Welcome BackREVIEW: American Horror (TV Show )

I’d first like to welcome everyone back to my blog, I know it’s been a while since last I wrote anything that didn’t have an HTML tag starting it. Most of all, I’d like to thank my wife for the new decorations in my play area where I can talk with all of you about things I’ve seen or things that are happening. And what better way to start playing in my new sand box, then to talk about a new horror TV show!

It was by a random series of events that I fell upon the commercial for the new horror series, American Horror Story, from FX. The ad happened to air just before one of the music videos I watch on YouTube when trying to convince my muse to come back and help me write again. Unfortunately, I only caught enough to know it was a new and airing this last week and only “American” and “Horror” from the name. I finally got to watch the first episode (thank God I could find it on the TV guide list on my computer and set the series to record) and it is so much more than just a catchy title.

American Horror Story centers on a family of three, trying to make a second start at their lives. They end up in this old house in California where not only a myriad of bizarre murders occurred, but, unbeknownst to the family, the house seems to be haunted by the souls of the ones who died in it. And I’m not talking your average, cheesy ghosts in white sheets haunting. This is Thirteen-Ghosts-sent-to-hell-for-a-royal-make-over kind of haunting!

First, the family actually seems like a normal-day family! No stupid teenager, running from monsters, tripping on air, bullshit. The daughter has strengths and extreme weaknesses that I can see being exploited to the fullest as the series progresses. She’s not the popular girl at school and has to fight just to be allowed to be herself. As with most teens, she doesn’t understand her parents or what has happened to them in the past and thus is very rebellious of them to the point she befriends one of her father’s patients.

And don’t romanticize her father being a doctor with shows like ER. No, he is a psychiatrist who has worked with deranged patients in the past. Not only that, he’s trying to keep his family together after making the mistake of screwing one of his students—an act his wife caught him in during the beginning of the episode. And of course, the mother has her own personal battles she is facing as she too tries to keep the family and marriage together…but I won’t tell too much more because so much happens in the first episode, I fear I’d give too much away!

I have to admit, I’m highly impressed with what FX has put together here. You don’t know what is real and what is haunting! You can actually connect with the characters and feel as they would in the show and when the creepy stuff starts happening, you actually feel CREEPY watching it!
For a pilot episode, all I have to say is, WOW and I fear seeing what they can come up with to follow!