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Zoe & Kyle storyline is stupid.
These two shouldn't have been paired, it's too similar to Murder House.

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There’s not much Sarah Paulson won’t do for American Horror Story, between having angry, magical sex with snakes involved and letting serial killers do even worse things to her body. But it’s all in the name of freaking you out good. On Coven, she’s the buttoned-up witch whose mother is just waiting for her to let her freak flag show — and that moment, as Ryan Murphy hinted to Vulture earlier this season, is fast approaching. On her day off, the delightful Paulson, who was nominated for an Emmy (she should have won) last year, rang up Vulture to talk about the season-to-date, and the awkwardness that is having her parents and grandma watch.

What are you doing with your day off besides this interview?
I’m trying to clean out all my *beep* in this house. I’m just having like a weird cleaning rampage, which happens to me sometimes. And I just opened a drawer and found 50,000 Coven scripts and I realize I have to take them to the office to be shredded because I can’t just throw them into the garbage here. It makes me nervous, right? And all our names are on the scripts. So I have to take it to the office to be shredded. That’s the kind of stuff I’m doing with my day off.

So, tonight’s episode! Cordelia can now see everyone’s dirty secrets. Worst witchy gift? Or best?
I think it can be really great when you see good *beep* but knowing it’s American Horror Story means you’re going to be seeing a lot of *beep* you wish you never saw. I just love the metaphor of it. I love the idea that Cordelia started as this woman who tried to see the best in people, and who was kind and tried to be the opposite of her mother and never used her magic for anything other than good. And now she’s getting a real *beep* wake-up call about way people function in the world and, you know, *beep* about to go down.

[Series boss] Ryan Murphy said Cordelia was his version of what would have happened if Samantha on Bewitched had listened to Endora and gone dark.
Well, I think goodness is in the eye of the beholder, really. I don’t know she becomes a bad witch, but she’s certainly confronted by things about people I think she chose not to see. She chose to keep her head in the sand because it made it easier for her to move through the world the way she wanted to, which is by the book. But now she’s more, “I gotta figure out a way to survive.” The by-the-book days for Cordelia are over.

Vulture made these tarot cards –
Oh, they’re the greatest things ever. I tweeted it. They’re my favorite thing that I’ve ever seen in my life.

But we put Cordelia on the peaceful Temperance card. I’m thinking that might change.
Maybe you can do season-end cards. Something cool like maybe have the front and back be different based on what happens with the characters.

Maybe we will! So again, you’re playing someone being terrorized by a serial killer. And this time, you’re blind.
It’s fun to be trapped in a room with a murderer. It reminded me of Lana Winters and if something reminds me of Lana Winters that’s a good day as far as I’m concerned.

Which was scarier: getting chased by the Ax Man or being held by Bloody Face?
I would say Bloody Face because I endured his torture for much longer and ended up bearing his son and having to shoot my son in the head. But Danny Huston’s scary, too. His ax was really scary. When you can’t see what someone’s doing, like you can see them but nothing else in the room, it’s *beep* awful. It’s terrifying. But you don’t sign up for American Horror Story to go tiptoeing through tulips.

The other maybe scary thing you’ve had to do is have sex while snakes writhed around your body. I read that you really bonded with those snakes.
My mother of course wrote to me after she read that and was like, “Are you my child? Is this her?” Because I’m one of those people who is afraid of sharks and bees and everything. I’m a fearful person when it comes to creatures. I’m not real down with them. So the idea that I would spend the day on a set with a bunch of snakes and by the end of it wish I had one was a pretty marked change.
This sounds very actress-y and stupid but it’s true, if you’re committed to doing something in the moment, you’re gonna go balls out. You’re gonna go for it and not be afraid. In that moment, Cordelia was wanting something so desperately. I just decided, How can I be afraid of this thing that I’m trying to use to help fertilize my *beep* eggs? I gotta go there. Also, we were filming it on a Saturday and everyone was tired, and I didn’t want to be that girl who’s like [whines], “No! Get that creepy, gross snake away from me.” So I just wrapped that thing around my neck. There were things they didn’t even use. I hope Ryan puts it on the DVD. There were a couple of takes where that snake had its tongue in my mouth. I just let it do it. It was like Sssss … and that tongue came right up in my face. It’s crazy. They’re very beautiful and strong. It was sexy. I just kinda got into it.

