Didn't read the last few posts yet because have only watched it till ep 8 or something, where they find that there's something wrong with the fetus.
I stopped watching it at that point because it started to feel pretty boring and ruined. It felt like the story had lost all the mystery surrounding it as they explained nearly everything what was going on with the house and it's strange inhabitants.
I was more excited after the pilot than ever before. Finally a pure hardcore horror tv show! However the show slowly declined episode by episode to more straightforward and not so mysterious/mind boggling/unsettling straight up horror into a soap opera starring ghosts. The directing/editing style in the pilot felt like it had been done by different, more imaginitive people alltogether. It had this David Lynch like vibe and resembled Twin Peaks in a way quite alot.
Most people in another forum talking about it seemed to think in a complete opposite way as i: they thought the pilot was a mess of different ideas for possible plot lines and just overall provocatively confusing etc. and liked later episodes much better. I however didn't find it confusing at all (or at least in a negative way). I felt they could have done something so much more interesting and creative with those characters and the plot as to what it developed into. The first episodes were also genuinely frightening, mostly because of you, or them either, not knowing what the current inhabitants of the house were facing against.
And if i remember correctly the pilot (and maybe few later episodes too) used music in this unique/surreal-mood enhancing way just like twin peaks did. Also there has been no more as horroresque scenes as the one with the basement monster scene in the pilot. I felt the show toned the horror down to please more viewers...
What do you think, please comment! Am i talking out of my ass or do others feel that way also?
Inspired by this topic i'm gonna watch rest of the season during this weekend and see if it (hopefully) makes me eat my harsh words...
(the show's intro is great btw!)