Anthologies are interesting - some contain multiple stories per episode, while some go full seasons along the same plot before switching it up. In either case, the format has always been a great way to adapt short stories to television. That happens to be the case for our two shows in this episode, Miracle Workers and American Horror Story. Each of which pulling ideas from different types of short stories to adapt to television.
Miracle Workers (2:51) - A wildly inefficient company, Heaven Inc., is seeing its primary product, Earth, causing way more headaches than its solving. So naturally Heaven’s CEO, God, has a plan - blow it up and start from scratch. But not everyone feels like that’s the fate Earth deserves. One angel believes that there is a lot of good still left to be done on the planet, so she bets God she can make two people fall in love in 2 weeks. God, naturally a betting man, takes the bet, confident that she will fail. Now the fate of humanity rests in the hands of two less-than-competent angels answering one of the hardest prayers there is.
American Horror Story (39:13) - Ghost stories are already terrifying. Between scary settings, suspenseful pauses, and unnerving endings, the genre is sure to leave listeners with some goosebumps. Now take all of those aspects and add the visual elements of television and you have a recipe for some truly frightening stories. That’s exactly the emotion AHS is aiming to provoke. When a family unit already struggling with mistrust and miscommunication moves to California for a fresh start, they get a little more than they bargained for when their new house has a bit more of a history than they might be comfortable with.
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