In a 17thcentury Salem flashback we finally get a visual demonstration of all the Seven Wonders: Telekinesis, Concilium (mind control), Transmutation (teleportation), Divination (second sight), Vitalum Vitalis (balancing of scales of life forces a.k.a raising the dead), Descensum (descent into netherworlds of afterlife), and Pyrokinesis. My spell check doesn’t believe in magic because it has flagged these Wonders. We have seen five of them used by the young witches throughout the series, and the final two Descensum & Transmutation were manifested in this episode. Are you disappointed that shawl twirling was not one of them?
Fiona explains to Queenie over kitchen table talk about the Seven Wonders ritual. Queenie calls Fiona out for planning to kill the new Supreme and starts bitching about Marie’s unknown whereabouts. A tired & irritated Fiona dismisses Marie’s absence because she is likely with “that half-baked Beetlejuice Papa Legaboo-boo”. She corrects Fiona that Papa Legba should be respected for being a deity, but Fiona responds with a killer glare and DEMANDS that as the Supreme she will get some Aretha Franklin level of #R.E.S.P.E.C.T. by snatching Queenie by the neck and telekinetically choking her ass out. Fiona firmly orders “You will perform the Seven Wonders, or you will die trying.”
I wish Cordelia would put on some Chanel sunglasses because she is grotesque with her moist fleshy vacant eye holes exposed. After spending time in Misty’s room, she was unable to re-manifest her second sight to find her. She seeks out Madison for help; but an uncooperative Madison starts bouncing around the room with her transmutation powers claiming it’s a cool involuntary reaction to her growing powers. Cordelia informs her that they all will experience multiple growing powers in times of crisis, not necessarily resulting in being Supreme. I think Madison did some Concilium on herself to clear her mind because Cordelia was unable to “read” her. #Guilty
Queenie follows a trail of Marie’s residual energy to the garden house where there is a lot of blood, and she can hear Marie vowing vengeance against Delphine. She uses a voodoo spell book to conjure Papa Legba to help her find Marie. She starts chanting a voodoo version of Streisand’s “Papa Can You Hear Me?” and she descends into HELL.
HELL is customized like your Google searches. It is different for everybody, and represented as a state of mind by living your worst life experience for eternity. Papa Legba tells her, “It’s not THE Hell, it’s YOUR Hell.” In Queenie’s case it would be her old job at Chubbie’s Chicken when she was hopeless with a bleak future. Papa Legba is impressed with her abilities to visit Hell so soon before her time. When she asks him about Marie he says she is not ‘here’ because for the immortal Hell is on earth. He advises Queenie to hurry back to otherside before the sun comes up or she will be stuck there forever because “Time moves differently in Hell.” #Mwahahahaaha
Queenie ascends back to the earthly realm to find Papa Legba waiting for her and snorting coke in her room. She warms his ice cold heart with her strong powers and some hot cocoa. Queenie learns that the secret to both Delphine’s and Marie’s immortality is tied to each other, and Delphine’s immortality is contingent on Marie’s deal with Papa Legba. Since Delphine has dismembered Marie into 50 pieces and buried her throughout the city, Marie is unable to pay her yearly dues to Papa Legba, and therefore her immortality is null & void which also reverses Marie’s spell for Delphine’s immortality. Delphine is not aware that she is no longer immortal.
Delphine looks lovely with a makeover and a new job at her mansion after she bludgeoned the tour guide who was spreading liessssss about her. As the new tour guide she rewrites her own history. She tells tourists that Madame Delphine LaLaurie’s was a renowned hostess, equestrian, & philanthropist; and denies she was a serial killer of 150 slaves. Actually she killed 62 because she kept a murder ledger. Tourists want to see the attic torture chamber but it’s closed for renovations. She adds there is nothing to see because it’s only a storage unit used for a humane time out for misbehaved servants.
Queenie finds Delphine at her mansion to confront her. They are up in the attic torture chamber, and Queenie gives her one last chance to redeem herself. She suggests a life of service by volunteering at the Urban League, but Delphine laughs at modern society’s concept of redemption. The magic box has shown her the public humiliation, tears, & empty apologies of Paula Deen & horny politicians seeking redemption. Society is weak and full of hypocrites. They are not sorry for their actions, but only sorry that they got caught; and Delphine is NOT one bit sorry for who she is or her actions. #SorryNotSorry
It may be a somewhat valid commentary, but then Delphine CONFIRMS what I suspected weeks ago. She admitted to crying for Queenie, but NOT because of her own sins against colored people. She wept “For the state of this world that tells a colored man that he is equal to a white man.” Then Queenie stabs Delphine in the heart, “I’m immortal. I don’t wanna die.” Queenie says “bullshit” and leaves her to die in the same place where she has killed many. #OhFreedom
Fiona is posing for her Supreme portrait by an artist that Myrtle has hired. Myrtle also makes herself the style director by adding flowers in the background. Fiona’s nose starts bleeding, but I’m not sure if that’s the natural result of her cancer or whether Myrtle’s flowers caused it. Fiona realizes that she only has maybe two-weeks left to live and wonders “What the hell am I doing here?” I suspect she is ready to live out her last days in a faraway place.
