With scattershot vigor, the series roots through pop culture old and new to borrow images, sounds, and tropes.
“The Seven Wonders” finds Coven largely tending, predictably for the most part, to a final bit of plot bookkeeping.
It’s fair to say that Coven has evolved in a fashion opposite to that of the prior Asylum.
“The Sacred Taking” finds the show’s variables nearly, but not quite, cohering into a grand narrative arc.
In this week’s episode of Coven, an elegantly interlocking series of plot turns suggests a major character’s undoing.
This week’s episode of Coven is ideally timed to remind us that Halloween was once a dangerous pagan event.
American Horror Story has evolved over the course of two seasons from a reliably lurid soap to a sophisticated work of despairing protest pop-art.
This is a story of the downtrodden, the “freaks,” and those who don’t belong must figure out how to survive.