American Horror Story is simply great. It's got a brilliant, expansive cast, great, thoughtful writing, and an absolutely astounding sound job, among just about everything else that's terrific. Every season is a new story, with some recycled actors. It's dark, unrelenting, unsuspected, and gratingly ugly, in a terrific way.
Now, Season 1. Awesome schtick about a family living in a haunted house, and the ghosts they live with. Plays a lot with a modern social commentary and multitudes of perspectives, humanizing and dehumanizing left and right. My one quibble is that one particular character didn't die (that's just because she was a total fucking self-absorbed pretentious supremacist bitch, excuse my French). Also, it could be a tad cliche at times, but the ... well... rest of it makes that little bit completely irrelevant.
Watch it. Hell, just watch the intro. God, amazing. THE SOUNDTRACK...
*this is a horror show, so this ain't pretty.*
Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3VVJb562Y
(The intro's more intense audio-wise; youtube seems to have tuned it down a bit)
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