American Horror Story Season 1, Episode 4: Halloween Pt. 1

Past: Yes giiiiirl!!! Zachary Quinto better be serving me femme gay realness. We finally get to learn about the owners of the house right before the Harmon family. Chad and Patrick are a couple who are decorating for Halloween. There is trouble in paradise and Chad confronts Patrick about his cheating before Patrick leaves. Later, Gimp Suit approaches Chad, who thinks it's Patrick and tries apologizing, and gets killed while Patrick enters the room.

Ben: He gets harassed by Larry, who wants $1,000 since he helped kill Hayden. He agrees to help Tate again, but only if it's outside the house. While he's helping Tate, he starts crying because he loves his family and regrets everything that happened. He gets confronted by Vivien about calling Hayden and tells her that she has nothing to worry about. They get a fall from Hayden and the episode ends with Ben opening the door and seeing Hayden's ghost.

Vivien: The realtor suggests that the family hire "fluffers" to make the house look better to sell. The fluffers end up being Chad and Patrick's ghosts. Chad talks to her about Patrick cheating and suggests looking at the phone bill to find out. She discovers Hayden's phone calls and confronts Ben. She left Hayden a phone message, but Bet assures her that there's nothing to worry about, until Hayden calls back. She goes to the hospital because the baby is kicking (which is impossible since the baby is only 8 weeks old) and the nurse faints while looking at the baby on the ultrasound. They return to find Violet missing.

Flashback: One of Nora and Charles' patient's boyfriend finds out about the abortion and takes revenge by kidnapping their baby and sending them the dismembered corpse. Charles begins to operate and tries to put it together and gets caught by Nora.

Violet and Tate: Tate continues his sessions with Ben and reassures him that he's going to be fine when he starts crying. Violet gives Addie a makeover because she wants to be a "pretty girl" for Halloween. Violet asks Tate to tell her what's in the basement, but dismisses his story as a joke. When her parents go to the hospital for the baby, she is home alone when Larry tries to get in and collect his money. Gimp Suit appears behind her and she goes missing.

Constance and Addie: They had a few fights at the start of the episode, but Constance finally allows her to be a "pretty girl" and buys her a mask to wear. Addie goes trick or treating and gets hit by a car and dies. Constance finds her body and tries to carry her to the Harmon's lawn before she dies so that her ghost can haunt the house.

Moira: She asks for Halloween off and visits her mom. Her mom is hooked up to a life support machine and Moira apologizes for not being there for her. She disconnects the machine and her mom's ghost tells her to cross to the other side with her, but Moira tells her that she can't.

Ghosts: Chad and Patrick are the "fluffers" that try to style the house. Chad gives Vivien advice to find out if Ben is cheating. Hayden appears at the end of the episode when Ben opens the door. Charles and Nora's baby gets kidnapped and killed as revenge for the illegal abortion clinic.

Others: Luke installs security for the house and has chemistry with Vivien.

WTF: Oh my god! This one definitely goes to when Addie gets hit by a car and dies. I was not expecting that at all and honestly, my heart broke a little. Addie was one of my favorite characters and unlike the others, is more innocent and naive. When Constance finds her body and cries, I got a bit emotional. Hopefully, her ghost can haunt the house because I want to see more her.

LOL: Zachary Quinto's performance as Chad. I was loving every moment of it! Chad is a very femme and flamboyant gay and it was hilarious. Instead of just being a cliche, the producers also had Patrick as a very masculine man. Every scene with Chad made me laugh and I could relate to everything that was going on.

Fave: Zachary Quinto's Chad. A great addition to the ghosts that haunt the house.

Worst: Larry. He's upgraded from a creepy annoying man that's bothering Ben to a creepy annoying man that's bothering and endangering everyone.

Last 5 Minutes: Gimp Suit is in the house with Violet. Violet goes missing. Ben opens the door and it's Hayden's ghost.

Death Recap: Chad gets his neck snapped by Gimp Suit. Addie gets hit by a car while trick or treating. Charles and Nora's baby gets dismembered as revenge. Moira disconnects her mother's life support so that she can move to the other side.

Rating: This episode had so much going on! I thought that there was a perfect combination of creepy scares and nice plot development and twists. The guest characters were fantastic and hilarious with Chad and Patrick. It was great to see Gimp Suit come back and things even got emotional with Addie died. Some of the mysteries are starting to get unraveled, but there's still a whole part two to the episode. This is probably the best episode to date.
10/10 fluffers.

