American Horror Story Seasons 1 & 2

In Season one of American Horror Story:"The Murder House", the house is, unbeknownst to its buyers, an anti-cultural edifice. It is also a setting. The house's wicked temperment also hosts ghosts, and this preturnatural horror domain is milk, flour, and sugar for many plots. The latest owners of this "classic L.A. Victorian home" are the Harmons, Dr. Ben Harmon(Dylan Mcdermott) and Mrs. Vivien Harmon(Connie Britten). They're a professional team and a loving couple. Add to this their beautiful, semi-goth, awkward and demure daughter, Violet Harmon, and it becomes a cast ripe for the "Murder House's" Halloween thrills and chills. Dr. Ben Harmon wants the house to do his work in. He is a psychologist. Ben will have his office in the large guest-room chamber of this house. His wife, Vivien, is agreeable to this, and these two have conflicts-minor irratations. The ligaments for the house's conscience is its occupants; and Ben and Vivien experience a severe breach in their mutual trust to one another. The fear of the family falling apart represents a strange detour from normalcy. There are other stories and one of them is great! It is their daughter Violet's brush with social angst within the terrain of this ancient curse. The 'murder home' will not remain content without some intrusive karma on Halloween. The limbs which this evil utilizes to inviegle crowd gatherings are the people, the residents of the murder house. Violet goes to her new school and is coerced and threatened by girls who are larger than her-toughs who don't want to hear terms like 'understanding' or 'art culture'. The other plot-lines involve neighbor Constance Langdon( played by Jessica Lange) and her daughter "Addie" Langdon. Constance is a living cord to the dead of the Harmon house. This wicked Victorian home has a(n) historical legacy of murder from the past-hideous, and hidden, to almost all admirers of the dignified darkwood lodging. Some of the past residents include two interior decorators which the Harmons hire to enhance their living space. The two decorators, Chad and Patrick, have an intense connection to the house. Part of the anti-social thread here, is, that they are lovers. A modern nuance, they are an envious romance; the house is delighted to sullen this uncommon tradition for its sadistic enjoyment. Violet(played by Taissa Farmiga) and Tate(played by Evan Peters), also find themselves stirred emotionally. Tate is a phenomenal deviation from society-and he is loved by Violet, but Tate's evil is...way overbearing. The story of Violet and Tate, their eventual union and seperation is one of the greatest tales in the annals of horror. In this flipped soap-opera the dynastic family business model has been re-envisioned and has all the dysfunction of a carnal torture chamber with all the nascent hardships of witchery, bloodlust, and mental languish for revenge, as a heredity and legacy. A children's hunt and find game is not scary, it is suspenseful. American Horror Story's terror is of an inert quality, a dimension of gore, that is always there, like carnage locked away in the closet. What is fun and timeless are the intersecting story lines. The good ones mean wisps of tickly excitement, like being the focus of the hunt by our peers. As I said, AHS is up front with its violence, I wish mildly it would pull back on the other vulgarities that aren't relevant to killing. Jessica Lange is regal as the jaded and vengeful divorcee and single mom. Season one "The Murder House" is inescapable pleasure. The boldness, its sinewy and engaging ideas and motiffs charge hard, faster than what might be niavely anticipated, coming as it does from a long travelled genre. Also, regarding the disc. It is listed as seasons one and two. This is an error. It is only season one "Murder House". For the second season, you have to purchase "Asylum", a seperate disc.

It gets old fast.

Guys this is thirty dollars more that just buying each one separately.

It was a good show but kind of horrible. The mother ends up being raped by a teenager and then falls in love with her daughter named Violet Harmon. Ben Harmon is a therapist and wants to move his family to a new house in Los Angeles that is said to be haunted by ghosts. Ben Harmon has an affair with a lady named Hayden and she is actually dangerous to the Harmon Family. She stalks the family and is in love with Ben. Ben does not share the same feelings as Hayden does. He loves his wife. It is creepy but I guess it is good too. I didn't watch the rest of the seasons because I gave up after Murder House truthfully. I liked Asylum and everything. My favorite seasons were one and two. Would I watch it again? Probably not. No. But I liked it for what it was supposed to be: horror. I wouldn't let younger kids watch this show. It would frighten them. But I really like Evan Peters as an actor. He has promise. I also like the girl who played Violet. She is good too.

I really like this series and actually started watching it out of order starting with Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, and Hotel. I decided to find and watch the first season and I think it was fantastic!! Asylum and Freak Show were previously my two favorites and this one was just as good. The actors and actresses are top notch and the stories are to die for!

Am now on series seven of American Horror Story, so if you buy this DVD, be prepared to get sucked in! I am a massive horror fan, but rarely find TV shows that quench my thirst for being seriously creeped out. This does it in spades. Even the title sequences and music put you on edge! It's not gore (am not a fan of torture porn) it's just damn scary. The great thing about the American Horror Story anthology is that you visit a whole new world with each new series. There are a few characters who cut across more than one series, and many of the brilliantly diverse actors reappear season after season, but as a general rule, each new season stands alone. What this means is that fantastic production value remains the same from first to last season, but you get an injection of new characters, new settings and new situations with each new season. So if you find that one season doesn't float your boat (for me that's Coven) you'll no doubt find another that will stay with you for weeks (for me that's Freak Show).In this box set you get season 1 - Murder House, and season 2, Asylum. Murder House gets a little ridiculous towards the end, but it's still very watchable. Asylum is infinitely better, helped in no small part by the inclusion of Jessica Lang in the lead role. This women is a tour de force, and a complete chameleon - she appears in four seasons of AHS and her portrayals of each character are as diverse as they are brilliant. Her performance of 'The Name Game' in Asylum is GENIUS (bettered only perhaps by her performance of 'Life on Mars' in Freak Show).I won't say any more for fear of spoiling the fun, aside from to say if you like genuinely scary, clever, interesting horror that doesn't scrimp on plot for the sake of gore, then American Horror Story is for you.

both seasons are absolutely incredible, they are dark and any sex scenes are done just right, not too much flesh and leaving something to imagination. Raunchy sex scenes do nothing but ruin the show for me. The story-telling and the way it is filmed just captures me for both seasons and Jessica Lange is just incredible especially as sister Jude the character really captured me and I became so enthused with all the characters from both seasons I couldn't stop watching. I love the depths of darkness this show goes and shows no matter how bad or good someone seems that there is a little of both in everybody. I can't wait to watch season 3 it has now become one of my favorite shows behind only supernatural and the originals.

Once we started on season one we just couldnt stop watching. Its dark and creepy and it twists and turns. Some gory scenes and a few jump scares but nothing to make you fall of your chair. But I just loved the whole story and how you get a back history of all the characters.Season two, even more creepy. I loved seeing the same actors as different characters. Each season is different and the stories are not connected. Im quite excited about season three "Coven".

Phenomenal seriesDefinitely not suitable for younger viewers, but an all round unique series.All the seasons of AHS are interlocked, and there are more twists and turns than you can keep track of.Definitely won't be staying in any old mansions any time soon though...

Fantastic dvd series, if you like American horror story then you will love this series, another chilling series that keeps you at the end get of your seat, a must have for any American horror story fan