The story is actually a huge horror cliché: a family moves into a new house, believed to be haunted. At the very beginning of the pilot we get a retrospective shown, that something paranormal is going on in the basement of the house that brutally ends up by someone getting killed. Well back to the future, a family of thee moves into this house with the idea of starting a new life after a miscarriage and an affair shook up the marriage of Viviene (played by Connie Britton – you won’t believe how much I wondered where have I seen that face before, she seemed so very familiar to me and I finally figured out I remember her from Spin City, where she played Nikki) and Ben (played by Dylan McDermott, now I recognized that face in a minute, it’s Bobby Donell from The Practice). Together with their teenage, kind of weird and corky daughter Violet (Taissa Formiga, don’t know her at all) they move into a huge house, almost a mansion that has a lot of history going on, but I’ll save the spoilers.
Together with them we also get some notable neighbours, who definitely know what is really going on, most notably the sophisticated and mysterious neighbour Constance (played by Jessica Lange, whom we all know very well) and her mentally challenged daughter Addy, who despite her incapability knows much more than you can imagine. As Ben being a psychiatrist, we are also introduced to one of his more prominent patients, Tate (Evan Peters) a heavily disturbed teenaged boy, who not is showing a great amount of deviance per se, but is also well aware of the legacy of this house and is capable of much more than average teenage boys are. 
Ok, so what’s the mystery here? Well, we don’t know exactly, because it’s a mixture of supernatural powers overcoming one’s minds facing them with their inner demons and fear, a real existing unknown deity embodied living in the house and a retrospective of murders, which we don’t exactly know are the work of supernatural forces or disturbed serial killers possessed by those forces. Not only that the story is obscure, the picture of the series is veiled in dark colours and shades of grey, with good music effects that really create a massive suspension and very well built characters, which you might find a bit one dimensional form time to time, but when the story accelerates to maximum speed, they go along with it. This is only the beginning, as the series just began to air recently, so in a couple of more episodes it may fall to the average or even below that, but let’s hope people creating this show know what they’re doing and will continue so. Just to get a feel of it, check out the intro and you’ll pretty much see, where this show is going. And if you get shivers, feel a bit of discomfort, thrill, a tiny bit of fear of if you're stomach isn't taking it so well, maybe a wee bit of sicks, that means American Horror Story reached it purpose (for now).
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