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Sunday, January 26, 2014

AHS Coven: They Had It Comin'

The title of tonight's episode of American Horror Story: Coven is "Go to Hell," and the hour is aptly named for sure. When we last saw the witches, Fiona and Marie took down the Delphi dudes, Stupid Cordelia re-blinded herself, Madison dumped Misty in a mausoleum, crazy ass Myrtle sent Zoe and Kyle on a bus to Orlando (good riddance), Madam LaLaurie literally became whole, and Precious Queenie returned to Miss Robichaux's. Here's where we are tonight:
 
Which Witch is Which?
In order to become the next Supreme, that individual has to master the seven wonders of witchcraft: telekinesis, concilium (mind control), transmutation, divination (my brain immediately went to Harry Potter), vitalum vitalis (resurrection), descensum (traveling between worlds), and pyrokinesis. Since none of these feats includes having a toxic vagina, I assume Zoe is out of the running...which is fine. I hope she enjoys Disneyworld.
 
Hysterical Blindness
Stupid Cordelia approaches Madison. She's looking for Misty, has touched all of Misty's belongings, but she still can't seem to "see" her. By grabbing Madison's shoulder, Cordelia begins to believe that she gouged her eyes out for no good effing reason. Way to go.
 
Later on in the day Fiona tries to bond with her daughter (again?). She's just had the finishing touches put on her portrait, which will hang near the paintings of the Supremes that have come before her.  She feels she only has a couple of weeks left and wants to say "goodbye." Fiona explains that once you have a power it never goes away...that the second sight will always be a part of Codelia. She just has to find it. Fiona then gives Cordelia her mother's necklace and they share a tender moment. Suddently...Cordelia's visions return. She sees Madison with a freshly slit throat on the stairwell, Zoe impaled against a wall, Misty dead on top of the piano, Precious Queenie with a stake through her mouth in a puddle of blood on the floor, and finally Cordelia sees herself with a bullet in her forehead. In this vision Fiona snatches the necklace off of Cordelia's body...
 
Cordelia's returned visions lead her to visit The Axeman. She tells him that after Fiona kills the witches she will leave him behind. Cordelia "saw" Fiona with a passport and a plane ticket which leaves two days from now. Funny that she never told The Axeman of the trip. He starts to sweat, he breathes heavy...he's pisssssed.
 
Returning to Ms. Robichaux's, Cordelia is on a roll. She tries to find Misty again and has luck this time while smelling Misty's clothes. That's kind of creepy but we'll go with it. She brings Precious Queenie with her to the cemetery and the voodoo witch uses telekinesis to get Misty out of the mausoleum. Misty is dead but no matter - Precious Queenie brings her back to life.  Yay!
 
Chicken Fried Scheming 
While we are on the topic of missing persons, Precious Queenie is now on a mission to locate Marie. Using descensum, she finds Papa Legba who still looks just as creepy as ever. They meet at Precious Queenie's former workplace, Chubbie's, where she tries to get some information about Marie. Papa Legba isn't helpful. He simply encourages Precious Queenie to get back to where she came from before the sun comes up. She tells him she's only been there 5 minutes, but he replies "time moves differently in hell."
 
When Precious Queenie awakens, Papa Legba is sitting next to her bed. While cocaine kept him chatting with Fiona, he apparently only needs hot chocolate with marshmallows to hang out with Precious Queenie. Interesting. She finds out that Madam LaLaurie cut Marie into a bunch of pieces and scattered them all over the city. Ha! Precious Queenie wants them both gone and Papa tells her that Madam LaLaurie cannot be killed while Marie lives (wait - did we already know that and I missed it?). The young witch counters by saying Marie can't very well hold up her end of the bargain while she's distributed throughout New Orleans. He seems intrigued by this...
  
