Posted by Dustin on 12.02.2011 at 6:51 pm

So this week on “American Horror Story” we met two new ghosts. Well one old ghost and one newcomer ghost really. We learned “The Black Dahlia” was killed in the house, so her ghost haunts it. Yawn! I wasn’t too thrilled by that story. Hayden meanwhile killed Constance’s boy toy Jimmy (Timmy?) and he’s the house’s newest ghost. Double Yawn! I’d rather have Addie to be honest. Though she was fairly innocent, so I guess she wouldn’t make such a good ghost.

Vivian was locked up tight in the insane asylum. Ben visited her, to tell her how disgusted he was with her self-righteousness and looking down upon him all these months. Turns out Vivian is pregnant by two men (wait where do I know this storyline from!). Ben is only one of the baby’s fathers, which he was stunned to learn. Vivian however had claimed to the hospital that she was raped by someone in the rubber suit. Nobody was believing her, and she was seeming more looney to them, so she had to drop that story to try and get out and prove she was better. Later when Constance visited her, she told her that was the truth.

Hayden was still hanging around the house. How is it that nobody wonders how all these people just get into this house at odd hours? Later her sister showed up, thinking she had gone missing and suspecting Ben. She brought the cops too. But when Hayden appeared to them, clearly Ben was off the hook. Hayden worked to convince Ben that the security guard and Vivian had something going on. When Ben confronted him, he told him that he shoots blanks . . . he aint no baby daddy!

Hayden also started seducing Constance’s younger lover (again Timmy? Jimmy?) and eventually killed him, turning him into another of the houses ghosts. Larry disposed of the body, but not before the good doctor cut it to pieces, as he had done with the Black Dahlia’s body years ago. I feel like they could have explored other ghosts from the house’s past before making a new one, but I guess they don’t want to reveal everything in season 1. What would be left for season 2?

Constance learned from Moira that Tate fathered one of Vivian’s baby’s, and she was disgusted with him. I am shocked, I thought that’s why she had taken such an interest in them! But really she was shocked because it could ruin things with Violet, who she is counting on helping Tate out somehow. She later asked her psychic friend what would happen should a spirit father a child with a human. She went into this long story about how every pope, upon taking the oath, is lead to some back room where they are shared the most guarded secret of all. That the anti-christ will return when the devil sires a child with a mortal woman through fornication . . . a perversion of the conception of Jesus in which God whispered in the Virgin Mary’s ear. Okay I felt this was coming. I was thinking if Rubberman wasn’t Constance’s husband, he’d be Satan or just an evil spirit of the house. But I guess we are to assume the devil took hold of Tate? That’s why he did those horrible things? Clearly this baby can’t be born can it? Will we enter “The Omen” territory? I guess it could be what’s in store for Season 2.

Meanwhile Ben resisted the temptations of both Moira and the Dahlia this week, even when they tried to double team him. He later asked Moira about the rubber suit, what did happen to Vivian the day of the invasion? Moria told him he was finally seeing what’s really before him, not what he wants to see. And suddenly he saw her as the old creepy maid, not the young sexy one!

So it seems Ben, like Vivian, is onto the house at this point. Violet wasn’t in the episode. I guess something must have been going on with the actress. She was locked in her room the whole time they said. She definitely knows what is going on. Maybe this family needs to sit down and talk?