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spoilers for "AHS: Apocalypse" episode 2, “The Morning After.”
Michael Langdon (Cody Fern) has a lot of things going for him -- he’s tall, he’s handsome and he has an enviable head of fantastic, lush hair.
But, we clearly know he’s the evil spawn of Tate and Vivien from season 1,
and therefore some sort of antichrist, right? So, trying to figure out what he’s
up to at the outpost is giving me a brain cramp.
He waltzes in to the last viable Outpost, claiming to be
from the mysterious Collective, and tells them he will take the best of the
group to the Sanctuary, which is the only hope for anyone who wants to survive.
But they have to interview their way in. He asks a couple of creepy questions,
but seems to spend the rest of the time manipulating them one by one. So is he
really there to save them or just mess with them?
Mr. Gallant (Evan Peters) seems to be the one he tortures the most. First, he makes him think they’re having sex (who is in that
Rubberman costume if it’s not Langdon?). Then Langdon insults Gallant and tells
him he’s pathetic, before tricking him into stabbing his poor Nana to death
(OK, she is a b*tch, but she’s Joan Collins -- she invented b*tch). Next, he
began toying with the severe Ms. Venable (Sarah Paulson), who was already playing mind games with the group. It looks like the queen has met her match and who knows what sinister torture he has in store for the rest
of the survivors, including Coco (Leslie Grossman) and her smart mouth.
Is he going to really start picking people to go with him or is he really there
to make the last of humanity destroy one another? That would really
stink to survive the apocalypse only to be killed by the coercion of an evil devil
man sporting geometrical red eyeshadow.
If he does pick “winners” to come with him, is he hoping for
a youngish woman to impregnate with an antichrist junior? Would that be an anti-antichrist circling back to full Jesus? Whatever the case, he’s a beautiful devil
and who wouldn't jump at the chance to have his satan’s spawn?
Burning questions of the week: Is Kathy Bates is a cream-spouting
robot? When are the Coven gals going to arrive? How does one send an email without internet?
Next week: It’s the last night in the outpost. Is it going
to be a big party or a big murder?