American Horror Story — Series 3: Coven — Episodes 7, 8 & 9: The Dead, The Sacred Taking and Head

17th September, 2017.

Bloody hell, it’s — comparatively — late!

Ar least, for starting a blog post, it’s late.

Did you managed read this morning’s Teaser?

If you did, you’d possibly have realised I’ve been over my family’s for dinner.

And … ?

And to help build a new rabbit hutch for Mikey and Donnie, my nephew’s rabbits.

Well … Grandma, Ruth and I built the hutch.

Whilst Jude supervised, obviously.

Which has left me fed, mildly tired …

But still keen to watch more episodes of season three of American Horror Story.

Coven’s wandering a bit, maybe.

But still looking good.

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Episode 7 — The Dead — shows us that Fiona (Jessica Lange) is seeking to dice against death, by taking on a lover: little knowing the handsome saxophonist is serial killer, the Axeman (Danny Huston.)

Queenie?   Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) starts having doubts about her membership of the coven: whilst Cordelia (Sarah Paulson*) makes a decision about her mother, Fiona.

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Episode 8 — The Sacred Taking — follows this through.   It shows us Cordelia’s decision in The Dead leads her to organise the coven in an attempt to perform a ritual that will see Fiona die: and pass her power as supreme to the most qualified member.

It’s only in the aftermath?

That Fiona and Cordelia realise two things.

That the bullet that had fatally injured a next door neighbour was silver.

And that a witch-hunter was after them.

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Episode 9 — Head — sees Fiona finally persuading Marie (Angela Bassett) that an alliance could be useful.

But only after Marie has sent Fiona the still living — and still talking — head of Delphine (Kathy Bates.)

And only after the witch-hunter has targeted Marie’s base, And been killed by Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe)

That witch-hunter?   Is Hank (Josh Hamilton).

Quite how Cordelia will find her husband’s a witch-hunter … ?

Is something for the next episodes.

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Watching those episodes?

Frankly, is something I’m determined to do.

Granted, I feel these episodes lost their way, slightly.   The relationship between Queenie and Delphine seems to have a taken a step or two backwards, the introduction of corporate witch-hunters a little odd, and Myrtle’s mutilation of the council just a LITTLE overdone.

But?

Coven is still a watchable incarnation of American Horror Story

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