After five weeks of constantly watching our untalented backs in P-Town, American Horror Story is asking us to look up — waaaay up — for the second half of AHS: Double Feature, “Death Valley.”
Premiering on Wednesday, Sept. 29 (FX, 10/9c), Part 2 features a number of returning favorites from Part 1, including Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Leslie Grossman and Angelica Ross. It’s also making room for some fresh faces, including Rebecca Dayan, Rachel Hilson and Isaac Cole Powell.
“Death Valley” also welcomes back Kaia Gerber and Nico Greetham, both of whom made their franchise debuts this summer in episodes of American Horror Stories.
As with most Horror Story seasons, we’re heading into Part 2 with a few blind spots. From what we can piece together, it appears that “Death Valley” takes place across several different time periods, from the late 1950s to the present. The presidency of Dwight Eisenhower (played by AHS newcomer Neal McDonough) will also factor heavily into the story.
Read on to find out everything we know (and everything we’re still waiting to learn) about Part 2, then drop a comment with your hopes for “Death Valley.”
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NEAL MCDONOUGH
Image Credit: FX screenshot McDonough, who has thoroughly creeped out audiences on everything from Desperate Housewives to Arrow, will be playing President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “Ike” if you’re nasty.
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SARAH PAULSON
Image Credit: FX screenshot No more tuberculosis for this Karen! Paulson will be back in “Death Valley” playing none other than First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
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LILY RABE
Image Credit: FX screenshot Appearing in the black-and-white portion of “Death Valley,” Rabe is playing aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who claims to have been abducted by aliens during her famous flight.
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REBECCA DAYAN
Image Credit: FX screenshot AHS newcomer Dayan is playing an out-of-this-world housewife named Maria, a woman who wants to “create something better. Part human and part… us.”
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KAIA GERBER
Image Credit: FX screenshot Gerber, who previously appeared as Ruby in two episodes of American Horror Stories, is making her debut on the flagship series as a 22-year-old Harvard University student named Kendall Carr who lives a life free of modern technology.
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NICO GREETHAM
Image Credit: FX screenshot Greetham, whom you may remember as one of American Horror Stories‘ ill-fated Bro House residents, is playing one of several characters who experience a present-day close encounter with extraterrestrials. He’s a 21-year-old Princeton student named Cal Cambron, who recently came out and started dating his best friend Troy.
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RACHEL HILSON
Image Credit: FX screenshot Known for her work on Rise; Love, Victor and This Is Us, Hilson is making her American Horror Story debut as one of the young people who encounter extraterrestrials in the present day. Her name is Jamie Howard, she’s 21 years old and she has a very specific problem with her new boyfriend that you won’t soon forget.
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ISAAC COLE POWELL
Image Credit: FX screenshot Powell is making his American Horror Story debut as one of the present-day characters — Troy Lord, 20, who recently came out and started dating his best friend Cal.
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LESLIE GROSSMAN
Image Credit: FX screenshot After tickling our funny bones — then chilling our spines — as Ursula in Double Feature Part 1, Grossman is back for more of both as Calico, an annual alien abductee.
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ANGELICA ROSS
Image Credit: FX screenshot After playing “Nurse Rita” in AHS: 1984 and The Chemist in Double Feature Part 1, Ross is back in “Death Valley” as a mysterious human-alien hybrid.
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CODY FERN
Image Credit: FX screenshot Last seen guiding a doomed couple through a nightmarish state park in an episode of American Horror Stories, Fern — whose previous AHS characters have included, you know, the Antichrist — is returning for “Death Valley,” though we won’t know anything about him until Episode 9.
