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.

Glee Season 1, Episode 1 Review!

I thought of new posts that I could do that would be fun! I love watching TV and I've seen tons of TV shows. I'm usually up to date with what's popular, but I rarely watch them all the way through. The only popular show that I can think of that I've kept up to date with is Grey's Anatomy. Anyways, I thought it would be fun to watch TV shows and do reviews as I watch them! The first series I chose was none other than Glee. I thought it would be a good choice because tons of people love Glee, but I think it's pretty stupid. That's not to say that I don't enjoy stupid TV shows. So, let's begin!

Episode 1: Pilot

I remember when this episode came on TV for the first time. I was in love with it because it was all about people that don't really fit in becoming friends and going through high school together. This episode is all about Will Schuester, a spanish teacher at McKinley High School, who decides to restart the Glee Club. Cue the auditions and the misfit group of students who are the characters of the show

Mercedes: Sassy and slightly overweight black girl with a loud voice who seems like she will be the diva of the group. Auditioned with Respect by Aretha Franklin.

Kurt: Sassy and fashionable gay guy who also seems like he could be a diva. Auditioned with Mister Cellophane from Chicago.

Tina: Stuttering Asian girl who dresses up gothic/emo. Seems like she's hardcore. Auditioned with I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry.

Artie: Handicapped guy who is in a wheelchair.

Rachel: The main character of the show. She's determined, hardworking and believes that she's destined to be a star. Auditioned with On My Own from Les Mis. 

The thing that bothers me are the characters are cliched as hell. They are all a token something. Mercedes is the token black girl. Kurt is the token gay. Tina is the token hardcore girl. Etc... Rachel threatens to quit because the club is full of "losers", so Will tries to get "cool kids" to join. This is where other characters come in.

Finn: Main guy character of the show. Dumb as hell, but he's the star football player and reasonably attractive. Sang Can't Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon in the shower, while Schuester creeps. Ends up joining Glee because Schuester planted drugs on him and threatens to tell the principal. What the fuck? This show is ridiculous and unrealistic which I don't really like, but I'll roll with it.

The group rehearses You're the One That I Want from Grease and this starts the Rachel-Finn crush and it's too early for me to decide how I feel about them. Ok boring plot building time between Schuester and wife. I'll talk about the adult characters now.

Sue: LOVE HER!!!!!! Favorite character so far. She's the cheerleader captain and the antagonist of the show because she hates the Glee club. Sarcastic and witty as fuck and I love her one liners.

Emma: School counselor with sever OCD and becomes Schuester's friend. Love her because she's all quirky and cute.

Terri: Will's wife. Annoying bitch so far. Their marriage is kind of strained. The end.

Ken: Football coach who likes Emma, except she doesn't like him. He's ugly and annoying too. Seems antagonistic. Should take Terri and leave.

Rachel awkwardly flirts with Finn, but he's going out with Quinn.

Quinn: Head cheerleader and doesn't do sex. Probably will be the head bitch of the show.

Subtle flirting between Will and Emma. She has a bit of a thing for him. Will talks about how his marriage sucks. The Glee club goes to see their competition, Vocal Adrenaline, perform Rehab. FLAWLESS SCENE! Their dancing/singing/outfits/everything is amazing. AKA glee club is doomed. The football players find out Finn is in the glee club and paintball him, led by Puck.

Puck: Another football player. Seems like a bad ass with his mo-hawk and attitude. Doesn't like the glee club.

WOAH, TERRI IS PREGNANT. Talk about the plot advancing fast in one episode.... Oh, Schuester is quitting because of the baby now. Wtf? I literally feel like they fit a season of plots into a pilot. Well, I guess that's the point of a pilot anyways so they can get picked up, but still.

Schuester singing Leaving On a Jetplane by John Denver with himself and a guitar. Not here for that... bye. Aw, Emma heard about Schuester baby and looked upset. :( Lol at Schuester all of a sudden trying to be an accountant. Rachel is now interim director and Finn quit. She can stop being so annoying now. The football team trapped Artie in a porta potty, but Finn got him out and snapped on the team. Gave a good speech about how they're all losers except he can accept it and he decided to stay on the football team and the glee team. Finn goes back to the team, apologizes, and encourages them all to work together.

Emma tries to convince Schuester that Glee club is what he loves and needs to do, but he decides that he needs to provide for his family. The Glee club rehearses the iconic Don't Stop Believing by Journey. This is their first real performance together and as cheesy as it is, I am loving it... Ok, I'm also kind of shipping Rachel/Finn right now. Them performing together is cute. Sue, Quinn, Santana (although she isn't as important yet) and Puck are watching and looking disgusted. Schuester is also watching and tells them that he decided to stay after watching their performance.

Episode over. It wasn't bad. I just wished the characters weren't as cliched or at least their stereotypes weren't so dramatic. Also, when there's a boring performance, It's kind of annoying because you have to sit through it until it's over. I guess a plus to that is that people can relate to these characters. I am definitely a Kurt and I know people are just like all of the other characters. Also, when they do a performance right, it's pretty amazing, like Rehab and Don't Stop Believing. Other than that, I'll have to see what the next episode is like because this was the pilot and the pilot is usually much more dramatic and showy than regular episodes.

Also, this post was long as fuck, but that's because I had to talk about all the characters and explain things. The rest will be shorter. I know no one will probably read this, but in case someone does, I hope you enjoyed it!

Fun Fact: Instead of putting Finn while writing this, I kept on putting Puck...

xxx johnny.