Sarah Paulson Stole The Show, As Usual!!!!!!!!!!!! But Macaulay Culkin Was Quite A Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Embarrassing as this may sound, especially with my being a gay man,  I have never  been to  either Fire Island, or Provincetown.  After watching "Cape Fear," the premiere episode of "AHS--Double Feature,"while I see no connection to the 1962 film of that name, I now also have no desisre ever to go to what gays call P-Town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        Things  start out like "Children Of The Corn."  A family--Harry Gardener (Finn  Wittrock), his wife, Doris (the magnificent Lily Rabe) and their already creepy looking daughter named Alma, (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) while enroute, suddenly crash into the mutilated body of an annimal.  Uh-huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Later, along the beach, a residsent finds some dead creatures.  Now,  Lily is not quite on the level  of Nancy Kelly in  "The Bad Seed," but, let me  tell you,  by episode's end, she is  well  on her way.

                                             And with good reason.  Going along, I was surprised to see Finn Wittrock play such a "normal  guy."  I figured, at some point, he was going to have to unhinge, and, boy was I right, because when he does, he does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                The crew got P-Town at its  creepiest, to ratchet up the macabre atmosphere, not to  mention the  bald headed blood  suckers, resembling rejects from  a casting  call for  George Romero's "Night Of The Living Dead," which I have a feeling  Ryan Murphy is referencing here. Ditto Stephen King.

                                    What about Evan Peters and Frances Conroy?  Well, he is still  hot,  and she is decked out like a cross between  Dorothys Parker and Killgallen!  Their names are Austin Sommers,  and  Sarah "Bell Noir' Cunningham!   No, dears,  NOT  Belle Watling!!!!!!!!!!!  Both are supposedly renowned writers,  who  eternally ply their talent, which they have, evidence shows, by taking  some sort  of magic pill,  while Doctor Leslie "Lark" Feldman, played by Billie Lourd, does extraordinary dental  work  for  her clients.  Wonder how much she charges?

                                      So,  fame is held out to Harry, as it  was to Guy in "Rosemary's Baby'--another homage?  Well, he bites,  and  pretty soon he is writing like a monkey churning out "Hamlet."  Alma, who is something  of a musical prodigy; she wants to get to  Juillard before age 18; good luck, there, kid!  But Alma sees what Daddy does and she does it too. Now, she is really a "bad seed," with not only cold  behavior but a cannibalistic, blood sucking apetite.  Harry,  too.  The scene  where Doris finds  Alma,  her own daughter, face bloodied, munching, blood faced, on a dead animal, is priceless!  Doris  in in for much more than Nancy Kelly.

                                       This extends into the second episode "Pale Fire" (Where is the trace of Nabokov?) where is seen a lot of  the showstopper of  the night.

                                      That is right, Sarah Paulson as Tuberculosis Karen, the most  fun filled,  camped out villain--or anti-heroine?--since Betsy Palmer played Mrs. Voorhees, in the original, 1980 "Friday The 13th."  She is on to the whole thing, which has to  do  with the pill acknowledging  writer talent by making those having some permanent authors, and the rejects as the bald bloodsuckers. But even the talented have to suck blood, so it is kind of a no win situation. 

                              The surprise of the evening is Maculay Culkin as Mickey, supposedly also a talented writer, an aging out, pedo hustler, look as if  he has been down on his luck since the post "Home Alone" days.  I am sure there is some truth to this.  But what a peformance!  I would  like to read the book  he  wrote.  Just as  I would, like Sarah Paulson, be paid a weekly salary to scream  "Fuck you,  Mother Fucker!," instead of me having to do it  for free.

                                  It's shaping up to be a humdinger of a season!  May the momentum continue!