When we last left off with the Phelps at the end of season one, the family wasn’t doing so hot. Having moved to Shining Vale under the pretenses of Pat’s (Cox) affair, the family was looking to start over in small-town America. However, Shining Vale had something else in store for them. Pat tried her best to adjust to the middle of nowhere living, working on her next bestselling novel, but it was tough. She felt like she wasn’t cut from the same cloth as the rest of stay-at-home mothers, a fact that’s highlighted by Rosemary (Mira Sorvino), the ghost living in her house.

Rosemary is the epitome of a 1950s housewife, a fact that haunts both of these women. In each other they can see an ideal life, however are trapped in their respective circumstances. Although, perhaps they can be some help to each other. Factoring into the slow descent into madness are the other members of the Phelps family, all of which impact Pat in different ways.