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I speculated a bit ago that it will be Taissa Farmiga, as we know she's coming back. And what and how are these deaths accounted for? If the only people who saw these things happen are not really being believed, since it's all rooted in the ghost story, what do the professor's and Cricket's loved ones/family/friends/acquaintances suppose actually became of them? Are they just missing persons? did anyone actually investigate? I really hope Wes Bentley is back too.

I'm guessing Finn will play the real Edward Mott, since he played dandy. And taissa farmiga will be the real Gaga witch? I'd love if Evan/Rory dying this quickly was a misdirect. He is so completely adorable. That was Chaz marrying them? I have to go back and rewatch.

Oh no Evan. So pretty, so dead. Dammit. This premise is exactly what I'd hoped this second half of the season would be, so I'm happy. I'm in. I think it's a blast.

I grew up in the 60s and 70s and we used sunscreen. There was even that coppertone ad with Jodie foster as a little girl. Sure, when I was a teen I baked out in the sun with baby oil to get bronzed, but definitely by the 80s, I was using sunscreen with a higher SPF. I'd think for sure that parents would be making sure the kids were well covered with it.

Ack, Kate became fat Carrie Bradshaw last nite: stalking her boyfriend's ex at her workplace (which suggests that no matter how tiny or large you may be, you can be haunted and riddled with insecurity). And like Carrie, it was cringe inducing. Checking the ex out online is pretty normal, but to actually go to her shop and agree to an interview and reveal that she HAD cyberstalked her (for 'research')...and then run to Toby with it....yeah, I have not been a Toby fan, but his baffled, creeped out reaction made him instantly more relatable to me. I was screaming (well, inwardly) for him to run away from her, just like I screamed (inwardly) for Big to run away from Carrie. His staying with her after that is a step backward, honestly, and probably indicative of his own insecurities. Tho his reveal that he'd not necessarily always been a big guy, that he gained a lot of weight AFTER he was devastated by his divorce....I would think that would play more on Kate's insecurities than ever. Like: he really is only with a big girl after he got big. I don't think that's necessarily the case, but I'd be surprised if it's not where Kate's brain goes. Adding to the chorus of those who never cared for Milo before now but now have massive crushes. When did he get so dreamy? I read that he and Mandy are really having a thing, wonder if that's true? Can't blame either of them, if so. I am not a parent and just watching these two try to wrangle three kids at a pool made me ever more grateful that I'm not. It all looks so very exhausting. Also, no idea how a parent is supposed to have handled the hateful note from Kate's supposed friends---obviously making an issue of it right then would have just humiliated her further--but if I knew those girls' parents, I think I'd have had to make damn sure they were aware what nasty little bullies they were raising. I also don't know how parents SHOULD handle a child's weight issue. They're both clearly trying to help her out in different ways. I know that I have weight related issues now cuz I grew up (skinny) with a mom who always thought she was fat when she wasn't, ever. I wasn't either, as a kid or a teen or in my twenties, but I always thought I was, and toyed with anorexia and bulimia and overeating for years until my metabolism is pretty much shot. My mom is 70 something now, still not remotely fat, and still convinced she is. Anyway. Rebecca thinking Kate needed a shirt to cover up and Jack thinking she didn't, but still handing over his 'magick' shirt....what a very sweet scene. And poor little 'normal' Kevin. Just as I was about to write him off as a douchebro of epic proportions after his audition, we see the near drowning scene (like many here, I had my own pool/pond/lake related near death experiences), and his hilarious, real reaction to it. I adored how Kevin responded to meeting William...instantly welcoming despite being surprised by it. Didn't realize the meddling-but-helpful mom was SJB's real wife. She made an instant impression. What a gorgeous couple.

I'm not surprised, but i'm sad. I loved this little show.

I love Thomas Haden church. I loved Lowell. I LOVED Ned, and there he was an acerbic smartass with a great sense of style (so his sartorial choices and pornstache seem even worse by comparison). I loved him in 'sideways', and that movie he did with Dennis quaid and SJP years ago 'smart people'. He is capable of some subtlety and gravitas, he's a fine actor Which is why I can't figure out why he and SJP seem so mismatched, not just as a couple, but as co-stars here. I'm not sure what's not working. I'd have sympathy for Robert automatically, being the cheated on partner, who she treats with so much contempt, but he just seems so weird and kind of creepy. But actually, everyone on this show kind of is.

My problem is, at this point, that I have no idea why Frances is trying to salvage her marriage. She appears to despise Robert--with good reason or not. THC and SJP continue to seem as if they are on different shows. Robert is so broadly portrayed, so sitcommy and weird, I can't tell if we are supposed to loathe him as much as she seems to or not. She apparently is at least fairly financially secure. The kids are not tiny--no kids like divorce, but they're old enough to handle this stuff to some degree. She has nothing, it appears, but contempt for her husband. Why is she trying to save the marriage? It's virtually inexplicable at this point. Also, why do cheating spouses tell their partners that the person they slept with 'meant nothing' to them? Does that ever make anyone feel better? "Hey, I torpedoed our marriage and devastated you for someone I care nothing at all about'. Oh, okay, then. And of course, she's lying, as she told her friend that she might be in love with Conchord guy.