Later Cordelia angrily confronts Fiona for scheduling the Seven Wonders ritual. Fiona is tired, weak, and doesn’t want to fight. She chastises Cordelia for mutilating herself, and gives her a motherly pep talk that she never lost her power and never will, “It is always inside you.” Preparing for her end Fiona gives Cordelia her mother’s necklace.
When Fiona places the necklace around her daughter’s neck Cordelia sees the fate of the Coven in a horrific vision. It was haunting but artistically shot leaving the viewer feeling as if they’re floating from one witch to another witnessing their gory death with echoing footsteps and screams in the background. Madison’s throat is slit; Zoe is impaled on a wall; Misty is dead on a piano; Queenie has the stair banister jammed in her throat; Delia has been shot through the head, and we see Fiona rip the necklace off her daughter as she walks out the door. But where’s Myrtle? Was this a vision of the future? Or was this a vision of reading Fiona’s thoughts of her murderous plan? Or maybe it’s a vision of what happened after the Seven Wonders ritual? It is all up for interpretation at this point.
Cordelia keeps calm and says nothing to Fiona, but she does confront the Axeman. She tells him that Fiona doesn’t love him or anybody else, and that she plans on leaving him after she kills everybody. He doesn’t believe her even though she told him of Fiona’s flight plans and that ghosts can’t get passports.
Fiona visits the Axeman for one more booty call, but he confronts her about what Cordelia told him. He snoops in Fiona’s purse and finds her flight boarding pass for ONE. She tells him he was a delightful distraction and the best lover she’s ever had. Remember those light bulbs? POP BOOM POW. She explains that once she kills the new Supreme she will have 30 more years of vitality and as the Supreme, “Palace doors will be open for me” as compared to the shit-hole apartment he has to offer her. Fiona is lying on the bed as he desperately & passionately gets on top of her to seduce her with seductive metaphors of their hot sex. He forcefully kisses her, and she is fighting him to get off her and kicks him away, “You son of a bitch.” She is out breath and gets up to pour herself a shot while telling a childhood story, and with her back turned the Axeman hacked Fiona to death with repeated blows with his axe. Fiona’s last words were calico cat. #WTF
With her powers re-manifesting again, Cordelia is able to locate Misty at the cemetery, but she needs Queenies help to telekinetically break open the crypt. Queenie opens the coffin to find a lifeless Misty, but then she breathes life into her. #Vitalum Vitalis
Myrtle is arranging more flowers and warns Madison to not sniff the Deadly Nightshade flowers because they contain toxins that cause hallucinations & delirium, but Madison is not afraid of a good buzz. Myrtle tells her that Cordelia & Queenie are off to rescue Misty from the crypt, but Madison lies to the “Guardian of the truth in the vernacular” and claims she doesn’t know how Misty got entombed. Zoe & Kyle walk in having just returned from Florida. Myrtle is shocked that they returned and compared their forsaken destiny of true love to Halston selling out to J.C. Penney. The witch in couture strikes again with her hilarious fashion related anecdotes. She’s got style, she’s got grace, Myrtle Snow gives good face. #Vogue
Zoe tells her she returned to embrace & claim her Supreme destiny after she manifested a new power. FrankenKyle killed a belligerent homeless guy, but Zoe used Vitalum Vitalis to revive him. A newly freed Misty walks in and attacks Madison and gives her a Bad Girls Club style beat down. Not Coven style with witchery, but a swamp style ass-whoopin’ with punches and kicks. It was fun to watch Madison in her thigh high stockings and gold lame shorts get the shit beat of her, but I was surprised that none of Madison’s telekinesis instincts took over.
Then all of a sudden the raging Axeman charges down the stairs all blood splattered & swinging his bloodied axe, “You will pay for what you’ve done.” He has always had a grudge against women, and especially witches for killing him & trapping him. Collectively the Coven minus Myrtle sends the ghostly Axeman flying across the house landing on the stairs. Cordelia sees visions of Fiona when she touches the trail of blood, and sees that her body was dumped in the swamp and eaten by alligators. Misty can’t help Fiona, “Even I can’t bring somebody back once they’re gator shit.” Kyle is ready to attack the Axeman, but these young Coven witches don’t need a man as they grouped together to kill him with a near identical reenactment of the way he died the first time. All Cordelia could do was grieve & cry on Myrtle’s shoulder. I still don’t understand how a ghost can bleed & be killed but earlier Cordelia said he was in a state of “mortal coil.” #Shrugs
Delphine’s personalized HELL traps her in her own attic chamber of horrors at the mercy of slaves as she is dragged kicking & screaming to be locked in a cage for eternity just a few feet away from her daughter Borquita. Delphine is consumed with tears & regret for mistreating her own daughters. There is no greater pain for a mother to be so close to her daughter and not be able to reach her, and to protect her from the torture that Marie has in mind. Karmically poetic, Papa Legba has juxtaposed both Marie’s & Delphine’s Hells together. #KarmaBitch. At first Marie seems to be unaware that she is in HELL, and begins to torment Delphine by preparing a red-hot iron poker to torture Borquita.
