Real Exorcism of Anneliese Michel

Que bueno! Think Tate is faking his chiche troubled teen act just to get back into the house? Wonder how he got the previous owners to invite him in.

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NoCakeForYou Fri 07 Oct 2011 12:20 AM
I just have to say. I loved the show. It was something different and unique. Perfect, maybe not, but I like where they're going.
algomeysa Thu 06 Oct 2011 11:41 PM
I didn't get the impression that it ever occurred to Vivian that rubberman was a ghost (or wasn't her husband).
Duxs Thu 06 Oct 2011 11:02 PM
The entire sex scene, I was just hoping that Julie and Coach would walk in.
Best episode of Friday Night Lights ever.
Vondruke Thu 06 Oct 2011 9:45 PM
My money is that the Rubber man is one of the last tenants, even if they were "gay" the could be "bisexual". Also, Dylan was schlepping his STUDENT not patient.
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Batlife Thu 06 Oct 2011 9:26 PM
I'm mainly curious to see where it goes from here. Instead of dropping intriguing hints like most pilots do, they unleashed this overload of characters and ghosts and threats that make it hard to see the actual plot. Because it can't be as simple as the house wanting to kill them and enslave their ghosts, right? That would play out in a few episodes.

I think it has potential, but it's both potential to be effectively eerie and potential to degenerate into a hackish 9 Inch Nails video/David Lynch short/Stephen King mash-up.
raytheater Thu 06 Oct 2011 8:21 PM

I wonder what will happen if the Green man rents a room in that house and face off against the Rubber man.
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mekki Thu 06 Oct 2011 8:20 PM
"So, the Rubber Man is haunting Vivian's vagina..."

That will be the first and last time you will ever write that sentence for the rest of your life.

And the "Twisted Nerve" whistle wasn't referencing "Kill Bill." It was referencing the movie that Kill Bill was referencing, the actual "Twisted Nerve." The movie is about a psychotic young man who becomes obsessed with a girl and does jacked up stuff along the way. Sounds like someone you know, right?
Facebones Thu 06 Oct 2011 7:47 PM
We all get that Tate's a ghost, right? The way he appears in rooms unannounced, is never seen outside of the Harmon's house, the way no one seems to have heard of him when Ben calls the cops, and his love of Kurt Cobain. He killed himself in 1994 right after Kurt did and he's been hanging in the house ever since.

And I didn't think that Ben's therapy was that bad. He probably thought that Tate was trying to get a rise out of him - possibly to get drugs prescribed - and tried to call him on it.

PS: My bet on Rubber Man is it's the part of Dennis O'Hare that got burned away in the fire.
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RaisinGirl Thu 06 Oct 2011 7:19 PM
Maybe the next Glee character they need to write out of the show they can do a crossover. They go into the American Horror house. And don't come out again. And possibly autotune about it.
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LordChristo Thu 06 Oct 2011 6:54 PM
Of course, most people online (even here) will say 'This wasn't scary' but I know gorram scary, and twice in this show I wanted to go outside for a smoke, and would not because of what I just saw. Yes, I know it's a TV show, but I live in the woods, so spooky noises could be wolves, dammit! This show kept me alive another day!

Good show so far, the opening scene was nice and creepy, they added with more scares and tension, the dialogue was better than I expected, and anyone who complains about this show does not understand how to make good TV horror.
TomStrong Thu 06 Oct 2011 6:49 PM
Well I'm on board for the whole run, which I don't think is going to be very long but I do hope we get a couple seasons out of it. Sure it wasn't scary but what is? I don't think I've been scared by a TV show or movie since Little Monster's.

It was interesting in enough ways that I want to see how everything plays out sure there was a bit of overacting and that that first scene had some terrible dialogue ("I hate tress!") but what else am I going to watch that at least pretends to be horror? (for the record I'm not into sexy vampire soap operas or trendy zombie epics).
Batmanuel Thu 06 Oct 2011 6:35 PM
This show is really crying out for a True Blood style Pro/Con recap.

I think the crying and masturbating thing can be explained by Dylan's character being a sex addict. He wants to change and be faithful to his wife, but he knows that if the maid keeps coming on to him, he's going to fuck her. He's in tears because he is not strong enough to be the man he needs to be for his wife.
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vivageishalibre Thu 06 Oct 2011 6:09 PM
That's too funny. As to Dylan McDermott being naked, I said to friends today I was trying to explain the show to, "A. Jessica Lange. B. There was a lot of nudity. Well...I guess that's not really true. He was naked a lot." That was a definite plus for every woman at the table.

Did anyone else notice that both Moira and the burned man had one glaucoma eye? She was a red head, so are the twins. Could she have been there mother and could she be staying there to be near them? (A stretch, I know.)
AceMcCloud Thu 06 Oct 2011 5:51 PM
"Dylan was naked a lot in this. Not so much the ladies."

