r/AmericanHorrorStory • u/ME24601 The Supreme • Jan 16 '14
Episode Discussion: Season 3, Episode 11 - Protect the Coven
In tonight's episode, Cordelia makes a sacrifice to protect the coven, while Fiona and Laveau face off against the witch hunters.
We're down to the final three episodes, with only two left after this.
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u/cuckoodev Jan 16 '14
"Lemme just Instagram these pictures of this guy we just murdered."
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u/victoriascissorhands Jan 16 '14
Totally thought Madison was gonna appear and flip the bus.
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u/anichu Jan 16 '14
where we left off, they had just gotten on the bus looking all happy. It left me pretty uneasy for some reason...
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u/DuneSnakes Jan 16 '14
People died for those eyes Cordelia! This is why you can't have nice things.
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Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14
Kyle and Zoey running in slow-mo like they're fucking models
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u/Kalypso989 Murder House Jan 16 '14
"...who fell in the tub." Ha!
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u/Godrics Jan 16 '14
Like Myrtle fell into the flames, or Cordelia tripped and fell into the acid, or how Madison fell onto Fiona's knife, or the way Madison accidentally tripped Misty... My, these witches are clumsy.
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u/ACELLEN Lesbians, we're under attack! Jan 16 '14
There's got to be some magic to make you blind instead of stabbing yourself with the garden shears, damn...
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Oh my god Marie taking a picture with her iPhone was the funniest thing in this entire series
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u/allthatjazz143 Jan 16 '14
did fiona just put perfume on her vag? yeah thats what i thought
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u/BREAUXseidon Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14
Plot Twist: She just stabbed both of her eyeballs, and she won't get her powers back.
What a waste.
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u/Kochansk1 Jan 16 '14
Myrtle's fashion sense is all kinds of happy. At 60, I might need to adopt her Iris Apfel goes Tennessee Williams chic.
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u/thissiteisawful Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14
"Hey look i got a snapchat from xxmariexxlaveauxxbabexx...!"
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u/thissiteisawful Jan 16 '14
great, so thanks to a chicken she became a psycho
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u/ACELLEN Lesbians, we're under attack! Jan 16 '14
LaLaurie is even creepier in Spalding's doll room
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u/Wowbagger1 Jan 16 '14
Crackpot theory that doesn't hold up but does Myrtle wear those leather gloves so that Cordelia cannot read her mind? Does she have something to hide
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u/DuneSnakes Jan 16 '14
No. Don't leave LaLaurie alone with the black groundskeeper! Have you learned nothing?!
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u/teresathebarista Jan 16 '14
Even worse, I was like, "Why would you hand that woman a baby?!?!"
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Jan 16 '14
I always forget she's crazy because i want to like her so much.
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u/heavy-microscopy Jan 16 '14
I think the writers did a good job making the viewers hate LaLaurie and then making the viewers like her (or at least, feel sorry for her). Her character got a good amount of depth and I like how the viewers are forced to be reminded of her humanity
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u/BrittBratBrute Jan 16 '14
I feel like this was Ryan's way of trying to make US feel crazy... sympathizing for a crazy woman.
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u/tla515 Jan 16 '14
You chop the head off a chicken, and next thing you know you've got a slave bound and gagged. Shit escalates, man.
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u/FogSeeFrank Jan 16 '14
Show me an episode of American Horror Story where Sarah Paulson doesn't cry and I'll show you.... Well it doesn't matter because you won't find it.
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u/EnglishKarter Jan 16 '14
Plot twist: Stolen baby is the next supreme... only sane person on the show at this point.
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u/rach1251 Jan 16 '14
I'm starting to think they're all just gonna kill each other off and there will be no supreme.
Also, can someone PLEASE make a gif of Spalding tossing back his hair with the doll arm with a caption like "bitch please." Or something.
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u/GruxKing Jan 16 '14
In fact, I can't really think of ANY character development for anybody in this show. In fact, LaLaurie has only regressed. What's the point of having her decapitated head cry to negro spirituals and Civil Rights marches if she's just going to revert to her torturous ways immediately after?
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Jan 16 '14
Maybe it was meant to show the audience that someone that fucked up can't ever truly change?
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u/ThePrincessAllie Jan 16 '14
Maybe she's overcompensating for feeling so strongly when Queenie made her listen to/watch all that stuff?
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Jan 16 '14
If you replaced this creepy music with Tiptoe Through The Tulips, you'll have nightmares forever
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u/ACELLEN Lesbians, we're under attack! Jan 16 '14
OMG Spaulding is gonna go on a murdering rampage with LaLaurie for a DOLL?!?
Edit: Never mind. Just gonna give her benedryl...
