I would accept this as the mid-season finale. We should have left off here instead of sitting through an hour of Pepper having a sad life
I'm glad the tone of the show has changed back to more of a familiar AHS style of lots of action and genuine horror, but it's much too little too late. Thus they're going the Coven route of unsatisfactorily ending plots and killing people off in ways that do not logically make sense. Things that don't make sense this week:
Why did Elsa give Stanley the chance to blurt out that she killed Ethel? She has proven to be much more clever than that. Same with Stanley. He could have easily bought himself some time by coming clean about Ethel right away, like any sane person would - especially someone as cunning and perceptive as him. Why did the freaks all of a sudden turn on Elsa btw? Stanley in desperation blurts it out, so then they all unanimously just come to their senses and turn on their fairy godmother? Ummm she literally tried to murder Paul a while back just cuz she was in a mood, but that wasn't worthy of mob justice? She could also easily explain the situation now, seeing as Ma Petite's body is floating in a jar somewhere and Elsa shot the man who killed her in revenge, since Ethel's reason for trying to kill her was because she thought Elsa killed Ma Petite. And omg at that ****ty scene with Bette and Dot warning Elsa... why the **** would they do that? Makes zero sense, she did not save you, she literally human trafficked you into the arms of a crazy person because one of you can sing well. No one in that camp would have warned Elsa, so she should have had to escape herself by piecing it together before the freaks could get her. A good scene to close the episode with could have been sort of like the Stanley scene at the beginning, but resulting in her successfully fleeing to Hollywood and taking out some of the ingrates with her throwing knives.
But the thing that pisses me off most about tonight's episode is Maggie's death. First of all, it made zero sense. She just happily jumps into a box with a saw wielding weirdo who second earlier openly expressed his desire to saw the twins into two..... and then she expresses mild concern as it becomes even more obvious that he is literally going to saw her in half, and the freaks stand five feet away doing nothing. Secondly, this is the second ****ing year in a row they kill Emma Roberts off in a totally nonsensical way. At least it wasn't as bad as last year, when she just kind of forgot that she was basically the Supreme (oh no I can't tell who owned this brooch!) and let Kyle murder her instead of lighting him on fire, or throwing him against the wall, or controlling his mind. Ugh.
I really don't understand how the people who made the masterpieces that are Murder House and Asylum can write **** like Coven and Freak Show
