American Horror Story
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shadowkatDid a lot of wandering about today. Planned on getting a haircut, but alas, wimped out. I need to find a good reliable stylist and just keep going back to them. Instead of having a new one each 6-8 months. I hate getting my hair-cut. It's rare I get a haircut that I actually like. Also bought Bloody Mary Mix from the grocery store - which is wickedly strong. Jeeze. My lips were numb from whatever they put in it. Talk about being "hot". You can't taste or feel the vodka, which is not necessarily a good thing. However, does clean the sinus cavities and makes one feel admittedly lovely afterwards. And they say alcohol isn't a drug. Seriously, if alcohol is legal, why isn't marijuana or cocaine? All three have their problems. Of the three, marijunana is probably the safest and healthiest.
Also watched American Horror Story. By the way, for those who missed an episode, such as the second episode, they are doing an marathon on Halloween night starting at 10 pm on F/X. Just set your DVR's.
Great to watch this in broad daylight, so bright, that you can barely see the tv screen.
Works quite well. The creepiest thing in this show is ...the rubber man. I don't know why exactly, but the rubber man bugs me. Nothing else really does. I'm guessing because everything else in the story is taken from other stories or movies, so I've seen it before.
While the rubber man is sort of new and different.
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck ...fascinate me in a weirdly masochistic/sadistic sort of way. I get their brand of humor and understand their rage. Their humor, which is pitch black is also soaked in rage. It's angry humor, and as result razor sharp at times - biting satire.
In all of their shows, Nip/Tuck, Glee, and AHS - there is a mentally challenged child somewhere in the show who is horribly killed or abused or makes friends/bonds with someone who is a pseudo-tormented adult villain (Sue Sylvertrie in Glee or Jessica Lange in AHS). Also in all of their shows - there is a theme about gender, how it is perceived, and how it is dealt with. Their humor is often targeted at the "pretty" people or "norms" - the heterosexual, non-queer, non-different, plastic folk that populate many a television sitcom. The bullies. Who basically look like Dallas on Subrogatory. And it is humor that is filled with rage. At times, watching a Ryan Murphy show - I feel like I'm watching the tv series that Jonathan, Andrew, Amy and Warren from Buffy would come up with. It's that same level of rage.
I wouldn't call it misanthropic, exactly, since it's not - it's more targeted than that.
And it is biting. In AHS, it's also self-abusing, against infidelty, or people who try to change themselves to fit in with the "norm" or "mainstream". [ETA: In this episode for example - the mentally challenged girl-child, Adelaid, dies after she attempts to become the pretty normal girl for Halloween, racing after the other normal pretty girls who have rejected her.]
Although...in AHS, Dylan McDermott and his wife Vivaian, are rather mainstream and the only characters that don't appear to be satirized as of yet. Give them time. Odd, that I can't remember Dylan McDermott's character's name, but can remember Britton's, not sure why that is. I rather adore Connie Britton as an actress, she's understated, yet emotes. Perfect balance. McDermott - is a good actor, but there's something about him that annoys me, I don't know what it is. A holier-than-thou smugness? I really don't know. But in this story he works, because I'm not supposed to like him and rooting against him is oddly fun.
The characters are oddly enough growing on me. And I love the fact that the ghosts wander about without the characters or the ghosts realizing that they are, ahem, ghosts. This episode was like that. The fluffers that show up to help carve pumpkins and put on a great Halloween, are the most recent past owners, who like the current family/owners, wanted to sell the house but couldn't, and couldn't leave because their finances were wrapped up in it. They are, as we know, but the family doesn't, dead. Ghosts.
I can't say it is exactly scary, or laugh out loud funny...although I am entertained and do laugh on occassion, and like I stated above, the rubber man bugs me. It's the only thing, oddly that does. Well him and the weird frankenstein baby demon in the basement, although that, not so much. We did get more information on baby demon this week. Also a bit on Rubber Man, who apparently killed the gay lovers, who pop up as ghosts in this week's episode.
I'm curious though...is the psycho patient of Dylan McDermott also the Rubber Man, and therefore a ghost? Or not? It's not clear. Could be either.
That's why I'm still watching...I don't find Murphy all that predictable. I never quite know what he will do next. Which is something I clearly find entertaining. Is it good? Not really. But it is definitely fun and different. Sort of like Once Upon a Time. Once is comforting, children's story...I like children's stories and children's fairy tales. I find them comforting. And AHS is an adult horror satirical rollercoaster ride. What both have in common, outside of being a bit rough on the writing end of the spectrum, is that they are the most innovative and different things on tv at the moment. Also the two brightest stars of the new fall season, outside of maybe Revenge and Subrogatory, which are also quite innovative and different in their own unique way.