Make Me Over
Madam LaLaurie has found herself a new look and a new gig. After taking a tour of her former house and realizing all of the things (mostly true) being said about her, Madam LaLaurie takes it upon herself to lure the tour guide to the attic. She then clobbers her over the head and puts her in one of the cages....nothing says "help wanted" like a sudden disappearance. When she gives her own tours Madame LaLaurie touts her charitable work and equestrian abilities. The tourists want to hear about the killings and see the torture room. She tells the group they've been hearing lies...and that Madam LaLaurie was a visionary ahead of her time. 
 
Precious Queenie arrives when one of the tours has ended and she offers Madam LaLaurie redemption: she can do community service, volunteering her time to help the descendants of the people she tortured. Madam LaLaurie laughs at the young witch. She's seen what redemption looks like on "the magic box." We then see Paula Dean, Anthony Weiner, and Eliot Spitzer appear on TV with their various scandals, and Madame LaLaurie notes that their offenses were forgotten not too long after publicly apologizing. She won't profess to be sorry because she claims she's not the least bit remorseful. Precious Queenie then grabs a knife from the torture wall and stabs Madame LaLaurie in the heart....and we can tell right away that she feels it. The woman of house leans back with blood gushing from her chest, saying "I don't want to die!" Precious Queenie informs the former slave torturer that she's "going straight to hell." I'm suddenly very disappointed that Precious Queenie survived the hair salon massacre.
 
Welcome Home?
Myrtle and Madison trade insults regarding Misty's impending arrival. When the door opens, however, it's Zoe and Kyle (groan) and not Misty. Seems they did make it to Florida and greatly enjoyed the sunshine. At one point they were picnicking near a tree with smiles on their faces, but a homeless man arrived and said they were in his spot. He went a little overboard...so of course Kyle killed him. Zoe resurrected the man and now thinks she's the next Supreme. Sigh.
 
My eye-rolling ends when Misty arrives a few moments later. She starts beating the shit out of Madison immediately and I finally have something to be excited about. Kyle begins to break up the fight just as the newly heartbroken Axeman walks in. He begins to wield his weapon, but the witches collectively send him flying against the staircase. As he tries to get up they notice he is covered in blood....but not his. Cordelia uses her vision to determine the blood is Fiona's.
 
We flash back to earlier in the day. Fiona arrives at The Axeman's apartment not too long after Cordelia's visit. Fiona is interested in The Axeman's...instrument...but The Axeman is interested in the truth. Fiona comes clean to an extent. She'll definitely miss him. But when the next Supreme is dead she will have 30 years of vitality until the next one comes along. Fiona turns her back to The Axeman, lighting a cigarette as she explains that their relationship was never going to work. He grabs the back of her head and throws her on the bed. He tells Fiona that he knows she loves him, but she rubs salt in his wound by saying she was sick and just needed to feel something. The Axeman kisses her but she pushes him away. Fiona walks over to the counter and pours herself a drink. The camera is in close up mode on her profile. She says she's never been interested in love - she's always been two steps ahead of heartbreak. Fiona starts to speak again but an axe comes down in her back. Then again. And again. Actually...several more times...and we say "goodbye" to our Supreme. Holy shit...
 
"Holy shit," says Madison. "So, she's really gone." Cordelia tells the group that The Axeman fed Fiona to the alligators in the swamp, which is beyond anyone's power of resurrection. The witches and Kyle (why is he still here?) argue over who will kill The Axeman. Madison picks up the weapon and hacks into the guy. The rest of the witches use telekinesis to grab knives from the kitchen and then everyone takes a stab (so to speak) at the jazzy killer. It's bloody. It's gross. But I'm not sure what else I would have expected given the torturous scenes we have already witnessed this season.
 
My Own Personal Hell
The final 7 minutes are spent in what looks like a flashback of Madam LaLaurie's plantation. I breathe a sigh of relief because I didn't want her character to be finished just yet. Her slaves have thrown her into one of the cages in the attic. She looks over at her daughter in a neighboring cage and sobs with regret. Her remaining family members surround her as well and Marie appears, gloating at this sight. She stabs Madam LaLaurie and sends a cup of her blood to the thirsty daughter in the neighboring cage. Seems she's ready for some torturing...
 
