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.