Banana Scoop

As many of you know, I’ve recently taken Terra Nova off of my TV queue this fall.  So to fill its shoes, I’ve been heavily recommended that FX’s American Horror Story is a juicy and horrifying tale of a family in a cursed house.  The final push to start this series is when the latest Entertainment Weekly arrived when its two major characters and a man in a rubber suit were on the cover.  So after watching the first episode, I literally had my hand over my face the entire fifty minutes and nearly successfully shat my pants .  The show is graphic, tense, and even highly sexual, something that my TV queue is lacking [Dexter can only have so much blood, gore, and sex].  And I haven’t regretted starting it ever since.

The Harmon family needs a new start after wife Vivien Harmon’s rough stillborn pregnancy and husband Ben Harmon’s nasty affair.  They drag their daughter from Boston across country all the way to LA.  They find a large house at a great price because of the unfortunate incident the previous tenants had: a homicide/suicide.  Little does the Harmon family know, the house has had a rather long history of people dying within its walls, all ranging from cheating and murdering husbands to dozens of aborted babies.  It seems the house holds more secrets than it originally let off and the Harmon family is driven to insanity as its secrets are slowly revealed to them.

First off, can you believe that this show was created by the guys who made Glee?  When I first heard the hype of this show, I didn’t believe that the idea of the pop-song churning creators could pull of a scary horror show, but they proved me wrong.  This show is quite possibly the most absolutely horrifying on TV, EVER.  It’s perverse, dark, tense, and gorey.  The only thing that comes close to this that I know this is The Walking Dead, and while it’s a great show with it’s own dark and tense moments, they come nowhere near this show in terms of creepiness or perversion.  There are elements that I have never seen before on television that I didn’t know were allowed on basic cable.  More specifically, the rape of Vivien Harmon by the man in the rubber suit, or the jacking off in broad daylight.  A glimpse of this rubber man in the promotional images that justifying show how legitimately scare this show is.  A glimpse of male masturbation is a subject is probably not as welcome.

What the shi-

There is just as much mystery as their is scares in this show.  Mysteries that are engaging and keep you wanting more and more.  And every character in the show is just as interesting as the next.  There is a maid that appears old and frail to women and young and voluptuous to men, whose corpse is buried in the backyard.  The house’s next door neighbor, played deliciously by Jessica Lange, brings a creepy element with her down-syndrome afflicted daughter, who constantly finds herself in the house, uninvited.  Mysteries unfold as we find that the house was first created by a doctor who performed underground abortions and then one of his patient’s boyfriends took revenge and chopped up his baby.  The show leads us to believe that the doctor attempted to put the baby back together and that after 90 years, it still currently resides in the basement where it prays on the unsuspected.  And then there’s the rubberman who just comes out of nowhere and seemingly begins killing/raping people.  There are more elements that make this show probably one of the best shows on TV right now.

The Entertainment Weekly issue had a lot of news and spoilers about the show to come.  I recommend that if you start watching, you hit  magazine stand and spoil yourself with the delicious details of this season’s finale.  And I’m going to keep watching.  And I recommend you start/do the same.