American Horror Story - Small Screen Review
Episode Four - “Halloween (Part 1)”
The Harmons hire interior designers ("fluffers") to make over the house to help it sell. Mistaking the arriving Chad (Zachary Quinto) and his partner Patrick (Teddy Sears) as the fluffers. Unknown to the Harmons, the couple are the former owners who were killed by the Rubberman in the house one year ago. Ben cuts himself and Patrick heads off to help him. Chad tells Vivien that he caught Patrick cheating by checking his phone bill, suggesting she do the same.
Larry pays a visit and harasses Ben, demanding payment for killing Hayden. But Ben tells him off and throws himout. Ben also agrees to continue sessions with Tate, but outside the house only. Addy argues with Constance about wanting to dress as a "pretty girl" for Halloween. Constance laughs at her, saying she will never be a pretty girl. Violet meets with Tate, demanding to know what is in the basement. Tate says it is the still-living abomination created when the insane Dr. Montgomery tried to bring his dismembered child back to life by sewing the pieces together with various animal parts. Violet is unimpressed by his story and demands to go on a real date.
Confronted with his phone bill, Ben tells Vivien that he and Hayden are over and that she will not contact them again. To make up with Addy, Constance buys her a “pretty girl” costume. On Halloween night, when “the dead can walk freely”, Moira visits her comatose mother in a hospice. She disconnects the life support, but is unable to pass on with her pleading mother’s departing spirit. Vivien thinks Ben is not telling her the truth, demanding he leave, but the baby begins kicking, an impossibility at 8 weeks. At the hospital, an ultrasound reveals that the baby is more developed than it should be. The doctor collapses after seeing the baby on-screen.
While trick-or-treating, Addy is fatally hit by a car and Constance attempts to get her to the Harmon’s lawn before she dies. Violet is alone in the house when Larry arrives demanding his money and she does not see the Rubberman behind her. The Harmons return from the hospital to find the house broken into and Violet missing. Ben answers a knock at the door, finding Hayden’s ghost standing there covered in dirt.
Seriously a great episode and the beginning was beyond great and intense. The interactions and verbal barbs that Chad (Quinto) and Patrick (Sears) exchange just grabbed you. Then the reveal of the Rubberman made me think that Patrick was the one in the suit yet look at this he wasn’t. So now the question goes back to who the hell is in the suit. It doesn’t help that Tate wears it to scare Violet.
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