If you’ve been watching “American Horror Story: Cult,“ you know that the new season of the FX series certainly isn’t shying away from tackling current events head on. In fact, there’s no show on TV right now that’s more ripped-from-the-headlines than “Cult.”
But there’s one real-life current event that the series has no desire to evoke painful memories of. Back in September, a mass shooting scene was filmed for tomorrow night’s sixth episode of the seventh season, and Ryan Murphy revealed over the weekend that it’s been edited at the last minute in the wake of the recent Las Vegas tragedy.
“I just made the decision that I’m going to have all of that violence be shown for the most part off camera,” Murphy said at the New Yorker Festival. “Nobody ever talks about victims’ rights. That’s sort of a weird emotional discussion that’s never bridged. But I felt great sympathy for people who were affected, certainly, and family members and loved ones and people who are upset about the way the world is.”
Murphy continued, “My point of view was I believe I have the right to air it, but I also believe in victims’ rights, and I believe that now is probably not the week to have something explosive or incendiary in the culture because someone who was affected might watch that and it could trigger something or make them feel upset. So our decision was to re-edit it and I felt that that was the right move.”
Check out a sneak preview of “Mid-Western Assassin” below.