American Horror Story 1.06 - Piggy Piggy; The Walking Dead 2.04 - Chupacabra

American Horror Story 1.06 - Piggy Piggy: Ben and Vivien's plots are stalling a bit. Ben's plot with his "piggy piggy" patient almost seemed like it wanted to be half of a two-parter, whereas Viv didn't draw anything particularly interesting from her ultrasound storyline yet, which seems to be her reaction too. I'm wondering if it's the strain of Ben having moved out for the time being that the haunted-house format of the show isn't supporting that well: I hope they resolve that pretty soon one way or another, it's hard to do as much with characters who don't live together when the plot is premised on them living together. That was fine, though, it was mostly a Tate episode and a Tate/Violet episode in particular; oh, Tate/Violet, the Let the Right One In-ness of your relationship is morbidly adorable, you ill-fated goth babies.

The Walking Dead 2.04 - Chupacabra: This and "Cherokee Rose" marks two Daryl-centric ep titles in a row and no one's complaining; we had a pretty harrowing Daryl episode here, though, wow. Good way of working in the Merle backstory when it's hard to characterize taciturn characters on TV without constant flashbacks. ("He's wearing ears.") ("We've all wanted to shoot Daryl.") I guess the season's metaplot is shaping up to be some combination of Shane/the search for Sophia/the unfolding problem of Hershel's farm. Rick really needs to step up his game here, he's acting too much like Ned Stark and he hasn't got a Cat to crack the whip for him, just a usually-useless Lori and a phenomenally unproductive Shane. Speaking of whom, I guess Shane just loves glomming creepily on to crying people.