Sigh…Yes I am arrogant enough to consider myself a writer, at minimum I can structure a screenplay/teleplay. As a result I am often bored with movies and television shows because I can easily identify “Plot Points.” I thought such was the case with the FX series: American Horror Story.
Dylan McDermott plays a shrink named Ben Harmon, which, according to the rules of the genre, means that his work is driving him crazy and that his life is inharmonious.* Ben and his family have moved out of Boston. because he was caught cheating on his wife, and they are attempting a fresh start in Los Angeles. The city looks more grim than golden, and things are more "Hellish" than usual. As one of Ben's patients tells him, "Dude, you're on the murder-house tour." Psycho killers have done some psycho-killing in the Harmon's creepy old new house.
It follows that Ben is tense, nervous, and can't relax. Sometimes McDermott under acts (as when Ben embraces his wife and we see what she can't: the more
dubious of this two-faced guy's two faces). Sometimes McDermott overacts (as when, during a jog, he pantingly pounds his feet, trying to outrun the twisted visions that the show keeps hurtling at his mind's eye). But then sometimes, every now and then, he just acts (as much as the excesses of violent dream sequences and shuddering sexual tension allow).
Connie Britton plays Ben's Vivien, who is pregnant again after a stillbirth, you realize that the guy really must be crazy as no one in his right mind would cheat on Connie Britton.
Taissa Farmiga plays the Harmon's' daughter, Violet. An ambitious teenager who, unlike the myriad high-school girls content to be passive-aggressive with their parents, doggedly aspires to aggressive-aggression.
And in her first series role: Two-time Academy Award winning actress Jessica
Lange will star in the new FX series ‘American Horror Story’ in the role of nosy neighbor Constance, a Southern belle with a mysterious past.
Given it’s gothic undertones American Horror Story begins each week with a chronological review of the House the Harmon's are living in. Every several years some heinous act that results ion death occurs.
This leads the viewers to wonder: "Why?" as in why does the Harmon family continue to reside there as the history of the mansion appears to manifest with contemporary replications of past crimes?
I’ve only watched the 3 episodes that have aired and I believe that I (as many others may have done also) may have “cracked the code,.” Then again maybe not.
Do you remember the movie Fight Club? How about: “The Others”, the first movie was about a guy who commits acts thinking that someone else was responsible and the latter was about a deceased family thinking they were still alive and living in a haunted house.
American Horror Story is sort of a serialized combination of both movies. The show weaves in and out of reality rather adeptly, to a point that I am uncertain as to whether all of the characters deceased, or if peripheral characters like Constance (Jessica Lange) are actually alive or if this is yet another reflection of past incidents that created: The Murder House.
Part of me believes that American Horror Story is representative of an individually customized purgatory, sort of like a haunted house when the ghosts don’t know they’re dead (like in: The Others) or at least are aware of the others deceased status, but not their own.
Another reveal is how, despite Vivien insisting that the family move out of their new home because of disturbing occurrences, circumstances will conspire to keep them returning to the house no matter if they do or how many times the family attempts a permanent escape.
But I think the beginning of each episode are the scariest as viewers are treated to a bit more history of how the “Murder House” earned its moniker.
Even Constance: "The Nosey Neighbor" (Jessica Lange) reveals in episode three how she is inextricably tied to the house.
The plot thickens and murdered bodies will continue to pile up as the show continues. Happy Halloween :o) BOO!
Dylan McDermott plays a shrink named Ben Harmon, which, according to the rules of the genre, means that his work is driving him crazy and that his life is inharmonious.* Ben and his family have moved out of Boston. because he was caught cheating on his wife, and they are attempting a fresh start in Los Angeles. The city looks more grim than golden, and things are more "Hellish" than usual. As one of Ben's patients tells him, "Dude, you're on the murder-house tour." Psycho killers have done some psycho-killing in the Harmon's creepy old new house.
It follows that Ben is tense, nervous, and can't relax. Sometimes McDermott under acts (as when Ben embraces his wife and we see what she can't: the more
dubious of this two-faced guy's two faces). Sometimes McDermott overacts (as when, during a jog, he pantingly pounds his feet, trying to outrun the twisted visions that the show keeps hurtling at his mind's eye). But then sometimes, every now and then, he just acts (as much as the excesses of violent dream sequences and shuddering sexual tension allow).Connie Britton plays Ben's Vivien, who is pregnant again after a stillbirth, you realize that the guy really must be crazy as no one in his right mind would cheat on Connie Britton.
Taissa Farmiga plays the Harmon's' daughter, Violet. An ambitious teenager who, unlike the myriad high-school girls content to be passive-aggressive with their parents, doggedly aspires to aggressive-aggression.
And in her first series role: Two-time Academy Award winning actress Jessica
Lange will star in the new FX series ‘American Horror Story’ in the role of nosy neighbor Constance, a Southern belle with a mysterious past.Given it’s gothic undertones American Horror Story begins each week with a chronological review of the House the Harmon's are living in. Every several years some heinous act that results ion death occurs.
This leads the viewers to wonder: "Why?" as in why does the Harmon family continue to reside there as the history of the mansion appears to manifest with contemporary replications of past crimes?
I’ve only watched the 3 episodes that have aired and I believe that I (as many others may have done also) may have “cracked the code,.” Then again maybe not.
Do you remember the movie Fight Club? How about: “The Others”, the first movie was about a guy who commits acts thinking that someone else was responsible and the latter was about a deceased family thinking they were still alive and living in a haunted house.
American Horror Story is sort of a serialized combination of both movies. The show weaves in and out of reality rather adeptly, to a point that I am uncertain as to whether all of the characters deceased, or if peripheral characters like Constance (Jessica Lange) are actually alive or if this is yet another reflection of past incidents that created: The Murder House.
Part of me believes that American Horror Story is representative of an individually customized purgatory, sort of like a haunted house when the ghosts don’t know they’re dead (like in: The Others) or at least are aware of the others deceased status, but not their own.
Another reveal is how, despite Vivien insisting that the family move out of their new home because of disturbing occurrences, circumstances will conspire to keep them returning to the house no matter if they do or how many times the family attempts a permanent escape.
But I think the beginning of each episode are the scariest as viewers are treated to a bit more history of how the “Murder House” earned its moniker.
Even Constance: "The Nosey Neighbor" (Jessica Lange) reveals in episode three how she is inextricably tied to the house.
The plot thickens and murdered bodies will continue to pile up as the show continues. Happy Halloween :o) BOO!