http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/10/american_horror_story_hotel_season_5_of_ryan_murphy_s_anthology_series_seems.html

As the cliché has it, we each have a devil and an angel sitting on our shoulders. Ryan Murphy, the prolific creator of outsize entertainments including Glee, The New Normal, Scream Queens, and American Horror Story, in all five of its iterations, has a raging bitch and an animate Hallmark card sitting on his. His shows are at once bold, vicious, rude, and fueled by a nearly sacramental belief in outsiders’ ability to overcome cruelty, disdain, bigotry, and oppression—cruelty, disdain, bigotry, and oppression that have been dreamed up by Ryan Murphy and rained down on his characters like the 10 plagues reimagined as camp tortures. (Glitter blood! Frogs in legwarmers!) When Murphy’s work is in balance, when neither the bitch nor the trite sentiment is too powerful, it features both a hatred of bullies and countless supercharged bullies. When it is out of wack, needless cruelty reigns one minute, saccharine sappiness the next.