Constance never said directly that the other two kids have Downs, just that all of the kids except the Golden Boy were, off. Why haven’t Ben or Vivian asked were the other 3 kids are? All they know about is Addy. I suppose it’s possible that they assume the kids are all grown up now.
Tate seems to have had a dissociative fugue thing happening, which may explain why he doesn’t recognize the kids he killer or that he himself is also dead. He seems to be aware that he can only travel around the house, but in a vague, hazy sort of way.
Cameron (my bad. I can’t associate him with any other role) er, Ben’s Piggy Man patient is going to be a reason for that detective to investigate him further. Seriously? Two patients walk in and are dead not long after?
Why haven’t the gay couple showed up before? Can anyone enumerate all the folks that Violet saw downstairs?
I wonder what Constance meant when she asked the medium if they could trust her. I don’t believe the medium is dead, though. I see her as alive, and drawn to the house and Constance, like a moth to the flame.
Have we established that Constance is actually alive? Is it possible that the house is actually on a plot that was split to create two properties? A lot of fucked up shit went down in Constance’s house too, unless she lived in the one house when she killed Moira and Tate went nuts and the twins did (well, her other two kids met whatever happened to them) and she moved next door to stay close. But that doesn’t make sense either, because why wouldn’t she just stay in the house?
Anyone notice the ‘sprinkle of seasoning’ the maid put on the sweetbreads? And the temptation to eat the raw pancreas? That is right out of “Rosemary’s Baby”.
Yes, I did notice that. I made a post earlier that I think Vivian will love and protect her demon baby just like in the movie Rosemary’s Baby.. I have noticed other scenes that relate to other horror movies as well.. Makes it exciting!
I’m saying the demon baby makes her not question it. There’s things going on with her body and mind because of - you know - supernatural demon fetus stuff - that makes her think ‘you know, raw pancreas and brain does sound pretty good. And people really are into raw foods these days.’
Though, after Viv finished eating…ok, scarfing… the brain, it did show her looking like she just realized what she ate & looking rather ill…
And it was the weak attempt that could possibly have been successful…then again, she DID puke in the tub after Tate stuck his fingers in her throat…so maybe it wasn’t sucessful. Thats the thing with this she, you just don’t know…
I believe that the Ben sees her as she really is and the living see her as an old maid, because that is the only way she can work in the house. She has nowhere else to go so she desperately trys to keep her job in the house. Ben sees her as she is (not aged, like the other ghosts) because of his weakness with infidelity.
Just a guess.
Side bar- Last night’s murder of the patient who had the fear of the mirror was uncalled for, unless it comes into play later. Any thoughts?
Yeah, you have a point.. I kinda thought of that the demon baby was making her crave it, I just thought we would have seen some more of her rebelling against it at first. Also, pregnant women shouldn’t be eating raw meat, so I thought she would find it gross.
I was hoping for more of an evil vs good fight with her and the baby.. maybe we will see it later on.
I find it odd also that the maid aged, but the other ghosts haven’t. She was shot when she was young and sleeping with Constance’s husband. I think she really is young and Vivian doesn’t want to see her any other way but old.
I did notice that when Constance was praising Violet to her mother that she seemed to refer to Violet in the past tense. I got the feeling that she was talking about someone who had did from the way she phrased thing. ie. She was such a …
Well, if nothing else, the mystery of how Tate ended up in therapy has been resolved.
Totally, totally agree. That was too much effort for an abrupt and out-of-nowhere bad joke. Even if the murder has implications for the broader story I still think it was handled poorly.
This bit of the show still confuses me. Not only does the maid’s appearance change depending on the viewer, but her personality seems to shift as well. When Moira looks older she seems conservative, quaintly devoted, maybe a little shrill; when she looks younger she is seductive and amoral. The older Moira took her night off to set her mother free, while the younger Moira tries to seduce Ben; drugs his coffee; cleans up the blood from (what was presumably, at the time) his murder victim.
Somehow I don’t think this is a matter of her behaving differently around different people — it seems like these are two very disparate individuals somehow inhabiting the same parcel of space-time.
I noticed that too, but I figured Constance was referring specifically to the comfort that Violet provided directly following Addy’s death. Someone mentioned above that you really can’t tell with this show, but I’d find it a little surprising if Violet’s attempt succeeded — the struggle of a living Violet with the nature of the afterlife seems to offer greater thematic opportunity. (Her boyfriend’s dead, and a psycho, and her house is filled with the restless ghosts of the brutally murdered, and her new sibling is demonspawn …)
Really? I thought this was really significant! It wasn’t a monster that came after him, but it was a burglar called Pig! Given that he first gave the mirror/rhyme thing a go in the death house and saw the fat nurse (“Piggy”), I really don’t think it’s a coincidence that he was *robbed and killed *in his own house by a real dude called Pig. There’s definitely a connection there - I just don’t know what though. Maybe the spirits in the house have a way of affecting those outside of the house?
Cut and pasted. And Constance is basically Minnie Castevet, giving her the “all natural prenatal diet” ala the tannis root and the herb milkshakes; I was surprised nobody brought out “Constance took these when she was pregnant and her kids all turned out just fine, just a little deformed, retarded, and criminally insane”.
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Agree. They need to let somebody have a happy ending (and I thought maybe this was where they were going- to show that Ben’s a good psychiatrist). It’s not just a Pollyanna-ish need for happy endings, but plot structure; if you know that everybody who comes into contact with them is damned then it loses tension.
So in the first episode the house was abandoned (though Addie was there), and then Constance moved in until at least '94. Something’s wrong with that timeline but I can’t put my finger on it.
And you’d figure that with that many murders (what are they up to now- about 60 or so?) and crazy happenings even the most skeptical person on Earth would be thinking “I don’t know what’s causing it- mold or mildew or swamp gas- but this place is driving people insane and needs to be condemned”.
And stop showing Dylan McDermott undressed when you’ve got Zachary Quinto’s number!
Yeah I’m pretty sure it’s his (nick)name. His partner’s like “this was just supposed to be a robbery, now you’ve murdered someone!..Let’s get out here Pig”
I just went back and re-watched that scene. The robber hiding in the shower pulls open the curtain, says “Who you calling’ a pig?”, and shoots Cam. His accomplice rushes in and says “What the hell did you do? This was supposed to be a robbery, now it’s murder. You asshole.”
“He called me a pig.” (The robber is overweight and presumably sensitive about it.)
“We gotta get out of here.”
And then it cuts away. I don’t think “pig” is anyone’s nickname.