Did Makeup Make Jessica Lange, Fiona Good E Old Or Natural Age
The first hr of American Horror Story: Coven featured two escalating instances of homicidal telekinetic vengeance, a shot of the flayed skinless face up of an enslaved man being, the apparently quite painful transformation of a man into a minotaur, the deflowering of a virgin teenager, various forms of sexual assault (including two instances of brain-imploding vagina dentata), the apparent deaths of 3 main characters (i already resurrected), Jessica Lange sucking the life out of the dude from The Effect until he looked like the dude who chose poorly in Indiana Jones and the Terminal Crusade, the tantalizing possibility that witchcraft volition be a metaphor for Hurricane Katrina and the terrifying possibility that Hurricane Katrina will be a metaphor for witchcraft. All of this horror, and I oasis't even mentioned the Mary Todd Lincoln joke.
So it might sound weird to say that — compared to the previous iterations of American Horror Story — the first episode of Coven was a relatively (relatively) light affair, introducing a host of new characters played past familiar faces in circumstances that explicitly suggest a weirder Harry Potter with an all-woman cast set in Anne Rice's New Orleans. The premiere episode of flavour one's Murder House established the depressing marital miasma of Mrs. Coach Taylor and Naked Dylan McDermott; the opening hour of last year'due south Asylum thrust us into the terrifying titular crazy den, with the creeping shadows and gibbering idiots and — beloved god — the nuns. (Take it from this Catholic-educated schoolboy: Few species on this globe are scarier than nuns with New England accents.)
In both cases, the ascendant mood was of entrapment, of characters imprisoned by doomed relationships or scary houses or Society. And despite the parade of horrors in a higher place, the dominant mood of Coven'south starting time 60 minutes was the opposite of entrapment. Co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk were in globe-building mode, sketching out the sub-strata of Coven'south witchy shadow civilization and crafting a set of narrative/thematic rules for their vision of witchcraft. This being a Ryan Potato evidence, I expect all those rules volition be cleaved by next week. Male child, I'm glad this prove is back.
Let's run down what nosotros saw terminal dark:
Prologue: Madame and the Minotaur
The premiere opened with Kathy Bates hosting a lovely dinner party in her lovely house in lovely New Orleans in the yr 1834, an era when New Orleans was one of the largest and most prosperous cities in the U.s.a., with a near-majority of French speakers and a large population of free African Americans alongside a large population of slaves. Bates is playing Madame LaLaurie, an actual historical figure. On Coven, we met the Madame at a telling moment: Introducing her daughters to some wealthy club men. (She bodacious them that her daughters could make upwards for "what they lack in outer beauty.")
Shortly enough, LaLaurie is upstairs, applying some restorative bloood to her face up in a vain attempt to maintain her youth. "Just look at this waddle," she complained to her servant, "This blood's not fresh!" She had bigger bug. One of her daughters — the smirking 1, the ane who doesn't mind saying words similar boudoir in mixed company — was caught in flagrante delicto with a houseboy. For a moment, you might have thought this was forbidden passion. But no: The human being explained that he hadn't wanted anything to practice with the daughter, that he was promised to some other. (A recurring theme in all variations of American Horror Story is how objectification begets objectification: LaLaurie turns her daughter into a sex object for rich men, then the daughter uses a slave equally her personal sex object.)
LaLaurie took the homo up to her cranium, where we saw several slaves imprisoned, with bear witness of inconceivable torture covering their scarred and gore-splattered faces. For the poor soul who had the misfortune of being in the same room as her girl, she had a special penalization ready. She explained how much she loved the Greek myths, filled with "wonderful miraculous creatures." She had a balderdash'southward head put atop the homo. (I couldn't quite figure out if, in the process, she somehow magically fused the bull's head on top of his body — a la The Haunted Mask.) When the outset cast teaser for Coven debuted final calendar month, I mistakenly causeless that the minotaur on the porch was a metaphor, presumably for something sexy and transgressive. (Think: The "white nun" from last year'due south Asylum posters.) But no, it turns out that Coven really has a minotaur.
The episode returned to the 1830s afterward on, when the Minotaur-human being's lady beloved (played by Angela Bassett with a mysterious regal bearing that practically screamed "I'yard not in this episode very much, but I'm going to exist very of import") brought a love potion to the Madame that wound up being poison. Bassett regarded her lover with sadness and pity. Presumably, Bassett's character has survived into the modernistic era. Did her lover? Free-floating Season Premiere Theory Question Alert: If there is a Minotaur, should we presume that in that location will also at some point exist a Maze?
