Boooo.
I'll watch it because it was so well made that I can't see a second season not also being well made... but I still say it would have been a much more powerful story if he was killed protecting her. James being alive kind of ruins S1

. It seems like both of them are confirmed for S2.
Though there's an outside chance of them going the American Horror Story route and having the same actors playing different characters in a new story?

I would guess not, though.