Let your nightmares begin, ladies and gentlemen, for American Horror Story's third season, Coven, is here! American Horror Story's first season took us to Los Angeles where we explored the "Murder House," a home that was filled with dark secrets and violent ghosts. Season 2, Asylum, took us into Briarcliff, an asylum for the mentally insane, and explored themes like Nazis, satanic possession, Catholicism, and serial killers. And now, season 3, Coven, takes us to present day New Orleans, and that is where my recap and review will begin.
SPOILERS BELOW
One never fully knows what to expect when a new season of American Horror Story begins. The trailers just give us a taste on what is to come, but never release too much plot detail. That's one of the great things about this show is that you never know what to expect. We open with a scene in New Orleans in the 1830's with the fantastic Kathy Bates as Madame LaLaurie, a wealthy slave owner who tortures her slaves and even uses their blood as a face cream. So yeah, she's a sadist. Her performance just from this intro makes me want to just give her all the possible awards she'll likely be nominated for.
After this eerie and perfect introduction, we are thrown into present day New Orleans where we meet Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) who accidentally kills her boyfriend because she finds out she kills anybody she has sexual relations with. She's shipped to a boarding school for witches where she meets Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe), Madison (Emma Roberts) and Nan (Jamie Brewer), all witches in training. It's a dark time for witches however, as with social networking it's easier and easier to spread information and record things, so the witches need to learn to keep themselves out of trouble.
I don't want to go much more into the plot, but for a premiere episode, I think this is the best that American Horror Story has ever done. It sets the tone so perfectly right away. It's dark and creepy for sure, but it's also probably one of the lightest seasons as well. The content is still disturbing like always, but there's plenty of dark comedy here to lighten it all up.
In the first episode, we've already seen torture, racism, death, a witch burning, stem cell research, date rape, murder, and some history come to life. It's a magical show that throws everything at you right away. There is also not one acting performance that I could pick out as bad. If all the actors continue to pursue their characters with the intensity they put into the first episode, I see a lot of Emmy nominations for the show. So the first episode, I can solidly say, has set the tone for a phenomenal season.
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