Predictions: Now we know that if you die in the house, you become a ghost and that explains a lot of the mysteries. I still think that Tate is a ghost and I'm starting to think that all of the main characters are going to die and become part of the repertoire of ghosts that haunt the house. I'm excited to see what happens to to the baby, I'm feeling some Rosemary's Baby vibes from that.

xxx johnny.

American Horror Story Season 1, Episode 3: Murder House

Past: Yasssss hunty!! Talk about drama fo yo mama. This flashback shows a young Moira cleaning the house before being sexually assaulted by a man who ends up to be none other than Constance's husband, Hugo!!! Constance walks in and shoots Moira in the eye (explaining why one of her eyes is ghostly) and her husband, killing them both.

Ben: Oh Ben, what are we going to do with you? He continues to space out and has memory loss because someone (Moira?) is poisoning him. Ben tries to get her fired, but fails when she threatens to sue. They can't sell the house because they have no money. His mistress, Hayden, visits him and tells him she's keeping the baby and that she's telling Vivien, but dies before she gets to. He ends up building a gazebo over the area where Larry buries Hayden.

Vivien: She hires a realtor to sell the house, after threatening to sue her for not telling her the truth about the house. While gardening, she notices a horror tour stopping at her house and she gets on to listen to the story about the house. At the end, she notices that she's bleeding vaginally, but it ends up being spotting and not a miscarriage. She also tries to move into an apartment, but Violet threatens to run away if they do.

Flashback: The first owners of the house were Charles and Nora. Charles was a surgeon and Nora was a socialite. They became broke and Charles became a drug addict, doing creepy procedures in the basement to animals. Nora got tired of his shit and began to find girls to give abortions to so that they could make money.

Violet: Not much going on with Violet. She threatens Vivien that she'll run away if they move out of the house because she considers them survivors and bad asses instead of victims.

Tate: Also not much going on. Conveniently appears when needed and disappears mysteriously.  

Constance: She mocks Moira about how she can't leave the house and continues to steal from the family. She sees Tate in the window while walking by, but he disappears.

Moira: Unable to leave the mansion for some reason. She continues to harass Ben, but never gets fired. When Larry digs the grave to bury Hayden, they find her skeleton and Ghost Moira cries while Constance tells her that she's stuck forever.

Others: Hayden gets killed by Larry before getting to tell anyone else about the baby. Larry kills Hayden so that Ben won't have any problems. Hugo is Constance's cheating husband who gets killed when he gets caught screwing Moira. Nora and Charles were the first owners of the house. Charles built it for Nora, but they became broke so Nora brought people to have abortions by Charles. Nora somehow dies from a blow to the head and is haunting Vivien. Jack is the detective researching Dorothy's disappearance who was one of Ben's patient. Marcy is the realtor trying to sell the house. 

WTF: When Ben and Hayden are walking outside and out of nowhere, Larry hits Hayden in the head with a shovel and kill her. This is the first present day murder that wasn't done by a ghost (at least I don't think Larry is one, but who knows...) and was done on someone who had a real personal connection a main cast member. 

LOL: When Vivien is gardening and minding her business and all of a sudden, a tour bus pulls in front of the house and calls it the Murder House and one of the scariest places in LA. 

ZZZ: All of Ben's weird little moments where no one knows what's going on and he wakes up randomly in the backyard.

Fave: It was the episode of the bad bitches. Constance was giving me life when she came in and shot Moira and Hugo for the affair. You go girl! We all know that I'm an old southern lady at heart.

Worst: Nora, the diva socialite husband of the surgeon. Stop complaining about ONLY have two servants and planning illegal abortions and start worrying about how you'll eventually die...

Last 5 Minutes: Moira is trapped forever in the house. Ben builds a gazebo over Hayden's plot. Nora watches Vivien while she sleeps.

Death Recap: Constance shoots Moira in the eye and Hugo. Larry hits Hayden in the head with a shovel. 

Rating: This episode was packed with DRAMA! I loved how they used the flashback to show the history of Constance and Moira and how they incorporated another one later on in the episode to show the origins of the house. It was nice to see Moira have more of a supporting role in the plot. The whole Hayden plot was crazy and it was interesting to see what they did with it. I have some more ideas about what might happen, but there's still nine episodes to go, which means tons of more crazy.

9/10 mistresses.

