If you were given the job of scriptwriter for American Horror Story: New York City...

Someone getting killed in a video booth, where they stick their dick through the hole and someone blows them then cuts it off.

Ouch, R1!

Torso Killer and Son of Sam.

It'll probably start out as a run of the mill serial killer/slasher type story and then Murphy will introduce random supernatural events 4 episodes in and then a real life character will show up in highly fictionalized form and the whole thing will feel bloated and sluggishly crawl its way to the finish line only to be forgotten 45 minutes after the finale airs.

R4, don't forget - everyone who dies will come back as a ghost and be stuck forever in New York as the years go by.

Oh, yes R5! No one will really die, because who needs life or death stakes in a horror story?

Exactly, R6. I couldn't even get through the first season because a house full of ghosts walking around and having conversations with each other is just not scary.

Just give the ghost characters enough bitchy one liners and it'll make up for everything.

If I were in charge of something with this setting and theme, I'd want to make it look a bit more gritty than a Murphy production for sure. If it's going to pay homage to Cruising, I'd like for it to look more like that too - the aesthetic of that movie is great!

[quote]Just give the ghost characters enough bitchy one liners and it'll make up for everything.

Hilarious, because it's so damn true!

Alligators in the sewers

Rats crawling up into toilet bowls through the pipes

Cockroach infestation

This strange woman who used to inhabit the East Village. She would cover every inch of her skin, wearing g gloves and a scarf wrapped all around her head, only her eyes weren’t wrapped in it and she’d wear dark glasses so you could not see them. She had an odd gait and scared the absolute shit out of me every time I saw her. Scarf Lady, we called her. This is true. Circa 1989.

Epstein’s mansion that used to be a private grammar school.

Little Edie when she was a normal debutante having al affair with a married man, living in Manhattan, and how she was dragged out East and how she lost her hair and went mad.

Ooh some good stories there, R10. The one about the Scarf Lady in particular. Could be interesting to base the series about local New York legends/urban myths.

An Drood style artisanal sausage/meatball shop.

A zombie sex dungeon

How about the Mayflower Madam and her ex husband who killed himself by driving a knife into his own chest? A brothel full of well-bred young ladies?

Chinatown poisons and pathology lab

A cult that recruits young runaways who hope to be chorus girls/boys from Port Authority

I could do this shit all day.

[quote]I could do this shit all day.

I guess the point is that we could all make a better show than a Murphy production, hey? Hahaha.

Set in the 70s? American Horror Story: Astoria. The Bunkers vs. The Jeffersons. Cameos by Maude and Beverly LaSalle.

There used to be urban legends about Mole People who lived in the subway tunnels and only came out at night. They were super pale because they never saw the sunlight and there were armies of them underground. They lived in places like the secret train tunnel that one of the Roosevelts built that connected to Grand Central Station. They were supposedly quite feral and raising families under there.

Wow, I love hearing about legends like that R15. I've heard of similar things in other big cities too, I guess we humans can have quite a fear of things that might be happening underground.

The UES brothels I’ve hear about where men tell their wives they’re walking the dog or taking a jog and then they roll up to a brownstone for a quickie. Except for the horror show they never come out again.

Kids admitted to the Gifted and Talented program but are really brainwashed to be mini killers.

r17^^ i was in GATE. I've never killed anybody.

Ahh, but R18, that's what you WOULD say, isn't it?

LOL R19 - yes, that's what they trained us to say. I don't remember anything else.

Jessica Lagne is a fabulous Upper East Side socialite know for her breathy one liners, dinner parties... and satanic rituals.

Dominic Burgess is a piano player at Uncle Charlie's. He goes home with Evan Peters and Finn Wittrok among others. And harvests their kidneys.

Gus Kenworthy is Studio 54's most popular bartender whose passing around more the tip jar.

When I went to look for the trailer, I also found some footage of the filming. I'm guessing this is the 70s because one person walks by with an afro, but other than that it was kinda hard to tell, the two main guys in the scene could've easily been in the early 90s or today.

[quote]Dominic Burgess is a piano player at Uncle Charlie's.

Did any of the UCs have a piano?

I was listening to a few episodes of a podcast called Fiasco the other week, all about the HIV/AIDS crisis, and they were talking about a fairly well known piano player in the community back then who got HIV and went on to, with another guy, write some literature to inform other gay men about what was happening. He said at one point that he had had 3,000 men "up my butt" over time (and he was still quite young, I believe). Three THOUSAND?! The 70s really were a different time!

