Ryan Murphy

With its compulsive theatricality, Running With Scissors enacts what may be the most unpleasant brand of insanity in a film full of them.

Julia Roberts and voluptuous production value contribute mightily to this ultimate of wish-fulfillment tales.

Murphy has proven there's an appetite for the musical format on television, as long as it's (in alphabetical order) AutoTuned, big, bold, brassy, and candy-colorful.

Murphy and Falchuk don't go after anything deep...they just want the reflected glow of America's collective nightmares as they peddle their own ambitious, at times affecting, but generally klutzy serialized/recurring bad dream.