Anyone watching it? Love the visual style and the casting is damn near perfect.

I just can't figure out ultimately what the show is about, still waiting for the hook that will keep me in. The cast and cool factor are working for me right now.

I watched the first episode on demand last night. Has there only been one so far? Or two?

I enjoyed it. I've never really watched anything on FX before and was surprised at what they were able to get away with gore and language wise.

It was creepy, creepy fun. I, too, like the cast and found eerie and compelling enough to keep watching. I just set up my DVR to record the series like 5 minutes ago.

Edit: Just saw there have been two episodes so far. Just found the second one and will record it.

Yeah, two now, had just finished the 2nd when I posted this.

I'm watching it, and liking it. Like y'all said the casting is great. Not sure how to make it good for a whole season- but I like it.

Watched the first episode and really liked it. It's on the same time as Revenge, which I like as well, so I'll be a week behind on the series since I'll have to wait for the episodes to become available On Demand.

The first two episodes have been interesting but I'm still not sure if the show is supposed to be flat out scary or just really creepy and weird. I'm going to keep watching but sometimes it feels like the show is just really weird so people will talk about it more.

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Still really liking this show, don't know how they can stretch it to multiple seasons- but it's holding my interest so far

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Still really liking this show, don't know how they can stretch it to multiple seasons- but it's holding my interest so far

Like the show as well, just seems like a lot of info being thrown at us so early though.

I'm still on the 2nd episode. Not sure that "enjoy" is the right word to use as I'm not a horror fan, but I am liking it so far. I agree with Jeff that the cast is amazingly perfect and I love the little tweaks (film jumping, scratches) to the visual style

Enjoyed the first one last night and looking forward to the other two on demand.

Lots of cool/disturbing stuff going on, so I'm interested to see how things play out. Any show that is willing to kill off little kids to lead off the show is not playing around.

Still liking it, but it's almost to surreal. Several times in the last couple episodes I was expecting a dream sequence reveal(thankfully it didn't come).

Jessica Lange is doing one hell of a job, the cast is great but she's still a cut above.

Got through episode three last night. Still liking it.

At this point, I know that some of the characters are probably still alive, but I can see situations where almost every one is already dead. I'm basically leaning towards believing that the family, Jessica Lange and daughter, and the burned man are still living and that the patient/daughter's love interest and (obviously) maid are not.

Yeah, I know the maid is not- and I'm pretty certain that Tate (Patient/Daught's guy) is dead as well. Burned guy, I'm not sure about- but since he has been seen outside of the house/yard I think he is. I think that is the key when figuring out who is alive or not.

Didn't Tate see the doctor guy at a coffee shop though? Or I am misremembering?

Tate was with the daughter on the brick footbridge when she was smoking and her dad saw her. It looked like it might have been on campus or something.

Has anyone seen episode 4? I have not, but my brother did and told me...

that the maid made an appearance outside of the house in episode 4. I brought up the point about seeing the "ghosts" outside of the house, too.

Yeah in the latest episode the ghosts were outside of the house, they mentioned it early in the episode that Halloween was the only day ghosts were allowed to go out with the living.

As for the smoking scene on the brick, I thought that was at a school also- but when burn face hit baby-mama-girl in the face with the shovel it was right next to similar brick work, so I assume that is part of the house, like a side yard or something

Anybody catch why the maid has aged (to some) and none of the other dead have? Any why some of the dead show the evidence of how they were killed (albeit in different ways as the maid's eye shows where she was shot but no exit wound, the original woman who lived there had part of the back of her head missing, the twins show damage, but the gay couple didn't seem to show any indications)?

And why make the big deal over the maid's body being covered up by the gazebo (trapping her there forever) when it seems like others they're showing (twins/gay couple/etc) had their remains found/removed from the premises?

I find myself wanting to like the show but getting frustrated by the lack of consistency/rules/explanation to this point.

Anybody catch why the maid has aged (to some) and none of the other dead have? Any why some of the dead show the evidence of how they were killed (albeit in different ways as the maid's eye shows where she was shot but no exit wound, the original woman who lived there had part of the back of her head missing, the twins show damage, but the gay couple didn't seem to show any indications)?

And why make the big deal over the maid's body being covered up by the gazebo (trapping her there forever) when it seems like others they're showing (twins/gay couple/etc) had their remains found/removed from the premises?