However, just as Marie is about to brand the daughter with a hot poker, she shakes and looks unfamiliar with her surroundings. "How did I get here? No, I don't want to do this! This girl has done nothing to me." We hear Papa Legba's voice and know this isn't a flashback. He tells Madam LaLaurie she has been released from the mortal world but as punishment for her crimes, she will spend all eternity here....in hell. And Marie? She doesn't understand. She helped and protected so many people during her stint as an immortal. Papa Legba reminds her that she delivered innocent babies to him every year. Her punishment is to remain in the attic as well...as the LaLaurie family torturer.
 
 
 
Next week is the season finale of AHS Coven and we will finally find out who the next Supreme is. All of the witches will take the seven wonders challenge and I imagine not all of them will come out alive....or alive again depending on who we're talking about. Who will it be? Precious Queenie's powers received a lot of attention this episode with Madison and Zoe showing signs of advanced magic as well. And really, when the season started Zoe was definitely the focal point. It wouldn't surprised me if she was the chosen one after all. Misty is still my favorite though, especially after the way she beat the shit out Madison tonight. However, Cordelia's sudden confidence and leadership might put her above the rest in the long run.
 
As for the dearly departed, I think we knew Fiona would meet her end one way or another, but I thought the witches would be the ones to slay the Supreme. I'll admit that I didn't see tonight's brutal murder coming, but I thought it was fitting. She may never have loved The Axeman, but Fiona was silly enough to think his love for her would allow her to do and say whatever she wanted. The Axeman, in turn, had been taken down by a group of young witches before...so I think it was only appropriate for him to meet his end the way he did tonight.
 
Really though, I will miss Marie and Madam LaLaurie far more than the deceased lovebirds. I thought Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett were phenomenal this season, and I had really hoped their characters would go on hating each other forever...maybe in a Death Becomes Her kind of way. If you haven't seen that movie, you have a huge void in your life to fill. Anyway, I'm eager for next week's finale and excited to see who survives the season. All will be revealed soon!
 
 

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

AHS Coven: Let's Make A Deal

We're getting down to the wire now on American Horror Story: Coven. With only a couple of weeks to go before the season ends, our remaining witches are going to extremes...some to achieve great power, and others just to stay alive. Here's where we are:
 
Ashes to Ashes
Nan is apparently really dead. According to Fiona she "fell in the tub." Nan even gets a funeral at the cemetery where Misty is buried alive somewhere. Myrtle wishes Misty was there to bring Nan back...okay Myrtle...do you know WHERE Misty is? Do you care? You've been touting her as the next Supreme and you're not concerned that she disappeared after the visit from Stevie Nicks? Sigh.
 
The funeral is interrupted by Precious Queenie, who is joined by a fully pieced together Madam LaLaurie. Yay! Might I point out that Madam LaLaurie is still wearing the tiger sweatshirt. Might I also point out that Precious Queenie has her on a leash. Literally.
 
 
Madam LaLaurie resumes her work as the maid of Miss Robichaux's Academy, only now she is also serving Marie. As she resumes her duties she buts heads continuously with Madison. The young witch still believes she is the next Supreme and has no problem belittling Madam LaLaurie. At one point Madison refuses to flush the toilet, telling the maid "you flush my shit, bitch." See, Madam Laurie might be a servant....but that doesn't make her as humble or harmless as Madison may think. Taking a page right out of The Help playbook, Madam LaLaurie turns Madison's shit into soup and serves it to the inhabitants of the Academy. Heh.
 
Green Acres
The Axeman and Fiona are really getting serious. He loooooves her and wants them to settle down.  Apparently The Axeman's daddy owned some farmland that could easily be fixed up and he says they should spend the rest of their days living on the farm. I'm going to overlook the fact that The Axeman has been "dead" for a long time and probably would not have access to whatever land his father may have owned many, many decades ago. Regardless, the killer wants to give up his axe and he wants Fiona to give up the Coven. All they have to do is kill the next Supreme, lengthening Fiona's life, and then they can peace out and "live like normal folk." 
 
