Pilot Wings: American Horror Story- Murder House

Anyone and everyone can Review the newest Episodes of FX's AHS.  It takes a weirdo like me to go back to the very beginning...

In a Cold Open, two Twins- Horror Cliché #527- smash up a House, but are then seemingly-killed by someone or something.

In the Present, the same House is now bought by this Family.  They look so happy.

Looks can be deceiving.

He cheated on her, she has control issues and the Daughter is acting out for attention.  America!

In addition, he has a Patient with some dark, Columbine-esque fantasies.  On the plus side, he's already set to front a metal band!

With a weird lady- Jessica Lange-, a weird girl, weird visions and overall just plain weird shit going on, what will become this family?

Well, watch it on Netflix like I did to see.

An interesting start to something that became pretty damn huge.  Who would have thought that a Horror TV Show by the guy behind Glee would become so big?  The Show has some interesting, if random beginnings here.  This Episode is a real mish-mash of Themes and Motifs.  You get creepy twins, a strange girl, a man seeing visions of an age-changing Maid, a burned up man (see below) and a hint that some ghost stuff is going on.  At this point, it doesn't seem to have quite nailed down what it wants to be.  Is it about Ghosts?  Is it about crazy people?  Is it something more?  To be fair, this is the Pilot/1st Episode, so they have/had time to work it all out.  It could get more clear and focused as it goes on.  Just going by the Pilot, however, it is more of a 'throw everything at the wall and see what sticks' kind of thing.  That's not bad, mind you, just uninspired.  Clearly it is too late to make people not watch the Show- not that I am.  I was just hoping something mind-blowing here.  Oh well.  Maybe I'll check out the later Pilots/First Episodes to see how things turned out.  In the meantime, I just need to remind you again- don't wash your clothes with gasoline.  He did and it...it didn't end well.

A good, but awfully-random start to a TV Phenomenon.  I'm sure that it narrows a bit in focus as it goes on...but man is this one just kind of odd.