We’ve already shared Ryan Murphy’s bat-shit crazy idea (as if there is any other kind) for the third season of American Horror Story: something about Jessica Lange playing a "glamour cat". But it looks like an old friend will also be returning to the show. Taissa Farmiga, who played the troubled daughter of Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton in the first season, will be reuniting with Murphy on his bizarre horror journey. Murphy tells Entertainment Weekly, “I missed her this season. There wasn’t really a role for her. I feel very protective of her and I didn’t want her to go back into the loony bin—it was too dark. So I thought well ‘I want Taissa to be one of the leads next year.’ I called her up and pitched her the character for the season and she loved it and she said, ‘Yes let’s do it.’" Now if we can only confirm a cameo from Connie Britton’s hair…

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