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Jessica Lange shined in season two, where she played ruthless Sister Jude. Tricked by the monsignor with whom she runs a hospital, she is placed in the very same asylum she once tortured her patients in and slowly becomes humbled, undergoing one of the best character transformations ever on television.

Tomorrow night the Golden Globes air on NBC. Ever since "American Horror Story" began in October of 2011, Jessica Lange has been a favorite with the Golden Globes. She's nominated again this year and though I think AHS has been very uneven this season (and just way too out there, even for this normally grotesque show) there are still moments where Jessica Lange is mesmerizing.

Whether her character Elsa is having a major hissy fit because she didn't get presents worthy of her on her birthday or she's seriously miffed that no one values her talent as much as she does, there are also wonderfully vulnerable moments (rare though they are) where she questions her humanity or takes care of her "monsters" the way a loving mother would her children. Those are the scenes this year that can remind viewers just how talented Ms. Lange is...

A recent article from the New York Times gets it best:

At 65, Ms. Lange is a seductive, sinister hoot in all her “American Horror” impostures — the actress glows with matriarchal mystique. Her women have different accents and back stories, but they share many of same preoccupations with age, power and loneliness. The redeeming underlay of every season is in the characters, who are strangely real even when enacting the most extreme flights of fancy and brutal violence, Ms. Lange most of all: Her heroines are feathered in madness and satire, but each one carries a glint of inner truth — the actress manages to slip some poignancy into all these gargoyles without dimming their brio.

You can read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/arts/television/its-jessica-langes-show-on-american-horror-story.html?_r=0