Attention:
This post contains spoilers for "AHS: Apocalypse" episode 9, “Fire
and Reign.”
This series has thrown a lot of curve balls at us this
season: the apocalypse, Satanists and killer robots, in addition to the standard
witches and ghosts. But this episode went too far: the Illuminati, the Bolshevik
Revolution and time travel?
It’s hard enough to follow the looping timelines, some actors playing multiple parts, the convergence of already humongous casts and plots
of many different seasons, but now you’re tying to tell me that the Collective
has been the Illuminati this whole time? And Beyoncé is not a member?
And then we traveled to Russia to watch Princess Anastasia ward off the Bolsheviks with magic powers. Even with Mallory’s time-traveling
help Anastasia failed, so that seemed pretty pointless. If she failed the test,
how is she supposed to use that against Michael? I’m so confused. What does
this have to do with the apocalypse? This is so much more extra for a
show that already deals in extra. Are they picking script keywords out of a
hat?
To be honest, for a show that has had an otherwise solid
season, this one felt weak, disconnected to the overall plot and not a good
bridge between the timelines. Those Silicon Valley moguls need to go because
they’re taking the focus away from better characters, like the witches. The
next episode is the season finale, so they are leaving a lot to be tidied up in
just one episode, including how the witches survived the apocalypse (which we
learned was the point of the whole apocalypse from Michael’s point of view and
makes zero sense) and how Michael is defeated, because evil cannot win. We
hope.
Burning questions: How do Coco and Mallory get to L.A., with
their memories erased? Did anyone else realize before today that Evie Gallant
and Bubbles McGee (both played by Joan Collins) were two separate characters?