'American Horror Story' Marries Jessica and Jesus

It's a good year for fans of macabre TV with a blackly comedic edge. "True Blood" is back in full swing, and shortly after its fifth installment winds down come August, Season 2 of "American Horror Story" will be enrapturing audiences yet again in October. 

 

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If the insistent buzz swarming around any and all "AHS" casting and/or storyline details is any indication, Ryan Murphy and his team should have another autumnal success on their hands. And while we already knew that returning matriarch Jessica Lange would play the administrator of a hospital facility, now it's revealed that the only mother she'll look to for inspiration is the Virgin Mary. 

 

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Series writer Tim Minear confirms to MTV that Lange's character will also be a nun, specifying that this time around, "She's not playing this kind of ersatz Tennessee Williams character this time. She's playing something that's a little more East Coast, a little more patrician.... She's a bride of Christ."

Also not inhabiting any kind of ersatz Tennessee Williams persona is Adam Levine, who recently spilled to E! that his character's journey begins on his honeymoon. Levine will be joining rumored new addition Chloe Sevigny, as well as confirmed Season 1 returnees Evan Peters, Zachary Quinto and Sarah Paulson, in the anthology's latest chapter.

 

And yes, we're also kind of hoping Levine suffers a hilariously grisly fate.