Teasers: http://tv.yahoo.com/show/47580/videos/26136944
http://tv.yahoo.com/show/47580/video...pOfHIBFwIpe9MF
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Early preview reactions:
NPR:
I'll have a final review closer to its October premiere, but they said they welcomed initial reactions, so let me say this: American Horror Story is emphatically not for everybody. It's a genre piece, it's very campy, and a significant number of critics in the theater with me didn't like it at all.
I, on the other hand, did.
It tells the story of the Harmon family: Vivien (Connie Britton) and Ben (Dylan McDermott) and their teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga). They've got plenty of family problems, but their newest one is that they have moved into a straight-up haunted house. And it's not pleasantly haunted by friendly ghosts that look like Casper, either. It's haunted by demon-y looking things, and it may possibly cause you to hallucinate, and it has a history of not just spooking but downright ... well, devouring the people who live in it.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...eators-of-glee
TV Worth Watching:
Without question, it's THE new show of the fall TV season. It's so good, it's scary. And it's so scary, it's good...
American Horror Story, which launches Oct. 5 at 10 p.m. ET (make plans accordingly), is co-created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the team behind FX's Nip/Tuck and Fox's Glee. Returning to their original roost, this new series is based upon the most familiar of horror plots: a family moves into a haunted house, and bad things happen.
But while the premise is conventional, and the knowing nods to everything from The Shining (with its aggressively sexy spectre, right) and Don't Look Now to The Amityville Horror are there for the finding, most of American Horror Story is breathtakingly bold and daringly different. For a basic cable series, it pushes limits, and redefines them, but without getting into gratuitous gore or needless nudity territory.
http://www.tvworthwatching.com/blog/...tory-get.shtml
Kansas City Star:
So let's acknowledge this: In an industry that has lately become risk-averse, where cable channels that a decade ago lived on a diet of reality and reruns are now burdened by the need to find scripted hits that remind viewers of their earlier scripted hits, American Horror Story is by far the most thought-provoking and arresting TV pilot of the fall season.
That's not to say it's going to be any good, and indeed as the screening went on in the Little Theatre on the Fox lot, I could hear titters and laughs tinged with derision, as though my peers had a sense that the wheels were already coming off. Again, past is prologue, and this is a Murphy production, just like Nip/Tuck, which started out so high concept and wound up a weird mutilation-titillation soap.
Perhaps some of the laughter I heard came from scenes that showed it to be so earnestly an homage to auteur-driven horror films like The Shining and Rosemary's Baby (Falchuk even told us it was an homage in his pre-screening comments). Or maybe it was just a nervous reaction to all the quick cuts and bizarre twists of fate, presented in a nonstop assault that went on for most of an hour.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/02...#ixzz1U5KBUJMR
LA Times:
Falchuck said movies like "The Exoricst" and "The Shining" served as inspiration for the series. The first day of shooting post-pilot began Tuesday.
So what can you expect? Jessica Lange drew laughs as a nosey neighbor with a Southern accent and something to hide. The title sequence is designed by Kyle Cooper, who did the landmark opening for "Se7en." And there are more than a few butt shots of Dylan McDermott. Oh, and a dude in a rubber suit.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...or-story-.html
Hard to say how this show will go, but based on the intial reactions it's got me interested. If not just for the FX-brand, Connie Britton and the horror aspect but to see if this show really will push the boundaries of cable.
90 minute premiere: October 5th, 10pm
Teasers: http://tv.yahoo.com/show/47580/videos/26136944
http://tv.yahoo.com/show/47580/video...pOfHIBFwIpe9MF
Early preview reactions:
NPR:
I'll have a final review closer to its October premiere, but they said they welcomed initial reactions, so let me say this: American Horror Story is emphatically not for everybody. It's a genre piece, it's very campy, and a significant number of critics in the theater with me didn't like it at all.
I, on the other hand, did.
It tells the story of the Harmon family: Vivien (Connie Britton) and Ben (Dylan McDermott) and their teenage daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga). They've got plenty of family problems, but their newest one is that they have moved into a straight-up haunted house. And it's not pleasantly haunted by friendly ghosts that look like Casper, either. It's haunted by demon-y looking things, and it may possibly cause you to hallucinate, and it has a history of not just spooking but downright ... well, devouring the people who live in it.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...eators-of-glee
TV Worth Watching:
Without question, it's THE new show of the fall TV season. It's so good, it's scary. And it's so scary, it's good...
American Horror Story, which launches Oct. 5 at 10 p.m. ET (make plans accordingly), is co-created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the team behind FX's Nip/Tuck and Fox's Glee. Returning to their original roost, this new series is based upon the most familiar of horror plots: a family moves into a haunted house, and bad things happen.
But while the premise is conventional, and the knowing nods to everything from The Shining (with its aggressively sexy spectre, right) and Don't Look Now to The Amityville Horror are there for the finding, most of American Horror Story is breathtakingly bold and daringly different. For a basic cable series, it pushes limits, and redefines them, but without getting into gratuitous gore or needless nudity territory.
http://www.tvworthwatching.com/blog/...tory-get.shtml
Kansas City Star:
So let's acknowledge this: In an industry that has lately become risk-averse, where cable channels that a decade ago lived on a diet of reality and reruns are now burdened by the need to find scripted hits that remind viewers of their earlier scripted hits, American Horror Story is by far the most thought-provoking and arresting TV pilot of the fall season.
That's not to say it's going to be any good, and indeed as the screening went on in the Little Theatre on the Fox lot, I could hear titters and laughs tinged with derision, as though my peers had a sense that the wheels were already coming off. Again, past is prologue, and this is a Murphy production, just like Nip/Tuck, which started out so high concept and wound up a weird mutilation-titillation soap.
Perhaps some of the laughter I heard came from scenes that showed it to be so earnestly an homage to auteur-driven horror films like The Shining and Rosemary's Baby (Falchuk even told us it was an homage in his pre-screening comments). Or maybe it was just a nervous reaction to all the quick cuts and bizarre twists of fate, presented in a nonstop assault that went on for most of an hour.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/02...#ixzz1U5KBUJMR
LA Times:
Falchuck said movies like "The Exoricst" and "The Shining" served as inspiration for the series. The first day of shooting post-pilot began Tuesday.
So what can you expect? Jessica Lange drew laughs as a nosey neighbor with a Southern accent and something to hide. The title sequence is designed by Kyle Cooper, who did the landmark opening for "Se7en." And there are more than a few butt shots of Dylan McDermott. Oh, and a dude in a rubber suit.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/show...or-story-.html
Hard to say how this show will go, but based on the intial reactions it's got me interested. If not just for the FX-brand, Connie Britton and the horror aspect but to see if this show really will push the boundaries of cable.
90 minute premiere: October 5th, 10pm