Could use more Connie Britton.
ELSOS Thu 06 Oct 2011 5:48 PM
Personally, I think Tate has to be dead or something. While he was talking in his therapy session he looked up, saw himself all bloody, then adverted his eyes. Not to mention he knows about the basement already.
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Ghost_in_the_Machine Thu 06 Oct 2011 5:33 PM
I'd like to think that not all men make these sorts of noises after catching their Halloween-costumed ghost maid playing with herself.

No, we don't. At least I don't, anyway.

Is it supposed to be edgy or something to say "shit" every few minutes? You could have made a drinking game out the gratuitous cursing. Actually, I might do that next week.
Cygnus_Mal Thu 06 Oct 2011 5:07 PM
It only took about 60 seconds for me to find the show dumb (I still watched the whole thing to confirm my suspicions).

Twin 1: Shut your mouth or we're gonna kick your ass!

Twin 2: We got bats.

Twin 1: I hate trees!

Sorry, dialog that bad always kills it for me.

Also did anyone else feel that Violet was the one did most of the swearing on the show. I get it, you can say "shit" on TV but it seemed to me like she was saying it disproportionately more than the other characters and than the situation warranted. It was just weird.
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spoogy Thu 06 Oct 2011 5:04 PM
I want to love this show, and I loved Jessica Lange's character and performance, but overall I'm just not feeling it. I'm beginning to think that these Murphy and Falchuk guys need to be introduced to a little something we call "artistic restraint." I'm a fan of camp, but I found myself repeatedly thinking, "sheesh, tone it down a little." Pilots are generally weak, though.

Also: hopefully Murphy won't direct beyond the debut. At times it felt like it was all being helmed by a first year film student. Example: There was a conversation between the female leads that was clearly supposed to be drawing us in, but Murphy kept cutting unnecessarily from one shot to another almost arbitrarily. That could have been a wise choice in other sequences, if the intent was to keep people on edge. But in this scene, it obliterated the tension that was supposed to be building.
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catvincent Thu 06 Oct 2011 5:00 PM
"So, the Rubber Man is haunting Vivian's vagina..."

"Vivian Harmon! You have to get out of here!
YOUR VAGINA IS HAUNTED!"
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AlfaCharger Thu 06 Oct 2011 4:54 PM
"Once the leather "gimp" costume is revealed in the attic, the soundtrack starts playing the whistle tune from Kill Bill, "Twisted Nerve." That's a lot of Quentin Tarantino."

Bernard Herrmann is twisting is his grave for that error!

"Biggest question of the episode for me: Who was the Rubber Man? My money is on Tate."

My money is on Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still". (Scored by Bernard Herrmann.)

Some Veritgo score was also used in AHS, (yes, more Bernard Herrmann.)

Not bad for a composer would have been 100 this year.
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Dr Emilio Lizardo Thu 06 Oct 2011 4:47 PM
I didn't find it scary at all. More dumb than anything else. The daughter and Jessica Lange are such thin caricatures. I disagree about the chemistry between McDermott and Britton. Sure, couples can get past infidelity but these two don't seem to have done anything of the sort, even though he insists that they should. I really don't know why they didn't just get divorced. I mean it's OK to forgive somebody and it's OK not to but I think most people make up their minds one way or another after a year and a 4,000 mile relocation. And if you cheat on your wife and she can't make up her mind how to feel about it then demanding she do so isn't likely to get her to decide she should forgive you.

The whole thing with Tate is stupid too. "Hey I'm gonna kill everybody at my school" doesn't usually generate a dismissing smile these days. He doesn't decide to call the cops till he wants to get the kid away from his daughter. Then he can't get anybody at the police to listen to him? He's a psychiatrist. He's trained in what to do. The police have to listen. It doesn't really happen this way in real life, even if the plot demands it. The kid should be involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric facility and not allowed to leave until his psychiatrist and a judge are convinced he is no longer a danger to himself or others.

I'll give it another week but I'm not as encouraged as you are.
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Craig Michael Ranapia Thu 06 Oct 2011 4:28 PM
OK, I'm probably going to get slaughtered for saying this: But why is Ryan Murphy incapable of doing shows where adult woman aren't shrill, castrating basket cases who must be horribly punished for displaying any kind of sexuality?
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Willravel Thu 06 Oct 2011 4:24 PM
We now know what would happen if Ryan Murphy purchased and ate the last 60 years worth of horror and Gothic cinema, chased it with a bottle of scotch, and then regurgitated it all over a wall. At best, this series might be the same neck-turning car-wreck that Nip/Tuck quickly became after becoming successful with a decent first season.

You know what might have saved it? Casting Kyle Chandler as the husband and making this a rather odd sequel series to Friday Night Lights. I'd watch that.
Him playing as a sex addict...hhmm.
99TelepodProblems @Willravel
Yeah this is the problem. It's just cutting to the visceral chase: how much shock value can I vomit on you in an hour and still string together some kind of story with available horror tropes?

This being said, I didn't entirely dislike it. There were genuine ideas that could be developed in very interesting ways, but there was never time to for anything to meaningfully crystallize. You are jerked around so much it is all just a mush of sound and fury.

I wonder if people liked it as much as they did because it is so unapologetically ADD. Maybe we are witnessing the first drama custom tailored to the new 21st century consciousness.