History Series / AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke

* FaceHeelTurn: In "Chapter 9", [[spoiler: a dying Lee makes the same deal with Scáthach that the Butcher once did, performing blood sacrifices in her name in exchange for her own life being saved.]]

* OddballInTheSeries: By far the most unusual season because it's presented as a paranormal documentary in the first half then as a reality television show in the second, has no opening sequence just a title card and Evan Peters isn't introduced until episode 5. It's also currently the shortest season at ten episodes.

* WholePlotReference: This season's storyline of city folk running afoul of a community of backwards and particularly violent historical ghosts in the middle of nowhere is similar to the 1964 film ''Film/TwoThousandManiacs''.

* OddballInTheSeries: By far the most unusual season because it's presented as a paranormal documentary in the first half then as a reality television show in the second, has no opening sequence just a title card and Evan Peters isn't introduced until episode 5.

** BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: By some variation, the house is destroyed, therefore nobody will allow to go back to it and be harmed, plus Lee performing a HeroicSacrifice to be the carer for Priscilla and become the next Butcher as a RedemptionEqualsDeath for having nearly ruined Flora's life. On the downside, Shelby, Matt, and the entire "real life"/"reenactment" cast and crew of ''Roanoke'' are dead and the spirits of the Colony are still to return every Blood Moon]].

* Never getting to see your daughter because you lost custody, having to essentially kidnap her in order to spend time with her - and then ''losing her'' in the woods, only finding her hoodie.
* Lee's first daughter, Emily, was kidnapped from her car when she went into the store for five minutes. Judging by the fact that she communicates with Cricket, she was also murdered.

* AdultFear: Never getting to see your daughter because you lost custody, having to essentially kidnap her in order to spend time with her - and then ''losing her'' in the woods, only finding her hoodie.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Every last one of the Lots.]]

Unlike previous seasons of ''AHS'', ''very'' little information about ''Roanoke'' was revealed prior to airing. A total of twenty-six promotional videos were released in the weeks leading up, but according to Murphy, only one of them is indicative of the real seasonal theme. The subtitle itself, ''Roanoke'', wasn't confirmed by FX until the day after its premiere.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Some aspects of ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' are later revealed to be fabrications or inaccuracies. The rain of teeth never happened, though the TV show convinced the Polks that it was real. Also, the reenactment Mama Polk says that her kin made a deal with the Butcher over 200 years ago, but the real Mama Polk says it was exactly 150 years ago.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Cain, Jether, Mama, and Ishmael Polk.]]

** Taissa Farmiga is confirmed to reappear, after not having been on the show since ''Coven''.

* DemotedToExtra: Creator/MattBomer and Music/LadyGaga are no longer in the main cast and just play recurring characters.

** ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' serves as the framing device for "Chapter 1"-"Chapter 5." It features talking head interviews and dramatized reenactments.
** "Chapter 6"-"Chapter 9" involve the show's sequel, ''Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell'', a hidden camera reality show with the interviewees and their reenactors living in the house.

of this season. While it concludes in Episode 5, Episodes 6 through 9 is about the making of the sequel series ''Return to Roanoke''. Episode 10 features a couple of other shows, including a paranormal investigation series called ''Spirit Chasers''.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' serves as the framing device of this season. While it concludes in Episode 5, Episodes 6 through 9 is about the making of the sequel series ''Return to Roanoke''. Episode 10 features a couple of other shows, including a paranormal investigation series called ''Spirit Chasers''.

* BolivianArmyEnding: The season ends with [[spoiler:the colonists approaching the burning house while the police are still there likely with the intention of killing everyone including Flora (making Lee's decision to stay in the House so her daughter could leave a SenselessSacrifice)]].

* ShowWithinAShow: ''My Roanoke Nightmare'' serves as the framing device of this season. While it concludes in Episode 5, Episode 6 onwards is about the making of the sequel series ''Return to Roanoke''.

* FiveBadBand: The ghosts fit this surprisingly well.
** BigBad: Tomasyn White/The Butcher
** TheDragon: Ambrose White
** EvilGenius[=/=]TheDarkChick: Scáthach doubles as both
** TheBrute: Pig Man

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Lee's ex-husband Mason, Dr. Cunningham, and Cricket are killed before the events of the season. Sidney's PA Diana and Edward Mott's actor Rory become the first (named) victims in the present, followed by producer Sidney himself and the Butcher's actress Agnes getting the axe in "Chapter 7". In the same episode, the most shocking death at this point in the season is main character Matt (the main male character whose survival in the first half of the season was a ForegoneConclusion) getting abruptly and brutally offed. The following episode, Shelby (who was in the same boat as Matt) kills herself out of grief over Matt's death, and Dominic is killed by the Pig Man. By the end of episode 9, Lee is the only one still alive.]]

** EvilGenius/ TheDarkChick: Scáthach doubles as both

** EvilGenius/TheDarkChick: Scáthach doubles as both

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Lee's ex-husband Mason, Dr. Cunningham, and Cricket are killed before the events of the season. Sidney's PA Diana and Edward Mott's actor Rory become the first (named) victims in the present, followed by producer Sidney himself and the Butcher's actress Agnes getting the axe in "Chapter 7". In the same episode, the most shocking death at this point in the season is main character Matt (the main male character whose survival in the first half of the season was a ForegoneConclusion) getting abruptly and brutally offed. The following episode, Shelby (who was in the same boat as Matt) kills herself out of grief over Matt's death, and Dominic is killed by the Pig Man.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The last of the Polks is killed by the Butcher, after his mother's death means her family's not protected anymore.]]

* HillbillyHorrors: The Polk family are ''deeply'' inbred, live in squalor, exhibit racism, and flee from the sheriff's department despite not having committed any crimes (other than severe child neglect) as far as the audience knows. We later find out that they [[spoiler:offer up sacrifices to the Butcher in exchange for being left alone.]]

* ShownTheirWork: Some viewers have commented on and even mocked the "quasi-Scottish" accents of the English Butcher and her clan, not realizing that this accent is, in fact, a fairly historically accurate English accent. Specifically, it's a reconstruction of a London-ish English accent from the 15th-16th century. You'll hear a similar accent in "Film/TheWitch" and by googling "Shakespeare: Original Pronunciation". Now whether this was intentional on the part of the show or just a coincidence brought on by poor imitations of modern accents is still up for debate.

The sixth season, presented as a faux paranormal documentary series "My Roanoke Nightmare" about an interracial couple (Shelby and Matt Miller) who buy a home out in the woods in Dare, North Carolina. Unfortunately, everything that can go wrong starts to go wrong for the couple: the house turns out to be a former nursing home owned by a pair of murderous sisters who butchered their clients. Matt's drug addicted ex-cop sister Lee kidnaps her kid, who promptly goes missing on the property, while the land is the same land as the legendary lost colony of Roanoke. And the colonists, led by the maniacal matriarch the Butcher, don't take kindly to tresspassers, unless it is to use them for their annual ritual blood sacrifice to the Harvest Moon.... Which is almost upon them.