AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Birth’

Well, that may have been one of the most anticlimactic TV deaths I’ve seen in a long time.

Vodcast! Danielle and Marisa Share Which Shows Have Surprised Them in 2011

Ever watch a show and think you know how you’ll react to it and then find yourself pleasantly surprised the more you tune in? If you’re anything like my friend Danielle Turchiano (from Made Possible By Pop Culture) and I, it’s something that’s happened quite a bit this season. So what did we do? We […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Smoldering Children’

Contractually, Connie Britton must be signed for all 13 episodes this season, because why else would she make a one-scene appearance in this episode? Violet, Constance, and Larry have all had weeks off, so it’s not like everyone gets used every week. Vivien’s scene just felt like it was there because Britton had to have […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Spooky Little Girl’

The previews at the end of last week’s episode, “Rubber Man,” made it look like “Spooky Little Girl” was going to take a sharp right turn into Dan Brown-style religious conspiracy. I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to that, so I guess I was happy that it only took up the last two minutes of the […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Rubber Man’

AMERICAN HORROR STORY isn’t like every other show on television. How do we know that? Not because a key plot point is that a ghost in a rubber gimp suit had sex with a main character, and is now in love/sleeping with that character’s daughter. Not because, on an even simpler level, a key plot […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Open House’

We’ve now passed the halfway point for the first season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY and now, more than ever, it looks like the long-term plan is to keep the house front and center, with the occupants perhaps rotating through. Even though the potential buyer is no longer in any position to purchase the lot for […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Piggy Piggy’

After tying up the Halloween two-parter last week, AMERICAN HORROR STORY was back to business as usual last night. That meant no Hayden, no Chad, no Larry, no gimp suit. Instead, we got Eric Stonestreet guest starring as a man with a crippling fear of urban legends (fitting that MODERN FAMILY had the night off), […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Halloween, Part 2’

We’re now five episodes into AMERICAN HORROR STORY (which just got picked up for a second season), and things finally seem to be headed somewhere. In the first few episodes, some groundwork was laid for both the characters and the mythology, but it got swallowed up by body parts in glass jars, off-putting camera angles, […]

FX Renews AMERICAN HORROR STORY for Season 2

Well, this is certainly appropriately timed: FX has renewed AMERICAN HORROR STORY for a second season. Given the ratings, the renewal isn’t a shock, but I do wonder what season 2 will look like for the show. How many characters that we’ve gotten to know this season will continue on? Will there be a new […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Halloween, Part 1’

For a show that seems to be more a collection of ideas and concepts than an actual coherent whole, Halloween sounds like the type of occasion where AMERICAN HORROR STORY could go all-out and completely off the rails. Yet, surprisingly, “Halloween, Part 1” was the series’ most restrained, and best, episode to date; we’ll see […]

The TV Talk Podcast: GLEE, REAL HOUSEWIVES, VAMPIRE DIARIES, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, DEXTER and More

Kath and Dan are back with another marathon TV Talk Podcast. Hours of channel flipping chit-chat to get you through the week. Once again there’s lots of laughs, lots of TV talk and lots of inappropriate things your kids can’t listen to. Enjoy! Highlights: Dead Husband Drinking Game continues Ducky says something dirty that literally […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Murder House’

Although the AMERICAN HORROR STORY timeline is a little unclear, it seems safe to assume the Harmons have not been living in Los Angeles for very long; in any case, it has only been three episodes for the audience. Almost immediately, though, from the very beginning of the series, a large question loomed over the […]

About Last Night…PSYCH, SUBURGATORY, AMERICAN HORROR STORY and HAPPY ENDINGS

Wednesday was one of those nights where I knew I had a ton of stuff to watch…and yet I barely made a dent. It’s entirely probable most of my distraction was due to the season premiere of PSYCH. The show is truly one of my personal television highlights, and I’m so glad it’s back. Lassiter […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Recap: ‘Home Invasion’

After a completely off-the-walls premiere which established that anything and everything could happen in the Harmons’ new mansion, AMERICAN HORROR STORY settled down a bit in episode two – which is to say, it contained ipecac syrup cupcakes, 1960s murder reenactors, and a mirror-filled punishment closet for Addy, but, you know, no gimp suits or […]

AMERICAN HORROR STORY Series Premiere Recap: ‘Pilot’

About two-thirds of the way through the series premiere of AMERICAN HORROR STORY, as they stare at the freshly uncovered murals in their new parlor room, Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott) tells wife Vivien (Connie Britton) a story one of his psychology professors once told him. “People tell stories to cope with their fears,” he tells […]