Suddenly Marie is overcome by confusion, “How did I get here?” as she puts down the hot iron poker. “No I don’t want to do this. That girl ain’t never done nothin’ to me.” Papa Legba appears and tells her that since he OWNS her soul she must do as he says. Delphine cries “Who is this man? What is this place?” Papa Legba congratulates Madame Delphine LaLaurie for her sweet release from mortality and welcomes her to his home. “Welcome to HELL.” Marie argues she cannot die and doesn’t belong in Hell because of their contract, but he tells her she breached it. She argues that she was good to people and has helped so many, but he reminds her of the babies she gave him every year, and NO ONE gets away with sin. He hands Marie the iron poker. “Eventually everyone pays. Everybody suffers”, and orders Marie to get back to torturing Borquita for Delphine’s torment in HELL for eternity.
Fiona’s Supreme portrait is hung on the hallowed walls alongside the others, and she is memorialized with nice & insincere expressions. Cordelia says “She was a horrible Supreme,” and failed to identify her successor. Cordelia takes charge and tells everyone that they must participate in the Seven Wonders ritual, and by next week we will have our new Supreme. The End.
The discussion in the previous AHS post was brilliant & fantastic! Let’s keep it ongoing here, and feel free to repeat yourself because we only have one more week together. So let’s enjoy picking at each other’s brains. I appreciate all of you, but I have to stop now because a winter storm is hitting, and I have to go buy gas & food. You can stalk me on twitter @Urethra_F
I was a bit confused by the killing of the Axeman’ s ghost. Did I miss something?
I feel your confusion. IT MAKES NO SENSE.
But Cordelia explained that he was a in a “mortal coil”. I have no fucking idea what that means. But he can kill, fuck, drive to the swamp and dump bodies, bleed, and die AGAIN.
Sorry all, I had to rush at the end so I didn’t add some extra thoughts.
What about Baby Ceci up in that attic with Spalding? How is she going to eat?
I am expecting some big TWIST with Myrtle. I LOVE HER.
I can’t believe Fiona, Marie, & Delphine died in this episode.
What the hell? Fiona’s last words were “calico cat”. Does that mean anything to you? Black cat/Calico cat. Is that a witchy allegory?
Did you notice any clues for season 4?
So think about this… What if someone puts Marie back together, then she will be able to fulfill her contract with Papa… If that happens she will be imortal again and then Kathy Bates’ character will be become immortal too. They would be released from hell. Now that would be a crazy thing. But I bet it won’t happen.
I think that would have been possible before Papa Legba revoked her immortality. Before she was alive in 50 pieces, but now she’s is just dead in 50 pieces.
Were Marie’s dues prepaid or postpaid? I assumed they were prepaid so she would not be in default for another 12 months. Her immortality should not have been revoked yet.
OMG Barbara your comment made laugh out loud. I had not thought of that, but you make a good point.
She just had paid him with Nan’s soul, and she did have time. But that’s what happens when you sign up for credit with the DarkMasterCard.
I also think Papa Legba had some sort of ability to make sure Marie was put back together, but I don’t I think he really gives a donkey shit.
UF: I forgot to thank you for this fantastic recap. It is so well-written and insightful. I can’t wait for next week to see how they weave all these loose ends together (or not) in the finale.
Didn’t Myrtle say something about giving Cordelia one blue and one brown eye just like her favorite calico cat when she resored Cordelia’s vision?
Yes she did! …and that’s why I want to know the rest of Fiona’s story.
I seriously read into the “calico cat last words” thing too. I think its got 2 meanings. First is, by definition, a calico cat has to be orange, black, and white. To me, that says witchy Halloween colors. That’s kind of goofy by itself but coupled with the second meaning makes more sense. The second reason is for a cat to be a true calico and to have the pattern and colors it has to have 2 x chromosomes which are only found in females of course. To me this whole thing has been an entertaining story about civil rights. Who are the 2 most oppressed parties— African Americans and women? Even though she’s a horrible bitch Fiona screams liberated woman so her last words being “calico cat” offers up a great metaphor for witchy feminism.
UF I think the axeman became mortal when Zoe released him and he killed the dude for his apt and sax. The spellbook jumped out to her and opened to the right spell for her to get him out of the house way back when. He was hitting on Fiona later that night. If Borquita is getting the red hot poker for playing with Bastien then we all gotta worry whats waiting. Another great recap UF. next week looks real good too.
So glad you mentioned Borquita.
WHY was she in Hell with her mother? Was she just an unfortunate prop to torment her mother? Or has she been in hell all along since her original hanging death in 1834? Maybe being a Zombie had to do something with it?
I thought Bourquita was the one who was the “mastermind” behind trying to kill her mom. Also i thought she enticed the man who became the Minotaur?
Yeah but I don’t think those are sins to land you in Hell. Maybe when Marie killed them by hanging she also sent them to Hell?
The other daughters were there too. One had her mouth stitched up and the other had a bloodied face. Could it be when Marie hanged them in front of the Lalaurie house that they were sacrifices for Papa Legba at that time?
I think Jarenov has the best explanation of why they’re in hell. I just think when Marie hung them that she all he daughters to Hell, but definitely not because they were innocent souls, but because she wanted revenge against Delphine.
My ??? too is why is Borquita in hell? Adultery? But I question more how she and her sisters got to Hell after being Zombied by Marie, chopped up by Zoe and then not in that state anymore?j And the zippered lips? Oh well, oh hell.