The sexy way they’re trying to choke the life out of your leg ...
Yeah! I was like, “This is *beep* hot.” I was so into it. I couldn’t help it. But I’m not gonna lie. Tequila was involved. I had to have some tequila. I mean, not only are you simulating sexual acts, then you add in a bunch of snakes. Jessica Lange also decided to tell me a story that day. This is a very Jessica thing to do. She was leaving the set and I was staying to do the snake stuff and she goes, “Don’t let that snake near your face. I was in a pet store once where someone was holding a quote-unquote nice snake, and the snake reached up and bit the *beep* out of that person’s face.” I said, “Thanks a lot, mom,” and she goes, “Have fun!” I thinking she was feeling particularly Fiona-ish, like, “Have fun, sucker.”

I love that you call her mom.
Sometimes I do. I went, “Okay, mom. Peace out. See you later! Gonna go have sex with my husband and some snakes!”

And you said the scene was written out over two pages of all description, right?
Yeah. It was the same way with the the voodoo scene. Cordelia’s lifted up, and you see the jizz jar crackling in the fire. There wasn’t any dialogue. It was just two pages of description. Nobody could be confused as to what they wanted to see on camera, that’s for sure.

Fiona’s all about protecting Cordelia now. Is it just guilt over having been a bad mother?
I think both Fiona and Cordelia do a lot of posturing. Deep down you only ever hate someone that much when they affect you so greatly. Fiona loves her child desperately and feels so guilty about what she’s done to her, abandoning her as a child. And at the same time she’s infuriated because Cordelia doesn’t love and worship her the way everybody else does. Down the road, though, you’ll see there are moments where Cordelia and Fiona see eye to eye.

I have to assume they’re going to team up to take down her husband, the witch hunter.
It’s a common cause. What’s going to happen to this coven is pretty extraordinary in how it unites and divides them. It’s going to be very interesting.

Is there some sort of a rule requiring you and Evan Peters to get naked every season?
I just feel like when your body looks like Evan’s you should want to be running around naked a lot. That boy, he looks good. Everything’s good and tight, you know what I mean? So I feel like you gotta run around naked now, because pretty soon, nobody’s gonna want to see it. I wish I could say that’s in my contract. It’s not. Did I really get naked last [season]? Oh, that’s right, my boobs. “Baby needs colostrum” was last year, I forgot about that. And masturbation station with the aversion-conversion therapy. My poor dad. My dad watched every episode.

He did?
He did. My mom, it was too much for her. She couldn’t watch it. But my dad, after that aversion-conversion therapy scene, he posted on my Facebook, “I was riveted!” Like, Dad, no. Noooo. And he meant, “I’m just so proud of you,” but he wrote it after that episode! I was just like, Oh Dad, no. Creep-o. No, no, no. His heart was in the right place. I don’t think he intended to be like, “That’s my daughter pretending to jack off this young man who’s standing in the room while vomiting in a bucket! Yeah!”

Did they call you after the snake episode?
Ah, no. They were quiet. My sweet grandmother who lives in Maine, I told her she couldn’t watch last year, but this year she was like, “Can I watch this time?” And I was like, “Ummm, you can try?” and so she started to watch it but her blood pressure started to go up during the opening credits. If I give my grandmother a heart attack from asking her to watch my work on American Horror Story, then I deserve to go to hell. I can’t.

So now that Cordelia’s maybe going dark, is she getting a new wardrobe to match? Because I’m going to miss the high-waisted pants.
Actually, it does change after tonight’s episode. At first, Ryan was like, "I want her to look like Katherine Hepburn/Carole Lombard" – high-waisted pants, 40s, very light and airy compared to Fiona’s structured black stuff. But when I come home from the hospital in tonight’s episode, notice I’m wearing a black dress. Things start changing. Cordelia’s a different kind of woman now, and she probably can’t see a lot of what she’s wearing so Fiona’s probably handing her the clothes she thinks she should be wearing. It’s a lot more black. I remember I called Ryan because I loved those pants but I was getting tired of them. I wore them e-v-e-r-y day. We’d just change the tops. Jessica made a funny joke once when I walked in the trailer wearing pearls one day and she was like, “Jesus, Barbara Bush.” I can tell you the pearls I wear from now on are black.

http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/ameri...interview.html

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Ep 6 almost downloaded, the wait is killing me :sobbing:

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Ep 7 promo

Youtube video

I loved tonight's episode

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Sooooo pleased Madison is back but this Axeman character seems annoying... missed Kathy Bates and Frances tonight

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10 minutes left to wait.

I'm dying to click that spoiler tag..... don't....... do........ it.......

