american horror story
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kricketsDear, FX. You are totally creeping me out. And not in a good way.
I cannot tell you how excited I was for this show. So excited! Now that I've seen it, I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in it. So disappointed!
Despite the cast and the presence of Connie Britton, who I am obligated to love forever and ever, this show was way more vulgar than scary. I was only actually scared twice, during both basement incidents. It was very pretty and creepy-looking and had a lot of elements that could have totally worked for me, but because of all the overuse of language/sex etc. It just felt like they were pushing the envelope way too quickly "just because they can." On top of that, the plot was kind of all over the place. And it just seemed like a really bad version of The Shining plus Rosemary's Baby. Except Dylan McDermott is always naked. *eyeroll*
The sexual nature of this "haunting" or whatever we're calling it was so over the top. Enough already.
Patient X is (to me) obviously not just some regular kid. I think he's part of the house, or a ghost or something and he/it's trying to get into the daughter's pants. (That conversation with the father? I'm afraid my big dick won't work? What? Who wrote this dialogue? .... wait nevermind...) The mom gets unknowingly raped/violated by another ghost/entity/the house. The father is being seduced/sexually harassed by the maid/dead lady/the house. So basically, I said this in my blog and I'll say it again here: The house is literally trying to fuck the entire family.
I definitely feel like the wife was raped. Sure, she initiated the sex and it's definitely a fine line, but I tried to put it into "real world" context in order to make better sense of what I was feeling. Pretend for a minute the house is not haunted. Instead of "rubber suit guy" -- it's a home intruder that has come into her bedroom. The lights are off and she can't see who is in the room, (no need for a mask) and assuming it is her husband, she lets this home intruder into her bed and has sex with him. To me, that's rape, and so is what happened to her. Even if the thing she had sex with might not be exactly human.
And then! She gets pregnant! Why? The whole demon/parasite baby storyline has been done so many times and it's just tired and completely offensive. If I wasn't already convinced not to watch the show, that sealed the deal for me.
And almost worse than all of this, is how annoying almost all of the characters are. The kids at school, the patient, the daughter (ugh, worse than Julie Taylor), the nosy neighbor, the neighbor's mother, the maid, russel edginton, etc. The father was probably the most annoying of them all though, with his naked walks through the house and his post-masturbatory guilty cry-fest and blaming the fact that his wife got a dog on his infidelity. In my brain I guess I can understand how a husband could become jealous of a dog when your wife won't even touch you. But the dog wasn't a replacement for you, you dumbass. It was a replacement for the baby that you lost. And getting a dog is by no stretch of the imagination on par with cheating on your wife. Just... NO. SHUT UP. GO CRY SOME MORE. (Yeah, I really hated him.)
Maybe I wouldn't have hated it so much if I liked the characters more. Even Viv was not that likable. She was just the only likable one in the bunch and so by comparison she looks really good.
I kind of hate giving up like this after just one episode, but I've been doing that more and more lately so this is probably it for me with this show.
I cannot tell you how excited I was for this show. So excited! Now that I've seen it, I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in it. So disappointed!
Despite the cast and the presence of Connie Britton, who I am obligated to love forever and ever, this show was way more vulgar than scary. I was only actually scared twice, during both basement incidents. It was very pretty and creepy-looking and had a lot of elements that could have totally worked for me, but because of all the overuse of language/sex etc. It just felt like they were pushing the envelope way too quickly "just because they can." On top of that, the plot was kind of all over the place. And it just seemed like a really bad version of The Shining plus Rosemary's Baby. Except Dylan McDermott is always naked. *eyeroll*
The sexual nature of this "haunting" or whatever we're calling it was so over the top. Enough already.
Patient X is (to me) obviously not just some regular kid. I think he's part of the house, or a ghost or something and he/it's trying to get into the daughter's pants. (That conversation with the father? I'm afraid my big dick won't work? What? Who wrote this dialogue? .... wait nevermind...) The mom gets unknowingly raped/violated by another ghost/entity/the house. The father is being seduced/sexually harassed by the maid/dead lady/the house. So basically, I said this in my blog and I'll say it again here: The house is literally trying to fuck the entire family.
I definitely feel like the wife was raped. Sure, she initiated the sex and it's definitely a fine line, but I tried to put it into "real world" context in order to make better sense of what I was feeling. Pretend for a minute the house is not haunted. Instead of "rubber suit guy" -- it's a home intruder that has come into her bedroom. The lights are off and she can't see who is in the room, (no need for a mask) and assuming it is her husband, she lets this home intruder into her bed and has sex with him. To me, that's rape, and so is what happened to her. Even if the thing she had sex with might not be exactly human.
And then! She gets pregnant! Why? The whole demon/parasite baby storyline has been done so many times and it's just tired and completely offensive. If I wasn't already convinced not to watch the show, that sealed the deal for me.
And almost worse than all of this, is how annoying almost all of the characters are. The kids at school, the patient, the daughter (ugh, worse than Julie Taylor), the nosy neighbor, the neighbor's mother, the maid, russel edginton, etc. The father was probably the most annoying of them all though, with his naked walks through the house and his post-masturbatory guilty cry-fest and blaming the fact that his wife got a dog on his infidelity. In my brain I guess I can understand how a husband could become jealous of a dog when your wife won't even touch you. But the dog wasn't a replacement for you, you dumbass. It was a replacement for the baby that you lost. And getting a dog is by no stretch of the imagination on par with cheating on your wife. Just... NO. SHUT UP. GO CRY SOME MORE. (Yeah, I really hated him.)
Maybe I wouldn't have hated it so much if I liked the characters more. Even Viv was not that likable. She was just the only likable one in the bunch and so by comparison she looks really good.
I kind of hate giving up like this after just one episode, but I've been doing that more and more lately so this is probably it for me with this show.
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Date: 2011-10-09 01:47 am (UTC)And she was raped. You don't have to explain it--she was raped.
I HATE that little psychotic patient/student boy and all these weird psychotic popular girls? Like, who's like that? And the husband IS shit written. I don't care WTH he says anymore, his whole 'dog' speech was ridiculous. But I don't know, I haven't met a grown man male character Murphy hasn't ruined.
I wouldn't mind the extravagant horror if maybe--the characters were more grounded in reality. But apparently whatever city they're in EVERYONE is f-ed up. I thought the infidelity, and her miscarriage would lead to some simple good storytelling but no--they screwed that up pretty quickly. And the girl apparently goes to the weirdest high school ever and met a super psychotic boyfriend to make things more ridiculous. So the fact that she also cuts herself pisses me off too because it's a serious issue amongst teens but it seems like another drama WOW factor. And the neighbors are crazy, because why the hell not.
Ugh, this show was dumb. 0% good storytelling. I'm going to give it another episode but yea the fact that someone other than me thought all these things, makes me feel better. And definitely makes me think that nothing is going to change throughout the season.
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Date: 2011-10-09 05:34 am (UTC)It really was distasteful. I remember not liking Glee very much when I first watched it, and I feel like the show runner may be a part of the problem. You're right about his ego, it pretty much shines through like a beacon. Adding these things in for a wow factor is exactly what it seemed like. (How many times can we say the words "cock sucker" in the span of 20 seconds in the most offensive context possible, because women aren't degraded enough, right?) So yeah, NOT A FAN.
And for me it definitely boiled down to the characters. They were unrealistic and for the most part just plain irritating. I can deal with dark subject matter but not when the characters suck this much. Just... no.