American Horror Story

This new series on FX debuted last week too much fanfare. Brought to us by the producers of Glee and being aired on FX one assumes the show will be on the edge, certainly not network fare.

The cast is strong led by Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott and in a deliciously nasty role Jessica Lange. The show is over the top. You cannot look at something else, you will miss something. My wife had bad dreams and was up in the hour after watching this.

That said it is kind of campy, it is not slightly scary it is over the top scary all the time. The first episode did a good job introducing much of the plotlines. We see two boys killed in a house twenty five years ago. We see an East Coast couple suffering through a found out about affair. Next we see the family moving into the house.

We see weird neighbors, little children with down syndrome telling people they are going to die. We see a young man with violent fantasies being treated by a psychiatrist played by McDermott and befriending his daughter who has her own issues.

This show is weird. It is scary. You cannot take your eyes off it. Connie Britton is wonderful in everything she does. I joked with my wife that Coach Taylor is going to be awful upset when he finds out what she is doing.

FX has the ability to give a show some rope to succeed. This show should for awhile though the history of shows like this is that they burn out fast. Watch now so you can say you were there at the beginning.