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Episodes(12)
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Pilot (S01E01)
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Home Invasion (S01E02)
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Murder House (S01E03)
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Halloween: Part 1 (S01E04)
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Halloween: Part 2 (S01E05)
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Piggy Piggy (S01E06)
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Open House (S01E07)
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Rubber Man (S01E08)
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Spooky Little Girl (S01E09)
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Smoldering Children (S01E10)
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Birth (S01E11)
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Afterbirth (S01E12)
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American Horror Story revolves around the Harmons, a family of three who moved from Boston to Los Angeles as a means to reconcile past anguish. The all-star cast features Dylan McDermott as “Ben Harmon,” a psychiatrist; Connie Britton as “Vivien Harmon,” Ben’s wife; Taissa Farmiga as “Violet,” the Harmon’s teenage daughter; Jessica Lange in her first-ever regular series TV role as “Constance,” the Harmon’s neighbor; Evan Peters plays “Tate Langdon,” one of Ben’s patients; and Denis O’Hare as “Larry Harvey.” Guest stars for the series include Frances Conroy as the Harmon’s housekeeper; Alexandra Breckenridge as the Harmon’s housekeeper; and Jamie Brewer as Constance’s daughter. (official distributor synopsis)
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Weird, weird, weird! Which was actually the purpose. Some see fear in it, others see the atmosphere of the town of Twin Peaks. One thing is clear, and that is the fact that this series doesn’t care about reality, simply playing with the viewer, and even though the story is based on paranormal phenomena, it seems to me as if it was not about them at all. The touch of the creators of Nip/Tuck is evident here. Some things managed to properly disgust me, but I don’t know if I can stand it until the end. Somehow the characters didn’t dazzle me enough to keep me going. But the idea definitely deserves it and the same goes for some of the characters. Anyway, I have to say that it’s pretty little for a long-running series.
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I only went for the second season, because I have a soft spot for sanatoriums and I haven't seen any good horror films from the same setting and I'm really pleasantly surprised. A decent choice of actors, a great bleak atmosphere, sometimes a great gore scene and decent twists all underline it very high. I was only disappointed by the finale and felt that the last three episodes lost their breath compared to the previous ones, but still great satisfaction.
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Relationship problems, infidelity, trust, new beginnings... and yet this story is definitely not a romance. Evil under the stairs, a ghost around the corner, and lots of skeletons that want to come out of one scary house's closet – and yet I wouldn't label the series purely a horror show. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have merely shaken off the optimism and enthusiasm that followed them for three years on Glee and decided to write down all the negative thoughts that had accumulated in their heads since the end of Nip/Tuck. And when the phenomenal Jessica Lange or the captivating Evan Peters come to their aid, they hit the mark. Although AHS is unsettling from the first seconds and creepily unpleasant with all its converging storylines, I found it hard to look away. If the family conversations didn't occasionally stutter in terms of pacing, the events could have been all that much more captivating. Still, this was the first obsidian from the black treasure box.
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Pilot: American Horror Story came out of nowhere. Until the day the pilot was out, I didn’t have any detailed information about it. When foreign horror websites wrote about it, I didn’t pay attention to the articles because the title made be expect some kind of documentary (like, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film). Under these circumstances, I didn’t have time to get sufficiently excited and maybe that’s why I liked the pilot more than if I’d been expecting something great. So far, it feels like Twin Peaks in a B-movie package. The cold opening is fantastically scary and the rest of the episode is entertainingly unsettling. I’m very curious about what aces the creators have up their sleeves, because stretching a haunted house story to the length of a TV series won’t be easy. There are two things that bother me: the character of Ben and that the scenes don’t link with each other very well – I’ve no idea whether the first episode takes place during a week, a month, or even more… The rating is provisional, I feel that with the remaining episodes the series can either drop to three or go up to five :) 1st season: So, it held to four. I liked the interesting characters and the story as a whole, which exploited everything it could out of the trodden premise of a haunted house, especially considering it is a twelve-episode series. If there’s one thing to complain about is that we didn’t get that many horror moments. But thumbs up. The last episode was a beautiful farewell to the characters and I’m looking forward to the second season, which will be about something completely different.
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American Horror Story is an ambitious project in the horror genre; with a touch of exaggeration, it could be compared to The Pacific in the war genre. Despite featuring a strong ensemble cast, the result does not meet my expectations, even though I really liked the pilot and would give it about four to five stars. In horror, it is generally believed that fear is best evoked by what you do not see or know. Unfortunately, this series is too literal and tries to explain the motivations and past of its (anti)heroes in such a way that both the horror and mysterious potentials of the story quickly disappear. Where in the first episodes the camera cuts and explores the underground spaces of the house, showing artifacts from a mad laboratory, faded photographs, and small pieces of the gloomy estate's history, the atmosphere is excellent. However, later on, it becomes more of a fantasy series about a world and a place where the living and the dead converge, resembling something like True Blood, though without its entertaining sexually deviant aspects. The series is more interesting in its first third because it still plays with the theme of uncertainty about the future of the characters. In this context, it is impossible not to think of the excellent Twin Peaks, which completely overturned the idea of the mystery genre and essentially redefined it. The strength of that project lay in Lynch's ability to deftly balance several genres, constantly keeping the viewer in suspense, as he revealed very little about his characters, and the viewer never knew where the ever-changing nature of his favorites would lead next. American Horror Story has many good gimmicks and micro-stories that would be rated with 5 stars if they were standalone Tales from the Crypt episodes, but here, it is necessary to evaluate the whole work comprehensively. Some of the characters are fantastic, with selfish and cold Jessica Lange being truly fascinating. However, as the series approaches its end, the screenwriters' helplessness increasingly surfaces, dragging the series down to mediocrity. In general, the direction is better than the screenplay. The second season followed the rule that sequels must bring much more to maintain the viewer's attention. It inundates the viewer with motifs that together create an incredible mishmash, which is more laughable than evoking tension and fear. It seems as if the team of screenwriters did not create a whole, but each followed their own line and played in their own sandbox, so Asylum mixes motifs of aliens, psychopaths, serial killers, war criminals, and purely spectral themes, including the devil himself. Again, there are many interesting characters whose stories often get lost, and because the series loses any logic and internal coherence, I have to mercilessly give it only two stars. Overall impression: 40%.
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