I find myself wanting to like the show but getting frustrated by the lack of consistency/rules/explanation to this point.

Huh. None of this stuff ever crossed my mind.

This is what gets me in that it's like there's so much put in that's intentional, then in other areas either forgotten about or glossed over. I'm hoping there are explanations forthcoming but in a lot of ways it seems like ease of convenience. The big one (to me) being the maid being older to some. I'd have an easier time buying it if she was the same person at all times but had on different outfits depending on who was looking at her.

Even if some of the other ghosts were showing up as older to some people, etc.

And yes, too much time on my hands and too much time watching TV. This is what I get for having ACL surgery :D

Anybody catch why the maid has aged (to some) and none of the other dead have? Any why some of the dead show the evidence of how they were killed (albeit in different ways as the maid's eye shows where she was shot but no exit wound, the original woman who lived there had part of the back of her head missing, the twins show damage, but the gay couple didn't seem to show any indications)?

And why make the big deal over the maid's body being covered up by the gazebo (trapping her there forever) when it seems like others they're showing (twins/gay couple/etc) had their remains found/removed from the premises?

I find myself wanting to like the show but getting frustrated by the lack of consistency/rules/explanation to this point.

I think the maid is appearing differently to different people as part of the house's (?) plot to entrap the man into cheating on his wife... would his wife really hire a maid that looked like she does when she appears to Ben? Not after what happened. But if he does end up cheating on Vivian with the maid, then that's a means to an end... which is clearly the family's death.

Why the house doesn't just come right out and kill these people, who knows. I also haven't figured out the significance of the black vinyl suit guy, but he has appeared a few times... once to impregnate Vivian (which I am just going ahead and assuming due to the fainting in the last episode), another time to kill the 2 gay guys, and most recently stalking behind Violet at the end of the last episode.

As someone said, I don't know how they can keep this up for multiple seasons... it just seems like they are throwing so much against the wall, I don't know how they can make sense of it all or make it come together. Maybe they won't. But it has been a lot of fun to watch so far, and I will keep watching as long as it maintains this high level of entertainment.

One thing I do appreciate is how it didn't take very long at all for the family to put the house back on the market. It was like at the end of Episode 2. I thought it might literally take seasons, and I was thinking "who the hell would stay at this house?" But I think they have done a good job explaining why the family is sort of trapped there, which has removed one big source of disbelief for me.

As someone said, I don't know how they can keep this up for multiple seasons... it just seems like they are throwing so much against the wall, I don't know how they can make sense of it all or make it come together. Maybe they won't. But it has been a lot of fun to watch so far, and I will keep watching as long as it maintains this high level of entertainment.

I saw an article that mentioned that future seasons might have new owners in the house. If the show continues to get good feedback, they might be able to pull in some bigger stars (not that the cast is too shabby now, between Britton, Lange, and McDermott) and, with the premise of ghosts in the house, you can always bring people back for cameos or arcs. :)

BTW, yesterday it was picked up for a 13 episode season next year.

Appropriate for Halloween.

Anybody catch why the maid has aged (to some) and none of the other dead have? Any why some of the dead show the evidence of how they were killed (albeit in different ways as the maid's eye shows where she was shot but no exit wound, the original woman who lived there had part of the back of her head missing, the twins show damage, but the gay couple didn't seem to show any indications)?

And why make the big deal over the maid's body being covered up by the gazebo (trapping her there forever) when it seems like others they're showing (twins/gay couple/etc) had their remains found/removed from the premises?

I find myself wanting to like the show but getting frustrated by the lack of consistency/rules/explanation to this point.

First, Frances Conroy (the actress playing the old version of Moira the maid) actually does have a messed up eye from an accident in the past few years. The writers decided to incorporate that into her character's story.

As far as the other stuff, I think the show is incorporating tons of elements of different horror movies/stories and, rather than passing it off completely as their own, making subtle homages to them. Based on the title, I think that may essentially be the premise, so I think some of the rules will fluctuate for the different ghosts/storylines, which could be pretty cool in my opinion.

