mercredi 4 décembre 2013

American Horror Story: "The Sacred Taking" Review

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow…


As we get deeper into this AHS: Coven season, I'm finding myself getting progressively less interested. Too many 180 decisions, too many resurrections, too much time spent in a barely furnished mansion, and only a flimsy end goal (the naming of the new Supreme, I'm guessing) to look forward to. No, it doesn't skimp on the bats*** craziness, that's never been the show's problem. But it seems like all of this year's button moments have almost instantly been undone by that person either coming back to life or being a part of someone's dream (as Spalding was for Fiona here in "The Sacred Taking")


I appreciated the fact that the first half hour plus of this episode was devoted to one particular plot - that being Delia's plan to drive Fiona to suicide. And, as it so happened, a few of the recently resurrected characters came in handy here as they were needed to convince Fiona that Madison was, in fact, the Supreme she always suspected her of being. And I liked that Delia's plan almost succeeded too. But that doesn't take away the fact that I felt nothing emotionally regarding Fiona's decision to swallow a handful of pills. And I don't mean that I lacked sympathy, I mean that this show hasn't given me one reason to believe that A: those pills would have actually killed her, and B: that she couldn't somehow get brought back to life if she did happen to die.


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