When Ryan Murphy announced that American Horror Story's seventh season would be "about the election that we just went through [in 2016]," many people assumed that meant the series would become markedly more political.
But it turns out that 2016 election backdrop is more of a jumping off point for the "Cult" throughline of the anthology's Season 7 than any actual parallel to the fallout of the presidential election.
"I think, because Ryan had made the initial announcement about Trump, people are expecting it to be political and everything else," explained executive producer Alexis Martin Woodall to IGN at the 2017 summer TV Critics' Association press tour. "It's not going to be this giant attack on Trump."
Woodall continued, "I think it's more about what's going on in our world around us. .... It's not what you think it is."
This season focuses on the idea of "Cult," and though we don't know much about the series in advance of its September 5th premiere, we do know that it stars Sarah Paulson, Adina Porter, Evan Peters, Cheyenne Jackson, Frances Conroy, Mare Winningham, Emma Roberts, Chaz Bono, Billie Lourd, Billy Eichner, Leslie Grossman, Colton Haynes, Alison Pill and Lena Dunham. Beyond that, we know that Paulson and Pill's characters are married.
So what makes this season scary? Is it the horror of real life, or is it the more supernatural horror that the series has explored before?
"I think there's something terrifying about like-minded people, and what are they like-minded about," Woodall hedged. Added costume designer Lou Eyrich, "You can't trust who you know. And who you think you can trust, you can't trust."
Speaking of what appealed to her about joining American Horror Story for Cult, Pill said of the thread of horror weaving throughout Season 7, "This particular season has a streak of paranoia that I think is infectious."
Terri Schwartz is Editorial Producer at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
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