Bad Nurse (American Horror Story:Asylum Welcome to Briarcliff Episode Review)

That was a crazy wild ride!

American Horror Story: Asylum has finally opened its doors for a brand new ass-kickin' season. If the pilot episode of the show from last year made your minds jumble like there's no tomorrow, this premiere episode confused the hell out of all us. There were the usual scary elements, monsters, crazy characters, religion vs. science, and aliens.

As we all know, the setting of the second installment of the American Horror Story series is an asylum for the criminally insane during the 1960s. Sister Jude, played by Emmy-winning Jessica Lange, is the head of the institution and of the series. Everybody's afraid of her and she has some dark and dirty secrets hiding behind her black nun outfit - and yes, I am also talking about her hot red lingerie and her hidden desire for Monsignor Timothy Howard. 

Aside from Sister Jude, there are also 3 other standouts in the show. First is Kit Walker, played by Evan Peters. He sees aliens and he's dubbed as Bloodyface because he kills his victims, skins them  off, and wear these as a mask. Yikes. But, he can't remember all of these. Thus, he's sent inside Briarcliffe. Second character which will be one of the main focus of the show is Lana Winters, played by Sarah Paulson. She's a news reporter and she's willing to do anything to get the inside scoop in Briarcliffe. But as she got deeper in the asylum, her goal-orientedness bit her in the ass. Lastly, Dr. Arthur Arden, played by James Cromwell, is  Briarcliffe's health doctor - but's he's not the typical doctor we know. He's a firm believer that science is the answer for everything and he does experiments on a number of patients to find out how their evilness exists in their brains. Let's just say that Dr. Arden and Sister Jude are not vibing with each other.

Also one of the main reasons why this season got a huge hype from the fans is because of Adam Levine. However, he's in the "present" subplot of the story with Jenna Dewan-Tatum. It's already 2012 and Briarcliffe is already closed. When he and his new wife went inside the asylum to do their honeymoon, you know, for fun... the couple faced something unimaginable. Because after all, legend has it that if you go inside Briarcliffe... you never get out.

As I mentioned above, the premiere episode alone is all sorts of crazy. And in the end, all I can say was "Whaaat the hell was that all about?". In spite all of these shenanigans, I was still very invested with the main characters. The episode made me want to know more about them and it felt that each character has a deep background lying under their extreme exteriors. Let's just hope that the writers of AHS can maintain this momentum and will not make crazy, unrealistic, and over the top scenarios which would make us all stop watching. 

The cinematography is great, the acting was superb, and the screenplay was excellent. American Horror Story:Asylum began with a good start and should aim to keep us glued on our screens for the next 10 weeks. 

I'll give "Welcome to Briarcliffe" a rating of.... 8.5/10!