“American Horror Story: Coven” is currently wrapping up its amazeballs third season and Wednesday’s episode defied our expectations.
With no shortage of jaw-dropping and wince-inducing moments, the plot has gone in some gory places that we didn’t see coming.
Last week marked the show’s return following it’s mid-season hiatus and a number of story lines that we were aching to know more about were neglected. Thankfully, episode 11 answered some of our burning questions.
Summary
The women are attending Nan’s funeral in their signature black mourning attire, when Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) shows up dragging Madame Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates) on a leash.
Somehow, she has managed to put her once detached head back on, seamlessly.
Before you know it, she’s serving the women of the coven as a….well…slave. She also acts as a nanny for the infant Marie stole.
But just when you thought that maybe MDL was shedding her murderous racist persona, she ties up and tortures an injured gardener.
Sadly, even though the entire house is filled with women who have super powers, none of them realize the immortal bigot has vanished with their black gardener.
She takes him to Spalding’s (Dennis O’Hare) old room and begins to mutilate him. I must confess, I had a throw pillow in front of my face for much of this… so I can’t say much more. But, let’s just saw it was pretty AWFUL.
Spalding appears to MDL in ghost-form and tells her that he admires her “art” (yikes!). He informs her that if she longs for release, he can help her achieve it.
The slave torturer says that she regrets drinking the potion that made her immortal.
The ever so wise Spalding tells her that in exchange for a doll from 1895 (remember how much he loves having tea parties with dolls?), he’ll give her pills that will make Marie (Angela Bassett) mortal, so that she can kill her.
Once he gets the doll, Spalding, gives MDL Benadryl (LMFAO!!!), which she puts into Marie’s drink — seriously under the impression that this will somehow immortalize her — and stabs her right in the heart.
She obviously has no clue that the pills are just for allergies until she discovers that Marie has not died. She literally pulls the knife out of her chest and comes for MDL.
Spalding steps in and hits Marie over the head. We then realize Spalding’s plan the whole time was to knock Marie out, so he could take her stolen baby. This is unsettling on so many levels.
