Like Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck and Glee), who has put out another darling for families everywhere. American Horror Story (Wednesdays, 10PM Eastern/FX Network) is primarily centered around the Harmon family. It highlights sex, murder, self-mutilation, masturbation, S&M, dismembered fetuses, corpses, and demons, and a teenaged boy's fantasies of murdering his classmates.
And it's on basic cable. You can't opt out of having it--you are forced to pay for it.
Dr. Ben Harmon moves his family (after sleeping with one of his students) to a new state and a new home, which just happens to be haunted and (of course) has a history of gory murders. Rampant use of the ever-classy genital slang like “p***y” and “c***sucker.” is there, along with the good doctor Ben fantasizing about his housekeeper and masturbating himself to a very graphic and loud orgasm. His wife is shown having sex with (and becoming pregnant by) someone in a full-body rubber S&M bondage suit. This rubber-wearing lunatic may or may not be her husband.
And it's on basic cable.
Victims are stabbed or axed to death, forcibly drowned, or graphically murdered. Each episode also includes views of dismembered corpses, fetuses, and what I can only surmise to be demons.
But you know what really gets me? It's when a Christian is sexually assaulted and murdered while praying. I think it goes unsaid that Ryan Murphy and his cronies over at FX wouldn't dare exhibit this type of violence on another religion. Maybe Murphy has a love/hate thing with God. Maybe he's secretly enraged over Christian doctrine and theology and uses his medium of television to exert said rage. Maybe he was a nerdy kid who was picked on by jocks at parochial school. Who knows? What is certain is that Murphy and FX are a bunch of talentless hacks who are using the most predictable, unoriginal and banal means of shock value around: Picking on the church. He may be rich and successful, but talented he ain't.
I included a clip of the show, which opens with a disabled girl staring ominously at two boys who threaten to hurt her with baseball bats. Creepy, yes. Cheap and trite? Yes. But maybe in the mind of Murphy, nothing says "horror" like a kid with Down's Syndrome, right?
Curious who sponsored American Horror Story? See below and click the links to contact the sponsors. Tell them to pull out or they'll lose a consumer.
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7 comments:
My husband and I made a mistake watching this through our Hulu account. I had no idea it was a production of the Glee/Nip Tuck team. I HATED Nip Tuck and I can't stomach Glee (though the songs were fun for a few episodes). We started to watch American Horror Story and thought for sure that the opening was the end of the nastiness - many shows try to catch you in those first few minutes. Oh how wrong we were! YUCK!! Those images will forever be stuck in my head and I am worse person for having watched them. I am glad we don't have a cable tv subscription so my kids will never accidentally stumble on this junk.
Thanks Crystal. I've contacted all sponsors and will be warning against this filth at any opportunity.
What percentage of the public realizes they pay for garbage like this? I would guess a very low %
This shows actually pretty good once you get into it. But if you really want a good horror show the walking dead is awesome. If it's not for you don't watch it. People who throw a fit about television content aren't angry about what's being viewed in their home, they're angry that they can't control what's being shown in everyone elses home.
Oh my God! Somebody said "pussy"! Somebody else said "cocksucker"!
The earth hasn't imploded.
I wish that you Talibaptists sould just watch what you want in YOUR own homes and stop trying to decide what others can watch in THEIR homes.
It's not about controlling what others watch, it's the fact that we have to pay for it through our cable bill.
American horror story is a great show and definitely not for kids under 11 season 5 is a really good season and if your kid is not 11 or 12 do not let him watch this show.
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