Oh, Ryan
Murphy must be in my head! Maybe not!
But wow, a
horror story with my favourite AHS cast member, Finn Wittrock, playing a
WRITER!
A crazy
writer, perhaps like Jack Torrance, or perhaps not, you’ll have to watch to find
out!
And yes,
Finn-Harry, writing is hard. But the lure of fame and fortune at any cost is
harder, isn’t it?
I’m loving
this story so far.
There’s
also a violinist!
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I’ll try
not to be too spoilery and since it’s just the beginning episodes, anything can
happen as this is Ryan Murphy after all!
Harry (Finn
Wittrock) and his pregnant wife (Lily Rabe) and their pre-teen daughter, Alma (Ryan
Kiera Armstrong), a virtuoso violinist move into a creepy house in Massachusetts so
Harry can find his muse for a TV pilot his agent needs him to write as Hollywood is calling.
(Way to go,
Harry. I’ve been working on TV pilots myself…oh, can't wait for Hollywood to call!)
This is the
first time for me that I’ve seen Finn cast as a grown-up. Of course, I’ve not
yet had a chance to see all his work as I’m still waiting for some to be
released here in Canada. I saw him in Judy and he played the husband of Judy
Garland but he wasn’t a family man. In this show, Finn is a dad! No more pretty
boy young angry monster roles, I guess…our Finn has grown up.
Well, we
know he’ll likely be back to naked push-ups in Season Two of Ratched so don’t despair!
I love seeing
Finn as a husband to a pregnant wife and with a daughter. It’s fun and he does
it well.
(He's married with a child in real life so he knows what to do!)
Some weirdness
happens.
Harry has huge writer’s block as all of us writers who face daunting deadlines get.
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Harry is
excited to meet a couple of rich and famous writers who live in town. They want
to share their secrets of success with him. Of course, these authors with their
temptations are played by Evan Peters and Frances Conroy who look like they are
having the time of their lives vamping it up as they lure in reluctant Harry.
Harry is
faced with the choice of taking a little pill to enhance his writing abilities.
His daughter also learns about the pills when she spies on him. She’s been frustrated with her violin practicing. She’s a virtuoso but stumbles on a passage in the music.
Mom is a
home decorator who seems to be lost in the shuffle of family talent. No one
really takes her seriously, not her writer-husband and not her violinist-daughter.
The drug brings
fame and fortune to those who have real talent. As well as blood lust. To those
who don’t, they turn into despicable insane vampire creatures.
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Harry takes
the drug and writes up a storm.
His
daughter sneaks the drug and plays up a storm, no more stumbles!
Mom doesn’t
know why her husband and daughter are obsessive assholes.
In the
meantime, we meet Sarah Paulson, Macaulay Culkin, and Billie Lourd as well as
some other franchise favourites.
Billie, (who is one of my lady AHS favourites along with Emma Roberts who I hope is in this but not sure, they did both just have babies in real life) plays a tattoo artist dentist!
Sarah plays
an addict called Karen which I’m sure is a hilarious nod to the current state
of Karen in our modern times. Sarah is so far doing her usual great job of stranger in a strange land.
Macaulay
plays a writer who flirts with the idea of taking the drug. We’ll find out
later if he has talent or not. I'm loving watching him as an adult.
I’m sure
that eventually Lily Rabe will discover the drug and we’ll find out whether she
has talent or not. Right now, they are playing like she doesn’t really, her decorating
abilities are rather stale but they may be tricking us for a twist ending where
she’ll survive and everyone dies. Or maybe the baby has talent and she doesn’t.
Or who knows what kind of crazy Murphy has in mind for that pregnancy!
We have The Shining, Cape Fear, Salem's Lot, vampires, drugs, temptation, monsters, New England...
Anyway, so
far so good.
I’m hooked
in as always.
Can’t wait
for next week!
Oh, and as a little side note, Finn was born in Massachusetts so there's that little homage as well!