Is FIONA really dead? Was Cordelia telling the truth about her mother’s whereabouts in that swamp? BUT WE SAW HER DIE… That doesn’t mean shit on AHSCoven.
And Delphine HEAD was crying because she was a racist cunt.
NOT because she like Queenie or was enlightened.
if Cordelia saw Fionas plan to kill all the coven and was planning Fionas demise via the Axeman why would she lie and just say she was dead? Cordelia has tricks up her sleeve just no confidence living under Fionas shadow. I liked the guys hell of smelling chicken but never getting a bite..go to the end of the line. no soup for you!
What is anything does it mean that Fiona had no soul when Papa went to kiss her – was that ever explained? Can she even be killed if she had no soul? I hope she is back in some form next week.
Stellar recap as always. U never disappoint. The line about Halston was brillant. I remember when that happened. Halston cologne was my first upscale fragance I bought in the 70s! Anyhoo now I’m hoping Myrtle is the next Supreme. Thanks Steve uv always got a great comment and U_F u rock.
I loved the Halston men’s fragrances too. But Myrtle is always dropping fashion nuggets of wisdom. I wonder if in her back story she has a fashion history too?
Misty singing Stevie songs chillin in the coffin was pretty good too. I didnt notice..at the end did Misty get her shawl back? She was in black but i forgot to pay attn enuf watching everything else.
Though mostly obscured, it does look like Misty was wearing The Shawl when they were memorializing Fiona’s portrait.
I also thought of Kyle and his guard dog temperament. With Fiona dead, is that going to be he trait for the rest of his life? Maybe he will replace Spalding and become the watcher of the Coven?
What about Spalding? I’m sure he most know about the fate of his beloved Fioana.
steve: :0
The scene were the Axeman was getting rough with Fiona and he was pulling her hair & dragging her around and she was grunting, panting, & fighting reminded me of the very first movie I ever saw with Jessica Lange.
I was a preteenager then, and it was The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Jack Nicholson’s character took her and rough sexed her on top of that butcher table. It was sexy rough and passionate and a graphic scene and I’ve been enamored with Jessica and butcher block tables ever since. LOL.
That remake of Postman Always Rings Twice is in my top 10 fav movies; I think Jessica was better than Lana Turner. I wouldn’t have thought of the similarity,and now I see it too, 100%!
I wonder since Marie and Delphine went to Hell because they weren’t brought back, will Fiona suffer the same fate? Wouldn’t it ne fumny if her Hell ends up being the place the Axeman wanted to take her to live out her days. She ends up being a German Nazi housefrau to the axeman hiding out from war crime hunters. Ok I know it’s a big stretch. Only in my demented little mind.
But when Fiona tried to make a deal with Papa Legba it fell through because he told her she had no soul. It seems like there is no place for her to go to in the afterlife.
What if Fiona’s fate is eternal life as the Supreme residing at Robichaux Nursing Home, the only resident. She’s ages badly, is crippled by the cancer, and bald.
No more need for the school, since no more young girl witches. Spaulding is her nurse She’s in a perpetual purgatory as it is, neither heaven nor hell want her .
I kinda understans how the Axeman is mortal again but how did Spaulding become a solid ghost? Did Fiona fix him? Kyles guard dog moment didnt hold a candle to Mistys kickass performance on Madison..hell wont even waste my magic just use my hands. *WHINE* its over next week what are we gonna do????what will replace this?
Makes you wonder who were Spaulding’s ‘friends’ when he was alive? Fiona needed him and he was instrumental in getting her out of suicide mode. Delphine owed him a favor, kind of, when she was stomping around earth, and Queenie had some weird crush on Delphine until she realized there was no hope for the serial racist head case. One of them may have pulled a trick out of their bag or book or Ouija board to give him a a ‘solid’ human form?
All I wonder about is baby Ceci. I am worried for her.
I know, the poor little thing was kidnapped, disappeared an episode, and is the only living thing in an attic of dolls with some deranged ghost as a mommy . I hope after all that baby’s been through she didn’t fall I into a plot hole!
When AHS is over, I have a lot of non-writing obligations that need my attention for a while.
other than Delphine did any of the witches notice Spaulding took the baby up to his attic? Hell for the immortal is on earth watching everyone they know die. Would that bother Fiona? Fiona told Cordelia that she didnt inherit second sight from her..but thats one of the seven wonders Fiona had to get a passing grade in for supreme. I say its Misty and thats why Stevie will be back singing for her. Madison would want MM. But she isnt his type.Myrtle would just want a captive audience for a theramin performance. Who would the others want to serenade them as supreme?
I find it it interesting that we really have not seen Myrtle manifest or use any powers other than a witchy spell to plug in some freshly plucked eyeballs…oh and the enchanted tongue thing from 40 years ago.
She said she has learned secrets in the flames, but what are they?
Though love her, why is she a witch if she doesn’t do anything? In this episode she did not even help with the Coven when they sent the Axeman flying across the house.
steve: I don’t thing Fiona would be bothered in the least if hell for her is being immortal on earth watching your friends die. What I think ng immortal and aging badly, decrepit, forever ill with cancer and bald. Her vanity would be the worst hell on earth anything Papa could conjure up.