The maid's bones being buried and her needing them to be found is reminiscent of The Changeling. Ben sleepwalking and staring into the fire is straight out of Amityville Horror. It looks like the baby/doctor storyline has elements of Frankenstein. The twins are basically boy versions of the twins from The Shining. I feel like there have been a couple of oblique references to Rosemary's Baby along the way, but I can't remember them right now. I have wondered if that will be the direction that Viv's pregnancy will take. I'm sure there are others I am forgetting or have missed, too.

That's just my interpretation, though, so I could be wrong about some or all of it. In any case, I like the show.

I am also pretty comfortable with the idea that different rules apply to the different ghosts depending on how they died, who killed them, etc.

I just hope they don't borrow a page from Lost and have some super stupid reasoning for all of it.

Just read an interview with the actress who plays the young maid, and she basically says "the maid can't leave the house until her body is found". Apparently that was supposed to have been communicated in episode 3, but I must've missed it.

Just read an interview with the actress who plays the young maid, and she basically says "the maid can't leave the house until her body is found". Apparently that was supposed to have been communicated in episode 3, but I must've missed it.

The maid kept trying to get the husband to dig that hole. She was drugging his coffee and each time he was drugged he would end up outside digging in the backyard, where her body was.

However, the crazy burned dude went and killed the husband's mistress and then used that hole to bury her body. When he was digging, he uncovered the maid's skeleton. However, once he threw the mistress' body in there, the filled up the whole and built the gezeebo.

The maid was watching the gazeebo being built and Jessica Lange mentioned how she'd never escape now or something...

I guess I need to switch my brain on a bit more when watching this thing, I didn't gather any of that. I didn't understand why he kept ending up drugged. And I missed the maid's skeleton altogether.

Maybe I was drugged.

Pretty damn good episode tonight.

Seems to have laid out the rules for the dead pretty well and Tate's story seems to be clearing up.

Did everyone else give up on this?

I thought this last episode was one of the most disturbing TV shows I have ever seen. The acting from the daughter (who is apparently Vera Farmiga's much younger sister) was really impressive, as well.

Give up on this? Not at all! I love it.

I just watched the latest episode this morning. It was great and incredibly disturbing. I agree. Violet is a great character and really good actress. I really like both the mom and the daughter. The dad is a complete putz.

Nope. My gf and I are still watching and being stunned almost every week. Crazy show.

Is this the thread about the new Marlins uniforms?

Didn't give up either- this is my favorite non-Sunday night show... they're doing a great job with it

Did everyone else give up on this?

I thought this last episode was one of the most disturbing TV shows I have ever seen. The acting from the daughter (who is apparently Vera Farmiga's much younger sister) was really impressive, as well.

This is the first episode that totally has me hooked into the series and wanting more. The school shooting really generated some strong emotion, I'm glad they had the balls to go through with it. Scenes like that(and others) are what will make other shows seem mundane.

I think the daughter has been surprisingly good all year, it's amazing how there really seems to be no weak link in this cast. No one is being overshadowed. I'm glad it got picked up for next year, yet still somewhat surprised. I doubt it's a cheap show to make and it certainly seems like they are focusing more on artistic merit than pulling broad audiences.

As far as drawing a broad audience, the show actually tied South Park the last 2 weeks as the top show on Cable Wednesday nights in the 18-49 demographic, which is the key demographic to advertisers. It actually even beat South Park (narrowly) the week it premiered and the week leading up to Halloween. So it's pretty successful by cable standards.

I finally caught up with this show this morning. I was a couple of weeks behind.

The last two episodes were fantastic. I am still really digging this show and feel like they are handling things fantastically.

Based on the previews for tonight's episode, it looks like they are going to get all biblical up in this shizzit. It will be interesting to see how big an issue they make all of that.

I guess this season ends on Dec. 14. I will miss it, but look forward to see where they leave things off.

Watched a couple of episodes and was completely underwhelmed by it. The 1989 Friday the 13th TV show camera angles, softcore porn and just boring story was enough for me to know I wasn't missing anything. Oh well, no biggie, different tastes I guess. I'll stick with Walking Dead. :)

Pretty good episode tonight.

My interest was starting to slip a little bit, but the twist tonight pulled me back in. I probably should have expected it, but that was a "the Sixth Sense" type of reveal -- so obvious in hindsight.

Loved the twist and how it keeps the main characters married to the house.

Well that was a twist! I'd almost forgotten that the event in question had even happened.

i didn't see that coming at all.....