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I'm still baffled as to why the acid didn't take her eyebrows off...

[Smithy]

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not sure why they brought an axe murderer into, seems a bit random if he'd been there for so long why did he wait until then to do that

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Originally Posted by Smithy

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not sure why they brought an axe murderer into, seems a bit random if he'd been there for so long why did he wait until then to do that

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That storyline does seem boring, I'd rather see more of Kathy and Frances

[Braden]

This episode was very...meh

I feel so sorry for Cordelia, she's too good of a person for all of this horrible stuff to be happening to her

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First tell me about how the Stevie Nicks thing happened. She’s actually going to appear?
RYAN MURPHY: She appears as herself. It’s part of Fiona’s ruse in that Fiona is trying to get the true Supreme to reveal herself because she needs to stay alive. So she tells Misty Day that the Supreme gets so many great things in life, like tickets to the Oscars and Met Ball tickets. So she brings Stevie Nicks in as a gift to Misty to prove to her that if she exhibits more power she’ll get that and more. Then the other girls come home and see Stevie and Misty singing and it starts them trying to move much quicker to prove that they are the Supreme.
Do you know when this will happen?
It’s episode 10. It’s right when we come back from winter break. I had a really good conversation with her and explained to her what the show was and it’s gotten such a big reaction from people. She said, “Oh I wish I could be on the show.” But she couldn’t because she was traveling with Fleetwood Mac in Europe but then Mick Fleetwood got cancer so they cancelled those dates. Then she called and said, “I’m now available sadly enough. If you wanna use me.” So I said, “Let’s do it!” So she’s flying in for like two days and doing her scenes. I know every person in the show is like, “I better be in that goddamn scene!” It’s funny.
I bet Lily Rabe was freaking out!
She was freaking out. She texted me this morning saying, “Is it true? Is it true?” We’re trying to figure what song she’s going to sing with Misty.
Tonight introduced Danny Huston’s character, The Axeman. So we will see The Axeman and Fiona have an affair?
Yeah he comes back and they have a very sexually charged love affair. It’s a very adult, forgiving love affair. I sort of look at them as the Macbeths. So their Macbethian love story plays out over the rest of the season and of course with the Macbeths what they really want is power. So it’s really about them trying to save not only the coven but themselves and ride off into the sunset together. But the question is: Can they do that?
Grace Gummer (The Newsroom) was one of the vintage Robichaux witches. Will we see her again?
No, she just auditioned. I thought she was terrific.
This episode once again showed Zoe turning more strong and confident and maybe dark. Is she going more dark?
I think all of them are going dark. In this episode, you’ve got Zoe really dark, you’ve got Queenie really dark, I think you’re gonna see Nan getting really dark, and Madison comes back incredibly dark. Misty Day is the only one so far who hasn’t gone dark but she needs to.
She’s got edge.
She’s edgy but I think she has a kinder heart than all the rest of them.
Madison is resurrected and next week is a big episode for her. She can’t seem to find anything to make her feel alive.
Yes it’s sort of like she’s dead and she can’t feel anything so we’re really are making a leap and saying she’s a poster person for the millennial generation. Unsatisfied. Entitled. Nothing makes them happy. She’s been on the other side and in her mind there’s nothing. So more than ever she really just realizes that the only way to exist is to satisfy all of your urges instantly. So she was deadly before but now she’s even more deadly. Of course she has to get her revenge on Fiona.
Marie has hired Hank to hunt down the Salem witches. Will we see how they first met?
Yes.
And will Cordelia learn the truth about Hank’s identity?
Oh yes. It has to come out at some point.
Obviously, Spalding has been caught and tortured by the girls. What’s next for him?
The Spalding story is obviously he’s crossed a line. He didn’t kill Madison but what he did to defile her body. So the girls find that out and have to take revenge on him. They have to make him pay for his dastardly necrophilia and bad fashion outfits.
Will Kyle ever get to speak?
Yes.
What else can you say about next week’s “The Dead?”
That I think is a very meditative episode. It’s very much about Madison and Zoe and Kyle. There’s a lot of great stuff about Queenie and Marie Laveaux and the unexpected friendship with LaLaurie. We dwell a lot on charaacters in that episode who are dead and are brought back and what their inner lives are and what their futures are.

