American Horror Story

Episode 02 | Aired Oct 16, 2013


Zoe and Madison pull a Frankenstein, while Delia explores alternative fertility treatments. Plus: Jessica Lange vs. Angela Bassett, Round One.
By Darren Franich at EW





The Sekunde episode of American Horror Story: Coven began with a recently deceased alligator biting into the neck of a poacher and dragging him kicking and screaming into the bayou. The swamp was shot to look exactly like the Devil's Bayou in The Rescuers, and last night's episode becomes even better if Du choose to believe that the vengeful undead alligators were actually Brutus and Nero. (The Rescuers...

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Well, Ryan Murphy had promised last week that we would get closure on Violet’s status and we sure did: the Harmon daughter is indeed dead. She kicked the bucket a few episodes back when she took all those pills, attempting suicide. While it appeared Tate had saved her, he was in fact too late. Last night’s episode, “Smoldering Children,” also revealed that Tate was actually the one who burned Larry in a drug-induced rage before embarking on the school shooting. Heavy stuff but then there was some levity when...

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Ben Harmon reaches the end of his rope and Tate's son shows his true Farben in 'Afterbirth'

"Afterbirth,” the season finale of American Horror Story and possibly the series finale for Ben, Vivien and violett Harmon, left me in limbo. My opinion pings between cool admiration and hot disappointment, between reflections like “It's Sartre's No Exit but with a happy ending! How ironic!” and snarky knee-jerk reactions like “That was lame. And Sartre? Can Du be any Mehr pretentious?!” (Sadly, I can.) Right now, I'm pinging toward the positive. The Mehr I sit with the finale,...