Are we on different episodes in Canada vs. US? I didn't see any huge twists. Our latest episode was the one where the guy wanted to buy the house and there were a lot of sexual favors being given out.

Are we on different episodes in Canada vs. US? I didn't see any huge twists. Our latest episode was the one where the guy wanted to buy the house and there were a lot of sexual favors being given out.

Yes.

Are you talking about the one with Mr. Escanderian and the maid? If so that was at least three or four episodes ago.

I strongly suspected, but the way they revealed this was brilliantly and horrifyingly well done. The show can be very hokey and I think it's definitely going off the rails at some point, but that whole sequence was just superb and chilling.

My fear is that the childbirth/aftermath will be too much of a climax for the show to keep going for more than another year or so.

I talked to my brother and he brought up the point that the dad might be dead, as well. I had forgotten, but he got shot a few episodes ago (I think his wife got him, after she stole the gun from the realtor). His wife is the only one that has seen him outside the house since then (I think) and she isn't exactly in the best of mental health right now. :)

Yes.

Are you talking about the one with Mr. Escanderian and the maid? If so that was at least three or four episodes ago.

Must be it. We get FX Canada so probably a butchered version of the US Channel.

I was wondering what everybody was freaking out about, that episode was pretty interesting but I didn't see anything too crazy. :)

My fear is that the childbirth/aftermath will be too much of a climax for the show to keep going for more than another year or so.

I talked to my brother and he brought up the point that the dad might be dead, as well. I had forgotten, but he got shot a few episodes ago (I think his wife got him, after she stole the gun from the realtor). His wife is the only one that has seen him outside the house since then (I think) and she isn't exactly in the best of mental health right now. :)

I'm not sure if that is true- didn't he talk to the doctor about the fathers of the babies? Also, the police were at the house and bandaged him up- so that whole scene would've been different if the shot really killed him, not saying it couldn't be- but I don't see it.

Spoiler for whoever is a few episodes behind

I had a hunch the other was true, especially after last week, and Violet not showing up at all.

I finally got around to watching this last episode. I had suspected the twist for a week or two but the reveal was great.

I think this show is fantastic. It's subtly creepy and scary, but the characters and cast is fantastic. The burned guy, Constance, Violet, Tate, Viv the maid... All great characters and very well acted.

Just a fun show.

I finally got around to watching this last episode. I had suspected the twist for a week or two but the reveal was great.

I think this show is fantastic. It's subtly creepy and scary, but the characters and cast is fantastic. The burned guy, Constance, Violet, Tate, Viv the maid... All great characters and very well acted.

Just a fun show.

totally agree. I too had some suspicions, but it didn't detract. Not really sure how they can sustain this, as I can't even envision where the show will be at the end of the season, let alone a year or two down the road. but loving the ride so far.

should also add that the guest stars have been terrific as well.

Wow last night's episode was insane.

Last night's episode was great. Creepy, scary, touching, weird, all of that stuff.

It was kind of strange, but that was one of the first times that I can ever remember watching a show and hoping that one of the main (good) characters would die, rather than survive. Something about her surviving and staying with the dick husband versus dying and forever being with her daughter (who is already stuck), I guess.

An excellent season so far, in my opinion. I keep thinking that ever episode is going to be the finale, but they keep showing scenes from next week and one-upping the prior episode. Again, not sure how it works out long term (although I did have a thought that if the current family had actually moved in a couple years ago and a new family moves in next season with a depressed/unkempt/unstable Dylan McDermott playing in a similar role as Jessica Lange this season, that might be kind of cool).

It was kind of strange, but that was one of the first times that I can ever remember watching a show and hoping that one of the main (good) characters would die, rather than survive. Something about her surviving and staying with the dick husband versus dying and forever being with her daughter (who is already stuck), I guess.


totally agree.

I thought that the first 90% of the show was outstanding, but didn't like the ending with the kid. A little too contrived and predictable.

Still, it was a pretty satisfying finale that was full of red meat. I liked that they killed off Ben quickly, as I expected him to go through some struggles and deal with misery for a good portion of the episode (and kind of expected him to be a big player next season, which he still could be I guess). Kind of cool that they drew a clear line between the benevolent ghosts (the Harmons, Moira, the burnt family, Constance's son that they kept in the attic and her boy-toy, the Black Dahlia, the nurses, the exterminator, etc.) and the malevolent ones (Tate, Hayden, the trio that invaded the home earlier in the season, presumably the twins, etc.).