Predictions: Adding on to my previous theories, I'm starting to think that Tate might be a ghost because of how he randomly enters different scenes. I also think he may be Constance's son, the one who doesn't have Down's Syndrome. I honestly have no idea about Larry. He might be a ghost, or he just might be a crazy guy. I'm thinking that the next episode will have a MAJOR twist in store.

xxx johnny.

American Horror Story Season 1, Episode 2: Home Invasion

Past: What in the hell just happened? Talk about a perfect slasher scene. It's the 60's and three girls are leaving the house that Ben and Vivien live in presently. Back then, it was a sorority house. They tease one girl who is staying in to study before leaving. While the girl stays home with her friend, a guy knocks on the door asking for help. He ends up killing the friend and making the main girl dress up in a nurse outfit and tying her up before killing stabbing her in the back.

Ben: Literally, fuck Ben. I hate him. He lies to Vivien and tells her that he's going on a business trip. He goes to Boston to help the girl he had an affair on his wife with get an abortion, ignoring all of Vivien's calls.

Vivien: Boom, pregnant. With the gimp suit's baby? Who knows. When Ben leaves, she stays home with Violet before they get attacked by Ben's crazy new patient, Bianca, and her two friends, as they try to recreate the murders from the flashback. She survives and tells Ben that they're selling the house. GO VIVIEN! Bad bitch of the show.

Violet: For some reason, she's friends with Leah (the bully) now. She is still a moody hipster. During the home invasion, Tate saves her and she brings one of the attackers into the basement to die. At the end, she tells her mom that she was brave. Also, she totally snaps on her dad for not being there. I'm starting to like her, kind of.

Tate: Ben no longer wants to work with him because he's a freak and won't stop talking about Violet. Also, he somehow got into the house and saved Vivien and Violet. He kills Bianca with a swift blow of an ax to her stomach and tells Violet to bring the other attacker into the basement to die. He's in cahoots with Constance and Moira.

Constance: Poisoned cupcakes to give to Violet, but that plan was foiled. Told Vivien about her four kids, three with Down's Syndrome and one that was perfect, but died somehow. She was hooking up with some young hotty with CK undies and locks Addy in the closet when she tries to get help for Vivien and Violet. When she finds out, she helps Tate and Moira bury the bodies.

Others: Bianca, Ben's creepy patient who is obsessed with murders and tries to recreate the flashback murders with two other accomplices. Larry runs into Ben and tells him to get out of the house because it prays on his weaknesses. Hayden is Ben's mistress and calls him to Boston to support her getting an abortion. Moira was there to help Tate and Constance clean up the bodies. Gladys and Maria were the two girls who were killed in the flashback and killed the intruders in the basement. Addy tries to tell her mom about the intruders, but gets locked into a closet full of mirrors.

WTF: This episode wasn't that creepy. The flashback scene where Maria has to strip and wear a nurse's outfit, gets tied up and killed was pretty psychologically WTF, but that's pretty standard for any horror movie.

LOL: Bianca, one of the intruders, eating the drugged cupcake and having to shit and vomit in the middle of trying to murder Violet and Vivien. 

ZZZ: Ben going to Boston to help his mistress with her abortion. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Fave: The three bad bitches at the beginning of the flashback who were giving me mean girls realness. Also, the whole The Strangers-vibe from the home invasion.

Worst: FUCK BEN. CAN WE JUST GET A DIVORCE WITH HIM AND KICK HIM OUT??? Also, fuck his mistress.

Plot Twist: Tate is part of the Constance and Moira scheme. Vivien tells Ben that they're moving out of the house.

Death Recap: Gladys getting drowned and Maria getting stabbed in the flashback by the serial killer. Bianca getting axed by Tate. The other two intruders getting killed by Galdys and Maria's ghosts.

Rating: Another good episode following the pilot. Lots of interesting plot developments (Vivien is pregnant, Tate is working with Moira and Constance, More history with the past residents of the house). The flashback was perfect. I loved The Stranger-esque feel of the home invasion. All of the characters are fantastic, except I hate Ben, but that just proves how great the acting and plot is. Can't wait to see what the next episode is like.

8.5/10 cupcakes.

Predictions: Still holding on to what I believe in. I doubt they're going to move out of the house and Ben goes crazy and tries to kill the family, while Vivien finds out and tries to save them. Tate, Moira and Constance are some kind of immortal ghost things... and Tate and Moira are good people, while Constance is bad. Also, I call miscarriage with Vivien.

xxx johnny.

