It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on . Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren still command lead roles in films; but in most cases, the sad truth is that the older an actress is, the harder it is for her to be cast as an attractive character, let alone a love interest. Television, and especially “American Horror Story,” is more likely to mine the sexual allure in repellent characters. Photo. Jessica Lange in Season 2 of “American Horror Story.”Credit. Byron Cohen/FX Hollywood is past its heyday, however, and television is no longer a comedown. Now, movie stars who make the move to television are like European aristocrats emigrating to America after World War II — there are so many opportunities in the new world and so little left back home to reclaim. At 6. 5, Ms. Lange is a seductive, sinister hoot in all her “American Horror” impostures — the actress glows with matriarchal mystique. Her women have different accents and back stories, but they share many of same preoccupations with age, power and loneliness. The redeeming underlay of every season is in the characters, who are strangely real even when enacting the most extreme flights of fancy and brutal violence, Ms. Lange most of all: Her heroines are feathered in madness and satire, but each one carries a glint of inner truth — the actress manages to slip some poignancy into all these gargoyles without dimming their brio. Ms. Lange, who won an Oscar for “Tootsie” (1. Blue Sky” (1. 99. The Gambler,” playing Mark Wahlberg’s wealthy, imperious mother. She gives a powerful performance, literally: In one scene, she socks Mr. Wahlberg in the face. But it’s nevertheless a small supporting role. Photo. Ms. Lange in Season 3 of “American Horror Story,” with Emma Roberts, left, Jamie Brewer, Taissa Farmiga and Gabourey Sidibe; Credit. Michele K. Short/FX The opposite is true on “Freak Show.” Ms. Lange hams it up as the impresario of “Fr. Elsa’s ambitions seem absurd and delusional, until, in what is certainly a joke about show business, viewers learn she went from a failed career in cabaret and carnival side shows to television stardom. This season in particular, “American Horror Story” is a glorious mess, a preposterous, celebratory splatter of midcentury design, eclectic pop music and slasher- film violence. The story pays homage to Tod Browning’s 1. Freaks” and Southern gothic, tied together with a connoisseur’s appreciation of vintage Americana and B horror movies. Photo. Jessica Lange in Season 1 of “American Horror Story.”Credit. Robert Zuckerman/FX Besides Ms. Lange, this anthology series has a core group of actors who appear in more than one season, and in “Freak Show,” Kathy Bates plays Ethel, the bearded lady; Sarah Paulson plays the conjoined twins Bette and Dot; and Evan Peters plays Jimmy, a young man with hands like lobster claws. Michael Chiklis is a newcomer as Dell, the strongman with a hidden weakness, while Angela Bassett plays Desiree, his sultry three- breasted wife.“Freak Show” follows the troupe’s struggle to stay in business in an era when audiences are staying home to watch television, but their fear of extinction is overshadowed by a more immediate and brutal menace, a homicidal clown who terrorizes the town of Jupiter. The message is nominal — in a world of blinkered conformists, outcasts are the normal ones. Mostly, each episode is a spilled jewelry case of gorgeous retro design, artful cinematography and most of all, Elsa. Lange with Tommy Lee Jones in “Blue Sky” from 1. Oscar. Credit. Everett Collection At times, it almost seems as if Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the creators of the show, decided to test Ms. Lange to the limit with a role so nutty and over- the- top even she couldn’t humanize it. Lange has said this season, the fourth, is her last, and while that could change, her producers seem determined to squeeze out every last drop of diva excess. Ms. Lange has won three Emmys playing deviants, including two on “American Horror” — an aging, sadistic Southern belle in Season 1 and a vampy dowager witch on Season 3. Unspeakable things happen, of course, but one of the more memorable was her loopy song- and- dance version of “The Name Game.”Photo. Jessica Lange as Elsa Mars in "American Horror Story: Freak Show." The premiere of "American Horror Story: Freak Show" had a two-headed woman, a bearded lady and a. American Horror Story: Asylum is the second season of the American FX horror. Murphy revealed that the second season had been conceptualized around Jessica Lange. Jessica Lange as the impresario Elsa in “American Horror Story: Freak Show.”Credit. Michele K. Short/FX This kind of panoply may seem new, but Ms. Lange’s star role here is in some ways a throwback to an earlier era of entertainment, when older actresses fled Hollywood for better roles on television. Barbara Stanwyck, of “Double Indemnity” and “The Lady Eve” fame, is one of the more memorable early defectors, mostly because of her 1. TV western, “The Big Valley,” which is still in reruns. But Loretta Young was the real pioneer, according to Jeanine Basinger, author of “The Star Machine.” Behind a facade demure beauty, Young was a fiercely independent woman who took control of her career even while working in the studio system; on television, she produced a highly successful anthology series from 1. The Loretta Young Show,” in which she served as host — in a variety of sumptuous gowns — and starred in many of the episodes, each time in a different role.“American Horror Story” is hardly “The Loretta Young Show.” It could even be seen as the reverse: It showcases its star by putting her in ever more baroque and unflattering parts. Not everything is consistent on “Freak Show.” Many of the musical numbers performed by characters onstage are not 1. David Bowie, Nirvana and Fiona Apple. History is similarly tousled. At one point, Elsa talks about having survived the Stasi, even though that East German secret police force wasn’t created until 1. Logic and continuity aren’t the point of this arch, dazzling carnival, of course. The constant is Ms. Lange in all her changing incarnations. Continue reading the main story. All 5 songs featured in American Horror Story season. The Name Game (From "American Horror Story") . Jessica Lange. Wednesday night's American Horror Story: Freak Show "Monsters Among Us" premiere showcased countless. This transcendent moment from last night's American Horror Story: Asylum features Jessica Lange's defrocked nun character Judy launching into a musical. Back in 2012, one of the stand-out moments (of which there were many) in the first follow-up tale to FX’s American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Asylum.
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