Fiona doesn't hesitate. She tells her lover he has a deal. Interesting - I guess all of that stuff about the Supreme sacrificing herself for the good of the Coven is bullshit. I had thought for a while that Fiona was selfish for sure but also wanted to remain the Supreme to retain power over the Coven. Now it seems that she could care less about the Coven, who rules it, and what happens to it. Maybe it's just as well - it's not like the place was run well by Stupid Cordelia anyway, which brings us to....
 
Stupid Cordelia
There has been little progress with Stupid Cordelia as she is still sulking over her lost power of second sight. She tries to have a heart to heart with Precious Queenie to welcome her back in the Coven. She promises things will be different - that she is running the Academy with both eyes open (so to speak). Precious Queenie points out that in the short time she was with Marie, Nan died and Misty went missing under Stupid Cordelia's watch. Yes indeed. There's also the part where Madison was murdered, but we'll let that slide because she was also resurrected. Oh, and then there's the part where she was married to a witch hunter and didn't know it. Yep. She's quite the leader.
 
Stupid Cordelia has had it. She tries to make potions to give her the visions again but no dice. She returns to her greenhouse/garden/whatever to take another stab at it....but takes a stab at herself instead. Cordelia grabs her gardening clippers and gouges her eyes out and I scream right along with her. I have two immediate thoughts when this happens: 
 
1) I hope her power actually does comes back, otherwise she's just beyond stupid for blinding herself.
2) She ruined the eyeballs that crazy ass Myrtle secured for her. Rude.
 
Crazy ass Myrtle tells Fiona about Cordelia's actions. While she is disappointed that Cordelia ruined some of her best work, she's proud of Cordelia. Myrtle explains that Cordelia made a sacrifice to protect the Coven - her visions will help keep them safe. Fiona scoffs at this and storms toward Cordelia's bedroom door. She pauses when she realizes that Cordelia might be able to sense all of her secrets now and decides against checking on her daughter. Also rude.
 
Three's Company
The ridiculous Zoe/Kyle/Madison triangle continues and I am doing my best to ignore it. Zoe and Kyle sneak off to the bathroom to do some magic over the tub where Nan "slipped." Zoe sees Marie and Fiona drowning Nan and knows they are not safe at Miss Robixhaux's. Madison arrives then to bitch about Kyle and Zoe being alone and proceeds to initiate a blowjob with Kyle. The frankenteen yells "no!" (which is really one of the only words he has said all season) then declares his love for Zoe. Madison goes into mega-bitch mode and I'm ready to move on.  
 
Crazy ass Myrtle summons Zoe to the greenhouse/garden thing. She gives Zoe her most prized possession in case Zoe ever needs something to pawn. Myrtle then tells the young witch that she is sending both Zoe and Kyle away. Giving Zoe two bus tickets to Orlando and some odd facial expressions, Myrtle provides the lovebirds with the opportunity to start a new life together.
 
Kyle is afraid to leave with Zoe. After what happened with his mom and Misty's portable Stevie, he's concerned that he will lash out again and put Zoe in danger. She pretty much tells him to suck it up and off they go. As they board the bus, I wonder if Madison will show up and set the bus ablaze, but that still remains to be seen.
 
Burying The Hatchet
The fellas at the Delphi Trust are still reeling from Hank's hair salon massacre. They want a truce with the witches in order to get their finances back on track and the Coven is more than willing to set up a meeting. After all, they set the trap...and these witch hunters were dumb enough to fall for it.
 
