AMERICAN HORROR STORY BLOG

We leave off with Shelby in the forest witnessing a human sacrifice from behind a tree, she is spotted and makes a run for it almost getting run over by Lee and collapsing in front of the car. She is rushed to the hospital where she is reunited with Matt and is still convinced it’s one of the ‘mountain men’ hoaxing them and she is not going to let them run them out.

Back at the house Lee’s daughter Flora pays a visit. Lee’s mission: do not let Flora out of her sight but Flora wanders away and makes a new imaginary friend, Priscilla.

Shelby & Matt are startled by the squealing pig in the middle of the night and Shelby, no longer taking any s%&^, runs outside to see who it is--Matt follows. They come across a burning demonic sculpture with a pigs decapitated head and hanging burning flesh .. mmm BBQ anyone? Cops are called and they finally get 24 hour protection.

We felt like we can finally relax and get some sleep

-Matt

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight .. In true AHS fashion the phone rings in the middle of the night, a woman saying that they are hurting her is on the line and what do you know the phone cord isn’t plugged in. Matt then sees the 2 nurses we saw in Chapter 1 in the middle of his dining room tormenting poor Margaret and eventually shooting her in the head.

Flora’s father Mason goes to pick her up and decides to play hide & seek, they hear her under the stairs talking to Priscilla--Flora offered Priscilla her doll as a trade for their life.

They are going to kill us all and save me for last.

-Flora

Mason takes Flora throwing the ‘judge’ in her face leaving Lee having nowhere to go but the bottle and relapses. Matt puts her to bed where she is approached by the 2 nurses.

Back in the kitchen Shelby & Matt spot a young girl out their window .. Priscilla?

They go check outside and find a cellar door. We learn that this was Dr. Elias Cunningham’s hideout from the house that used to be owned by a family that disappeared and then turned into a senior center by the 2 nurses that only took in unloved, uncared for elderly patients and preferably with names that start with the letters M-U-R-D-E-R .. Killing patients one by one to fulfill their Wheel of Fortune needs they ran off before killing off the last R.

FINALLY they make the decision to sell the house back to the bank but surprise surprise .. they are trapped.

Lee brings Flora back to the house by pretty much kidnapping her (WHY LEE WHY!!!)

All the adults are adulting in the kitchen while Flora is left in the living room doing her homework up until she spots Priscilla out the window signaling her to come on over. They finally realize Flora is not in the house and go out looking for her where they find her sweater hanging from a tall tree.

OVERALL:

Even though this is the second episode I feel like everyone is just making all the wrong decisions!!! Why would you bring Flora back! Why would you run into the forest! WHY! At least we know why they are staying being that they lost all their savings buying the house and they can’t get that money back .. but still! SELL IT!

Where do I even start? 

So there are no opening credits? 

Theme is: My Roanoke Nightmare .. ?

Style: Documentary/Reenactment

As I wrap my mind around this curveball Ryan Murphy threw at us, I have summarized what we know .. so far:

Shelby & Matt the ‘perfect couple’ meet at a yoga class where Shelby was teaching. Living in Los Angeles Matt gets promoted, Shelby finds out she’s pregnant and their night of celebration turns into a game of knockout leaving Matt with a broken orbital socket. That same night Shelby loses the baby.

Not feeling safe in LA they move to North Carolina where they find a house in the middle of the woods up for auction – SOLD: $40,000 outbidding three rednecks.

Then strange things start happening:

Strange pig-like screeching

Raining teeth

Random nurse like women walking through the halls

Men with torches raiding the house

Dead pig on porch

These are all things that would most likely send you running out of there … but nope (reminds me of Murder House)

Instead let’s add another character into the house … Matt’s sister Lee, an ex police officer, losing her job due to her prescription painkiller addiction.

Lee and Shelby have to coexist under the same roof having some lifestyle & character indifferences. Matt goes out of town for work leaving both ladies alone in the house. They hear a noise in the basement and go downstairs (Lee does not have a gun -__-) A TV screen is showing some home footage of a man running away from a pig-like creature (AHS Murder House "Piggy Piggy" hmm ..). Being that Matt put up cameras in the house he sees men with torches walking towards the house, he runs home. The ladies then go upstairs to find some Blair Witch-like art project of hanging voodooish dolls from the ceiling. 

Shelby having had enough runs out taking Matt’s car and through all the madness hits a woman crossing the street (Kathy Bates). She follows the woman into the forest and finds herself coming across more voodooish dolls and as she makes yet another run for it she trips on a trees root (ughhhhh) and falls onto a breathing ground. Men with torches surround her as a man whose head looks like it’s been skinned comes running in.

So Chapter 1 has probably left us with more questions than we had before the season began!