American Horror Story Apocalypse Season 8

Season one of American Horror Story (aka “Murder House“) and season three, “Coven“, are at the top of people’s favorite seasons of the series. So, when it was announced that season eight, “Apocalypse“, would be a “sequel” to those two seasons, it got people excited. But did it deliver?

I would say a very enthusiastic “Yes!”. Not only did we get to see favorite old characters return such as Sarah Paulson’s Cordelia Fox, Frances Conroy’s Myrtle Snow and best of all, Jessica Lange’s Constance Langdon (a role she won an Emmy for) we also got answers to questions like “why didn’t we ever see any male witches?” and “whatever happened to Constance and her grandson Michael, the Harmon baby?”. Apocalypse opened with the end of the world right off the bat. Then later, after the Witches make their big comeback, we get to see all the little intricate details that built up to the Antichrist’s bringing Hell down on Earth and how others such as real life Satanist Anton Le Vey and a secret coven of Warlocks guided Michael into his role as the Antichrist. We were given more depth into the Witches and their vital role in everything. We saw the long standing feud between the Witches and the Warlocks and why there had never been a male “Supreme”.

After the bombs fell the story began to lag a little but when the withches arrived we got out of the claustrophobic setting of the Outpost and learned what happened with the Coven after that season ended. Not everything was perfect, to be sure. Joan Collins, who would have made an excellent addition to the series was largely wasted. The show was bogged down with too many characters, some of which seemed to serve no purpose.

The best episode was episode 6 “Return to Murder House” in which Jessica Lange made her return to the series after starring in the first four seasons….”Murder House:, “Asylum“, “Coven“, and “Freak Show“. We got to see how the Harmon family has been doing in the afterlife. Connie Britton, who starred in “Murder House made only her second appearance in the American Horror Story series. The main focus, though, was the Harmon’s child, Michael, who fathered by Constance’s dead son, Tate. in the Rubber Man suit and how Constance tried to raise a boy with homicidal tendencies. Some of her scenes here with Michael are saved to complete the story in the finale when the Witches call upon all their power in a final battle with the son of Satan.