Ryan Murphy

2017 · 2 Seasons · FX · Drama

Feud's first season, chronicling the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, is some of the best television Ryan Murphy has ever produced, driven by extraordinary performances from Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon. The second season, Capote vs. The Swans, arrived seven years later with a different cast and a more subdued approach that divided viewers. Together they form an uneven but frequently compelling anthology about fame, aging, and the cruelties of an industry that discards its stars.

2022 · 1 Season · Netflix · Crime Drama

Dahmer is a technically accomplished true crime series elevated by Evan Peters's transformative lead performance and several episodes that shift focus to the victims and the systemic failures that enabled the killings. When the show examines how racism, homophobia, and institutional indifference allowed a serial killer to operate in plain sight, it's powerful television. When it lingers on the killer's psychology with the fascination Ryan Murphy brings to all his subjects, it raises uncomfortable questions about what true crime entertainment actually accomplishes.

2024 · 1 Season · FX · Drama

Tom Hollander delivers a transformative performance as Truman Capote in a gorgeous period drama that's at its best exploring the cost of betrayal and the loneliness of fame, even as it sometimes meanders through its eight-episode structure.

2011 · 12 Seasons · FX · Horror / Anthology

American Horror Story is a wildly inconsistent anthology that contains some of the most thrilling and some of the most frustrating horror television ever made, sustained by a fearless repertory cast.

2003 · 6 Seasons · FX · Drama / Thriller

A provocative, boundary-pushing medical drama that thrived on shock value and moral ambiguity, delivering two remarkably compelling seasons before gradually losing its grip on the line between daring and absurd. The performances from Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh anchor the show through its wildest swings, and when Nip/Tuck was firing on all cylinders, nothing else on television looked or felt like it. The later seasons push credibility past its breaking point, but the early run remains a fascinating snapshot of mid-2000s cable television learning just how far it could go.

2022 · 1 Season · Netflix · True Crime Drama

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story became one of Netflix's most-watched series by centering the perspectives of Dahmer's victims and the community failures that allowed his crimes to continue, but its very popularity reignited the debate about whether true crime entertainment can ever truly honor the people it claims to be about. Evan Peters delivers a chilling, restrained performance that avoids sensationalism, and the show's best episodes are powerful examinations of systemic failure. Its worst moments feel like exploitation wearing the disguise of social commentary.

2024 · 1 Season · FX · Horror, Thriller

Grotesquerie is peak Ryan Murphy for better and worse: a visually striking, tonally chaotic horror series anchored by a powerhouse Niecy Nash-Betts performance. The first half builds genuine dread around a string of religiously themed murders, but the show's notorious mid-season twist divides audiences sharply, with many feeling it undermines everything that came before. If you can surrender to Murphy's maximalist instincts, there are thrills to be found. If you need your horror to hold together logically, prepare for frustration.