American Horror Story - Small Screen/Horror Spot Review
Episode One - Pilot
The Harmon family moves from Boston to Los Angeles to escape their painful past but find that their troubles are far from over. Psychiatrist Ben (Dylan McDermott) struggles to regain his wife Vivien's (Connie Britton) trust after he sleeps with one of his students. Still recovering from a recent stillbirth, Vivien begins to sense something wrong with the house while dealing with intrusive neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) and her daughter, Addy (Jamie Brewer), who has Down syndrome. When investigating the attic of the home, the couple find a full-length rubber "gimp" suit that they assume belonged to the gay couple who lived in the house prior.
Daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) starts at a new school only to be terrorized by a group of girls. Ben sees patients out of his home and one of them, a possibly psychotic boy named Tate (Evan Peters), strikes up a relationship with Violet, but goes too far when trying to help with her bullying problem. He writes "TAINT" on her chalkboard. Violet orders him to leave and not return, but it appears that Tate may not have executed their plan but perhaps something else in the home did.
Vivien rehires the elderly housekeeper Moira (Frances Conroy), who appears to Ben as a young seductive maid (Alexandra Breckenridge). Ben is approached by Larry (Denis O'Hare), a horribly burned former owner of the house who murdered his entire family, claiming that the house convinced him to. Larry warns Ben that if he doesn't get his family out of that house they will all die.
Later Ben becomes obsessed with burners in the kitchen and appears to be heading towards burning the house down, similar to what Larry had done. Constance appears and stops him. Meanwhile, Vivien is approached and seduced by the Rubber Man, who she believes to be Ben in the gimp suit. Vivien learns that she is pregnant. Moira catches Constance taking Vivien's jewelry and Constance gives her a cryptic warning: "Don't make me kill you again."
Seriously a great show. A scary, unsettling show. So creepy and so twisted. Feels like Twin Peaks and Twilight Zone, and Tales From the Darkside all in one neat evil package. And then that twisted opening years before the Harmon family move in. The twin boys going into the house breaking things and ending up murdered by something down in the basement.
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