Ryan Murphy's horror anthology series American Horror Story includes several seasons with opening sequences that spoil their ending. With growing anticipation for season 10, which is set to premiere in 2021, now is the ideal time to look back at some of the most obvious spoilers that the showrunner included in their intricate and symbolic openers. Here's every opening sequence of American Horror Story that included major spoilers about how the season would end.
Murphy's recent release of the Netflix original series Ratched reignited the overall interest in the title sequences of American Horror Story. This is due to the fact that the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest inspired series also featured some spoilers and deeply symbolic elements in its own opener. In 2011, AHS: Murder House premiered and proved to be a popular asset to the FX lineup. Nearly ten years later, the series has explored historical horrors, supernatural powers, real-life serial killers, and period pieces.
The first moment that fans realized that Ryan Murphy was hiding spoilers in the opening credits was when American Horror Story season 3, Coven, made the big reveal of who would become the next supreme. It was a minute detail that may have gone completely unrecognized unless purposefully sought out. Once it was confirmed in the season 3 finale, fans began to revisit previous seasons to look for other details that spoiled these horror stories. To this day, American Horror Story's title sequences include major spoilers that could ruin the entire viewing experience if they are discovered too early in the season.
AHS: Murder House started the series off strong with a story about a haunted house and a family trying to escape their past by moving to the West Coast. After discovering their new home has been the sight of several murders, the Harmon family finds themselves at the center of various conflicts, especially when the mother, Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton), finds herself pregnant with the antichrist. The title sequence eerily displays jars filled with formaldehyde and body parts and when three skeletons appear this symbolizes the end of the Harmon family.
At the end of season 1, every member of the Harmon family dies as a result of something or someone in the house. The first to go is Violet (Taissa Farmiga), who discovers that she didn't actually survive her suicide attempt after feeling overwhelmed confronting Tate (Evan Peters) in episode 6 "Piggy, Piggy." Later in the series, Vivien goes into labor, dies during childbirth, and leaves behind one of the two sons she carried. In episode 12, "Afterbirth," Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott) tries to leave the home with their son in tow; Hayden, Ben's mistress, kills him. The three skeletons in the opening sequence appear at the very end. They are facing one another, indicating that there is a sense of familiarity between them. Due to the deaths of the Harmons and their inability to escape the home, Ryan Murphy spoiled the ending of AHS: Murder House by including these three skeletons in the title sequence.
AHS: Coven was the first opening sequence that spoiled the season's ending in the most obvious way. Throughout season 3, the supreme shifted from being Misty Day (Lily Rabe) to Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts). Once Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga) discovers that she has the power of rejuvenation, it is then believed that she may actually be the supreme. Each member of the coven believes that they could be the supreme due to the rapidly declining health of their current leader Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange).
While AHS: Coven ran throughout the fall of 2013 and winter of 2014, one fan announced they had uncovered the truth about who the supreme truly was before the series was able to confirm it. As each cast member's title card flashes through the opening sequence, they are accompanied by a symbol or drawing that indicates something about their character. When Sarah Paulson's appears, it is alongside an image of Santa Muerte who is also known as the Lady of Seven Powers. In order to rise as a supreme, the witch must successfully perform the seven wonders and Paulson's Cordelia Goode achieves this in the season finale "The Seven Wonders." In this instance, the opening sequence revealed through an image that Cordelia would become the supreme, thus spoiling the ending for everyone.
The opening sequence of AHS: Apocalypse contains the most spoilers of any season's by far. It reveals how Mallory (Billie Lourd) will successfully perform Tempus Infinituum by featuring candles that were once melted rejuvenating into their original form. Even the actress's title card indicates that she will take down Michael Langdon (Cody Fern) by having Lourd's name alongside a witch who defeats those that pose a threat to her. The candle that appears with Fern's name in the opening sequence also indicates that he will be killed just as fast as it takes to blow out a candle.
There are an abundance of spoilers in season 8's opening sequence that could potentially ruin the entire viewing experience if they are deciphered early on. AHS: Apocalypse was the long awaited season that brought back Vivien Harmon's surviving child, Michael Langdon, and the murder house alongside AHS: Coven's beloved witches. It was the crossover fans had anticipated for years and the resolution to the AHS: Murder House ending that took nearly ten years to witness. By including such significant spoilers in the opening credits, Murphy did the season a disservice. It is notably one of the weaker seasons which may be due to the fact that the showrunner did not hold back on spoiling its entire plot in the title sequence.
As the series continues, it is only a matter of time before more spoilers surface in each season's opener. In 2021, season 10 may finally premiere and fans will have the opportunity to discover whether they can enjoy a story that has a spoiler free title sequence or if it would be best to leave the room while the opening credits roll. Regardless of the fact that Ryan Murphy has spoiled some of the series' biggest reveals within the first minute of an episode, it does not negate the fact that American Horror Story still contains a wealth of twists and turns that aren't revealed in the minute long opening.
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