American Horror Story — Series 3: Coven — Episodes 1, 2 & 3: Bitchcraft, Boy Parts & The Replacements.

4th September, 2017

It’s September 4th.

Or 4th of September, if you’re that-away inclined.

It’s a Monday.

And my day off: the last one I’m due, this week, at least.

So I’ve enough hours to be going on with, to be frank.

I do know that, this time last week?   Was a bank holiday Monday.   And getting to was tricky.

The trains?   Had been replaced by a bus service.

That bus service was delayed: as part of Warley Hill had been blocked off.

Someone had been attacked: and seriously injured in a late night brawl.

Sadly?   That person has since died of his injuries.

Right now?

My thoughts are going to his family.

My thoughts are calling the two young men who attacked him, last week, a pair of idiots: for getting drunk enough — unintentionally, no doubt — to kill.

Their bank holiday weekend has turned them into killers.

Frankly?   We throw the phrase ‘murder on the streets,’ around with such ease.

And then?

Something happens on our street.

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Hmmm … 

That’s not quite what I intended to tell you about.

Well … 

Actually, yes, I did: but what I wanted to tell you?

Was that the chap had got out of hospital, alive, well … and relatively hole.

Instead, I can’t.

Personally?   All I can say is that I’ve picked up an impression over the years.

That many of the men and woman in UK prisons of murder, are there for near enough the same reasons.

They’ve gone out for the evening … had maybe one beer too many … got into an argument … 

And found themselves, in the morning, in a police cell: being told they’d inflicted life changing, or life threatening, injuries on someone.

Any one of us could be the victim: or the killer.

Murder on the streets, eh?

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At any rate?

Most of my day has been spent feeling thoughtful about that unnamed victim, and his death.

In between that, and basic house work?

I really wanted to catch some TV: to occupy my thoughts with something lighter.

Series three of American Horror Story.

For a given value of light, obviously.

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Episode 1 — Bitcraft — introduces us to Zoe Benson — Taissa Farmiga — who sneaks her boyfrieind into the family home, when her parents are out … only for him to die of a serious cerebral hæmorrhage, whil the pair are doing what teenagers do.

The result?   Is that Zoe finds she’s a witch, capable of killing men, when getting physical.   And that she’s going to be sent to a very exclusive boarding school.

Meet fellow inmates, Madison (Emma Roberts), Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) and Nan (Jamie Brewer).

From there?

Things all go down hill at a frat party.

And when I say down hill … 

Episode 2 — Boy Parts — The party in episode one?   Leads to the death of Kyle Spencer (Tate Peters).

And, in a bid to thank Zoe for her help, after being gang raped, Madison has found just the spell: to bring Kyle back from the dead.

Episode 3 — The Replacements — Episode three show us new neighbours moving into the house next door to the school: where the son of the house draws admiration from Nan and Queenie.

Over the course of these episode?   Fiona (Jessica Lange) is driven to try and regain her youth, her daughter, Cordelia (Sarah Paulsen) is desperate for a child … 

And Delphine and Marie — Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett, respectively — carry on their feud: one that’s been happening for a century.

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Now … 

Am I enjoying what I’ve seen of the series, so far?

Series one and two — Murder House and Asylum— were superb pieces of work.

Thus far, with Coven?

Coven is matching them.

My next day off means I have something to look forward to!