Murder house

Episode 06 | Aired Nov 21, 2012

Sister Mary and assorted Briarcliff devils reveal their "Origins Of Monstrosity" in a very special Thanksgiving episode. (Not!)
By Jeff Jensen at EW.com




The problem of evil is a tricky little devil. There is no single o simple answer to explain wickedness. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask and explore the question. ("If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst" – Thomas Hardy.) Indeed, Ernest Becker – the famed cultural anthropologist who wrote The Denial of Death and Escape From Evil – believed that the root of humanity’s...

[WARNING: The following story contains major spoilers from Wednesday's episode of American Horror Story, "Smoldering Children." Read at your own risk.

Um, worst boyfriend ever?

So Tate, it turns out, decided it was best for viola not to know she had accidentally killed herself and instead proposed that the two commit (fake) suicide and live in Murder House happily ever after. Because of course that trumps boarding school! And when that idea didn't go over so well, he took poor viola to see her decaying, fly-bait of a corpse, which he had stashed in a crawl spazio beneath the house. Because that's...