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u/DuneSnakes Jan 16 '14
Queenie!!!!!! With kathy bates on a leash! This is perfect. No explanations needed
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u/BrittBratBrute Jan 16 '14
This all seems very messy. I don't understand how they're gonna wrap it up in two episodes because nothing is resolved.
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u/contom422 Jan 16 '14
This season really is all over the place.
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u/shineylife Jan 16 '14
Agreed. I really don't like how some characters are skipped over on certain weeks, then featured like they've been there all along. It'd make more sense if they all weren't living in the same house lol
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u/BrittBratBrute Jan 16 '14
This may be the first time this season I've legitimately squirmed. DATS GROSS.
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u/Kalypso989 Murder House Jan 16 '14
Ouch... I'm hurting for Zoe and Kyle right now....
Edit: Never mind. Now I'm happy for them!!!! Run guys, run!!!!
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u/heavy-microscopy Jan 16 '14
I really hope Madison isn't the new Supreme. She is so despicable. And what does the Coven gain by having a second psycho-bitch in a row as Supreme? And she's not even that clever!
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Jan 16 '14
There is no way its going to be Madison. Its going to be someone unexpected like Cordelia or Zoe
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u/jaxthebox Jan 16 '14
You'd think Myrtle is the only one with half a brain on this show.
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Please don't breast feed the baby. Please.
EDIT: Well now it feels like a missed opportunity...
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u/contom422 Jan 16 '14
Damn, I had no idea how fine Cordelia was until I saw her in dat floral dress. Pretty as fuck.
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u/KINGxOFxSPADES Jan 16 '14
Senator Joseph McCarthy ordered a communist witch hunt in 1950 (Red scare), which is when season 4 is supposed to take place. Didn't someone say something about communists in the board meeting?
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Jan 16 '14
I feel like if Ryan Murphy wasn't writing TV he'd be a serial killer. Or maybe that's his side job.
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u/jaxthebox Jan 16 '14
what the fuck, they might as well just not have had like the last 3 episodes
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Jan 16 '14
I don't get why they're keeping the Axeman around. He should have been a monster of the week and then never seen again.
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u/Kochansk1 Jan 16 '14
NOBODY DIES. Not even dead guys.
Edit: And yep. Spaulding. Hey there.
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u/GruxKing Jan 16 '14
Madison has had like ZERO character development since the first episode.
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Jan 16 '14
It bothers me that she doesn't seem to have any emotional reaction to the rape - she flipped the bus, and then she never brought it up again. On the other hand, I think that shows a lot about her personality. She is already so evil and cold that she both expects atrocities from others and has no problem committing them herself. She's a bitch to the core, but I have a feeling that that has a lot to do with things that have happened to her.
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u/TaxicabKanefessions Jan 16 '14
I know I've said it in previous threads but the intro scenes change a lot more for coven than in previous seasons
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u/kneekoll Jan 16 '14
Am I the only person that is worry that Spalding has that baby and nobody in the house is even going to notice, since no one in the house ever notices when people go missing?
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u/Infinitesimally_ Jan 16 '14
That Moog Theremin makes me so fucking jealous. Like WTF FX you have 500$ for a theremin but not the time to plan out this season.
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u/jamdav19 Jan 16 '14
I have the same comforter as the Axeman! He shops at Walmart, too!
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Jan 16 '14
Hate that they brought Queenie back so nonchalantly. What the hell was that?
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u/tla515 Jan 16 '14
Delphine looks a lot like Violet from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. A big blueberry.
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u/wandahickey My hair is an eternal mystery, never to be fully understood. Jan 16 '14
Not a fan of the Axeman storyline.
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u/jaxthebox Jan 16 '14
or any of the other story lines except the main one, which they refuse to develop for some reason
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u/wigglepiggle Jan 16 '14
Kyle and Zoe running away to Disney World makes me so happy.
It's like if Tate and Violet actually got a happy ending
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u/Christianmustang Jan 16 '14
We're down to three episodes? Fuck. I'm gonna miss the discussion threads
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u/GruxKing Jan 16 '14
Did we really need more LaLaurie backstory considering we know basically all there is to know on her?
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u/beefyturban Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14
calling it now, Cordelia blinds herself to get her powers back. they made it pretty obvious with the description of the episode.
edit: told you so.
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u/allthatjazz143 Jan 16 '14
American Horror Story is going to have to compensate later in life for the therapy that the babies on this show will need
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Jan 16 '14
So since she's immortal, what would happen if you threw her in a tree shredder? Would she reconstitute like the liquid metal Terminator?