Also what you say about Fiona not having the second sight – one of the Wonders – maybe she pulled a pretty crafty trick on the rest of the Coven when she was crowned the Supreme? Or maybe Spaulding managed to help her pull of something believable to fool the other witches.
And I’ve also only seen a couple spells it seemed Myrtle was reading and potion making poison to pluck eyeballs, too. If she has no real powers maybe Fiona promised Myrtle something wonderful, – second-in-command maybe since Fiona preferred to flit around the world instead of ruling the roost. But Fiona lied, and Myrtle has been stewing for 40 years about knowing Fiona tricked them all (of course being responsible for making Myrtle a crispy critter could add fuel to that fire. Whatever the case it makes sense to me that Myrtle’s poised to pull a Bitch in Balenciaga to bring Fiona down!
Alas, it will all have to happen in an hour next week
Hope Misty has The Shawl no matter what happens.
steve: thinking about those songs and who the others would want to be serenaded by:
Zoe anything by Joni Mitchell
Queenie: JayZ: 99 Problems (the bitches ain’t one)
Either Cordelia or Fiona: The Heavy: “How Do You Like Me Now” (that’d be a great song period no matter who’s standing at the end, even Papa – check it out)!
UF if Myrtle showed any powers then one of them would have killed her..again? Agewise i think Cordelia or Misty all the others are about Fionas age when she ascended but she stole hers early. Could Fiona have got a bloody nose and made the Axeman believe he killed her? Would that have fooled Cordelias vision. Did Fiona kill Myrtles favorite cat to spite her? So many questions that lead to more questions..
I would have liked Myrtle as a salem era witch that had been brought back to life long ago to watch over the coven thru time. Teach witch 101 and help the supreme. They could have had some good stories out of that and still kept alot of this storyline too. The hunters the voodoo feud Myrtle could have explained it to them then. And got more screen time. Hank Joan and Luke didnt really drive the story along but its easy to second guess from home 🙂
Great recap! I don’t want the show to end, I will miss you! 🙁
One critique of this show is the writers don’t know the basics of how women come together in a group dynamic.
A few things would have naturally happened. For one the women would have formed real friendships. There should have been a BFF situation or two in this group. And in this group the Female alpha would have naturally emerged. Since Misty literally kicked Madison’s butt, it should have been her all along but Alphas don’t get killed by weaker foe so it ain’t her.
My point being the Supreme is a female alpha. And in fights the Alpha emerges victorious. The only one I can think of that has shown this is Zoe. She knocked the legendary Marie Leveau on her ass and made mincemeat of Marie’s zombies. “Real Power” is what Marie called it. She also brought forth a spirit into the mortal coil which takes a special ability. And thrown in the fact that with her killer pussy power she might be able to wipe out the whole house with one orgasm.
I think the new Supreme is Zoe but I still want Queenie as the new Supreme. Oh vey…
I think I am the only person in the world that would write an Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, & Madonna reference into an AHS:Coven recap.
That cuz U have style, U have Grace, Urethra Franklin gives good “case”….
True. It was pretty brilliant.
UF, pretty quality wafting and weaving musicality there! Might I also add, Urethra Only Rings Once (but hope you change your mind as time goes on). But loved the reminder of Jessica in the movie The Postman Only Rings Twice!
Jojo I rewatched some of TPORT again last night. I was so distracted by how “different” Jessica looked back then.
Different in how young & beautiful? but I think you also think she’s aging beautifully and is still sensuous and looks sensational in a witch’s hat – and natural – she doesn’t look all stretched tight and puffed and injected like some wannabes on the real housewives! (I would kill all them witches and sell my soul to look like her now – of course if I was a highly-sought after actress, I could afford to!)
Fiona ain’t dead. Remember when Cordy “saw” it was her mommay’s blood. In her vision Fiona scolds her and says how could you do this to me? Mommie dearest knows. Ain’t no way in no day that witch is gonna take that lyin’ down.
Can I just say I think you are all ridiculous for thinking Fiona is alive. She has to die so the new supreme can take over. Which is the whole point of the show.
I have refrained from telling you all how stupid this theory is all week. Because, with Ryan Murphy you never know. But I just have to say it. And if I turn out to be the stupid one next week, I’ll take my licks.
Agreed that bitch witch got 99 problems, but being dead ain’t one.
At least not yet. And unless….
Fiona planted that vision in Cordys head. Like the Supreme is going to let her daughter that she doesn’t give a flying F’ about get the upper hand. That vision is too gruesomely beautifully detailed for it not to hold clues.
Plus we didn’t get a swamp scene with no gators chompin’ on Fiona’s hind parts.
I think we, the viewers, are in the eye on the storm part of the show. It’s gonna get a lot worse before the new Supreme ” rises”. Most likely, she will have to rise from the dead to ascend to her position as leader.
It’s been a great ride so far. Big thanks to UF for his amazing recaps. Thanks to Tamara for being Tamara, having this blog, and lovin this series. I’m a lurker but you guys made it impossible not to join in.
#bowdownbitches the new Supreme arrives in 5 more days.
Fiona may very well be dead, however; in the The Scared Taking, as soon as one Supreme dies the power immediately transfers to the next one. Notice how Queenie asked if anyone felt differently? No one did, which stands to reason Fiona is not dead. Like Cordeila said, you don’t get to chose who the new supreme is, who ever is it, just is.
