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.