American Horror Story: Move Over Ringer!
So I just watched the premier of “American Horror Story” on FX. Along with ABC/NBC’s gothic fairytale shows (still to premier) this was what I’d really been looking forward to. I expected it to either blow, or blow me out of the water.
O M G . . . Did this show ever blow me out of the water! It was sick, sexy, twisted, titillating, delicious and depraved all in one. WOW! They said words and showed things I didn’t think you could do on basic cable!
It’s difficult to explain or summarize the show without giving too much away, if you haven’t seen it, but I’ll try. The show opens with three kids outside a dilapidated house. Two twins and a girl with downs syndrom. The twin boys plan on breaking in and destroying stuff, the girl tells them “You are going to die in there!” Sure enough . . . they do! Flash forward to present day (this took awhile to figure out, until we saw the girl about 10 years older . . . .) The house has been fixed up by previous owners, who met an untimely end, and now sold to a new family. A doctor/psychiatrist, his artist wife and their problem child teen daughter. We quickly learn the family had moved after mom had a miscarriage and dad had an affair. Enter the host of bizarro weird characters. The creepy maid who seems old to everyone, but young and sexy to the dad/father. The bible thumping southern clepto neighbor, whose daughter is the downs syndrome girl from the opener. The twisted teen psycho patient, who takes a liking to daddy’s little girl. The weird burned stalking the house guy, who used to live there and killed his entire family one night.
The show was one big “WTF” moment until the final moments . . . . SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!
So being a horror buff, I figured out early on that the housekeeper was a ghost. Her age shifting gave that away. I was not prepared for Jessica Lange’s character (and her daughter?) to be ghosts as well! But if you notice, her attire is stuck in the 60s. Both of them actually. It would appear, from previews, almost everyone else (the burned guy, the patient) were also ghosts. Then there are the twins and the crazy lady in the basement.
OMG! Loved it! I’m going to re-watch it in a day or so just to see what I can pick up after the final “Sixth Sense” reveal.
Watch the first five minutes if you need a teaser/reason to watch!
The opening scene was from the 70s. It says the exact year when it first starts. Can’t remember exactly though. So it’s suppose to be about 30 yrs later, when it starts with the wife entering her house it says “Present time” so the Down Syndromes girl doesn’t look that much older so I think she’s a ghost also.
10.06.2011 at 8:14 am
Was it revealed at the end that the maid is indeed a ghost? If so I need to go back and rewatch the ending I didn’t pick up on that. I did suspect that everyone were ghosts though and told my husband early on, even before she looked young to the husband, that the maid was a ghost
10.06.2011 at 8:18 am
OK nevermind I remember now what was said to reveal that she is a ghost.
10.06.2011 at 8:37 am
I didn’t catch the first time I watched it that it said 1978 🙂
10.06.2011 at 10:00 am
The opening scene with the mom cutting the dad threw me too, I thought that was the future and then it jumped to the past. LAter I realized that was when she caught him pile driving . . . .
10.06.2011 at 10:02 am
Dustin, you have me intriqued…. found it on repeats, so going to give it a try. Gotta figure out when it is first run to see if I can tape it then…..
10.08.2011 at 1:41 pm
Wednesday nights at 10pm 🙂
10.08.2011 at 7:38 pm