American Horror Story Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

My attempt to review season 1 of Glee totally failed. Partly because my computer decided to explode during the second episode and also because I've already seen the first season and I wasn't really motivated to watch it again. I decided to try another attempt, but with a different show: American Horror Story. I've only seen the first episode and didn't really have time to watch it when it was airing, but I LOVE horror and I've heard that the show was good. Also, instead of giving a forever long synopsis, I'm going to do a mini synopsis for the characters and list things like: most WTF moment, my favorite characters, most boring scene, predictions for the season, etc...

Also, season 1 only has 12 episodes, so I plan on reviewing an episode a day and finish it in twelve days!

Title Sequence: How creepy is the title sequence? I don't even know if it's the visuals with all the fetuses and body parts or if it's just the music.

Past: Young Addie watches a pair of twins go into the mansion and tells them that they're going to die. They enter the mansion and find a bunch of fetuses and gross stuff. They die.

Ben and Vivien: The main characters of the show. Vivien had a miscarriage  which led to Ben having an affair with a student to drown his sorrows. Vivien caught them in the act, and Ben and Vivien move to LA to rebuild their lives. They buy the same house from the flashback and weird things start to happen. They have a very destructive relationship where they argue and then have hot sex, except for when the guy in the gimp suit that she has sex with ends up not being Ben (oops). Ben is a psychiatrist and one of his clients is Tate, a troubled boy. 

Violet: Ben and Vivien's daughter. A super hipster outcast who gets into a fight with the popular girls at her new school. She cuts herself and bonds with Tate. She tries to get revenge on the head popular girl with Tate, but gets scared when she sees something attacking her that she can't explain.

Tate: Troubled boy who has dreams of killing his classmates and takes medication. Bonds with Violet, even though Ben doesn't allow it. He helps her take revenge on her bully, but Violet kicks him out after he somehow get some corpse or ghost to attack the bully.

Constance: Mysterious neighbor. Mother of Addie, who has Down's Syndrome and also tells people that they're going to die (although when she told the twins that, it came true). Southern and likes to steal with a serious problem with men. She has a personal connection to Moira and apparently has killed her before, although she looks much younger than Moira. Is she a ghost or something else?

Others: Moira, the maid who is actually old, but Ben sees her as a young woman. She tries to seduce Ben and to get him to cheat again, although he hasn't yet. The gay couple who owned the house before the family and died. Larry, a burnt guy who also lived in the house and killed his family because of voices that told him to. He warns Ben that the same thing might happen to him.

WTF: The scene where Vivien thinks that Ben has on the gimp suit that they found in the attic and has sex with him, but it's really not Ben... At the same time, Ben is in the kitchen, feeling the flames from the stove and Constance comes in and tells him that it's "not his time."

LOL: Ben sees Moira as a young woman, but she's really an old lady. He catches her touching herself and leaves to masturbate and then cries at the same time. Seeing him cry and masturbate was just a funny sight.

ZZZ: Ben and Vivien's horribly destructive argument where they argue about Ben's affair and how Vivien had to walk around with her dead baby inside of her. They then start having a hot make out session. How are they even together...? This scene was important for plot development, but it just dragged on and made me hate them being together.

Fave: Connie Britton playing Vivien. She is flawless! Loved her from Friday Night Lights and loving her now. 

Worst: Those weird bully girls from Violet's school who overact and started a fight with because she was smoking. Who even does that to a stranger? Violet gets revenge on the leader when she brings her to the basement and Tate brings some monster corpse to attack her.

Plot Twist: Constance is stealing from Vivien and Moira comes in and kicks her out. You find out that they know each other pretty well and Constance tells her, "Don't make me kill you again." WHAT???  What are they?

Death Recap: The twins in the flashback who enter the house, Vivien's miscarriage, the gay couple who owned the house before Ben and Vivien, and Larry's family when he set the house on fire.

Predictions:

Rating: Very good pilot that kept me interested. As a horror fan, I felt that this was perfectly creepy, which is surprising because there aren't really horror shows on TV. The cinematography and acting felt like it was a movie, instead of a TV show. The characters are intriguing and so is the plot. Since this is the pilot, a lot was packed in, but  I'm sure that will resolve over the season. However, this is a Ryan Murphy show, so you can't really be sure...

8/10 Gimp Suits.

Predictions: Constance is totally giving me evil villain vibes. I feel like Ben is going to end up trying to kill the family (how very typical horror movie clique), and that Violet and Tate will get together somehow. I feel like the main plot of the season will be Vivien finding out all the secrets about the house and trying to stop everything from happening.

xxx johnny.