After falling in love with 'Asylum and really enjoying the first episodes of 'Coven' I decided that it was time to check where it all began. After watching the first of twelve episodes the overall concept is one of the major horror cliches - a haunted mansion. Harmon family - marriage Ben (Dylan McDermott) and Vivien (Connie Britton) and their daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) - decide to move to Los Angeles to begin a new life after some severe personal issues (husband's infidelity and wife's miscarriage). They buy a house and as it turns out, in the building there were homicide and suicide committed not so long ago. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the place is haunted.
Even though it was the first episodes, many characters already showed a lot of potential to become extremely interesting as the story will progress. The two-faced maid, Jessica Lange's Constance or Tate played by Evan Peters were a lot more interesting than the main couple, whose problems seem brutally too realistic to be a true part of such a series. But maybe later on they will fit better.
I believe we can expect more interesting characters, as Ben is a psychiatrist who consults his patients at his house. So far Tate is the only one that's come to visit him, but he shows most of the characteristics of a serial killer. And the way he intimidates Violet's bully just proves that he's far from sane.
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