I don't understand how nobody at her workplace doesn't say to each other...'damn, she doesn't look 26'.

While I enjoy all of his performances in later seasons, I'll agree that it's all very campy, and conversely, think his performance in Season One is his most affecting and disturbing and vulnerable and true. I loved Tate and his dark, sick, twisted, murderous, romantic little soul.

Yay, Evan Peters! Pretty (once he ditched the wig, anyway) gay Evan, canoodling in a tub that looked like the one Hannibal and Bedelia liked to wash each other's hair in Italy in. I've so missed him. He seemed to be having a blast. Not sure how much sense any of it made, but I still liked it. The Grudge/Ring girl skittering around was creepy AF, and the Polks (who the honey and I keep inadvertently calling the Peacocks, in all their inbred, horrifying glory) outcreeped her. Chaz Bono cracked me up. Poor Elias. To survive so long, then get arrowed, THEN survive that only to be cannibalized by the gruesome Polk family. I would rather have taken my chances with Kathy Bates and Gaga (where was Gaga?) et al than the Polks. Yeah, where did the cops go? Did they see the fire and the gathering and pretty Wes toss his mom into flames? Did they go after the Polks, or are they still out there in the woods? What I'm hoping is that the actors playing everyone in the reenactments and the real life people somehow converge. Like the evil follows them or something. Are we to believe the reenactments were filmed at the actual house? Will we see Evan and Wes and real life Uber boy and all the Shelbys and Matts and Lees as they go about their lives after the ghost story show has filmed and aired? Yay for Cheyenne Jackson's face finally showing up next week.

ha! I thought the same thing, and was sure Dr. Folksy would bring that up.

Yeah, honestly, that was so far fetched it took me out of it, as did Rebecca tracking William down so easily. There's a lot of that with this show, and way more velveeta than I usually can put up with, but for some reason, I'm willing to just ignore all that, so far. As jackjill89 said upthread, this often reminds me very much of the 'thirtysomething' and 'once and again' Herskovitz-Zwick stuff of the 80s, and I always liked those very much. I remember a lot of people finding those shows annoying and whiny and self indulgent, and I kind of find this one that now, but still....I like it.

When Randall asks William to tell him how he'd met his mother, for a second I thought he meant Rebecca, that he knew she and William had met before today. Toby supposedly means well, and Kate wound up liking that he got her to sing, but someone being that pushy with me would just make me shut down, and shut them down too. I don't hate him, but he really needs to back off and chill out. He'd drive me crazy. At last, we saw Kate doing her job, tho it's over now, and that she did have an interest/passion: singing. Thank you, show. I wonder what being your brother's assistant qualifies you to do once you're not that anymore? Yay, Kevin, for realizing he needed to let her go. Justin Hartley cracked me up when he took a bite of Kate's healthy pancake thing and then mouthed to Toby 'is she making you eat this?' I do love Rebecca and Jack together, and really hate whatever reason they are not together anymore, be it death, affairs, booze. And I do love folksy doctor too. I swear someone said in some thread that aged Mandy looked about 80, but she looks no more than 50 to me, if that.

My divorce was long ago, and the best thing that ever happened to me, but it took awhile to get there, for sure. It will for you too. And ugh, why can't they just SAY 'I'm fucking someone else' instead of that soul/ego shattering 'I don't love you anymore' stuff? So self serving, even if true. Just rip off the band aid and come clean about it all, instead of making you the bad guy who just can't fulfill them. Even nearly 20 years later, I can remember that time clearly, and it sucked. So, yeah, it made me have much less sympathy for SJP's character than I'm perhaps supposed to have, because she's been cheating and lying for a full year, thinks she might love the jerky sidepiece, and pulls the 'I don't love you' card at a party, no less. Ugh. Tho I can't really root for Robert either. Thomas Haden Church actually can have considerable charm, but not here, so far, and the whole 'making the kids hate you' thing is so wrong. I'm assuming he'll back off from that once the shock has worn off. Don't let this show kill your Jemaine crush, tho. Do we know what Frances does for a living yet?

Yeah, I tend to think men won’t fall so into the notion of their side chick being ‘the one’ and leaving their marriage expecting her to last forever. Not that any scenario isn’t possible, it is. I hate stereotyping, especially about women, but still, probably more women somehow believe that an affair that they are involved in will lead to true love than men. Which I guess also happens, but not often. Beginning a relationship based on betrayal and lies is rarely a good foundation for anything. Frances seemed to just WANT to believe she was in love with her Flight of the conchord guy more than actually believing it tho. I don’t get Carrie from Frances, not yet, anyway. Carrie was always so girlish and girly, even in her frequent angst. Frances is a woman beaten down by her marriage and life and whatever else, there's no girlishness left in her. I guess Carrie might have wound up that way, but tho I do think SJP is a limited actress, I also think she can be a good one. I don’t think she’s merely one note.

