American Horror Story: Coven Character Reveals and Plot Hints. Share. We've known for some time that Season 3 would center on witches and feature a location where, as he said, . Bates and Lange were set to portray mortal enemies who had once been best friends. Oh, and we knew that production would take place in New Orleans. Executive producer Tim Minear was joined by cast members Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett at today's TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, where they teased a few more details about what we can expect from AHS: Coven. The panel jumped off with a genuine moment of hilarity when the actors were asked to say, whatever they were allowed to, about their characters. Paulson and Minear talked over one another as they tried to sort out what they could, and could not, reveal. American Horror Story (2011. When Zoe, Queenie and Nan use a ouija board to find out what happened to Madison, they awaken the spirit of a long-dead serial killer, the Axeman. American Horror Story: Coven is the third season of Ryan Murphy's acclaimed anthology series. It follows a group of girls who are witches, and, as such. Critics Consensus: A noteworthy ensemble cast combined with creepy storytelling and campy, outrageous thrills make American Horror Story. Home Top Box Office Tickets & Showtimes DVD & Streaming TV. American Horror Story (2011? Login Show HTML View more styles User Polls Favorite TV Genres Emmys Showdown: 'American Crime' vs 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Nerdiest looking. RELATED: American Horror Story Stars: Then & Now American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The third season, American Horror Story: Coven, received positive reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 81. Watch the new trailer for 'Coven' here: Suggest a correction. There is no forgetting the violent history of racism in this. Kathy Bates Will Play an 1830s Killer on American Horror Story: Coven By Margaret Lyons Follow @margeincharge Jessica Lange will play a witch. Angela Basset will play a voodoo queen. American Horror Story: Coven: Way to bring back a serial killer, girls! Zoe, who wanted to get to the bottom of Madison's death. Would you like to view this in our US edition? Is Everywhere This content is available customized for our international audience. That cat's out of the bag.. Okay. The character names were also unveiled; two of which were quite notable. Kathy Bates plays Madame La. Laurie (as rumored) and Angela Bassett Marie Laveau. Legends of New Orleans: For those who are unfamiliar, La. Laurie is an infamous figure in New Orleans lore. A Louisiana- born socialite, she was said to be a serial killer who tortured, and though it was not proven, many say murdered, her slaves. Bassett's Laveau was a renowned Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo in New Orleans. The plot is indeed thickening. Murphy had said that Bates' character was, . There are very few female serial killers, and La. Laurie, if lore and legend is to be believed, was one of the worst. Who have offered to show me a few things. She and Lange may make a field trip of it, though. Lange's (Ageless?) Witch: Lange and Paulson's character names were a bit more generic. Lange is set to play Fiona and Paulson, her daughter, Cordelia. Both Paulson and Minear did confirm that there may be some hidden meaning in Cordelia's name, though, as in a reference to the parental relationship in Shakespeare's King Lear. In the play, Cordelia is Lear's most beloved daughter, and she near- worships her father. But when she refuses to cater to his ego and . However, my guess is the first, that at least a few of the characters are ageless, timeless, magical beings. There's these two different kinds of witches in our world,? Or is it possible that only some are truly magical, while others (Bates perhaps?) are not, and are, as such, driven to malevolent acts in an attempt to capture some of what comes so naturally to others? Just speculating here, Bates could just be an evil, evil witch. Or simply an evil human. It does sound as though there will be some kind of war in play, though. And it feels like it will be witch against witch, in a battle that may have begun with those trying to suppress all magical beings. Within that idea, the idea of minority groups sort of going after each other and doing the work of the larger culture for the larger culture. There's also a very strong theme of family and specifically mothers and daughters. Though, I for one, have found that each season was peppered with a healthy dose of levity. Speaking for myself, the Season 3 debut simply cannot get in my eyeballs fast enough. As to the remainder of the cast, it was revealed yesterday that Alexandra Breckenridge, who played young Moira opposite Frances Conroy in Season 1, is set to return. She joins returning and new. American Horror Story: Coven (Series). It follows a group of girls who are witches, and, as such, have