I like Ben so much better when he's dead.

Right? They're such an enjoyable dead couple! Perfect little nuclear family now. Aw.

They were having so much fun together, gruesomely killing each other!

This show is INSANE. I was prepared for the WTF factor, but I had no idea how far they were going to go.

Seriously, Amy. I was just so baffled and confused when they killed Ben off so early. I was like...but...but...what now? Where do they go? This new family can't be the stars of next season, right? They're not famous. And then it's just like JESUS CHRIST THIS HOUSE IS SO FUCKING FULL OF GHOSTS. Is this just going to the haunted house show now? Where basically all the characters are dead? And also three years in the future the Antichrist kills someone? I mean. I don't even know.

Tim posted an article the other day that asked, "Is this show good?" And I totally get why that question needs to be asked! Because it's not "good" in the obvious sense of all those HBO/AMC/fX shows. It's totally bonkers. But I think it's definitely doing something new and interesting. The way they've crafted the rules for their ghosts allows for storytelling that's unlike most anything else I've seen in the genre.

And yet some of the characterizations are really brilliant -- Jessica Lange as Constance, for example. She's really the most developed character on the show.

The (brief) new family was interesting simply because it illustrated that the Harmons weren't really anything special -- the ghosts are going to go after any new residents the same way every time. But the Harmons are different because now the whole family is together, and happy in a way they weren't when they moved in, which is just fucked up and sort of brilliant -- as in, what does it take to be happy in America? How do you achieve the dream?

Ugh, I love it. It's ridiculous and over the top and the most fun I've had watching TV in a while. And then every once in a while it's really moving, too!

Yeah, it's totally bonkers - and totally willing to go there wherever there may be.

i'm pretty sure Evan Peters beats Dylan McDermott in the tears department. i was just coming to post that he's one of the best on-screen criers i've ever seen.

I can't even justify my love for Tate, but there it is.

Whoa.

(This may count as a spoiler, I don't know, but I think it's kind of important to know as we continue discussing the finale and what might happen next season.)

ummm...

I started to read it, but I actually don't want to be spoiled at all. I'm loving the complete shock every episode delivers so far.

tiggy, I love Tate, too. It's awful, he really is a complete psychopath, but he's also this lost, lonely little boy. And the kid who plays him is great.