Each year is a new year.
One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back.
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