unique supernatural powers. They attend a small school for girls like them in New Orleans, and must deal with the trappings of what inevitably happens when unstable teenagers are given immense destructive power. Things only become more complicated when the Supreme, an incredibly powerful witch with all of their powers and much disdain for the human race, decides to move in and teach them how to defend themselves in the wake of a modern- day witch burning. The story proper begins in the 1. New Orleans socialite Delphine La. Laurie, who is working to marry her daughters off to wealthy men. She tries to make herself younger using blood, and puts her slaves through horrific torture, sewing their mouths shut and using them in Satanic rituals. One of the slaves she tortures is the lover of New Orleans voodoo queen Marie La. Veau, who enacts brutal revenge on La. Laurie. We then fast- forward to the modern day and a teenage girl named Zoe Benson whose boyfriend dies during sex. The authorities chalk it up as a brain aneurism, but her family explains that she was actually the one who killed him, albeit unintentionally. They are actually from a line of witches. Sometimes the powers skip a generation, but Zoe was not so fortunate, and now must travel to the above- mentioned school in order to learn how to control her abilities. Aborted Arc: Delphine has a slow redemption arc through her friendship with Queenie which seems to come to a head with her weeping with emotion while being forced to watch movies about black oppression to try and force her to empathize with people of color but right afterwards she goes back to cutting people up. Advertised Extra: The Minotaur. After being featured in almost all of the trailers, posters, and spots, the character had only brief appearances in three episodes before being revived in the present and then killed by Fiona , then disappearing from the show. The same can be said to Kaylee, who was killed almost immediately. Alas, Poor Villain: It's hard not to feel sorry for The Axe- Man after he has his heart broken by Fiona and kills her out of rage. And despite the fact he did exactly what the coven wanted to happen, they end up killing the man anyway while he's defenseless and still suffering from his breakdown. Gets more to a head when you find out it was a memory implanted from her to fake her own death to find out whom the next Supreme was. Fiona. She finally has a heartwarming conversation with her daughter before dying as they embrace. And then it's revealed that she's going to spend all of eternity locked away inside a cabin at the mercy of the Axe- Man. All Abusers Are Male: Averted. At least three non- witch women are caught abusing or torturing men. Fiona has a history of verbally abusing and neglecting Cordelia. Alpha Bitch: Madison. Taken Up to Eleven by Fiona. Ancient Conspiracy: The Witch- hunters claim their organization predates the Salem Witch Trials. And the Adventure Continues: The series ends with Cordelia revealing the existence of witches to the world, leading the student body of Madame Robihcaux's Academy to multiply many times over. Anyone Can Die: Zig- Zagged at first. While the show had no problem killing off the characters, quite a few of them came Back from the Dead, thanks to Misty Day. By the end of the season, only Cordelia, Queenie, Zoe and Kyle are alive. As Herself: Stevie Nicks as Stevie Nicks. The Artifact: Evan Peters. It's pretty obvious the writers felt obligated to hang onto him, since he'd been a regular cast member since season 1, but they seemed to have pretty much nothing to do with him for this season, since the story revolved entirely around female characters. So, he spent most of the season suffering from severe brain damage, and we see him about once an episode to remember that, yes, he's still on the show. Artistic License . If any such mob had formed in 1. New Orleans and attacked a fabulously wealthy woman and her family (of aristocratic French pedigree, no less) in the heart of New Orleans' most upper- class districts, the consequences would have been very dire indeed, but not for La. Laurie and her family. Still, justified in that Marie Laveau has magic. What's even more ironic about this situation is that, in Real Life, when the people of New Orleans discovered Madame La. Laurie's gross violations of the Code Noir (which governed the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and continued to have social, if not legal, force in Louisiana after it was acquired by the United States, and which expressly forbade torture and mutilation of slaves) a white mob formed and ransacked her mansion. Of course, then the tortured slaves were taken tojailand made available for public viewing. Aside from a cross incorporated into her throne, the Marie of Coven doesn't display any religious convictions. The Axe- Man of New Orleans really did publicly threaten to kill someone in a house that was not playing Jazz on March 1. However, in the show he was