honestly I kept teetering back and forth between ranking this 3 or 4. The reason I decided to rank it 3 is because it did a great job of firing off the series imo. If we started with another season I think it would've turned a lot of people off because they woulda been too freaky.
This season stood out for opposite reasons than the rest for me because it was more about amazing storytelling and character collaboration than it was about the usual "what the fuck am I watching" effect that murphy goes for. There were so many different forces that collaborated to make one amazing overall storyline which was great because sometimes I feel murphy lets varying storylines kinda go haywire and all over the place. It was an overall good season but it just didn't have that amazing something that I feel the rest had (except hotel which was absolute trash)