Andy and Liza go into Studio 54 and they never come out. In the end, we, the audience, realize the line outside Studio 54 is to view their corpses!

^I wonder if Studio 54 will make an appearance, I can see Murphy wanting to put it in somewhere.

Ryan Murphy seems to do better with his shows based on real events. It gives him a structure he always lacks in his original shows.

The things he throws into his shows are always grotesquely interesting, but never make a lot of sense when mashed up together. It's not enough to have a murder mystery. It must also be connected to Satanism and someone has to get possessed by a demon so they can work in an Exorcist subplot and then they abandon the first storyline either completely or just let it lose steam until it dissolves by itself. The priest performing the exorcism must also be hot and a former rent boy who went into the church to repent for his sins, but we'll be sure to see lots of sexy flashbacks to make sure we see the hot actor naked a few times. Wait! Has there been a musical number in awhile? Let's throw one of those in there.

Jessica Lange's mercurial nature was so perfect for this show and she could handle the show's mood swings like a pro. Bates, Bassett, Conroy, Peters, and Paulson could as well, but the people they've had on there recently just don't measure up and can't navigate that kind of material with as much ease.

Brilliant post, R27 and spot on (and hilarious) too. He'd probably do a lot better on a story about the gay murders that were actually happening in New York in the 70s, or something about HIV/AIDS - provided there was a strong, real life storyline behind it that he could follow. But the latter would probably just be viewed negatively against It's a Sin (which I haven't seen, but have heard it is good).

Kevin Spacey IS Rudy Giuliani.

Headless body in topless bar

Son of Sam

The hoarding Collyer Brothers

Creedmoor and Bellevue hospitals

The woman attacked by rats

Roosevelt Island when it was used for smallpox

The history of the NY Mets

Honestly, I would have gone down the serial killer route, but more like a psychological thriller like Silence of the Lambs with the focus being on the FBI investigation and less like a slasher movie. However, he's done a multitude of serial killers in a number of AHS series. Maybe a Satanic cult of elitists? Like the Wicker Man.

Ooh almost forgot Kitty Genovese

I would write a script about 9/11 and the supernatural forces that were unleashed to change Rudy Giuliani from America’s mayor into a fucking maga vampire.

Just bumping this thread as there is a lot of disagreement about the show on the other two, nearly closed threads, and if people are interested in explaining what they would've wanted the show to really be here, well, I for one would be interested to hear.

Let’s set some of the action on the Ninth Circle.

I have not seen the show yet, r34.

i'll probably do a satanic cult killing, stalking ppl 4 sacrifice

they were successfully summon a demon that infect the city w/ negative energy and crime

the demon is stopped , but its essence was transferred & incarnated in2 1 certain cult member

that person is revealed 2 b trump in the post credit

The rolling blackouts episode was the best one, I thought. More of that kind of thing.

Ryan Murphy as Ed Koch in AHS NYC would have been perfect.

I wouldn’t have gone the gay/AIDS route. I would have done something about gentrification, the exorbitant cost of living pricing out working class people, death of mom and pop stores, and somehow worked that around a serial killer parable. The early 80s Fire Island gay/AIDS path seems too obvious for Murphy.

R39-Especially after he produced and directed a much better "The Normal Heart" for HBO. He actually had the balls to steal from Larry Kramer.

Maybe write a decent ending. Every single plot Ryan Murphy writes falls apart in a shitty, ill-conceived ending.

R40, is The Normal Heart good? I am trying to catch up on a lot of this stuff I've never seen before (watched The Boys in the Band for the first time last night).

I watched Boys In The Band last night too, and it struck me how brilliant Frey is as Harold. He's so perfect, he puts the other actors to shame. I've always wondered if his performance was exactly the same onstage.

I watched the 2020 version the other night myself R43, am going to watch the original soon too. I was struck with how I actually liked Zachary Quinto in BitB no matter what his character was like, whereas in AHS: NYC I couldn't bear him.

I don't need to rewrite this series. I liked the loopy final episodes. I found them very touching. I guess you had to be there to know who weird and surreal it was. This series reflected that.

HOW weird....

The killer calls in to The Robin Byrd Show, books Joey Stefano and stabs him in both butt cheeks.