American Horror Story

Do you like your tv shows to be grotesque, terrifying, brutal and kinky? If you said yes, then you are going to love American Horror Story.

The show is based around the Harmon family. Mother Vivien (Connie Britton) is working through a traumatic miscarriage she had to deliver to term, while father Ben (Dylan McDermott) is trying to put his family back together after Vivien caught him sleeping with a student. He moves them plus their teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) across the country from Boston to an old Victorian mansion in Los Angeles.

Why is their new mansion so cheap? Because it was the site of a grisly murder-suicide and is supremely haunted.

Not only is it haunted by ghosts, but weird neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) keeps dropping by unannounced with her daughter Adelaide (Jamie Brewer). Constance moved to Los Angeles to be an actress long ago, but got pregnant and got stuck raising her "mongoloid" daughter with Down Syndrome instead.

Add to that a maid who appears as older Frances Conroy to everyone but Ben -- he sees the maid as young, sexy Alexandra Breckenridge, complete with French maid outfit and thigh-high stockings - and a creepy burned man (Denis O'Hare) who follows Ben around.

Finally, Ben's first patient in L.A. is troubled teen Tate (Evan Peters), who has fantasies about shooting up his school. And strikes up a friendship with Violet. You discover all of this in the first episode.

For the first season, there are only going to be 8 episodes and thankfully it has already been renewed for a second season. The reason I am so excited about this is because so many characters are being introduced and they are all weird as hell.

One example of the new characters introduced is the character known as The Rubber Man. The reason he is know as The Rubber Man is because he will only wear and Nothing is known about this character expect that he likes to get it on with some of the characters on the show while pretending to be their counterpart. Other than being extremely horny, he likes to kill people as well. Rubber Man will also appear just as quickly as he disappears in situations all of the time and he never speaks.

Some of the other characters that appear in the show are the former owners of the so called Murder Mansion, which includes former owners of the home, The Montgomery's, an unmarried gay couple, half burnt man who set fire and killed his entire family, and a weird man-baby who lives in the basement.

Apparently, the man-baby is the son of The Montgomery's. The husband was a doctor who performed illegal abortions in his basement while getting high. His wife served as a recruiter to get the girls to convince them to have the abortion. One day, The Montgomery's lost their baby and tried to make a new son out of the fetuses that were left over from the abortions and animal parts and created a monster.

I am glad that this show is around because I really haven't gotten into many too many shows, other than my secret shame of a show called The Lying Game, since Lost ended. I will say that I never know what to expect when I watch an episode of American Horror Story, but I will know I have to talk to friends afterwards to talk about after it ends.