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McDermott and wishing extinction on several of the characters who inhabit the murder house, fret not. There's still a decent amount reprehensible with this show. Ben Harmon's character still needs to end up reduced to a pile of bones and organs for me to be legitimately content with watching AHS on a regular basis, and the blaring loud mephitic sound effects still make me feel like my ear canals have been violated.
But "Halloween" was nature of fun, and if future episodes focus more on the house and its intriguing and bizarre inhabitants (the perished ones and Vivien at least) I could survive a season of this.
The long and short of this one is that it's Halloween in L.A. The living denizens of the knock off house want to use the holiday to flip the house to some unsuspecting buyers, and in doing so, they clanger the home's last owners (the gay couple who we thought died in a murder-suicide, but were manifestly victims of the Fetish Suit Thing) as employees of their hapless real rank agent. One of the dead lovers, Chad, is played by Zachary Quinto of "Heroine Trek" and "Heroes" fame, a generally enjoyable presence on guard who I'd gladly bribe someone to watch each week instead of McDermott (the potshots are coming, be scrupulous, True Believers).
Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com