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Herugrim posted...

Definitely the best horror show I've ever seen. Didn't expect anything would blow American horror away so thoroughly.

The ending was a little too "Happily Ever After" for me. Made so much of the rest seem idle. Apparently the ghosts are actually harmless and mostly just bored, with one ghost being the 'real' villain. Was kind of hoping for a proper demon to emerge and really wreck.

Also, it doesn't seem there is much potential for another season, unless it's a prequel.

I didnt quite take it that way. I thought the house itself is the villain, this carnivorous presence always trying to feed. Poppy was just one of its more sadistic residents, but the victims/ghosts mostly retained their living personalities.

Like, what happened to Nell did not seem to be influenced by Poppy, nor did a bunch of the childhood occurrences. I dont think she was really the main villain, the house was, Poppy was just the one that primarily fucked up Liv.

The demon you were waiting for was the house itself. Literally shapeshifting a room into whatever a person would deem a safe space to digest and understand its prey. Pretty dark. The Crains triumphed only by strength of their family, in SPITE of the house. It lured them all there to basically finish eating them, having already violently killed Liv and Nell, and ultimately wasnt gonna let anyone go, finally having everyone back.

Its the familial love that saved them. Hugh was willing to stay with Liv, Nell was able to pull the siblings out of their Red Room nightmares, and Liv was willing/able to exert enough influence to free them as part of her deal with Hugh. The house is a vicious bastard but the ghosts are not powerless or without who they were. The Crains it has already claimed ultimately still have enough love and influence to subvert the will of the house.
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