I'm still not sure what they'll do with it next season. It was amusing watching the good guys work together to scare the family away for an episode, but I'm not sure that'll make for a full season's worth of viewing.

Really enjoyed the season- not sure what they are going to do with season 2 though. Killing Ben, especially the way it was done was a real shock to me.

Looks like that the creators will be taking into a different direction next season: American Horror Story Season 2 Spoilers (http://www.tvline.com/2011/12/american-horror-story-season-2-spoilers/)

It was quite a finale and I was surprised to read what's going to happen in season two.

I think it will be hard to keep it going through the second season at the same quality. But we'll see.

I liked how they crammed so much into the finale, did not dwell on a lot of the emotional aspects or character transformations. Those would have been predictable scenes we've all seen before.

I think it will be hard to keep it going through the second season at the same quality. But we'll see.

I liked how they crammed so much into the finale, did not dwell on a lot of the emotional aspects or character transformations. Those would have been predictable scenes we've all seen before.

agreed. love that they didn't draw it out.

and definite shocker on season 2. very interesting.

I still don't understand the scene where the maid is hoping for her body to be found so that she can escape the house. In the end, it doesn't matter if there is a body or not: everyone who dies in the house stays in the house.

I still don't understand the scene where the maid is hoping for her body to be found so that she can escape the house. In the end, it doesn't matter if there is a body or not: everyone who dies in the house stays in the house.

Yeah, I definitely noticed that, too. Not sure if it was a plot hole or something they just never got back to (or if she just wanted Constance to get busted, but if I recall correctly, it seemed to be made pretty clearly that she could pass on if they found her body).

Good but frustrating season imo. Not as good as I had hoped the show would become as I kept waiting for them to explain a lot of the issues I was having with the show/story but in the end they just kept leaving more and more questions instead.

Great casting/acting for the most part but the writing/holes/inconsistencies mean I won't be back for season 2.

Now that I think about it, I think it IS because the maid wants Constance to be busted, because as the police said late in the season, they are aware of her old husband and the maid disappearing but were never able to find them. Constance is the one who convinced the police that they ran away together.

I also thought that ghosts left the house when their remains were found, but that didn't fit at all with the rest of the season, so that is clearly not the case.

Really enjoyed this season. I don't know if they can keep it up at all, but I will definitely be watching to see if they can.

I guess the whole season was it's own story, so I guess we'll never have to worry about those inconsistencies after all. Two thumbs up to that idea. I think this story felt pretty much all overwith after the finale anyway.

I had not issue with any kind of "inconsistencies." I don't really see any. These are ghosts and spirits, so it's impossible to say what rules pertain to them.

It's very likely that the maid just thought that if her remains were found and taken from the house that she would some how be free, but even if they were she'd still be trapped there. It was nothing more than conjecture on the part of the maid and Constance, similar to the whole "Croatoa" thing. Like the gay ghost said, people make things up like that because it makes them feel like they have some sort of power and control, but it's all bullshit. The maid might have thought, and Constance too, that if her remains were found and removed that she'd be free... But that's not likely the case.

As for the maid being the only one to have "aged". Again, they are spirits. They seem to have some ability to change their appearance depending on who they are, how they died, what they carried with them to the afterlife and all of that.

I think the show did a very solid job creating its mythology and sticking pretty closely to it.

I didn't feel like the season ended with a ton of unanswered questions. Not at all. I felt like a lot of was explained. Enough was explained. I think by its very nature as a "ghost story" there needs to be some sense of mystery to it all.

My wife and I somehow ended up watching the season out of episode order, so we were confused most of the time (eg: when did THAT person die??).

Some casting news starting to trickle out:American Horror Story Season 2 Casting News | Daily Dead (http://dailydead.com/american-horror-story-season-2-casting-news/)

Looks like Jessica Lange, Zachary Quinto, and Sarah Paulson (among others) will return, but play completely different characters. Chloe Sevigny and Adam Levine (of Maroon Five) will be joining the cast (Levine is in and Sevigny is close to signing).

