My wife and I both hope for the nudity warning each week - me for the hot maid and her for Dylan McDermott’s butt.
News: Jessica Lange got a nom for a Golden Globe for ‘Best Supporting Actress.’
Gotcha…except that I thought “But I didn’t lose my baby” referred to Violet herself now that they are back together.
Amazing episode and I’ll say it again - Jessica Lange deserves an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a SAG, and whatever else they can shower her with. She is amazing in this role - beautifully haunting and soooo deranged and creepy. You can’t stop watching because of her.
That aside, I think the first baby is still alive…the doctor told Viv it was still born so he could give a baby to his wife to replace the baby they lost. Why would you NOT give a still born baby to the nurses on hand and try CPR?? He just handed it off to his wife and away she went.
The teasers for the finale next week look incredible. I hope it delivers.
I don’t know…I pretty much hate demon baby stories. Afterall, isn’t this just a hefty dose of Rosemary’s Baby? I have to wonder whether these childbirth horror stories are written by men, out of their own fear of the process.
As a mother, I’m not titillated by this stuff. I just find it upsetting that this kind of thinking is so prevalent that it’s become a trope.
If the whole season was a setup for this, I may not watch it anymore (if it’s even renewed). Yeah, I’m angry.
At least he’s got a body this time to show the police.
Is that exterminator’s truck still parked outside?
Bolding mine.
I may be wrong, but I think AHS is literally trying to hit every American horror story/movie trope. I don’t think they’re trying for anything original, just a coherent, stylish, “dog walk” of every single American horror story trope.
As such, I can see having the Demon Baby trope in there somewhere.
Good call. I’ve thought the show was derivative in a wink-and-a-nod sort of way, but it makes sense for it to be a sort of amalgam of all American horror stories–hence the clever name.
Because CPR hadn’t been invented in the 1920’s? But I do like your theory - it would make sense for him to connive a way to give his wife a live baby.
I wonder if a ghost newborn needs feeding. It seems the adult ghosts can eat and drink but don’t have to.
I liked that Croatoan was bullshit.
I feel sorry for Tate in a perverse kind of way. Yeah, he was fucked up and did horrible things in life, but… vanished daddies, dead nannies, a demon baby in the basement, a truly crazy mommy, a freak-show worthy brother and moving in with “new daddy” whose wife and kids just burned up added to whatever we don’t know that he went through will probably snap anybody’s mind after so long, and he really did love Violet.
Did the psychic have a prior relationship with Tate that made her send him away?
Do you think Ben is going to make it out alive? He can no longer deny there’s an evil presence in the house.
And there’s no way in hell either of those babies is Michael Jackson’s.
ETA: Sorry, wrong thread on that last one.
I wouldn’t say the whole season’s been a setup for this. Rather, pregnancy/motherhood horror has been a part of the show since the start, to an uncomfortable degree, even to this dad. Stillbirth, underground abortion, demon baby, rape-product-baby, infant mutilation, death in childbirth, birth defects, murder of a pregnant woman… basically everything a prospective parent might fear or find distasteful has been cropping up since the first episode. But yeah, it’s all part of “hitting all the horror tropes,” or rather, I might say all the ghost story tropes. So far they’ve stayed clear of vampires, werewolves, mummies, etc..
maybe it’s been towed. But yeah, Ben’s been kinda busy, but I hope they address that soon. ooh! ooh! prediction:
Those cops show up again, and find violet, vivian, and the exterminator, and the babies are missing, and Ben is raving about ghosts, and they lock him up., pinning it all on him. End of Season…
I’m a bit confused about the timeline. Is it really supposed to have been 6 months since the rubber man (Tate) got her pregnant?
I love Tate. He’s “my time” - I graduated in 93, wore the kinds of clothes he wears, that sort of thing, and he is just the kind of guy I would have fallen for (and I’ve got two ex-husbands to show for it). The loser, just needs the love of a girl that gets him, deep and dark (or so he thinks) guy that a gal can fix right up with her heart. When my SO mentions that Tate is really messed up, I always add (with my SO knowing my history with boys) “He just needs me to love him enough to fix him.”
Also, with the Croatoa stuff - I really hoped that since Tate had written “TAINT” on Violet’s wall that when it came time to vanquish him we’d get to see characters screaming with a straight face “TAINT! TAINT!”
I like how gay ghost Sylar totally pwned Violet’s little banishment spell. I wonder, can ghosts eat brains? Brains of other ghosts?
Yeah, from the way she hugged her, Violet was the “baby” in her statement.
And after the birth I came to the same conclusion as SykoSkotty. We’ll have to see how it plays out next week.
gonzoron, I like your idea a lot. I hope that does work out that way because it’d make the most sense considering how so many horror movie sequels are formatted. Plus
I tend to like “evil wins” endings. Unsurprisingly, Darkness is one of my favorite horror movies.
My wife has been watching this show, and I’ve only been tangentially following it. Yesterday we watched the latest episode together.
It’s a comedy. It’s a bunch of ghosts arguing over who gets the baby. It’s like a creepy sit-com. I was laughing my ass off (until the birth scene, that was good).
They could shoot a season of Real World with the hoard of dead people stuck in that house.
In the very beginning of last week’s episode, we see a young Tate playing with his truck while a dead and bloody lady lays on the couch with Newhart on in the background. Who was that lady supposed to be? I didn’t get a good look at her.
That was Constance passed out drunk on the couch in a pink house dress, surrounded by past due bills. It looked bloody, but it was only the loud 80s pattern of the couch and her clothes.
Hm. Maybe it’s time to update my eyeglass prescription.
Heh.
So, the finale. Not quite sure what to make of that. All the ghosts scaring away the new family was funny, but I don’t want to watch a whole season focusing on that. *Is *there going to be a second season?
And so the identity of Constance’s 4th child was never revealed? From reading this thread, I had thought that would end up being something that had meaning.
Kind of a lackluster ending to what had turned into an exciting series.
Agreed. If it turns into scaring away the family of the week, that would be lame. But for some reason, I’m confident they’ll find a new spin on things. I’m excited to see where it’s going. Maybe they’ll shift focus to Connie and her antichrist grandkid? Also, they only scared the family away because they were going to have a baby. If they can keep Tate from raping or killing anyone, another could stay longer than one episode, as long as they don’t have or plan to have a baby for Hayden to take.
Yes, the renewal announcement was several weeks ago.
Never on the show, but I think some website associated with the show spilled the beans. There’s a reason to look forward to next season. I doubt they’ll leave that thread much longer.
I disagree. I thought it capped off the season perfectly. I really couldn’t believe they “went there” in terms of killing off Ben so quickly. It was nice to see things from the ghosts’ point of view, too. And I’m eager to see where things go next, especially now that they’ve jumped to 3 years later.
Of course, there are plot holes aplenty that never got cleaned up: The missing exterminator that no one has looked for, Violet’s rotting body that still hasn’t been noticed, how did Connie get the baby out of the house in the first place when we last left her with Hayden confronting her last episode. Why didn’t Hayden kill the dog (if Marcie adopted the dog, it’s clearly not a ghost as we’d thought.) What happened to body of the ghost baby? WHY ON EARTH DID BEN BRING THE BABY BACK INTO THE HOUSE?!?!? etc.
but hey, those are quibbles. All in all an almost perfect season finale, I thought. Wrapped things up, and yet left the door open for more.
Did anyone catch who the guy with the scratched up face that helped hayden kill ben was? I couldn’t make it out.