Something very terrifying (an evil spirit?) makes its presence known in the basement. It doesn’t take long, of course, for all hell to break loose. Then there’s a creepy psychotic teen (Evan Peters), who has morbid thoughts and wears a T-shirt that says, “Normal People Scare Me.” (Actually, he scares the heck out of me.)Īnd if that’s not enough bad juju, we eventually meet an older guy (Denis O’Hare) with a mangled face and brain cancer who claims to have killed his family in the Harmon house. So does a creepy old housekeeper (Frances Conroy). A creepy neighbor (deliciously played by Jessica Lange) shows up out of the blue. Never known for their subtlety, Murphy and Falchuk bolt into overkill mode, cramming the pilot with an array of odd characters and weird plot devices. The house is a real bargain because, well, a murder-suicide went down there - and possibly some other ghastly stuff as well.
Seeking a fresh start, the Harmons move from Boston to Los Angeles, where they settle into a stately old Victorian. Meanwhile, Violet has taken to cutting herself.
As you might expect, their relationship has become as cold as graveyard dirt. Vivien caught Ben doing the nasty with one of his students not long after Viv suffered a horrible miscarriage. There’s Ben (Dylan McDermott), a psychiatrist his wife Vivien (Connie Britton) and their misfit teen daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga). “American Horror Story” is about the Harmons, a messed-up little family of three. It doesn’t make sense until you recall that they also created the dark and perverse “Nip/Tuck.” Apparently, this is what they mean by writing from different sides of the brain.
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the same guys who inject the sunshiny sweetness into “Glee,” have indeed gone all dark and perverse on us for this “psychosexual thriller” on FX about a family living in a haunted house.
#Scary barney series#
“American Horror Story,” a very scary and wickedly erotic freak show from the producers of “Glee,” is the kind of series that you’ll watch while peeping through your fingers - if you dare to watch at all.Īnd no, that wasn’t a misprint.
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