Adjacent: Exist Gentle Y'all're a Witch, 'Arry
After a new opening title sequence, which y'all can watch here, we flashed forwards to the modern day, and to Taissa Farmiga, returning to the AHS-verse after sitting out Asy lum. She's playing a girl named Zoe Benson, and we met her in the midst of losing her virginity. She led a boy up to her bed, promising that her parents weren't home. The boy whispered sweet teenaged nothings in her ear: "Sucks existence someone's commencement." Ah, romance! He promised not to hurt her. Within a few minutes, he was haemorrhage out of every facial orifice. The doctors called information technology a encephalon aneurysm. Zoe'south mom knew that it was something more than.
Zoe, you come across, is a witch. In the world of Coven, witches as a race accept been around for centuries at least. Witch-power seems to be passed along in roughly the same genetic fashion equally magic in Harry Potter or the mutant gene in X-Men. Some people accept it, and some people don't. (Deadpanned Zoe: "My cousin Amanda is simply bulimic.") A flashback to the Salem trials established that witches have been persecuted since the dawn of the American idea; in Zoe'south telling, the actual witches were too smart for the Salem goons. And so, while innocent women were executed, the witches fled south to New Orleans.
The Salem witches announced to have some kind of omnipresent law-enforcement organization, represented here byFrances Conroy as a mysterious ruby-red-haired lady with an elaborate cigarette. Her name is Myrtle Snow, but we didn't meet very much of her: She shepherded Zoe to Miss Robichaux's University for Infrequent Young Ladies (flanked by a brigade of bald men in black), before disappearing into the wind.
Although the Academy has an impressive history of educational activity/protecting young witches, information technology appears to have fallen on lean times. There are simply 3 other students at the school, likewise Zoe, who introduced themselves past terrorizing her with Eyes Wide Shut masks. They are:
Madison Montgomery: A fictionalized version of your least favorite hard-partying starlet, beamed in from the Feb 12 2007 issue of Newsweek. She likes to party and hates directors. In a cursory flashback, we saw how she wound upward at Miss Robichaux'due south: Madison was doing some kind of film/photograph shoot based around Marilyn Monroe; the managing director mouthed off; she used her emergent telekinetic abilities to crush his head with a light. Basically Carrie White combined with Miley Cyrus at the Video Music Awards.
Queenie: Played by Precious Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe, Queenie has past far the most interesting power on the show. if she inflicts pain on herself — like, say stabbing herself with a fork — she tin target that pain at someone else. (We saw her perform this trick on Madison.) If I watched correctly, she herself does non feel that pain, which calls up all kinds of intriguing possibilities. Does her power only work if she causes the hurting? Or, say, if you were to punch her, could she make you feel it? And conspicuously doesn't this mean that one episode of Coven will end with her pointing a gun at her caput as a threat to someone else?
Nan: Returning from AHS's get-go flavor, Jamie Brewer once again plays a mysterious gal whose apparent mental handicap belies the fact that she is smarter and wiser than every other character on this show. Literally, this fourth dimension: Nan has the power of clairvoyance and dropped all kinds of foreshadowing on the characters, most particularly that Zoe is going to meet "a strange and unexpected beloved."
Zoe got a quick tutorial in the Academy's history from the headmistress, a graphic symbol played by Sarah Paulson. Her proper name is Cordelia Foxx, which sounds similar the name of the heroine of a popular serial of '70s sci-fi porn spoofs and/or the name of the evil stepmother tyrant from the Hunger Games YA trilogy ripoff that someone is writing right at present. According to Cordelia, the school was founded by a suffragette in 1868 — information that explicitly ties Miss Robichaux's to the history of feminism, while also tying the school's rising to the antebellum period. Witches, apparently, are a dying breed: Many families take called to simply stop procreating, which could be a very fantasy-genre way of saying "More women are choosing not to accept children." Some other important signal: Although each witch has their ain special power, every generation as well gives rise to a single super-powerful witch "who embodies countless gifts." That uber-witch is known equally a Supreme, giving hope to those of us who are praying that Coven features a dream sequence where Jessica Lange leads the bandage in a rendition of "Terminate! In the Name of Love."
One terminal key betoken brought upwards past Cordelia: She believes that the stated goal of Miss Robichaux's is "Not Suppression. Command." One imagines that the cryptic human relationship between those two ideas will be central to this series. The necessity for control was expressed by the fable of a Cajun girl named Misty Solar day, played by returning AHS actor and Ryan Murphy's preferred Anthropomorphic Madonna-Whore Complex Lily Rabe. Misty discovered that she had the power of Resurgence, the ability to bring a animal back from the edge of death. She was burned at the pale, although she promised her tormentors that they would terminate in flames. (Bated: Since Lily Rabe is credited as a regular, presumably she will somehow use the ability of Resurgence on herself — which could also explain how another dead regular will return from the grave. Volition she find her way to Miss Robichaux's? Will she return to life with visions from beyond? Since there is at present a character who basically has resurrection powers, does this mean that Coven could potentially kill off all of its characters multiple times? END OF Bated.)
