American Horror Story
It just isn't a proper mystery without a disconcertingly sexy maid.
Precisely when I thought I could not fit another crumb on my plate of fandoms, a giant slice of cake has managed to find room. Or perhaps it's a cupcake. A chocolate cupcake, even. Either way, it is guilt-free, because the writing in American Horror Story is solid. AHS is gore with style and sex. Cue my eyebrows raising at the dissonance thrumming from Ryan Murphy's C.V. Glee, American Horror Story. My curiosity over Nip/Tuck has reached positively feline levels.
Thoughts.
"People will say we're in love." Is it wrong to love Larry Harvey, the man who burned his entire family alive in their beds, for making a perfect Silence of the Lambs reference and wearing a hat like a decent skulking in the shadows character should? If it is, then I don't want to be right.
I can't help but wonder if Ryan Murphy wrote the part of Constance with Jessica Lange specifically in mind. Something about the way she lets her soothing Southern songbird voice crack and tilt to reveal glimpses of the true nutbar nature of her character makes me think selecting her for the role was the ultimate in perfection in casting.
Alexandra Breckenridge. I'm speaking of Ms. Young Moira here, of course. Fire red hair and stockings with garters, oh my. I'll be in my bunk. (Do people still say that? No matter.)
Questions, with theories.
Why do Vivien and Ben see Moira differently? Theory One: Moira is a witch of some sort. This crossed my mind when Constance warned her, "Don't make me kill you again", but perhaps I've been watching too much Supernatural. Theory Two: The House, being haunted, causes Ben to see Moira differently with the purpose of creating further discord between the two, with the end game being of the violent and bloody sort.
Why did Constance bake ipecac cupcakes for Violet? At first I thought maybe somehow Constance foresaw the wanna-be copycat killers coming to the house and the chain of events that would lead to one of them eating the cupcakes, but then I realized that was simply too convoluted an explanation. Now I am leaning toward jealousy as a motive. Constance said she'd given birth to four (or was it five?) children, all of whom were born with some form of malady, with the exception of one perfect boy who was taken from her in another way. She also uttered something potentially portentous about the joy of bringing a child into the world versus the unimaginable grief of losing one. Add to that the fact that she is abusive toward her own daughter, Adelaide, who has Down Syndrome, as well as slightly off-balance in general, and it would not be a stretch to say that she is probably at least somewhat envious of Vivien for having Violet, who is, in her own estimation, a healthy, "normal" daughter.
What is the deal with Tate, Constance, and Moira? I don't have a theory for this one, but I did play the "Oh my gosh, where do I know him from?" game with Evan Peters. Answer: Invasion, which all of five people in the world watched - (two of those being my husband and I), which was why it got cancelled after one season even though it was actually decent and starred the seriously fine William Fichtner, not to mention the hilarious Tyler Labine and completely beautiful Alexis Dziena. Speaking of Dziena and Fichtner, though, they both have roles in Wrong, the teaser trailer and premise for which make me think it will be exactly my brand of quirky. Must see. Well, that was a marathon of a tangent!
Precisely when I thought I could not fit another crumb on my plate of fandoms, a giant slice of cake has managed to find room. Or perhaps it's a cupcake. A chocolate cupcake, even. Either way, it is guilt-free, because the writing in American Horror Story is solid. AHS is gore with style and sex. Cue my eyebrows raising at the dissonance thrumming from Ryan Murphy's C.V. Glee, American Horror Story. My curiosity over Nip/Tuck has reached positively feline levels.
Thoughts.
"People will say we're in love." Is it wrong to love Larry Harvey, the man who burned his entire family alive in their beds, for making a perfect Silence of the Lambs reference and wearing a hat like a decent skulking in the shadows character should? If it is, then I don't want to be right.
I can't help but wonder if Ryan Murphy wrote the part of Constance with Jessica Lange specifically in mind. Something about the way she lets her soothing Southern songbird voice crack and tilt to reveal glimpses of the true nutbar nature of her character makes me think selecting her for the role was the ultimate in perfection in casting.
Alexandra Breckenridge. I'm speaking of Ms. Young Moira here, of course. Fire red hair and stockings with garters, oh my. I'll be in my bunk. (Do people still say that? No matter.)
Questions, with theories.
Why do Vivien and Ben see Moira differently? Theory One: Moira is a witch of some sort. This crossed my mind when Constance warned her, "Don't make me kill you again", but perhaps I've been watching too much Supernatural. Theory Two: The House, being haunted, causes Ben to see Moira differently with the purpose of creating further discord between the two, with the end game being of the violent and bloody sort.
Why did Constance bake ipecac cupcakes for Violet? At first I thought maybe somehow Constance foresaw the wanna-be copycat killers coming to the house and the chain of events that would lead to one of them eating the cupcakes, but then I realized that was simply too convoluted an explanation. Now I am leaning toward jealousy as a motive. Constance said she'd given birth to four (or was it five?) children, all of whom were born with some form of malady, with the exception of one perfect boy who was taken from her in another way. She also uttered something potentially portentous about the joy of bringing a child into the world versus the unimaginable grief of losing one. Add to that the fact that she is abusive toward her own daughter, Adelaide, who has Down Syndrome, as well as slightly off-balance in general, and it would not be a stretch to say that she is probably at least somewhat envious of Vivien for having Violet, who is, in her own estimation, a healthy, "normal" daughter.
What is the deal with Tate, Constance, and Moira? I don't have a theory for this one, but I did play the "Oh my gosh, where do I know him from?" game with Evan Peters. Answer: Invasion, which all of five people in the world watched - (two of those being my husband and I), which was why it got cancelled after one season even though it was actually decent and starred the seriously fine William Fichtner, not to mention the hilarious Tyler Labine and completely beautiful Alexis Dziena. Speaking of Dziena and Fichtner, though, they both have roles in Wrong, the teaser trailer and premise for which make me think it will be exactly my brand of quirky. Must see. Well, that was a marathon of a tangent!