American Horror Story... No one has discussed this yet, right?

Ok, so American Horror Story. I didn't want to watch it because...glee. But I really enjoyed the first episode. And then in true Netflix fashion I watched the 2nd and the 3rd and progressively was reminded of, well, glee. Here's the thing: just because you're gay doesn't mean you can write women (and just because you are doesn't mean you can't, Ryan Murphy just seems to exemplify that trap) and just because I'm a "millennial" ( shit, am I?) doesn't mean that I won't watch if you don't deliver non stop "surprise" with semi-main characters and many others dying. You know what's really great about TV today? The slow burn. You know what's really disappointing (ok, and in some cases great) about TV today? The constant, "how do we keep them interested" mentality. Tony Soprano had to kill someone in the 4th episode. Not because people needed to be shocked, but because we needed to understand the true depths and brutality of this character...and also to understand what we were willing to forgive, at least in a fictional character we wanted to keep watching. The person who introduced me to the show claims that AHS deals with the "why don't you leave the house question in a really interesting way" and I would watch Connie Britton and Jessica Lange watching paint dry, so I'll keep watching. But not with high hopes.