American Horror Story

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
2-13 Recap	The Kennedy Center Honors Miss Lana Banana Madness Ends - The season ends with some really beautiful grace notes, closure for pretty much everyone, and Lana Winters becomes the fierce bitch she was always angling to be.	2013.01.23 2013.01.28	A+	Joe R
2-12 Recap	Let's Do the Time Warp Again Continuum - The latter half of the 1960s breezes by in a blur of sideburns, overcrowding, axe-murder and the realization that success can spoil a good person. Briarcliff goes down the tubes, Sister Jude ends up a shell of her former self and Lana Winters becomes a Hollywood hack.	2013.01.16 2013.01.22	A-	Joe R
2-11 Recap	Spilt Milk Spilt Milk - In the span of a few months, Lana gets out, along with the story of Briarcliff's awfulness. Also liberated this week? Kit, Grace, Ollie Thredson and a whole lotta breastmilk.	2013.01.09 2013.01.14	A-	Joe R
2-10 Recap	The Name Game The Name Game - Judy gets electroshocked into incoherence, while a surprisingly alive Monsignor Howard takes it upon himself to eradicate the devil from his dear asylum. This means bad news for Eunice… Eunice, Bo-Boonice, Banana-Fana-Fo Foonice, Me-My-Mo Moonice. Eunice.	2013.01.02 2013.01.08	A-	Joe R
2-8 Recap	The Coat Hanger The Coat Hanger - Someone's pregnant. Someone else is the son of someone we know. A couple someones we thought were dead turn out not to be. Someone we forgot was even missing returns. Someone gets a taste of her own medicine, while someone else might have gotten a taste for murder. Someone decides to lure the aliens out by using someone else as live -- dead, really -- bait.	2012.12.12 2012.12.18	B+	Joe R
2-7 Recap	Mad Santa Unholy Night - Ryan Murphy shelled out for Ian McShane and all the Christmas music that licensing could buy, all so you could have a proper Christmas episode wherein Sister Jude takes it to Devil Eunice, only to have the tables turned on her, and Lana and Kit team up to expose Dr. Thredson.	2012.12.05 2012.12.11	A-	Joe R
2-7 Recap	Dark Cousin Dark Cousin - The Angel of Death is here and she's looking to welcome Grace, Lana and Jude into her dark, peaceful embrace. Two of them take her up on the offer. One of them doesn't get to change her mind.	2012.11.28 2012.12.04	B+	Joe R
2-6 Recap	Devil in a Red Dress The Origins of Monstrosity - Thredson has mommy issues and he projects them onto Lana. Arden has a savior complex and a sweet syphilis/TB serum; Devil Eunice has no intention of letting Sister Jude and Sam Goodman take Arden down.	2012.11.21 2012.11.27	A	Joe R
2-5 Recap	I Am Anne Frank, Part 2 I Am Anne Frank, Part 2 - Anne Frank is but a simple (American) housewife, so it looks like Dr. Arden has a big ol' upper hand on Sister Jude. Meanwhile, Dr. Thredson's terrible psychiatric skills are definitively explained.	2012.11.14 2012.11.20	A	Joe R
2-4 Recap	I Am Anne Frank, Part 1 I Am Anne Frank, Part 1 - A patient arrives claiming to be Anne Frank and she's accusing Dr. Arden of being Dr. Mengele, basically. Also, Grace's backstory is revealed and Kit begins to doubt his sanity.	2012.11.07 2012.11.13	A-	Joe R
2-3 Recap	Nor'easter Nor'easter - Sister Eunice gets interesting. Escape proves to be a blessing and a curse.	2012.10.31 2012.11.06	A	Joe R
2-2 Recap	Tricks and Treats Tricks and Treats - Lana gets electroshocked, tries to escape, stands by her principles, loses friends. Sister Jude clashes with Dr. Quinto, gets kicked out of an exorcism, gets put on blast by a possessed teen, gets busy caning. Dr. Arden flirts with nuns and shames whores, first separately, then both at the same time.	2012.10.24 2012.10.29	A-	Joe R
2-1 Recap	Welcome to Briarcliff Welcome to Briarcliff - Everybody's different -- the bat-crap insanity is the same. It's 1964, and Jessica Lange is running an asylum for the criminally insane, and Kit is accused of being a killer but he says aliens did it and Lana is a lesbian reporter being held against her will and Chloë Sevigny is Shelly the Nymphomaniac and goodnight.	2012.10.16 2012.10.23	A-	Joe R