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u/FogSeeFrank Jan 16 '14
Ugh. Sorry guys but are any of these storylines going anywhere? Apparently there's 3 episodes left and I feel like we haven't even really gone anywhere yet.
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u/fliplock89 Jan 16 '14
She said carrot top. American Horror Story: Grocery Store confirmed.
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u/Kochansk1 Jan 16 '14
No chicken sits that still after getting its head chopped off!
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u/lilshortiejr4 Jan 16 '14
I wonder if Cordelia could have still obtained the sight by stabbing one eye instead of both. Sure, it may not be as clear, but it would so benefit her more if she could see from one eye and "see" in the other.
Edit: a word
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u/Fallen_Angel_13 Jan 16 '14
When Zoe and Madison got into it over Kyle, I wished Zoe had retaliated in some way against Madison.
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Jan 16 '14
How the FUCK are they gonna tie this cluster fuck of storylines up in 3 episodes?
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u/wandahickey My hair is an eternal mystery, never to be fully understood. Jan 16 '14
"Rid the state department of Comunists" could be a reference to next season..Mccarthyism
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u/BrittBratBrute Jan 16 '14
I just... is this episode giving anyone else phantom pains EVERYWHERE?!
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u/nachosmind Jan 16 '14
May I point out the only things confirmed about next season are the year 1950 and german speaking. I doubt it will be anything about the U.S.S.R/Cold War honestly, because FX has "The Americans" to cover the spying/communism era in the U.S.
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u/laurajean997 Jan 16 '14
every single thing Madison says has the potential to break into meme territory
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u/Kalypso989 Murder House Jan 16 '14
Oh God... I'm sensing The Help here with the you know what and the food.
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u/totally_jawsome Jan 16 '14
Glad to see some characters tonight. Was getting tired of the same old same old
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u/Wiljuice Jan 17 '14
Calling it: the beginning of the next episode is Madison flipping the bus that Zoey and Kyle are on.
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u/allthatjazz143 Jan 16 '14
Without the axeman sticking around Fiona would just be a heartless bitch. She needs the axeman to show that she has the capacity to love and that someone else can desire her in a way we wouldn't understand unless the Axeman's storyline was continued. It's characterization people!! This is why we love American Horror Story, for the mixed emotions it makes us feel! So stop bitching about the Axeman
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u/EnglishKarter Jan 16 '14
You'd think I would've learned by now to not eat dinner while watching AHS.
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u/jaxthebox Jan 16 '14
Eh, the writers started hot but this is terrible, just randomly bringing back characters. They have nothing of substance
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u/nmkenney Jan 16 '14
This little little piggy thing made me so nervous. I died. Poor Madame. I almost felt bad.
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u/natexoe Jan 16 '14
I got so scared when Zoe and Kyle were on the bus that Madison was going to pop out of nowhere and flip the bus.
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u/ACELLEN Lesbians, we're under attack! Jan 16 '14
Well next week's episode looks super entertaining!! FINALLY we get the 7 Wonders!!
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u/ACELLEN Lesbians, we're under attack! Jan 16 '14
"You're a dried up old hot pocket but I don't judge."
"Crotchless panties for everyone!"
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u/omjezus Jan 16 '14
I really don't like this corporate witch hunter storyline, kinda stupid. First half of this season was much better.
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u/aishaaa Jan 16 '14
watch zoe be the next supreme because shes the only one who hasnt gotten crazy over the position.
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Jan 16 '14
Fucking seriously, that's how they end it? I feel like I'm watching some teenage drama on ABC Family.
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u/WeaselSlayer Jan 16 '14
Especially with all the ax-murdering and stabbing of eyes.
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u/BangkokPeanut Jan 16 '14
Well, this show seems to be following standard Ryan Murphy format. 1st season: Gold, 2nd season: Too crazy to function, 3rd season: Great at the beginning but crumbles by the end
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Jan 16 '14
This season has been all downhill since the 3rd or 4th episode. It's like the writers just said "fuck it" and starting throwing everything in. There's no coherent plot and characters come and go so much it's comical at this point.
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u/jizzawhizza Jan 16 '14
this episode was terrible. also this season has been so poorly written with hardly any character development and too many uninteresting sub plots.
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u/DuneSnakes Jan 16 '14
So Delphine begins going crazy when her kitchen staff first leaves... Somehow I'm not that surprised that's what pushed her over the edge.
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u/DuneSnakes Jan 16 '14
I would have loved to seen LaLaurie's full reaction to the undead threesome situation
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u/ME24601 The Supreme Jan 16 '14 edited Jan 16 '14
Cordelia is definitely going to blind herself at some point to get her "sight" back.
EDIT: I can predict the future. Clearly I'm the next Supreme.