“You can scream all you want, but no one will hear you.” (The Origins of Monstrosity). In American Horror Story: Asylum the corruption of power has left many victimized and helpless as the show unfolds, leading many patients to use any means necessary to ensure their release. The second season begins in 1964 taking place at the Briarcliff Manor mental institution (a former tuberculosis ward) now run by the Catholic church. The asylum is home to many “mentally ill” individuals from Kit Walker (an accused serial killer of several women, Lana Winters (a homosexual reporter) to Shelley (a nymphomaniac). The show follows the backstories of the inpatients as well as the staff, intercut with events from the past and the present. When ill patients
