I’ve got to give mad props to Kai, but I can’t stand Jeff

I was a fan of AHS back when it first aired, and I watched up through Freakshow as it was coming out. Was majorly turned off by Hotel, and basically quit watching it after that, although I did watch Roanoke, which by the way is by far the scariest season and the only one I thought was genuinely pure horror. And I think it still holds up really well, might be my favorite season of them all.

Anyway, I rewatched Coven which was one of my favorite seasons for being so campy and fun, and it was a lot worse than I remember. I still enjoyed it, but to me the writing was really unforgivable in some places. I didn’t really like how pretty much every single main character (except Fiona and the two immortals) died and came back within an episode or two, sometimes just minutes later. It sucked all the interest and any tension the story had right out. I know that it was a witches story and there was magic involved, but it was so poorly done in my opinion. Also, Myrtle Snow was literally burned as the stake and she was still brought back to life, like really? Madison was in that attic for god knows how long (and that’s another thing— how much time passes in this show is impossible to know) and they didn’t do any makeup or any effects to show realistic rot of a dead body besides having her arm come off even though they mention that she’s rotting several times and that she stinks.

Also, why was Laveau so eager to team up with Fiona? One random white dude (who was the husband of one of her sworn enemy’s daughter!) comes in and shoots her employees and suddenly she’s perfectly fine with teaming up with said sworn enemy? I know that Laveau tried to kill Hank and he worked for so she was aware he was a double agent or whatever, but it still makes very little sense to have such a quick about-face. In fact, since Laveau knew Hank wanted revenge for her voodoo threading him, why would she even assume there was any further threat beyond that from the witch hunters?

Speaking of the witch hunters, what a joke. They’re built up to be some fearsome organization that’s two centuries old and is this massive network, and they’re taken down by one spell. Why wasn’t this done years ago if it was that easy?? Why would the board of the hunters agree to meet powerful and dangerous witches without any security? Why on earth would Fiona bring the Axeman to kill these guys? Why not do it herself with magic, what’s the point of having a regular human serial killer do it? Did I miss something there?

It’s a shame, because it’s such a cool setting for it and I thought Laveau was a neat character before she joined up with Fiona.

I know that the show likes to be bloody and shocking, but the novelty factor is completely lost when every character gets their throat slit and then reappears the next episode, totally fine. Luke’s mom is shot dead? No worries, Misty will bring her back, only for her to get killed the next episode. Papa Legba demands babies because he needs “an innocent soul?” Oh well turns out a teenage witch who has murdered people before totally counts, and lucky for that because we already drowned her in the tub, seemingly completely on impulse. I know that killing Nan was also strategic because of her clairvoyance, but i don’t know how it’s possible for there to only be three teenage witches in the house (what do they do all day, anyway?)and they keep disappearing with no one figuring out who’s responsible, especially with the fact that every character seems to be a ghost. Spaulding can even manipulate the physical realm, despite being a ghost. There was way too much hand waving going on, even for a campy show about witches. I still love the setting and characters like Papa Legba were fun for me, but yeesh what a mess.

Am I being unfair? People like to complain about how the newer seasons are awful (I can’t compare as I haven’t seen them) but I don’t know if it wasn’t always kind of a mess.

rewatching the series because Halloween is coming up and I got finished with murder house and realized I hated asylum. It has some good episodes but what mostly turns me off to it is the whole alien trope, even though they barely have anything to do with the rest of the season, I just didn’t like the ending at all

Someone please validate me when I say, “@AmericanHorrorShow clearly showed lack of respect and integrity when filming AHS:NYC” Yeah I get it I’m 2 years behind but holy shit- who tf bases a whole season on Tarot and doesn’t do their research? 🤔🙄🤦🏽‍♀️ STOP FLIPPING OVER TAROT CARDS FLIP THEM LEFT TO RIGHT 🤬😒

From Robert Wun Spring 2024 line

An iconic range of characters that truly made their mark on the show. Quietly, I hope Ryan can entice her back for one last cameo before the shows end too 👀😭. A legend always, Kathy Bates.

Is there a guide to this season? I’m so lost

So in the season Apocalypse we see Madison and Behold go to the house from the first season. We watch as Madison and Behold cause a lot of changes, most of all with Tate and Violet.

My question is, did it even stick? Once Mallory went back in time and killed Michael, it means that Madison and Behold never went to the house so wouldn't it mean none of it actually occurred? If I am wrong please tell me?

Honestly this has being on my mind and if AHS was too have one last season how would you end it ? I would have gone with the Antichrist but seeing how they already done that I honestly don’t know how I would now

Period

Now I want to start with I know this isn't true to canon, but before Season 6 existed to prove me wrong, this is something I kept thinking about and mulling over, and I like watching season 2 with this mindset.

So throughout the season we keep seeing Lana winters have visions of what she wants to happen. That interview in Briarcliffe where she saves June. Or when she had her first fantasy about exposing Briarcliffe and talking about how the patients were failed by the staff. And it all seamlessly cuts from reality and fantasy without much distinction in the cinematography. I love this about the season, I think it's a wonderful choice.

But this had me thinking and like I said, I know it's not canon, but the what if it was originally supposed to be the whole season was in Lana's head. it ends with Lana first getting to Briarcliffe, she knows Kit from the news paper, anyone she interacted with in the season directly was someone she sees in the threshold of Biarcliffe, Thredson walks by and looks at her, multiple patients in the background. What if the whole thing was the story Lana made as a delusion to have a good story? This would explain the aliens, the monsters, and everything supernatural, and her little smirk in the last episode after June goes "we'll never see eachother again lana banana".

To stress one last time, canon broke this theory in half, and I know it all happened, but isolating the first few seasons before any major cross over, until season 6 connected a lot more, it was a fun theory. I'm glad it was debunked and proven wrong, I'm not salty, but I still let my brain go into that what if.

I know season 4 connects harder then season 6 does to Asylum, BUT Freakshow takes place before Asylum and both seasons can still exist with this theory and I came out with this theory during freakshow's airing.

This is the first season of AHS to win an Emmy since Roanoke.

I think the actors and actresses in the American Horror Story shows are fantastic, they are really what make the show great. I would love to see some other shows what they are in. So far I've only really seen The Politician and Scream Queens, but thoroughly enjoyed both of them.