Next episode being about Madison

[Jamesy]

My views on the latest episode:

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I felt it was a bit 'meh' to be honest. The Axeman story is rather boring and doesn't interest me in the slightest. It feels like Ryan Murphy has just brought in the Axeman as it's a real story in New Orleans. I'd rather it just be left as it doesn't seem like it's a story that will do far. Axeman and Fiona hook up, the end. Not much you can do inbetween that.

Other than that it was good to see Madison back. I was very happy to see Misty Day back on the screen (I love Lily Rabe) and got to see a bit of naked Evan Peters... what more could you want?!

I hope next week steps up a gear. It was great on the whole although thw Axeman being brought in made this episode seem far worse than it really was.

Oh and just some speculation of my own, not a spoiler as such, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just in case my theories become reality. :P

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I was thinking about Misty Day and her resurrecting Myrtle Snow... and I was also thinking about Alexandra Breckenridge (Kaylee aka the girl who Hank shot in episode 5)... Alex is quite well known for her role in season one and I was thinking that her role may be a bit bigger in this season.

So, my theory... Misty Day tried to avoid Zoe asking her if she found her 'tribe' is the latest episode. Could Misty Day be in fact resurrecting all the 'good'/dead witches and forming her own tribe, one that could play a bigger role later in the series? I'm not sure how it will work but we know that Fiona will get caught out any moment with killing off witches and I can see there being some kind of Fiona versus the good witches versus Marie Laveau.

Saying that you never know where this show will lead with Ryan so time will tell.

[Tom4784]

It wasn't a great episode as it felt like it was all set up and no payoff, I reckon next week will be good though.

[Braden]

On a positive; I do love the intro bits

Suffragettes and witches are an amazing, unlikely mix that would only happen on this show, and I love the distorted music they play just before the titles.

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I want to see another LaLaurie flashback, Kathy's acting in those is phenomenal.

[Ammi]

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..I already felt that the plot was feeling a little fragmented sometimes but that it would all pull together and now we have the axeman as well..more or less a whole episode devoted to him, which doesn't make sense atm but his character must be quite vital to the plot...hmmmm...

[Smithy]

What I don't get is

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If the Axeman's spirit has been there that whole time why did he wait until he was promised to be released before he manifested himself, why didn't he do it before?

And why wasn't madison a ghost and they just brought her back like that

Seems like a massive plot hole

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Smithy

What I don't get is

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If the Axeman's spirit has been there that whole time why did he wait until he was promised to be released before he manifested himself, why didn't he do it before?

And why wasn't madison a ghost and they just brought her back like that

Seems like a massive plot hole

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..yeah, I didn't understand why he hadn't done it before either...but the whole thing with the axeman seemed completely random, like they had thought of a character and someone to play him, so they just popped it into the storyline, but it makes no sense..and anyway, the thing about jazz music isn't relevant to the time now, so is he just going to kill everyone because they don't listen to jazz....?.....

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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..yeah, I didn't understand why he hadn't done it before either...but the whole thing with the axeman seemed completely random, like they had thought of a character and someone to play him, so they just popped it into the storyline, but it makes no sense..and anyway, the thing about jazz music isn't relevant to the time now, so is he just going to kill everyone because they don't listen to jazz....?.....

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I think he's gonna go after the witches who he's been around the longest in that house (so fiona and any of her coven that are still around)

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My feelings towards the Axeman:

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Smithy

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I think he's gonna go after the witches who he's been around the longest in that house (so fiona and any of her coven that are still around)

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..the other thing I didn't understand was how was Cordelia so helpless against him, with her powers..she didn't even seem to try to use them against him...

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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..the other thing I didn't understand was how was Cordelia so helpless against him, with her powers..she didn't even seem to try to use them against him...

Do we even know what her power is?

Apart from this new sight thingy she seems a bit useless

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Do we even know what her power is?

Apart from this new sight thingy she seems a bit useless

..but if she's a witch, she must have them and just chooses not to use them, probably because she doesn't want to be anything like Fiona...I would have thought that they would just 'emerge' when she was in danger, it was really frustrating that she couldn't seem to do anything...

[Tom4784]

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The Axeman is just the filler historical character storyline of this season like the Black Dahlia storyline in S1 or Anne Frank in s2. I imagine he'll be cast aside easily in the next episode and swiftly forgotten.

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Originally Posted by Dezzy

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The Axeman is just the filler historical character storyline of this season like the Black Dahlia storyline in S1 or Anne Frank in s2. I imagine he'll be cast aside easily in the next episode and swiftly forgotten.

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But he's in the preview...!

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by reece(:

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But he's in the preview...!

He'll probably die next ep or something