American Horror Story "Murder House" (Season 1)
Premiered on FX on October 5, 2011 Starring Jessica Lange (as Constance Langdon), Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, et. al See complete credits at Internet Movie Database Watch a clip Emmy Backstage Interview SAG Press Interview |
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Critical Sampling:
"Jessica Lange eludes pain — thus far — as nosy next-door neighbor Constance. Indeed, she’s a malicious hoot, far more colorful than the morose characters McDermott and Britton play (McDermott with futile strenuousness, Britton with cunning ease). Constance utters the pilot’s best, most baffling line, to the maid(s): ''Don’t make me kill you again.''(Entertainment Weekly)
"...as their blithely nosy Southern belle of a neighbor, Jessica Lange steals this surreal freak show with comical verve, purring and hissing in a delirious display of mock piety laced with menacing vulgarity. She's reason enough to tune in.(TV Guide)
Lange doesn’t so much steal scenes as smash them open like piñatas and let the emotional nuances cascade to the floor like hard candy. (Boston Herald)
""American Horror Story" reminds me of a car wreck: It's disturbing and macabre to stare as you drive past, but you just can't help yourself. (Red Eye) "
"Jessica Lange eludes pain — thus far — as nosy next-door neighbor Constance. Indeed, she’s a malicious hoot, far more colorful than the morose characters McDermott and Britton play (McDermott with futile strenuousness, Britton with cunning ease). Constance utters the pilot’s best, most baffling line, to the maid(s): ''Don’t make me kill you again.''(Entertainment Weekly)
"...as their blithely nosy Southern belle of a neighbor, Jessica Lange steals this surreal freak show with comical verve, purring and hissing in a delirious display of mock piety laced with menacing vulgarity. She's reason enough to tune in.(TV Guide)
Lange doesn’t so much steal scenes as smash them open like piñatas and let the emotional nuances cascade to the floor like hard candy. (Boston Herald)
""American Horror Story" reminds me of a car wreck: It's disturbing and macabre to stare as you drive past, but you just can't help yourself. (Red Eye) "
And I haven’t even told you yet about “American Horror Story’s” campiest treat of all: Jessica Lange as the drippingly genteel next-door neighbor, Constance, who breezes in and out of the Harmons’ kitchen as if she owns the place — a sinister Blanche Dubois bearing ipecac-laced cupcakes along with poisonous bons mots. (Washington Post)
"Jessica Lange, in her first regular TV series role, is having the time of her life as a faded Southern beauty who acknowledges to Harmon and his wife, Vivien, that she was doing pretty well until "the Mongoloid" came along. (Philadelphia Inquirer) Back to Film & Television |