I don’t know if it’s a pendant on a chain; there’s a broken red line that extends to the right, but it doesn’t look like a chain to me. The symbol itself, though, does indeed look like the classic female icon ( 
), except that there appear to be two dots inside the circle so that it resembles a crude stick figure as well. Weird . . .
I thought I was the only one wondering that!
The cattle car named Desire.
Marie Laveau is almost 200 years old and has certainly kept up with hairstyles and fashion, yet she cannot seem to drop her Miss Cleo accent.
"In just seven days…
I can make you a maaaaa-ah-ah-ah-annn."
I’ve been calling him Fratenstein.
Finally watched this episode last night, and my DVR cut off the last 10 minutes. The last thing we saw was Fiona telling Madison that she’s the next Supreme. How did it wrap up?
That shot of IncestMom’s bashed-in face was a little disturbing, but I guess no less disturbing than her putting the moves on her son.
When Cordelia was asking “when’s the next new moon?”, I was thinking Wait- how quickly can you get your man to produce that much jizz? He’d have to pump out a load a few times a day for a few weeks… maybe you should consult a moon phase calendar first before rushing in to this…
YOu really need to find a way to watch the last 10 minutes - words don’t do it justice - ‘wrapped up’ - heh…
I agree with simster. Big things happen.
I have to make another comment on episode 3 - there are countless ‘iconic’ scenes in film and telivision - there are fewer standout scenes that just, well - are ‘perfect’.
The scene that Just Ed mentioned above is absolutely perfect - knowing LaLaurie’s past makes it more so, but is not required.
I liked that Nan is not a virgin because guys find her hot. It’s nice to see the show treating a character with Down syndrome like everyone else.
Agreed on the second part - but the implication on the first is that she is not only empathic but also telepathic on the first - not that they can’t find her hot, but the attraction is likely being helped.
(god, I hope that came out the way I intended).
If Kathy Bates character is immortal why was she under the impression that the large girl saved her life and why does she fear the zombies?
Well, perhaps not dying is different from being actively killed. And I’m sure that being gored by the minotaur or ripped apart by zombies would be unpleasant.
And if the large girl has the super power of “I’m rubber, you’re glue,” why was she injured by the minotaur, and the minotaur not?
Exactly. We don’t actually know the nature of her “immortality,” only that she did not die for hundreds of years – but those years were spent entombed underground, where she was apparently undisturbed. Now that she’s walking around in the world, it seems quite possible she can be harmed or even killed.
Perhaps he was. We know he was beheaded; we don’t know how he got that way.
As to the current episode (“Fearful Pranks Ensue”), I thought it was interesting having it play out on Halloween. It allowed them to let the bloodied Kyle out into the world without (apparently) being noticed, and of course - zombies! It appears Madison really is really dead, given that Nan cannot sense her (but I still wonder if Misty’s regenerative powers will be of use in that regard). Speaking of whom, Misty was MIA this ep, but I guess there was so much else going on they didn’t have time for it, what with the filling-in of Fiona’s history, the arrival of the Council (Frances Conroy!), Hank Foxx revealed to be a murderer (sorry Alexandra, it was good to see you again, but Hello/Goodbye), Queenie’s recovery from the Minotaur, and of course Marie Laveau’s revenge re-ignited.
The reveal about Madison’s health issues was interesting; apparently she was not going to be the next supreme, so Fiona was not only mistaken, she committed the second act of murder in the coven, which is apparently a cardinal sin to the council (“This will not stand!”). So we now have two adversaries for Fiona in Myrtle Snow (Conroy) and Joan Ramsey (Patti LuPone, who was also MIA this ep). And Cordelia doesn’t seem convinced of Fiona’s “innocence” either.
Given that we’re only four episodes in, they really have set up an awful lot of story lines here. It’ll be interesting to watch them all spin out of control.
This season is quite over the top and I am loving every minute of it. Less creepy and scary but very stylised and entertaining. Any idea of who will sit the supreme iron throne of the coven?
I have no idea. I do know that if this season doesn’t have a scene that somehow incorporates at least three supremes while the background music is Where Did Our Love Go?, or Stop! in the Name of Love then we all have grounds for a class-action suit.
Also, it’s Jessica Lange’s world. We’re just lucky to live in it.
I dislike the fact that no character in the show really dies. If everybody is immortal or can be brought back to life by magic, there isn’t much suspense about a character dying.
I really like the series so far, but that was the weakest episode by far. Young kids trapped in a building surrounded by Romero zombies armed only with a chainsaw is just weak writing. And if Hank turns out to have multiple personalities this show might be in decline.
I wonder if the Supreme has to be female; it would be interesting if Fratenstein was the Supreme. Or, if Gabourey Sidibe’s character is the heiress to both Fiona and Marie Laveau. (Gabourey Sidibe saddens me- so talented, but she’s a walking coronary event.)
Of course Madison isn’t out of the running, though she’s a bit disarmed at the moment. Spalding probably has powers that haven’t come into play as well.
I don’t get why Delphine (Kathy Bates) is having guilt pangs now. She tortured and murdered her slaves and abused her daughters unspeakably in the 1830s but now she’s thinking “Gee, I should have been kinder”; is it fear of reprisals or a real change of thought?
She’s had a couple hundred years to think about things.