Hmm. Connie Britton has a different look, but I don't necessarily think she looks older than her age or older than Dylan McDermott. I think we're just used to seeing actresses who are over 40 all looking the same via cosmetic procedures and plumpers, and we're used to seeing actors who are in their 50s being paired with 30 year olds. McDermott does look a little younger than 50, but he has the rugged look, so it wouldn't matter if he did look his age.
I honestly think that McD looks like he's in his 30's, he's one of those "timeless" guys. I had no idea he just recently turned 50. Whereas Britton does look older to me, I would have guessed her in her mid/late 40's (which seems to be about right -- according to imdb, she's going to be 45 soon).
I don't know about the "being the right price" thing--she has a huge following from Friday Night Lights. I like her in this, though I think none of the Harmon family is particularly meant to be likable. I like her moments of "are you kidding me right now?" She has a different presence than a lot of the cookie cutter actresses her age. She has more of a realness about her.
I never saw FNL nor saw her act before, so this is the only character I have known her as.
I do agree that, while she doesn't resonate much with me on a personal basis (not like Jennifer Connolly or someone similar), she definitely seems natural, un-airbrushed, and real. She's pretty WSYIWYG. I can respect that.
Edited to add: I had no idea Frances Conroy's eye looks like that IRL now! How interesting they used it as part of the character! I can't find any info about how it got that way, though.
Oh wow... I had no idea either. That's kind of cool they worked it in.
Here are some stills from next week's "Afterbirth". Vivian is holding a baby and Constance is with a blond child. Not sure if it's Tate as a child or Viv's baby. Also, that doesn't look like Tate's body in the rubber man suite which makes me suspect that someone else is playing dress up.
Damn that suit! Dammit to all hades!
We have no way of telling who's got the suit on, do we?? Arg.
I hope Ben gets out with the baby, but I can't see that happening.
Well, the answer seems likely that Ben will either die in the house and truly become part of the ongoing "American Horror Story" -- a story about a ghost family living in the house, and dealing with some new tenants -- or else Ben will stay, raise baby, and his dead wife and daughter will live in the house too. On an off-chance, maybe Ben will escape the house or die elsewhere and leave the show, if McDermott needs to move on with a movie shoot or something, but that's a long-shot.
Apparently since the living and dead can have sex, he and Viv can still be together, if she wants to be. It looks like both Vivien and Violet are "self-aware" ghosts, compared to many of the ghosts in the house that seem deranged, confused, angry, or lost. They're essentially who they were when alive, and sane; they're just dead.
However, both Hayden and Vivien are both ghosts now. Wth is going to happen with that little personality conflict?