American Horror Story

If you want to start to understand how all the pieces fit together, it's better to watch week to week. Although any given episode is creepy in its own right.

I am enjoying it and at the same dreading that they will end up running it into the ground. The premise seems like it will work best as a 1 or 2 season show, gradually building up the tension and the reveals to some climactic point. But knowing american TV, it seems more likely that they will continue to just add pieces whether or not they fit based on continued ratings. Or, they will throw together some POS ending a la the American version of Life on Mars that just makes the whole thing pretty stupid in the end (like turning out to be a dream of one of the characters. That only worked for the end episode of Newhart).

We are loving this show! I am so glad somebody started a thread. I tried to do the same thing via FB and a Mama board and got crickets so I was worried nobody was watching.

I like it because there is a story and it is truly creepy but for some reason it doesn't really scare me or keep me up at night. It's the perfect amount of scary.

However, I am also worried they will ruin this because that's just what they do.

I don't know which one they are on now, but Hulu has the last 5 episodes.  I missed ep 3, but was able to catch it that way

Just like the FX site they have the pilot and 3, 4, 5,  and 6. No 2.

Oh yeah! Love the show and that Rubber Suit Dude reaallllly creeps me out - who is he?!?!?!?!??!?!? 

I disagree with Gearboy about who's behind it....seems sort of Rosemary's Baby-ish too and the whole neighborhood seems to 'know' more than those living in there LOL. 

My only complaint is the freakin' thundering/crash/crack-type sounds during the 'theme' music. Once is good and effective but after about 4 of those unnerving sounds, I look upstairs to see if it's disturbing reverberation has awoken my son LOL.

I may be wrong about the reanimated baby (though it certainly is at the very least a pretty creepy thing). But I don't think the whole neighborhood seems to know about it. Just the neighbor, who used to live there. Which explains why her daughter used to just go in an play with the things in the basement. 

I wonder if the bodies get moved, do they get to finally rest in peace? That seems to be the implication with the maid. But that sort of implies all the bodies are somewhere on the grounds of the house. It would make it a lot easier to solve the problem of the ghosts, though - just find and remove the bodies. Of course, there is also an apparent implication that it is the act of dying on the grounds that leads to the hauntings.

I hear ya Gearboy. I think you are right - if you die there, you stay there. NOW for those who have not seen many episodes, you may not want to read my post because there are hints as to what is to come. But I'm mostly rambling and trying to figure things out 'out loud' LOL) But I think that if the bodies are unearthed = they are discovered and vindicated. Moira (maid) was looking forward to having the pool put in by BJ (don't remember his name but you know what I mean) but upon learning from Jessica Lange that he was going to demolish the place and put in condos I got the feeling that her 'truth' would not be learned and thus she didn't want him to purchase the place any longer. There are a few people I'm unclear as to how they fit in - those twin boys (red heds); the 'boy' in the attic - is he Lange's or was he the 'baby from the original owners? And I'll lay odds that the obstetrician is in on it! Interesting too that so many of the people who died there were involved in a 'love triangle' or were adulterous. The seduction element of the show makes my skin crawl with the blurred edges of what's real and fantasy. 

Now, I gotta go watch my other indulgence - The Walking Dead. Hmmmm... maybe there's a theme going on here LOL

I think the attic boy is her son. She mentioned in the first or second episode something about having several children who were somehow "off". 

I don't think the obstetrician is in on it. But I think you are right about the thread of infidelity. Not all of them - the ginger boys are the most obvious example of not fitting into that pattern; and I am not sure about the original owners. But certainly the maid, the burned man, and the current family seem to have that connection.

OMG! Did you guys watch?!? Wow! And there is NOT a break/season end as I had thought/heard at least not yet. Next week new epi too!

So funny, during it we realized some outside lights were off and I said the ghosts are just playing with us - but I was really getting all creeped out! LOL

Awesome show. I love creepy shows/movies like this.

The only problem I have with the show is the episode where they showed what Tate did. As a guy that lives in Denver & attended Columbine (Class of '94) it just hit a little TOO CLOSE to home.

Other than that...GREAT SHOW!!!!! So many questions have been answered in the last couple of episodes

I have to admit, I was skeptical that they could make it last more than one season, but I think they can - although the tone has to change from creepy horror to more straightforward horror since we know most of the ghosts at this point.

They set up the offspring to be a real "Damien" kind of character - pure evil, which makes sense given the father's story. I think they can keep going back to the house with him exploring the ghosts and getting "mentored" by both the good and the bad ones, as well as by the grandmother (who has her own special kind of evil going on).

I think Moira is one of the ghosts who is aware of her status (there was a line in the series about how some of the ghosts don't realize they are dead) and therefore she has some control of her appearance. Remember she shows up as a superhottie to men, and until the father rejected her, he could not see her as she wanted to be seen.

I think Moira believes that if her body is removed, her spirit can finally rest. But I think she is mistaken (like when the daughter tried to exorcise the one ghost). I think something about the house or the grounds keeps the spirits there after death. After all, we never really found out what happened to the original doctor and wife, and I am sure the nursing students' bodies were removed, as were the gay couple, and Tate. And Jessica Lange tried to drag her Down's Syndrome daughter onto the property to die there.  So if the psychic was right about the house itself absorbing the energies of the spirits, Moira would have been better off letting the developer buy the property and tear it down.

I don't think any of the spirits can leave the house, except on Halloween. That was part of the point of that episode (and the reason for the comment the one gay dude made to Tate (or vice versa?) about not being able to hook up with anyone that year). But on Halloween all the spirits are allowed to roam the earth - and the dead kids had been looking for Tate for years.

Hey there. I LOVE this show! 

I was wondering about that Moira thing too. 

As to what happened to the original doctor and his wife - it was in one of the first episodes. Her child died and her husband (the doctor) was addicted to chlorophom (spelling?) and trying to play frankenstein in his basement. He got the baby back to life as some sort of monster (I think the thing that appeared in the basement during the first episode). Then his wife killed first him and then shot herself. So yeah. That's what happened to them

About the leaving the house thing. How comes that Violet can sit at Constance's table but then again she claims not to be able to leave the house?