Eh, off to pick up laundry.
Also watched American Horror Story. By the way, for those who missed an episode, such as the second episode, they are doing an marathon on Halloween night starting at 10 pm on F/X. Just set your DVR's.
Great to watch this in broad daylight, so bright, that you can barely see the tv screen.
Works quite well. The creepiest thing in this show is ...the rubber man. I don't know why exactly, but the rubber man bugs me. Nothing else really does. I'm guessing because everything else in the story is taken from other stories or movies, so I've seen it before.
While the rubber man is sort of new and different.
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuck ...fascinate me in a weirdly masochistic/sadistic sort of way. I get their brand of humor and understand their rage. Their humor, which is pitch black is also soaked in rage. It's angry humor, and as result razor sharp at times - biting satire.
In all of their shows, Nip/Tuck, Glee, and AHS - there is a mentally challenged child somewhere in the show who is horribly killed or abused or makes friends/bonds with someone who is a pseudo-tormented adult villain (Sue Sylvertrie in Glee or Jessica Lange in AHS). Also in all of their shows - there is a theme about gender, how it is perceived, and how it is dealt with. Their humor is often targeted at the "pretty" people or "norms" - the heterosexual, non-queer, non-different, plastic folk that populate many a television sitcom. The bullies. Who basically look like Dallas on Subrogatory. And it is humor that is filled with rage. At times, watching a Ryan Murphy show - I feel like I'm watching the tv series that Jonathan, Andrew, Amy and Warren from Buffy would come up with. It's that same level of rage.
I wouldn't call it misanthropic, exactly, since it's not - it's more targeted than that.
And it is biting. In AHS, it's also self-abusing, against infidelty, or people who try to change themselves to fit in with the "norm" or "mainstream". [ETA: In this episode for example - the mentally challenged girl-child, Adelaid, dies after she attempts to become the pretty normal girl for Halloween, racing after the other normal pretty girls who have rejected her.]
Although...in AHS, Dylan McDermott and his wife Vivaian, are rather mainstream and the only characters that don't appear to be satirized as of yet. Give them time. Odd, that I can't remember Dylan McDermott's character's name, but can remember Britton's, not sure why that is. I rather adore Connie Britton as an actress, she's understated, yet emotes. Perfect balance. McDermott - is a good actor, but there's something about him that annoys me, I don't know what it is. A holier-than-thou smugness? I really don't know. But in this story he works, because I'm not supposed to like him and rooting against him is oddly fun.
The characters are oddly enough growing on me. And I love the fact that the ghosts wander about without the characters or the ghosts realizing that they are, ahem, ghosts. This episode was like that. The fluffers that show up to help carve pumpkins and put on a great Halloween, are the most recent past owners, who like the current family/owners, wanted to sell the house but couldn't, and couldn't leave because their finances were wrapped up in it. They are, as we know, but the family doesn't, dead. Ghosts.
I can't say it is exactly scary, or laugh out loud funny...although I am entertained and do laugh on occassion, and like I stated above, the rubber man bugs me. It's the only thing, oddly that does. Well him and the weird frankenstein baby demon in the basement, although that, not so much. We did get more information on baby demon this week. Also a bit on Rubber Man, who apparently killed the gay lovers, who pop up as ghosts in this week's episode.
I'm curious though...is the psycho patient of Dylan McDermott also the Rubber Man, and therefore a ghost? Or not? It's not clear. Could be either.
That's why I'm still watching...I don't find Murphy all that predictable. I never quite know what he will do next. Which is something I clearly find entertaining. Is it good? Not really. But it is definitely fun and different. Sort of like Once Upon a Time. Once is comforting, children's story...I like children's stories and children's fairy tales. I find them comforting. And AHS is an adult horror satirical rollercoaster ride. What both have in common, outside of being a bit rough on the writing end of the spectrum, is that they are the most innovative and different things on tv at the moment. Also the two brightest stars of the new fall season, outside of maybe Revenge and Subrogatory, which are also quite innovative and different in their own unique way.
Eh, off to pick up laundry.
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Date: 2011-10-30 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-30 11:41 pm (UTC)Halloween is always pretty tame in comparison.
Nip/Tuck always went nuts around that time of year, so does Glee for that matter - last year we had an insane Xmas parody of basically everything.
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Date: 2011-10-30 11:12 pm (UTC)Re:McDermott - he often acts with a very righteous intensity that can make even his sympathetic characters hateable...
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Date: 2011-10-30 11:38 pm (UTC)Anyhow, I agree.
Re:McDermott - he often acts with a very righteous intensity that can make even his sympathetic characters hateable...
Sigh, yes. That's it, exactly. I found him unwatchable in The Practice. Here...it's easier, because you sort of get to root for the House to take him down.