killed by the Coven that morning and that explains his sudden disappearance. In reality, he didn't commit a murder that day, but did commit three more attacks afterwards before disappearing. Artistic License . He isn't even a Death God. This is particularly bizarre because Samedi is usually the only Loa that shows up in Hollywood Voodoo, and Legba was dressed like Samedi in this depiction. Why they didn't just make him Samedi is anyone's guess. Asshole Victim: Delphine La. Laurie. The frat boy who led the gang rape of Madison, and the other rapists. For some, Madison herself. Two poachers killing gators in the second episode. One is also implied to have being a part of Misty Day's murder. Kyle's mother, Alicia. The flashback lynch mob, who get their comeuppance and then some. Joan Ramsey is forced to drink bleach by Nan. And as of the finale, Fiona. Back for the Dead: Fiona, who comes back in the finale after apparently dying in . It's heartbreaking, but at the same time, it's hard not to laugh when Myrtle attempts to drown her out by continuing to play her theremin. Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Immediately after the acid attack, Cordelia still has her eyelashes and sculpted eyebrows. Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Stevie Nicks, . Myrtle Snow is certain Leonardo da Vinci was a warlock, though it's never been proven. Betty and Veronica: Invoked when Nan and Madison greet the cute new boy next door in their own ways. Madison: What are you hoping to get with that cake? The Big Easy: The primary setting. The only supernatural element the city is associated with missing is vampires. Bittersweet Ending: Ultimately averted, in contrast to the other AHS seasons. Cordelia is the Supreme and leads the Coven into a golden age; Fiona gets her comeuppance; and Zoe and Queenie become the new Council. What might dip this into bittersweet territory is that Myrtle is executed for her murder of the corrupted witch's council, but she demanded it for the sake of Cordelia, and was happy to oblige. Misty also got stuck in Hell during the Seven Wonders test, killing a frog and reviving it on a loop. Also, for the Madison fans out there, Madison was killed by Kyle. Big . It's the first word he says since his resurrection. Black Comedy: While American Horror Story has never been a stranger to dark humor, this season plays it up even more strongly than previous seasons. Blatant Lies: Fiona and Marie's explanation for Nan's death after they drowned her is pretty weak, to say the least. Fiona: . Nan is clairvoyant, which causes her to get severely affected by the cries of deceased souls, such as those that still haunt Madame La. Laurie's house, as well as the thoughts of other people she hears constantly. The whole concept of the Supreme; you get unlimited power, but also a shortened life, and you have to die in order for the next Supreme to come into her powers. Blind Seer: After Cordelia is blinded in an acid attack, she develops clairvoyant powers that let her see things she refused to accept. And this came after she got into an argument with Queenie that led to Queenie demonstrating her . Then later, she got telekinetically thrown into a wall after insulting Fiona, not knowing she was sassing the Supreme of witches. Not to mention her No- Holds- Barred Beatdown courtesy of Misty Day, Nan threatening to shove a lit cigarette into her vagina, and Fiona slitting her throat with a knife. Basically every female except Zoe attacks Madison at some point in the story. Burn the Witch!: A young girl, Misty Day, who did not understand her powers as a witch was actually hunted down by religious fundamentalists and burnt alive—in modern day America. This is what motivates Fiona to teach the girls how to defend themselves. Myrtle Snow was burned alive by her own coven. Twice.. But He Sounds Handsome: Mme. La. Laurie giving a guided tour of her mansion. Tourist: . And to a lesser degree, Madame La. Laurie. Call Back: In . An inter- seasonal one. In Asylum, Grace is murdered mid- sentence by an axe to the back. In Coven, Fiona is murdered mid- sentence by an axe to the back. So far, a character has said the lines . Nora Montgomery when she wanders her house and witnesses it change over the ages, Sister Jude after she's taken to her old office and finds it changed after the Church sold Briarcliff to the state and discovers that two years have passed, and Misty Day when she returns from being burned from the stake and encounters the alligator poachers. Came Back Wrong: Kyle and in a fashion, Madison. See Blessed with Suck entry for the reason. She later does manage to have sex with Kyle and Madison, since they are already dead(ish). Carpet- Rolled Corpse: Fiona murders Madison in cold blood and the body is promptly rolled up in a carpet by the butler/secret- keeper Spalding and taken away. The carpet is obviously missing afterward, which baffles the others in the house.
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