"Our lives are always at chance," concluded Cordelia. She represents a path of quiet fortitude, of hiding her gifts behind a veneer of normalcy. This is not the simply path available to the immature women of Miss Robichaux'southward.
NEXT: At Lange Last Honey
Mirror Mirror
But allow's get down to brass tacks hither, fellow viewers. This isAmerican Horror Story, and in that location accept been like five whole scenes without a rockstar Jessica Lange line reading. Sensing our dismay, the AHS producers pulled the "Lange Lever," which they keep in the writers' room adjacent to the Quinto Panic Button and Adam Levine'southward severed arm. Lange is playing Fiona Goode, which sounds like the name of the badass heroine from a blaxploitation thriller whose tagline is "Nobody's Badder than Goode." Fiona took a meeting with a hotshot doctor-type played by procedural guest-star Ian Anthony Dale, who showed off a youth serum that he's been working on. He fed the youth serum, "RM-47," to a rodent monkey named Allegra, who speedily rediscovered a spring in her step. Said Fiona, in what has to be a deliberate echo of When Harry Met Sally, "I'll have what she's having."
Doctor IAD refused to give her medicine that was still in the experimental stage. Fiona reminded him that her late husband's coin was financing his experiments. CUT TO: Fiona, dancing to "In-A-Gadda-da-Vida," snorting cocaine and staring at herself in the mirror like the Queen in Snow White. Medico IAD swung past to inform her that he was cutting her off the youth medicine. In return, she started to seduce him, before throwing him confronting the wall using telekinesis, before sucking the life out of him. Women, amiright? (Bated: I presume that the working title of this season was American Horror Story: Women, Amiright? END OF ASIDE.) That human action of life-sucking appeared to make her a little younger, thought not enough: She punched the mirror, unhappy with the face looking dorsum at her.
So Fiona wants to be young once again; maybe she fifty-fifty wants to live forever. (Again: You have to wonder how Misty Twenty-four hour period might factor into Fiona's plans in the futurity, bold Misty can cure herself of her current "being dead" illness.) Merely Fiona isn't all vanity. She caught the offset flying out to Miss Robichaux's subsequently hearing near Misty'due south death. She had some unkind words for Cordelia, who she discovered in a greenhouse making some kind of bizarre cocktail for herself. Turns out that Cordelia is Fiona's daughter…and Fiona is not very happy with her life choices. "The simply child of the Supreme," she said, "You could exist ruling the world."
But Fiona also disagrees with Cordelia philosophically. Cordelia wants to hide in the shadows. "In that location are no shadows anymore," explained Fiona, noting that witchcraft in the era of Facebook and Twitter is ane misstep away from becoming a viral freakshow. She announced that she would exist running things at Miss Robichaux'southward, leading Cordelia to say, "When are you gonna dice, and terminate ruining my life?" So mother-daughter relations are complicated, is what nosotros're getting the sense of here. (ASIDE: Although the history of feminism is very much on Coven's heed, I wonder if Cordelia and Fiona are meant to more by and large represent two perspectives on "otherness" in order: Cordelia advocating for "normalizing" and integration, while Fiona demands to be recognized as The Other. Or, more to the bespeak: She wants her Otherness to go the new normal. When she talks about "ruling the world," is she being figurative or literal? Cease OF Bated.)
Party People
Madison wanted to party. She pulled Zoe along to a frat party hosted by the boys of Tau Omega Alpha, which is not a real fraternity just which did show upwards on Arrested Devel opment. (When rendered in Greek letters, it looks like TΩΑ, which looks a bit like T&A. The point is, now we accept proof that American Horror Story takes place in the same fictional universe as Arrested Development.) In omnipresence were the boys from Kappa Blastoff Gamma (which in Greek letters is KAΓ, which looks like…well, zippo. Speculation welcome!) Heading up the fratboy brigade was AHS loverboy and future son-of-Magneto Evan Peters, whose name here is Kyle. He agreed to exist the sober monitor for the evening, apparently a requirement since the boys are currently on probation with the administration. Part of the problem seemed to exist a skeevy drunkard played past Grey Damon, who looks similar what happens when Liam Hemsworth discovers Jägermeister. (Which I mean as a compliment.)
The party itself was an inviting nightmare — props to Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who directed many of last season's all-time episodes and who gave the Coven opener lots of fish-eye lens surrealism. The fratboys took notice of Madison'south inflow, only Kyle merely had eyes for Zoe. In homage to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, they first spotted each other through an ice luge. They flirted. Zoe said, "I think frats are full of fascists." Kyle explained that he was there on scholarship. It was a prissy reunion of the two actors, last seen together every bit extremely twisted young lovers in AHS's first season. It would non last: Upstairs, Kyle's frat brothers were slipping Madison a roofie-laced cocktail.
