What the fuck is going on with the pace and the transition of the scenes here!? It’s like a damn hasty rollercoast ride with way too many curves. I understood in the first episodes the things happening, but jeez, slow down! It’s the friggin beginning stage.
What happened to a buildup…A dysfunctional family moves from Boston to Los Angeles in an old Victorian house where all 3 family members had a nasty past. However, despite this being their chance of their lives starting over, their quarrels do not go away, plus the mansion is haunted with strange entities.
A lot of shit as said happens early on already, including a scary neighbor woman with elitism, her down-syndrome daughter with weird behavior, the old housekeeper with a fake eye and the ability to turn young in front of the husband, a boy patient of the husband who keeps entering the mansion unattended(the down-syndrome daughter as well by the way) and who happens to be a sociopath.
Oh and bullies, reenactment criminals and a far out 70% burned man who murdered his whole family because of inner voices and who happens to have terminal brain cancer. What do you mean mindfuck overload? Hahahaha Eternal Darkness Tour, what the fuck, that made me chuckle in the 3rd episode.
But the suspension is nowhere to be found for me here, given the speed of the editing, the musical score and the clusterfuck of it all. But it becomes apparent that many characters who are dead simply occupy the house alongside the living, explaining quite a bit for the TV series, but hardly everything.
But perhaps that is for the best, because this house is almost fully occupied by the time you reach the end of Season 1, and it’s not exactly following familiar horror rules despite throwing out so many clichés. American Horror Story is a ridiculous busy story about many events, many spirits and many deaths.
Upon watching Season 2 however, I was much more involved with American Horror Story, as the setting had changed towards a mental institution for insane people. I liked it much better than Season 1(or 3 for that matter), and I am cautionally interested in Season 4, in any case because it's setting is a freak show.
Rating: 7.5
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