A murderous Santa wreaks havoc on Briarcliff. Sister Jude faces off with the Devil.. Meanwhile Arden has a shocking encounter in the Death Chute.Free Download Video American Horror 22th July 2012 Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch American Horror Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.American Horror Story revolves around The Harmons, a family of three who move from Boston to Los Angeles as a means to reconcile past anguish. The All Star cast features Dylan McDermott (The Practice) as “Ben Harmon”, a psychiatrist; Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) as “Vivien Harmon”, Ben’s wife; Taissa Farmiga as “Violet”, the Harmon’s teenage daughter; Jessica Lange (Tootsie, Blue Sky, Grey Gardens) in her first-ever regular series TV role as “Constance”, the Harmon’s neighbor; Evan Peters (One Tree Hill) as “Tate Langdon”, one of Ben’s patients; and Denis O’Hare (The Good Wife) as “Larry Harvey”. Guest stars for the series include Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under) and Alexandra Breckenridge (Dirt) as the Harmon’s housekeepers; and Jamie Brewer as Constance’s daughter.
You would think at this point, American Horror Story couldn't crank up the craziness to last season's level, but this week's episode from the mind of Jennifer Salt just might be the most insane 40-something minutes of television I've seen on any network not HBO.
Even including HBO, this was sheer bananas, with every plot twist being topped by something else. It was like a game of anything you can do, I can do better, except scripted by maniacs. In short, it was a great Halloween episode.
For starters, the entire episode takes place during a horrible storm. Talk about serendipity. A few short days after a horrible storm tears through real-life Massachusetts, a horrible storm tears through the fictional Massachusetts of American Horror Story: Asylum.
Interestingly, actual Hurricane Sandy is something of a Nor'easter herself; the remnants of the hurricane met with a more traditional cold core weather system which dumped even more rain than usual for a hurricane and led to blizzards and 2-3 feet of snow in the higher elevations of the Appalachian Mountains.
This was a year after a Halloween nor'easter. Given that last week's American Horror Story was the day before Halloween, it appears that they got their timing down perfectly for this storm.
All the rain, the flickering lights, the general moodiness created a great atmosphere for director Michael Uppendahl, even if it limits what he can do in terms of composition. There are still plenty of cool moments, particularly a late-episode reveal of a plot twist that I thought was classic, and some good use of slow-motion and Dutch angles at various points.
Uppendahl doesn't use a lot of trickery, but what he does use is effectively deployed. He lets the writing and actors do their thing and stays out of their way.
Every possible plot thread from the first three episodes is revisited this week, and in grand fashion. The triumvirate of Lily Rabe, James Cromwell, and Jessica Lange really dominated the episode, with Dr. Arden and Sister Jude both being manipulated by Sister Eunice, agent of chaos and Satan's minion.
She's absolutely wonderful in this role, and now freed from Eunice's cute innocence, the more wicked side of Lily Rabe appears. She delivers some of the best lines of the episode, and her expressions, particularly when watching The Signs of the Cross, are stellar.
As for Lange and Cromwell, they both put in some great work, particularly in their first face-off in the episode. Jessica Lange really got to show off this week, and she and Lily Rabe are going to end up competing for awards this ear, I think.
Lange last year got the show up and be flashy, but this year she's got to carry the weight of the show while Rabe gets the flashier role as the possibly possessed nun.
When a tragic miscarriage and an even more shattering act of infidelity threaten to tear apart their tenuous marriage, Ben Harmon (THE PRACTICE'S Dylan McDermott) and his wife Vivien (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS' Connie Britton) take their teenage daughter, Violet (Taissa Farmiga) and move away from their "house of horrors" to find a new start somewhere...ANYWHERE that they can put the noxious past behind them and at least try to have a go at tending to their gaping emotional wounds.