I think it's more likely it was some old folgers container they keep nails and bolts and stuff in in the garage. I can't see them drinking it either. Or, hey, maybe it's one reason she hates him now. He likes Folgers. I understand her seeking out someone else, tho it's always a pretty nasty thing to do to a marriage, cheating. I always said I have never ever been lonely, except when I was married to my ex, so I get it, how lonely marriage can be. But for a 50 year old woman to really believe that her side guy is a good, or even a likely, choice for her once she's out of the marriage...that's where my exasperation comes in. It's, like, fairy tale stuff, except it's rooted in sordidness and duplicity. Rarely the stuff of dreams. And for her to then immediately run back to the husband she can clearly barely stand anymore, if she ever could--she was out, she'd said the hard, ugly stuff to him, it was over--but once she realized the side guy wasn't a real thing, she tucked tail and ran back home to him. I know it's terribly realistic, but it's so--pathetic and sad. Which can make for compelling tv, of course. We'll see.

Yeah, to be fair, I think she grounded her after the daughter called her a bitch. My mom wasn't one for corporal punishment, but that might have gotten me a rap in the mouth.

Oddly, my favorite color is turquoise but I didn't even notice this 'production trend' in this show. I've mixed feelings about this one, but pilots are often uneven, so I know I will continue to watch. I have always enjoyed SJP, even when Carrie made me want to Elvis my tv screen with a revolver, and though I think she's a somewhat limited actress, I think she can be really effective. I like Thomas Haden Church. I have a very hard time seeing these two as a couple, however. Perhaps that will change. For this to work, even if they do proceed to divorce, I think we should believe they were ever actually a couple, and why, and how. Church and SJP have very different acting styles, as well, tho occasionally they meshed last nite. SJP seems melancholy and restrained, while Church's style, even his dramatic style, is more broad, more sitcommy. They seemed to be in two different shows at times. I have very rarely appreciated Molly Shannon, and this is not going to be one of those instances where I do. SHE almost always makes me want to shoot out my TV. I'm dismayed by the 'all the wives I know feel like this about their spouses' comments, tho I definitely recall feeling that way about MY ex in the last few years of our marriage. I've been with my significant other for 12 years and honestly never want to shoot him, call him names or flip him the finger, so I don't think it's inevitable or anything, but it sure does happen. But this was all some really ugly stuff. That dinner party was something out of a Boschian nightmare. Frances believing her fuckbuddy would be there for her, believing he was a future for her...made me want to smack her a little. Idiot. Still, I'm interested. I'll keep watching.

I'm still mostly digging this season, and found Piggy Man completely terrifying. I did finally lose all patience with Matt and Shelby and their incredible stupidity, but as most have noted, there's no there there if they just leave, so I try to not get too impatient that they don't just freaking FLEE. But falling asleep in the (inexplicably) dark house?? Come on. at the very least, I'd have lights blazing at all hours. Well, no, I wouldn't, cuz I wouldn't be there. I have to think the house is compelling them to be stupid as well, or I can barely stand them. Wanting to throw out Denis O'Hare, or suspecting he just wanted the house back? I'd be clinging onto every word he said, every bit of info he had, instead of treating him like a crazy, criminal intruder. And where has he been all this time? I'm so sorry Shelby and Matt basically got him finally killed, after he'd managed to escape death for so long. And Cricket dead too? Boo. So we didn't get Shelby's reactions to Matt's being 'enchanted' by Gaga again. Does she know just how enchanted he was? We need Evan Peters really soon. Croatoan really was the word etched into the Roanoke colony trees, so they had to use it, William Shatner or no William Shatner. ETA: oh, wait, the hot uber driver, who looked like Smith Jerrod in his talking head, is named Rhett Snow, and might be related to Myrtle Snow. Cool.

The actress who plays Sasha on TWD guest starred on "New Girl" and she and Winston got 'prank married' except it was real. As far as I remember, they're still legally wed.

I am actually very very sad about this. Not only because I am forever in love with Duchovny, tho I am, but I think the show had really hit its stride. I was riveted weekly, and I really really wanted to see how this played out. Oh well. Frees DD up for more X-files, which makes me happy, but damn. I will miss Hodiak and company.

I don't know. I wouldn't have put her at 400 lbs, but that pic makes me unsure. Maybe. I get that they are unlikely to have multiple story arcs and deeply drawn characterizations, but define Kate's job and show her doing it. (Kevin's assistant? Let's at least SEE her doing it, which I assume would include more than getting drunk with him.) Give her a best friend. A cat. A dog. A hobby. something besides 'i'm fat'. okay, I'll quit bemoaning this now. Hopefully they'll address this later.

Wikipedia says Kate is Kevin's personal assistant. Hmm. We haven't seen any actual evidence of that. Yeah, you'd think she'd have been onset when he had his meltdown. At any rate, it doesn't seem like a great idea, being your brother's assistant. Or not, I don't know.

I think she's beautiful too (my honey said 'she's big, but she's way too pretty for that guy'). And yes, she's obese. But you really think she has two hundred lbs to lose? what do you figure she weighs, 350-375 lbs? I don't think she's that big. I expect the weight issue to be a factor in her storyline. I just hope it's not the ONLY factor. Plenty of fat people have plenty of other things going on in their lives, and are even happy, some of the time. Constant bemoaning and crying and fat-shaming herself cannot be all Kate is about. Please.