American Horror Story is my newest guilty pleasure, unless you count American Horror Story: Asylum, which is the show's second season. Since I finished the entire first season in a weekend and, sadly, only seven episodes of Asylum are out (I watched them all yesterday), I'll just focus on season one for now.
So anyway, back to ghosts raping humans for babies.
Raping humans in this outfit, no less.
The Harmon family moves to Los Angeles after Mrs. Harmon (Connie Britton) has a miscarriage and Dr. Harmon (Dylan McDermott) is caught by her banging one of his students. They find a lovely old house that's curiously super cheap. They learn that the last owners of the house died in a murder-suicide, but they're so desperate to fix their clearly broken family that they buy the house anyway. Unfortunately, they learn that everyone who died in the house (and it's a ridiculous number of people)--including Dr. Harmon's mistress, the gay couple who inhabited the house before the Harmons, and none other than the Black Dahlia--stays there as a ghost.
Also this kid, who rapes mothers and kills people for no discernible reason.
Now, American Horror Story hasn't gotten terrible reviews (at least to my knowledge), so you may be wondering what exactly qualifies it as a shitty show. Well, it's nasty. Both in a gross-out and a sexual sense. I mean, when you have people getting killed by a ghost in a leather BDSM suit, that's kind of a given. So, this isn't exactly a show I'd goad my parents into watching. Gross stuff doesn't bother me--in fact, it's intriguing in a I-love-to-be-shocked kind of way--but I'd just as soon not think about my mom and dad observing the slutty dead maid who tries to seduce Dr. Harmon at every turn.
I mean, I don't blame her, but sometimes I like plot over sex.
Finally, I feel like I can't rightfully talk about American Horror Story without mentioning the pure awesomeness that is Jessica Lange. She plays one crazy bitch, and can make you love, hate, and feel sorry for said crazy bitch beautifully. It's mesmerizing to watch.
She's better than you and she knows it.
I've heard that American Horror Story has recently come to Netflix streaming, so check it out there. It's definitely not a show for everyone, so don't bother with it if you don't feel like tapping into your darker side and possibly getting very disturbed.
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