What followed was one of the most flat-out disturbing sequences in American Horror Story'due south run: A vicious gang-rape, shown partially from Madison's perspective, equally the frat dudes filmed everything. Sent up past Zoe, Kyle discovered them and was horrified, chasing them out of the party every bit Zoe tried to comfort Madison. Within of the frat bus, the boys tried to get their stories straight, deleting the videos from their phones and knocking out Kyle when he furiously attacked them. Every bit they collection away, Zoe looked on in horror. So Madison walked out and used her powers to flip the motorbus over. If this flavour is indeed about a kind of Cordelia/Fiona dichotomy — absorption vs. revolution, basically — we know which side Madison would come up down on.
NEXT: Nicolas Cage, of form Aftermath: The Prologue Ends
The local news was buzzing over the crash that claimed the lives of 7 fraternity boys and severely injured 2 of them. Madison seemed unaffected, both past the trauma she suffered and the trauma she caused. New schoolmaster Fiona seemed to agree with her. "The world's non gonna miss a lot of a—holes in Ed Hardy shirts," she said. But she marked her territory past tossing Madison across the room and announcing a change of command. "No more than sitting effectually hither at Hogwarts," said Fiona, announcing that they would be taking a mandatory field trip with a mandatory blackness-clothes uniform policy.
Fiona wanted to take the girls to the one-time headquarters of what she called "an culling coven," implying that the witching world has had several factions throughout history with disagreeing philosophies. But Nan led them into Madame LaLaurie's quondam business firm. After Fiona performed a quick not-the-droids-you're-looking-for mind trick, the tour guide gave them a gratuitous tour of the building, explaining how the Madame would make a special revivifying drink for herself. (The recipe called for pancreas.) This is when we caught up with the story of Angela Bassett and the Poisoned Honey Potion. This is also when nosotros learned that Madame LaLaurie'due south one-time house was once owned by "the guy from Face/Off," aka Nicolas Muzzle, who starred in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Telephone call New Orleans, which I'chiliad henceforth going to consider a prequel to Coven. Meanwhile, Nan led Fiona across the street, maxim that the lady of the house was buried in that location.
Zoe visited the hospital, hoping to find that her boy-trounce Kyle was i of the two surviving boys. That would have made sense, since Evan Peters is nominally a atomic number 82 this flavor. But no: Kyle appears to have died, unconscious in the crashed double-decker. Instead, the survivors included the Evil Roofie Son of a Bowwow. "Shoulda been you lot," said Zoe, who started soliloquizing in a Meredith Grey Voiceover. "The globe isn't rubber for a girl like me," she said. "Might as well put this curse to some utilize." And, in a scene loaded with all kinds of twisted thematic power, she raped the rapist to decease. (ASIDE: This scene — and some elements of Zoe's characterization — reminded me of the overlooked horror gem Teeth, the disturbing and funny pic about a girl coming of age surrounded past dudes who actually shouldn't mess with her. Cease OF Aside.)
Zoe'south unmarried-episode arc from scared neophyte to twisted avenger is bear witness that all the ambient globe-building in Coven hasn't slowed down the hyper-accelerated American Horror Story plot train. Which ways this is a good fourth dimension for a Flavor Question Theory Lightning Round: In the skewed Potterverse of Coven, is Zoe our "Harry" figure, a newcomer to the shadow world who is going to become hugely important — mayhap even the Supreme? Or is she meant to be an audition-surrogate every-person getting pulled in diverse directions by the factionalism of the Coven — someone more equivalent to Kip in Asylum?
Meanwhile, Fiona brought some workmen to dig in the spot where Nan indicated…and out of a coffin came Madame LaLaurie, very much live (or possibly "alive") and looking extremely dislocated. "Come up on, Mary Todd Lincoln," said Fiona. "I'll buy you a beverage."
So did Angela Bassett fail to impale Madame LaLaurie? Or did she desire her imprisoned? Is Madame LaLaurie a witch, or just witch-adjacent? How does Madame LaLaurie'south agony to stay young friction match up with Fiona'south urge for the aforementioned — and will that desire motivate their actions this season, or are they up to something even crazier? Where is the minotaur? Where is Patti LuPone? Does Denis O'Hare's butler Spaulding really not accept a natural language? Is there really going to be a threesome? Is Coven going to retroactively claim that other famous and infamous women throughout history were witches? Who volition exist the new Supreme?
Fellow viewers, what did you think of the Coven premiere? How did information technology compare to Murder Firm and Asylum? Can you e'er have too much fish-center lens?
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