And with one word the AHS season 6 premiere linked the latest installment back to season 1 and gave their own twist to a very popular form of television.

Let’s get this out of the way — the AHS season 6 theme is “My Roanoke Nightmare.”

Now that your anger, excitement, and general nerves have been set at ease, let’s explore what that means for the series. First of all, AHS decided to dip into a tried and true form of genre television for season 6, the paranormal docuseries.

The main cast revealed in the final credit sequence includes: Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lily Rabe, André Holland, Denis O’Hare, Wes Bentley, Evan Peters, Cheyenne Jackson, and Angela Bassett. Special guest stars include Chaz Bono and Adina Porter, among others.

Not everyone was featured in the premiere. The cast doubles up in this format with one set of actors playing the victims of the “Roanoke Nightmare” and a second set of actors performing the reenactment. More time was spent with the reenactment segment of the skit, of course, because that is where the “horror” of the series rests.

For example, Rabe will appear in interviews and Paulson plays the role of Shelby in the reenactments.



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The series hit on a couple of familiar beats from Murder House. The threat of being run out of the a new family home, the pig from the terrifying “Piggy, Piggy” episode, miscarriages, and a perfectly symmetrical house where every time someone wants to cook, a dead village rises to ruin everything.

There’s a bit more about Roanoke, which is explained in some detail by Sarah Paulson’s psychic character Billie Dean in Murder House. The town of 117 people disappeared in 1590. So in 2016, when a house built in 1792, with 10 acres, sells for $40,000, you can expect a few things to go bump in the night.

Too bad Zachary Quinto debunked the myth that if you use the word “Croatoan,” which was the word found by John White carved into a tree after discovering that his entire settlement was gone, does not exactly get rid of unwelcome spirits.


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Back to the East Coast and into a new murder home we go. While there is little to go on at the moment, the basics of the season are pretty well-laid in the season premiere.

What we know:

  1. Shelby and Matt are a yoga instructor and traveling healthcare salesman who recently moved to Roanoke, NC after leaving Los Angeles. While in L.A., Matt was assaulted by pure chance as a gang member carried out an initiation. Shelby suffered a miscarriage shortly after that.
  2. The two bought their home for a bargain and some local farmers were not thrilled with their presence.
  3. At night there are sounds of pigs squealing and acts of vandalism.
  4. Matt decides it is best to bury the pig carcass he finds on his doorstep one night. Nothing ever goes wrong when the man of the house conceals dead bodies in this anthology, right?


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  5. Matt needs to travel and so he enlists his sister Lee to come visit and stay with Shelby.
  6. Lee is a former cop who was shot on the job during a heroine bust and recently got fired for popping painkillers on duty. She has seen a lot of stuff.
  7. Lee and Shelby hate each other.
  8. Every time Shelby cooks something, spirits begin to creep around the premises.
  9. Seriously, she had yogurt and it started hailing human teeth.
  10. Shelby and Lee bond once they are locked in the basement together and forced to watch a home video about a man in a pig mask.



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  11. Also Matt set up some security cameras and saw the house being invaded by torch wielding villagers.
  12. Everyone kind of sort of believes each other, but Shelby still thinks she is going insane and so she flees, hits villager Kathy Bates with her car, and stupidly goes after her into the woods.

We got a glimpse of the straw dolls laced through the trees, the villagers with their torches hiding away, and the ground that began to breathe underneath Shelby’s hands. But the real mystery lies deeper in the forest — a place we will see more of… next week.

In the most shocking turn of events, AHS season 6 kept the premiere to under an hour and yet again asks us to wait patiently for more.

What did you think of the big reveal for ‘AHS’ season 6?

AHS season 6, chapter 2 airs Wednesday, September 21 at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.