We return to New Orleans to finish up what I have come to truly love, American Horror Story: Coven. I can say with all the sadness of my heart, I just never wanted this show to end. True when it opened, with a gang bang I was tempted to give up on it, however with last night’s series finale I’ll miss my wed night haunt.
We open with Stevie Knicks singing about the “seven wonders,” looking great in her top hat and dress I might add. A lot of the fans I’ve talked to dislike Stevie’s appearances on the show however, I love her addition and the fact that she can get a small nod. If you know anything about her career, there has constantly been talk of witchcraft in her background, so who better than the biggest witch in the music industry?
The four challengers for the supremacy are Madison, Queeney, Zoey and Misty. The four file in decked out in their best black outfits, I will say wardrobe is a bit cliché.
First challenge: Telekinesis
All four girls exhibit a grasp of these powers, Madison especially since it has always been the base of her appearance in the coven. Misty seems to be the weakest witch struggling to bring forward a candle stick. This does not bode well for our poor Miss Day.
Second challenge: Mind control
So the only part of this challenge that was worth recapping is Madison and Zoey’s fight. Kyle becomes a pawn between the two “twitches” as Madison forces him to kiss her sending Zoey into a rage. Madison eats it up making Kyle drop to his knees to lick her shoes. So there he is tongue extended when Zoey breaks Madison’s “hold” and brings him to her kissing him passionately. Madison is not the girl to lose, and makes Kyle nearly choke Zoey.
Third challenge: Transcending the plains
After Cordelia breaks up the fight by making Kyle fly across the room, ouch, it’s time to go to hell. No really the third challenge is moving your spiritual being to a realm of hell… Why you would want to is redonkulous but, never the less here we go right? Wrong! If you do not make it back to your body by morning… you stay in hell. Screw that!
However that is exactly what happens to poor Misty. She becomes trapped in an endless bio lab where she must kill an innocent frog over and over again for an eternity. For a sensitive soul like misty, this is an eternity of suffering beyond limit. Truly, if there were a hell for her beauty, this is it.
Fourth challenge: Transmutation
After showing no remorse for the loss of Misty the girls use this power to play tag. That’s right, our friend just disintegrated to hell for an eternity… let’s play a school yard game! This is all fun and games till Zoey ends up mutilated on top of a spiked gate.
Madison, obviously not sorry for the loss at all, is called upon to help bring her back. Unless it means the supremacy, Madison isn’t interested and states that unless they make her supreme right now, Zoey can remain worm food. In response Cordelia resolves to challenge for the supremacy.
Fifth Challenge: Pyro-mancy
This power has run rampant through the whole series and is kind of rushed through as if they wanted to count 1,2,3,4,6,7… Needless to say the competitors pay it as little attention as the audience.
Sixth Challenge: Divinations
We should really just title this one “Madison’s fail.” The challenge is to read the location of a hidden item in the house using pebbles. This is easy for Cordelia who finds her broach quickly, leaving Madison to believe it’s easy. This is when she falls on her face. No matter how hard she tries she cannot read it and leaves the room to pack and sulk threatening to oust the coven.
Seventh Challenge: Raising the dead
So now we move to bring back Zoey! Okay we all knew she couldn’t be gone forever right? While Cordelia brings her back Kyle moves in on his own plan. Like the devoted dog, Kyle enters in on Madison packing. In his grief he starts to ruff her up until finally he goes in for the kill. As Madison expires, Zoey rockets to life and Cordelia is thrown as the powers of the supreme enter her body. After obtaining the powers of the supreme Cordelia’s eyes are restored to her and she is glowing with her new found radiance.
Now on the cusp of her reign Cordelia speaks out introducing the world to the coven and inviting other witches to join them, offering them sanctuary in New Orleans. As they ready the school for an influx of new blood, the old blood must be washed away. Mertile Snow must be judged and burned for the murder of two witches earlier in the show and a council is created out of Queeny and Zoey… The loss of Mertile, I can’t say I agree because you would need that third voice but also, this is the only source of a mother’s compassion Cordelia has ever known.
From the ashes of Mertile rises promise that the dark time shall be lifted from the coven. Enter in Fiona, or a skeleton version of the fashionable, ex-supreme. She explains how she faked her death and planned to kill the next supreme but, in a tender yet still volatile and hurtful moment she explains how Cordelia was a walking reminder of her mortality. That every time she saw her daughter the only thing she could truly see was her own death. As she rests in Cordelia’s arms, Cordelia tells her that this is a road that she must travel, and she must let go. Let go she does, straight to hell, a farm house in the swamp with the axe man… quaint and yet justice.
With the death of Fiona we welcome a new era to the coven… Good Luck Ladies!
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