American Horror Story Does Halloween!

American Horror Story Does Halloween!

Posted by Dustin on 10.27.2011 at 12:20 am

First up, “American Horror” story is FX’s highest rated series! Yay! This really, along with “Once Upon A Time” are my two favorite shows right now. I’m hoping NBC’s “Grimm” will join them this Friday!

So this episode served up part 1 of the Halloween show. Part 2 airs next week sillies. But we got more back stories, more clarification of who is and isn’t dead, and apparently a death that may not result in a ghost? Next week’s show description makes you say Hmmmmmmm!

The show opened with the back story of “the gays” who owned and renovated the house before the current family bought it. Zachary Quinto (Sylar of “Heroes,” Spock in “Star Trek”) played one half of the couple Chad, his cheating boyfriend was Patrick (not sure of the actor, someone who looked a lot like Alexander Skarsgard though!) They bought the house with big dreams to have the perfect family and even a child, but it seemed the house turned them into “Bitter Hallow Queens” as Patrick put it . . . a pun being the flashback and their deaths came on Halloween! It appears someone in the latex sex suit killed them both . . . we don’t know who that was. Was it Tate? That was “hinted at” later on. It was not, however, some mutual lovers quarrel murder/suicide as the relator thought it was!

Ben met with Tate, who didn’t seem to be following up with another shrink Ben asked him to see. Maybe because he can’t leave the house? Ben agreed to continue seeing Tate, but not in the house . . .that was too close to home. At a coffee shop, anywhere else. Tate agreed . . . .

The relator suggested to Vivian and Ben they hire a fluffer to make the house warm and inviting. This would spread word of mouth, especially with Halloween coming up, and make selling it easier. She had two fluffers she worked with previously, Ben and Vivian opted for the “cheaper gay guy.” Of course this was an invitation for the gay ghost couple to arrive, and not be suspected by Ben and Violet.

Over at the neighbors . . . Constance caught Addie flirting with her current Boy Toy. The Boy Toy was reading a story about the origins of Halloween to Addie, that it was a Celtic holiday during which they believed on one day veil between the living and the dead was lifted, and the dead could roam the earth . . . thus we dress up to scare the ghosts away. (The Anthropologist in me wants to let you know while true, this description was very abbreviated! Halloween is an amalgamation of many pagan harvest holiday traditions, not just European in origin). Constance of course told Addie, who had decided she wanted to be a “pretty girl” this year, that she should stop flirting with her Boy Toys (which had happened before) . . . she didn’t need to be read a Halloween story to . . . let alone one they knew all about. That gave us the clue both were alive, but very well aware of the ghost next-door. Addie mentioned how she’d never want to be a ghost, it would be too depressing . . . .

Addie later went over (I.E. broke into the house again) to see Violet and ask her for help being a pretty girl for Halloween. She grilled her about Tate, was he her boyfriend? We also learned that she liked it in this house, “all her friends were here.” Hmmmm, clearly as Constance hinted too, they were both alive, but knew all about ghosts.

Tate clued us (and Violet) in on more of the houses past. She asked what the truth about the house was, he wanted to have a OuiJa board session with the original owner Dr. Charles to give her the answers. We got a bit of last week’s story in recap, Dr. Charles was a doctor the the stars, had a drug problem, fell into debt, and his wife set him up as an abortion doctor. All went well until one woman talked to her boyfriend, who kidnapped and killed their child. Dr. Charles went nuts and became fixated on “preserving life after death.” It seems the kidnapper chopped the kid into pieces, and Charles tried to sew it back together. Eww! We saw the wife catching him do this. Tate told Violet that “it still lived here.” She thought he was sh*ting her, and said she didn’t believe it.

Oh . . . I’m forgetting, initially Tate “scared” Violet dressed in the latex sex suit . . .was he a ghost who killed “the gays?” Not sure! But Violet said she was tired of him breaking in to see her, they needed a real date. Tate of course said okay . . . . tomorrow . . . Halloween! When the dead can roam free . . .

Another dead who wanted Halloween off was the maid Moira. She asked Vivian if she could had the day off to spend with her mother. We learned her mother was not only in a nursing home, but on life support. Moira, on Halloween, the day the dead could freely interact with the living, visited and then took her mom of life support. Her mother’s spirit begged her to come with her, but Moira cried “she couldn’t.”

Back to the house, Ben and Vivian were preparing for Halloween with Chad and Patrick. While Patrick made a pass on Ben in private, Chad put an idea in Vivian’s head about cheating spouses. They talked about cheating spouses and he said that he was a snoop and that “you can delete a text message, but not the record on the bill!”

From this clue, Vivian learned Ben had been in recent text contact with Hayden. She confronted him about this, he swore Hayden was over . . . she had tried to contact him over and over but he cut it off . . . oops it’s Halloween! Hayden called Ben’s phone, which sent Vivian into odd convulsions . . . her baby was kicking? At 8 weeks?

Ben rushed Vivian to the hospital, telling Violet not to answer the door tonight, period. This was after they threw out “the gay fluffers,” who went postal on them. Vivian told them to just leave. They said this wasn’t their house, they knew that by now, they weren’t going to leave! This is when Vivian had the odd pains. Clue number one their house is haunted! It seems clue number two will come next week . . .

Upon arriving at the hospital, the woman doing an ultra sound on Vivian fainted after heading her baby was only supposed to be 8 weeks old! Uh Oh! What did she see? A little demon? Or is the kid older? Has Vivian not been the good girl we think she has been? Or has the house done something to the baby?

While Ben and Vivian were at the hospital, the house got two very important trick-or-treaters. Only the later did Violet seem to realize was there. This was crazy burnt up Larry, who seemed determined Ben pay him that thousand dollars for ridding him of Hayden (who also turned up at one point on Halloween night as a ghost, and it seems will be back next week). So maybe crazy burned guy isn’t dead? Which of course means his family is . . . and who we haven’t yet met!

Oh speaking of ghosts we already met! Apparently (via a flashback) Ben met the two twin ghosts from the pilot. They showed up one night to egg the house and him.

The second trick-or-treater was Addie. She wanted to show Violet her “pretty girl costume.” Violet didn’t answer, and she followed some other “pretty girl” (I.E. cheerleader whores) away from the house wanting to join their group . . . . .

BAM! Addie was mowed down in the street! A hit and run. BAM! We later saw the EMTs working on her. Constance arrived, and said “If you can’t save her, we have to get her to the lawn!” It seemed she knew, if she got her to the house to die, she’d still survive in this world as a ghost.

She dragged Addie to the lawn . . . of the “Murder Tour House” . . . but was it in time? It seemed like Addie died before then. She did say she never wanted to be a ghost! But the teaser for next week indicates “The family is haunted by the house’s newest ghost.”

Could Addie be who finally convinces the family their house is haunted as hell?

BONUS!

Patrick, in the bathroom, claimed to Ben that he only needed “4 minutes” with him to . . . um . . . orally pleasure him? Where have we heard that time before? Given this is from the master minds of “Glee,” was this time limit really just a coincidence?

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  1. I think I am out of sync with these updates. I saw one episode here in Canada, can’t remember the channel, but it was one where the daughter caught the maid trying to seduce the dad, and the guy in the black suit had sex with the wife while the hubby was putting his hand over the gas stove. The burnt guy confronts the dad while out jogging etc. None of the updates mention these, but there is no way I am ahead in viewing, any idea where the episode fits in?

    Comment by lori
    10.27.2011 at 11:23 am
  2. I think that was the first episode. My understanding is Canada didn’t start getting the show till just now. We are on the 4th episode now.

    Comment by Dustin
    10.27.2011 at 11:32 am

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