So, last Wednesday on FX, a new television series began called, "American Horror Story." The pilot episode followed a young boston family, a husband wife, and teenage daughter as they make the move from the East Coast to L.A. The reason behind the move is grounded in relationship troubles that become evident throughout the initial episode. The daughter is an angsty young girl befitting of any Goths heart. No, she doesn't appear as one typically expects a Goth to. But with her cigarettes, bolero hat, and Morrisey music; paired with her general angsty outcast attitude, you can't help but feel a tinge of familiar nostalgia. Her family moves into this absolutely beautiful, beautiful, old victorian home with a less than perfect past. The realtor informs them of the circumstances surrounding the demise of the owners, a homosexual couple, prior to them. Upon hearing that the house may or may not be haunted, the daughter pipes up, "we'll take it." Things start to piece together as a mysterious woman shows up, a little old red-headed woman wearing a maid uniform with one blind eye, while the mother is hanging laundry on a line to dry. The woman explains she was there as the maid when the accident happened, and that she's the one who cleaned the mess. The quirk here is, that to everyone else she appears to be the old woman, but to the husband she appears to be a young woman, i'd say about 20-24 wearing a french maid uniform complete with garters and thigh highs. The husband is a psychiatrist working out of his new home, the first patient you meet is a troubled young boy with dirty blonde hair and large expressive eyes. He too, can be found neatly wedged into a Goth friendly box, he's describing one of his fantasies of killing people he knows, of freeing them of the pain of life, as he calls it. During this fantasy, you see him walking entirely in black with black paint on his face reminiscent of Rick, the man with his skull tattooed on his face. Badass? I thought so. He finds himself responding to the daughter, both as an outcast and as someone troubled. A man is introduced, a man suffering from brain cancer with burn scars covering majority of the left side of his body. He wears a suit, and a top hat; we find that he was a convicted killer who happened to live in the same house the family recently bought. He tries to warn the father about how the house turned him against his family, once he started hearing voices. But of course, the father doesn't listen. We are introduced to a neighbor woman, older in age, with a daughter of about 18-20 with down syndrome. The girl with downs has chocolate hair with straight bangs, you are lead to believe that she can feel something about the house that the general populace can't or chooses not to. Her mother is very peculiar, she knows the maid, and has an almost aging hollywood starlet feel to her.
If you are a fan of good television, or spooky shows, you need to watch this.
Seriously.
Wednesdays on FX @ 10, Central Standard Time
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