The dead stick together.
This week’s opening murder was ripped from the headlines and offered a glimpse into what may have happened to Elizabeth Short, who was murdered in 1947 and more famously became known as The Black Dahlia. I wonder if the writers needed permission for this one. Mena Suvari played Elizabeth, who visits the house back in 1947 to see Dr. Curran, a dentist, for a toothache. She’s not able to pay him with cash but that does not deter this doctor. He gives her gas and proceeds to take advantage of her and soon realizes that he gave her too much gas and she has died. When he takes her body to the basement, he encounters Dr. Montgomery who mutilates her body and drains it of all her blood. Her body is then dumped in an empty lot where a mother and daughter end up discovering the body while they are out for a walk.
I’m honestly getting a bit tired of the Hayden storyline. Last week she was wreaking havoc on Vivien by knocking things over all over the house without showing her face and now this week she’s appearing to everyone. Seriously? It’s just too much. Either she is visible or she’s not. It’s kind of ridiculous that she has the power to appear and disappear whenever she wants. For me it’s borderline cheesy. When her sister shows up with the cops to inquire about her whereabouts with Ben she just casually walks into the kitchen as though nothing is wrong and Ben goes along with it. Does he honestly think she’s alive? If he does, it was kind of odd that he didn’t question her on how she got into the house and how she keeps appearing out of nowhere. One thing is certain though, Hayden is definitely harboring a lot of anger.
She seduces Constance’s much younger boyfriend Travis and believes that she can convince him to leave her but it backfires on her. After having sex with him and him wanting to return to Constance her anger gets the best of her and she ends up killing him. Thankfully her spirit world friends and Larry are able to cover up the mess she creates for herself and his body is dumped in a similar manner as that of “The Black Dahlia.”
There were a few other plot twists in this episode. It turns out that Vivien’s unborn twins have different fathers. Of course Ben didn’t take this news well at first considering how Vivien treated him following his affair with Hayden. Ben goes to visit Vivien and he’s downright mean to her. By the end of the episode though he’s singing a different tune and confronts Moira on her way out regarding what happened to Vivien. She doesn’t give him a direct answer but she does congratulate him on finally seeing the light and before leaving the house she appears to him as the old lady she is and not the seductress he has seen her as up to this point. Meanwhile, Constance has discovered that Tate is the father of one of Vivien’s twins and according to her psychic friend Billie Dean Howard (Sarah Paulson) since Tate is dead the baby is a perversion of the Immaculate Conception and his/her birth may usher in the end of the world.
Some stats and info about American Horror Story, “Spooky Little Girl”
TV SHOW – American Horror Story
SEASON/EPISODE – Season 1, Episode 9
AIRED ON – November 30th, 2011
NETWORK/STREAMING SERVICE – Hulu/FX
GENRE – Horror, Drama
CREATED BY – Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Halley Feiffer
CAST – Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Denis O’Hare, Lily Rabe, Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy, Emma Roberts, Jessica Lange, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Angela Bassett, Cheyenne Jackson,
This review originally appeared on TV Geek Army.