This whole testing thing is a red herring to distract from the fact Fiona is still alive.
Changing subjects, I hope Cordy gets that attic baby since she wanted one of her own for so very long and couldn’t conceive.
And Myrtle can teleported in the first episode and hasn’t shown much power since.
Jenn you make a good argument for Fiona being alive.
But maybe she really is dead, and she meets Spalding’s spirit on the other side, and she possesses Baby Ceci. Then she grows up to a black Supreme.
Fiona has no soul so it’s hard for me to envision her as a spirit. She would have to die in that house to be a spirit, that seems to be the general rule for ghosts on this show. If she dies in that house she could spend forever in spirit form with the Axeman.
I do think Cordy is going to whup her ass tho in whatever form fiona remerges as.
And I think Cordy will get her eyes back and that baby, it’s her happy ever after.
Ok gang question and forgive me because I missed something somewhere. Was it ever reveiled who throw teh acid on Cordelia?
* the. Gotta learn to proof read before I send
The Corporate Witch Hunters
The actual person was not revealed, but it was revealed that Cordelia’s father-in-law (Hank’s father) arranged for her acid attack.
here is a silly thought what if the witch hunters realize that the coven is week, Fiona is dead, so there is no one to lead them. And they find out that the test for the seven wonders is going to happen, and they bust in and kill em all??? OK that’s not going to happen. I think Stevie is back for the final episode, right?
Yes Stevie will be on next week.
I finally found my notes I jotted down and I don’t think have been answered here:
Did Delia actually get a read from Madison after she quit flitting all over the room & pretended she didn’t even though Madison seemed to us to have put herself in lie-detector throw off mode? Otherwise how did Delia find where Misty was buried?
So far is it Misty, Delia & now Zoe with the power of resurgence?
Delia seemed to convince Axeman that Fiona didn’t love him. But what were those plans and the paper he was looking at to prove that? other than an Airline ticket 1-way. What did he mean they had an agreement – not a contract but a binding agreement?
Didn’t Delia tell the Axeman that she doesnt need him, she will be regaining all her powers very soon. Why would she need the Axeman anyway?
What else did Queenie offer Papa Legba since Marie could no longer deliver on her once a year deliverance of an innocent soul?
I’m not sure that what we saw was a hallucination or true read Delia got of all the young witches dead. If it’s a true read, Fiona obviously isn’t dead. Fiona strides by and snatches the necklace off her dead daughter’s neck. When she gave Delia the grandma necklace, Delia wondered where’s the ring that goes with it. Since Fiona didn’t give her the ring was she planning all this, maybe surviving the Axe but making sure her blood was on him, knowing she’d get the necklace back anyway so she didn’t give up the ring. Could the Axeman been her partner in Fiona’s new plan willing to sacrifice himself so the others thought she is dead (or maybe he didn’t think they could kill him before he axed them)?
Delia’s power of second sight now is she can she not only read what happened in the past but what did happen or might happen in the future? – but doesn’t she have to be holding something or someone to get the read?
Myrtle seemed like she was trying to ‘save’ Axeman as he tried to get rid of Zoe/Kyle. Last week she wanted Zoe & Kyle out of there.
Madison’s powers are sketchy, sure didn’t help when getting her ass kicked by Misty. Also even the mention of 7 Wonders seem to make Myrtle & Madison very uncomfortable. Besides Madison’s been dead once; only Zoe & Queenie have remained alive to date. Were we told that the 7 Wonders can kill the witches trying to perform them if they’re not the Supreme?
Zoe seems a helluva lot more dangerous and wanting the crown next episode – ready to make Madison explode as she shares a very comfortable kiss with Kyle while staring Zoe down.
The only reason I don’t think Fiona is dead is that her whole storyline has been not wanting to die no matter at whose expense (and we didn’t actually see her in swamp pieces). Maybe she did take them all out so she can live to search for the fountain of youth and a cure for cancer 🙂 OTOH, as TT says, this is Ryan Murphy, of course we’re going to be scratching our heads at the end or saying “I didn’t see that coming” (I hope).
I also think Madison did something witchy to clear hear mind so that Cordelia could not read her.
There was a scene juxtaposed with Misty singing in the coffin where Cordelia was in Misty’s room sniffing one of her shawls, and got a reading of where she was.
Thank you. This is definitely the type of show for which one NEEDS a DVR. There’s so much and I miss a lot of things until I read the recap. I’m too lazy to get a DVR, but would, but there’s only one episode left….maybe before Season 4 🙂
what if stevie is the next supreme just a thought
Anything’s possible in Ryan Murphy World, but in this case, I doubt it’s her. Her songs are supreme, but not acting, and she wasn’t even scheduled to appear in the finale except at last minute due to an open in her touring schedule. At least we’ll get a supreme 7 Wonder song!!.
Does anyone know if the last episode will be the usual hr long?
Yes the finale is a hour episode. I feel short-changed.
Twist 1: Fiona comes back as the child baby using the two manifestations Descensum & Transmutation. It’s no coincidence Spaulding has this fascination for doll babies. He loves Fiona and will do whatever it takes to protect her. Those dolls are ancient and maybe his clan has collected them for centuries for specific magic. He’s protecting this child in the attic in order to save Fiona’s life again.