That's cool, Lange was fantastic. Quinto was good(as he always is), but I don't think he had much to work with. Hopefully he gets a larger more dynamic part.

Three episodes into the second season this show just continues to be absolute insanity. Crazy, wild highly entertaining insanity.

We've got aliens, a homocidal maniac (in both the past and present), a demon possesed nun, canabilistic human-like things outside, a doctor with some incredibly confusing women-issues and a thing for human experimentation and amputation and, oh, they should just give Jessica Lange the Emmy again right now.

Three episodes into the second season this show just continues to be absolute insanity. Crazy, wild highly entertaining insanity.

We've got aliens, a homocidal maniac (in both the past and present), a demon possesed nun, canabilistic human-like things outside, a doctor with some incredibly confusing women-issues and a thing for human experimentation and amputation and, oh, they should just give Jessica Lange the Emmy again right now.

I haven't watched the third one yet (it's on the DVR), but I thought the first two were kind of lame compared to last year. Last year was just such a great premise. I think they lost me this year when they brought in the alien thing...

I'll keep watching it, but it's moved from "have to watch it as soon as I can" to "when I get around to it" in my TV viewing.

I considered the first season to be scary. this season, I would call creepy. I'd prefer scary.

I'd call season 2 intense, it pushed way beyond creepy after episode 1. I actually thought season 1 was more creepy than scary.

I loved season 1, still I'm very happy they took season 2 in a different direction and it's standing up on it's own. I almost worry it's just crossed way beyond the line to keep a wide audience. If this show doesn't last much longer at least it appears to have given us 2 classic seasons.

Anybody still in on this one?

I'm not sure whether it is because the first season seemed to hit all the right (scary/disturbing) notes for me or what, but this one has been more of a labor to get through. I think it is probably because there aren't any/many sympathetic characters. Plus...

Aliens are kind of cheesy... although, I'm not sure why (considering all the other weird shit (angel of death, mutant/zombies, possessions, etc.) I think they could have done more with less -- sticking with the Nazi war criminal storyline for a longer arc, weaving patients' backstories into episodes as the push the overall plot along, and then having more of a conclusion that I know what I am rooting for.

Anyway. Still well-acted and the kind of show I would have killed for as a teen/college kid.

I agree with you Swaggs. The first season was wonderful. This season I've just been watching in hopes it got better. The story in the first season compared to this season is what made the difference for me.

I actually like this season as much as last season. You have to go into this show with tempered expectations. The writing is going to be scattered, they're going to throw 20 things against the wall and forget to wrap up half of them, not everything is going to make any sense, etc. Once you don't expect tight writing you can enjoy all the good things about it.

Lily Rabe was brilliant this season. That was an actress clearly enjoying the hell out of a role. No pun intended.

I'm a few episodes behind, still like it, but it just seems to be all over the place. Doesn't quite hook me like season 1 did.

I just watched the finale this morning. Solid wrap-up to the season. It was a bit all over the place, but that was part of its crazy-pants charm. They threw everything into the mix. It might not have been quite as compelling in certain respects as last year, but still an enjoyable, whacky ride.

Jessica Lange tore it up once again. And Evil Sister Mary Eunice was fantastic. Probably the highlight of the season.

And I found myself humming that French song all morning long.

I thought the season went out with a whimper last night and really the season was about two episodes too long. I realize they had to do some wrapup stuff but I liked it when they wouldn't let up on the intensity and I felt they let up a bit at the end. Still such a creepy, disturbing show that I can't wait for season three.

I like the format that they decided to end the season with (using Lana as a present day, media-icon looking back and interweaving "documentary" footage), but I thought the actual story conclusion was uninteresting. No big, clear reveals (you can take some stuff from the alien storyline, I guess) and kind of lame, cleanly tied up endings for the characters (they could have just as easily finished things up with a few written lines about each character during the credits, a la 80s movies).

I dunno -- I think the producers and directors think a little too highly of some of the acting talent (Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters are fine, but unremarkable actors to me) and it felt like some of the scenes were short on writing/dialogue and long on "sit back and watch how amazing these actors are." It works for some of them (Lange, obviously), but not for most. I thought the bookend opening/closing of Lana and Jude having the discussion about looking fear in the eye was a perfect example of it falling short, but I assume the folks who make the show thought it was great.