1952. A group of strange performers has just arrived — coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike. This season’s cast includes Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Emma Roberts, Denis O’Hare, Angela Bassett, and Michael Chiklis.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
Final season averages: 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.85 million total viewers.
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For reference: The third season of American Horror Story averaged a 2.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.0 million viewers.
Cable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays. They are sometimes harder to locate so there may be occasional delays or gaps.
What do you think? Do you like the American Horror Story TV show? Do you think that it should have been renewed for a season five or, should it have been cancelled instead?
I loved the show – it sucks it went off the air THEY NEED TO BRING IT BACK :'(
I really liked the show & very upset that it went off the air
I have seen all of the seasons. This season did not disappoint at all! Loved IT!! I can’t wait for Season 5!
Gosh, it seems like My husband and I are the only AHS fans that HATED this season. It was so lame to me, the characters were stupid in my opinion. We have loved every single season but were extremely disappointed in this one, it was actually very difficult to finish the season out.
I really hope season 5 is more like Asylum was or the first season. Those were the two best in my opinion.
My wife and I hated this season, too. We loved Coven and all the others, but this season was terrible.
Actually, Kathryn the characters were not stupid. As someone that dated a Carney for awhile I met “circus” and “carnival” folks. The characters in Freak Show were exactly on point and they are real characters as far as the freaks go. I’ve gone back and researched the freaks and some of the actors are real “freaks” and some of them were taken from actual “freaks” that have been put down in the history of “Freak Shows”. Dot and Bette were based on Daisy and Violet the real The Hilton Sisters. They were not two headed but, they were conjoined twins… Read more »
As Shirley Yuille in this thread said we all know freaks in our real lives. 🙂
I have seen just about all of them. I have to catch up. But i enjoy each and everyone of the episodes. Keep them coming please.
I have watch all other past seasons and I must say this is the best season.
I absolutely LOVE this season! I definitely think it was the right decision to renew!! I am not watched any of the other three seasons, but I know for sure that I have looked forward to watching the Freak Show each and every week!!! It is so intriguing!
I love AHS in total and I love this season of Freak Show! Carry on with the freaky stuff! Looking forward to another season even before this season comes to it’s finale! Yay Freaks!
Hi, This American Horror Freak show series is really peoplefied (is this a real word). I basically know regular people who hold the same characters’ personalities. For instance, I have a boyfriend who screams when he doesn’t get his way. I worked with coworkers who have two personalities with one head. One day she or he acts nice and innocent and cannot hurt a fly. The next day hard, calculating. and will beat you up. Who are really the Freaks or nonFreaks on planet Earth. All in all this series shows that everyone who is human on this plants are… Read more »
love American horror story freak show is the best also asylum really liked.
Love the fact that they use the same characters. We are very hooked on this show and I also buy the dvd when it comes out.
Best show ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have ADORED this show. I was what I thought of as a late comer to it, as I kind of lost my mind, and binge-watched the first season in one single night, the night before season 2 started. LOL I was hooked after the first 10 minutes into sampling the first season. I LOVE how each season is its own story, so if actors come and go (like how I hear Jessica Lange is leaving after this season) it won’t effect the overall storyline of the show. I talked this show up so much, now my brother is blaming… Read more »
Quite frankly, I’m glad this is Jessica Lange’s last year with the show. I love her and she is the only thing that keeps me coming back to watch this show. Coven was laughably bad and this season isn’t impressing me much so far. The problem with this show is that they assemble a (mostly, I’m NOT a fan of Emma Roberts or Sarah Paulson) fine cast but give them garbage to work with. Thankfully, talents like Lange, Bates, Bassett and Chiklis can do what is needed to take bad writing and make it watchable. Without the cast, there’s no… Read more »
I agree that the show is made great because of the quality of the actors who appear on it. I personally disagree with your take that the writing is lacking however. There is not another show currently on the air that could hold a candle to the stories that this show has given us. Somehow they find a way to work decent horror, with just enough intrigue, and a touch of humor, into every single episode, and unlike any other dramas currently available to us, they don’t always go for the expected. It is not the actors giving the audiences… Read more »
it’s already renewed.
Yes. See the first paragraph for a link.
I watched last season and enjoyed it. This season is very different. It is way too creepy and brutal for my liking. It seems to have crossed the line in being scary – to just plain sick.
I have enjoyed the previous seasons but it seems premature to renew it without having some idea of how the current season will fare with audiences.