Twist 2: Myrtle seems to be just hanging around to STOP/EXPOSE whatever Fiona and Spaulding have planned this time around. Remember, she always knew the truth but was unable to convince others, despite her magic for discernment. She sent Kyle and Zoe away at the right time for their protection. Kyle and Zoe are replicas of Fiona and Spaulding.
Twist 3: Whether Fiona’s still The Supreme is NOT her concern anymore. She doesn’t have a soul and will wonder the Earth but in a different body.
Twist 4: This is a girl power feminist production. Somehow Papa Legba is NOT the most powerful of his kind. It’s a female – lol
The ring Cordelia asked about, did anyone explain why it is important?
Now Queenie has second sight because she could hear Marie through her blood. I think Queenie or Kyle is the new supreme. If Kyle is the new supreme it will be more sybolic than anything else. He represents mankind.
When Papa Legba accepted Nan in exchange for a soul, he reluctantly took her because she was not pure. So I think that is why he decided to demand full payment from Marie. She shortchanged him, so he short changed her.
I am curious about the ring too. Did Fiona give it to her? I don’t recall seeing that.
But this conversation reminds me of Episode 8, in one of the funniest scenes of the season when Myrtle STOLE Fiona’s jewelery from her dresser has she lay dying after swallowing those pills.
Kyle is NOT going to be the Supreme. That is the worst possible ending ever.
I think it is going to Cordelia. Fiona told her “The power is always inside you”. In context of the story of the troubled mother/daughter relationship it makes sense.
The other direction for Supreme would be Queenie because of the equal rights/racist story line.
also Katrina, good point about Papa being short changed with Nan. I wonder what kind of Hell Nan is in. Her worst life experience? Probably being bullied as younger child, or feeling “different” from the other girls? Even though its fiction, my hurt aches for Nan being in Hell.
How about:
Twist 5: Fiona entrapped Marie IOT allow Delphine to dismember and torture her. Delphine was so empowered and unafraid. Yet, Marie seemed confused and stunned. It’s Fiona payback to Papa Legba. She destroyed his precious protege Marie for being cruel to her. Classic warfare.
Twist 6: Queenie, Zoe, and Misty merge into a “Calico Cat” type witch (black, white, tan). The coven is near extinction and needs reproduction. However, Fiona and Spaulding have plans to steal this magic IOT save Fiona.
Twist 7: Nan went off w/Papa Legba . . . and at the hands of Marie and Fiona. . . She may seek revenge and return somehow.
Spectacular Twist: Cordelia and Hank have a baby/babies. Their attempts via in vitro were actually samples stolen by the firm w/o their knowledge. The baby/babies were born via surrogate. This is when Fiona started getting sick and returns to the coven to determine/kill her successor. With the firm dismantled and Cordelia left as Hank’s widow, she will inherit documents (confiscated by the FBI) which tracks these findings. Hank was his father’s only child and he was childless. Therefore, Fiona inherits everything that the government investigations uncover.
Question: The only witches to NOT die are Fiona, Cordelia, and Zoe?
Queenie’s power is the ability to harm herself (shooting herself in the head while looking at Hank therefore blowing his brains out) and being immune to gunshots with silver bullets. Therefore, I don’t know if we can consider Queenie having been dead once.
And Misty not only burned at the stake, but seemed to have died again in the tomb until Cordelia blew life into her. I think she’s now twice dead.
Zoe, Queenie, Cordelia, all haven’t been killed once. And if we believe Fiona’s apparent axeing was a trick, add Fiona to that list.
And all this guessing not knowing if being not killed once is important in the Supremacy rules!
Jojo remember after the Minotaur attacked Queenie? She stopped breathing, and Fiona breathed life back into her. So I would say that she has died once.
I forgot about that! I guess then we add Fiona to the list that have power of resurgence, along with Zoe, Misty, and Cordelia.
So as far as young witches are concerned definitely Madison is no contender – she’s been dead and she hasn’t brought anyone back to life. She’s just a crafty poser with Fiona’s personality!
That leaves Zoe and Cordelia and maybe/maybe not dead Fiona!
And I think that ‘teleporting’ is what Madison displayed in the room with Cordelia. Transmutation I don’t think we’ve seen YET, it’s the ability to change into another nature, substance, form. That power would give one of those witches the ability to inhabit the baby, no?
Nan is NEVER coming back.
You should write because those ideas are crazy good except for Twist 5.
I just wish the AHS writers were just as creative as you…. but I too am guilty of trying to make this show be something that it is not, and that is well thought out… but I am curious about that darn calico cat.
Please Endure Just One More:
It’s Cordelia!
Cordelia is a deadly calculating wolf/snake portraying a blinded weakling. Classic. She has everyone fooled to her abilities. Poking out her eyes to avoid Fiona suspecting her talents. Poor Abandoned Sick Weak Barren Blind Cordelia! WRONG. . .
1) She counter infiltrated the Delphi by marrying Hank. She completely controlled him. She knew everything about the Delphi organization. That’s why they blinded her w/acid to make her dependant on Hank. She gave information to Marie and Fiona using/sending them to destroy Delphi. She is the General.
2) After Cordelia’s visit seeking fake fertility assistance from Marie, Hank eventually killed everyone at Marie’s salon. Cordelia used this same manipulation trick on the axeman to kill Fiona.
3) Myrtle sent Zoe away to safety because she knows Cordelia is just as ruthless as Fiona.
In line w/movie “The Usual Suspects.” Cordelia = Keyser Soze
I’m buying what you’re selling by just the invocation of KEYSER SOZE!
Besides, Cordelia has been one of my frontrunners – her character comparison to King Lear’s daughter Cordelia also gives her survivor cred.
I’m saying this now, I believe Cordelia is the next Supreme. I feel it in my bones.. and the fact that I played heads or tails. Cordelia has to be the next Supreme. I don’t like any of the other simple minded twitches because their character growth was minimal at best. Overall I think I’m quite disappointed in this season. Angela and Jessica were the only two that made it worthwhile.
Yes I would have been happy if the WHOLE series was just Jessica & Angela & Myrtle.
The first 5 episodes were brilliant FANTASTIC, and in my opinion things got muddled after that.
Season 2 was good, but it was very muddled. If you watched you would understand my point. It had every genre written into except BIg Foot.
I am still pissed that we never saw the demon baby on that sonogram in season 1.
Season 1 left me hanging with too many questions. I wanted more of the demon baby but I’m glad that the family was able to be reunited albeit dead.
Season 2 was my favorite because I was able to relate with the asylum and the insanity that follows.
Season 3 had the steam to knock the whole series out of the park but unfortunately it ended there. There’s too many sub-stories and minor characters that interrupted the whole series. I wonder what next season would bring.
I didn’t catch any 1950’s horror theme nugget or clue in the last episode or this one, except Myrtle’s therimine (which apparently is a staple instrument in 50’s sci-fi movies). Murphy said there’ve been hints in the last few and upcoming episodes about Season 4.
He didn’t do a post-mortem on this episode anywhere I can find. But he let us know that Season 4 has Jessica, Angela Bassett and I think Kathy Bates and is set in the 1950’s. Jessica Lange is practicing German for it.
He also said there’ve been hints in the last few episode
What would be a horror storyline for the 50’s? God I hope it’s not anything about Aliens and Area 51. Besides I hate alien movies, and we’ve already had an undeveloped alien component in Asylum.
Horror & 50’s mmmmm? Political, Stepford Wives? There was rumor of Circus Freaks. I’m still searching 🙂
Minor correction. Season four is not set in “the 1950s” it is set in the year 1950. That should help you narrow your search. HOWEVER when I searched “the1950s” is so popular that “1950” was hard to separate out of search results. 🙁
Thanks I didn’t know that. I’ll see what I can find that’s scary about 1950 with a German woman in her 50’s 🙂
And by narrowing that year down, I’m very happy that I wasn’t born yet!
The name on Fiona’s passport that was shown in that blue hued “vision” scene when Cordelia was confronting the Axeman is: Fiona Borgia Vandenheuvel Goode.
And I still have no idea about season 4.
Interesting… Obviously I can’t post a link, but if you guys google “Tumblr American Horror Story Cordelia Supreme” there’s a Tumblr which provides a pretty good case for Cordelia being Supreme and Misty being Azazel based on the opening credit symbols. She did appear right after Madison and Zoe called to Azazel, and given how naive and guileless she seems, would be a pretty cool twist.
What/Who is Azazel?
Azazel symbolizes different things in different mythologies, but s/he is known as a demon/emissary goat/messenger of Satan. Madison and Zoe called to Azazel during Kyle’s resurrection spell, and shortly thereafter, Misty shows up.
Re-watching the opening credits looking for all those clues we’re told are there, I now notice under Zoe/Taissa Farigma’s name, “dominant spirit” which is in Latin I think “spiritu dominado.” Doesn’t mean she’s the last one standing though.
The picture next to Sarah Paulson/Cordelia is a white female, robed, with a crown of sorts skeleton, but I looked it up and it looks like Santa Muerte, a female Mexican folk saint – (Saint Death). She’s also known as the “Lady of the Seven Powers.” With that and based on my clinging to King Lear’s daughter, Cordelia who returned to inherit his kingdom – (and of course Keyser Soze) – Delia inherits Fiona’s Supremacy. I’m still not buying Fiona is actually dead – she has power of mind control and could have put the depiction of the Axeman killing her in Cordelia’s mind.
Of course flipping coins could have produced the same result 🙂
Thanks so much for carrying on with AHS COVEN business as usual. Sorry I could not join in I have been swamped but tonight’s episode of Blood Sweat and Heels was called Pappa Can You Hear Me! lol and it mad finding pics hard because of Google’s special tailoring of hell. 🙂
I love this group,
Thanks for supporting TT, y’all.
Thrilled to be of support, but I’m the benefactor of the entertainment here.
What irony AHSCoven recap and Blood, Sweat Heels “Papa Can You Hear Me” – UF has psychic powers!
And how you can singly-handedly watch all these shows, recap, and with the Apollo bust now…you’re some kind of superwoman, don’t know how you can do it, really !!
Agreed. And you’re welcome. I really like this site. I can’t promise that I’ll pick up any reality shows in the hiatus, but I will be back for AHS S4, you bet! 😉
Glenn Close is the next Supreme