Marie and Fiona arrive after the six suits have entered whatever board room they are in.  Fiona summons a server and orders a martini. Marie asks for a diet Sprite. Hank's daddy is not at all amused by the witches' confidence but offers to restore Marie's shop in exchange for reopening his own company. He presents a document that will enact a 100 year truce  between the witches and witch hunters. Fiona counters:  "You disband this merry troupe of assholes, never to harm another witch from now until the end of time, and I would like for you to sign over your house in Barkley Square to me. I would also like a private jet, and Marie wants a private jet." Hank's daddy is laughing, but while this exchange is going on...the server is doing something suspicious at the catering table behind the six suits. Oh shit. The server behind the six suits is The Axeman. He whacks the suits quickly, leaving Hank's daddy all for Fiona. Turns out she has quite a swing herself.
 
 
Taste For Blood
We flash back to 1830. Madam LaLaurie has just made the big move from Paris to the manor in New Orleans and she is immediately restless. Her disappointment in the intellect of her slaves is noted first, followed by the sheer boredom involved in conversing with her daughters. Madam LaLaurie needs inspiration. Madam LaLaurie needs...blood.
 
After beheading a chicken to prepare for dinner, the disgruntled plantation owner finds a slave with a severe leg injury. Madam LaLaurie inserts her fingers in the wound and contemplates licking her fingers. Instead, she knocks the slave out, ties him up...and looks upon him as if he were an early Christmas present. With a devilish grin on her face she says "I think I'm gonna like it here."
 
When we return to the present day, James the gardener (who?), arrives in the kitchen with one hell of a hand injury. Seems he has cut himself with the sheers. Sure, Madam LaLaurie could have patched him up and sent him on his way...but she suddenly remembers what filled her soul back in her hay day. The maid takes James to Spalding's creepy attic room and proceeds to cut off his toes while giggling "this little piggy went to market." Say what you want about Kathy Bates' performance in Misery - I would argue she is taking crazy to a new level in this season of AHS.
 
Spalding appears to Madam LaLaurie as she is admiring her messy handiwork. He tells the torturous woman that her situation can be changed. He wants to protect the Coven and believes that Marie has to be killed to preserve everything the witches of Salem struggled for. Madam LaLaurie reminds Spalding that Marie is immortal, but the former man servant says he can provide the means to make it happen.
 
In exchange for a very rare doll from 1895, Spalding agrees to share his secret. The potion that will render Marie mortal is...Benadryl. Wait. What? Allergy medicine? Is he serious!?!?! Nope, he just finally has a good sense of humor. Spalding tells Madam LaLaurie to drop two tablets in Marie's drink. She begins to pronounce the name on the box and he scolds her...she can't say the name aloud. The potion is too powerful. Ha! 
 
Madam LaLaurie gives it her best shot, that's for sure. After she mixes Marie a drink, the maid follows Marie to her room to finish her off. She stabs Marie in the heart...but Benadryl is no match for Marie. When Madam LaLaurie realizes she's been duped she takes off running through the house. Marie chases her hesitating just at the top of the stairs where Spalding clocks her with one of his dolls. and sends her tumbling. He then tells Madam LaLaurie that Marie is definitely immortal...but could always be buried.  Hmmm.
 
 
 
With that, another AHS hour has come and gone. Now that the witch hunters are out of the picture, what can we expect in the final two episodes? Will Fiona really kill off the potential Supremes to live happily ever after as a farmer's wife? Will Madame LaLaurie bury Marie alive (preferably as a swap for Misty)? Will Kyle and Zoe come back...and does anyone care? What role will Cordelia's renewed blindness play in all of this...and does anyone care? Is Precious Queenie pretty much immortal now? WHO is the next Supreme? We're running out of time to get the answers to these questions, but here's hoping Ryan Murphy will tie everything up nicely...or close to it at least.  
 

Monday, January 13, 2014

AHS Coven: Best. Guest Star. Ever.

Happy New Year!  After quite a break we can finally get back to the drama and suspense of American Horror Story: Coven. As the season is starting to wind down (the finale is scheduled for the end of the month), we’re getting close to finding out who is going to outsmart…or at least outlast the rest. Here’s where we are:  
 
 
Keep Your Friends Close...
Fiona and Marie have a heart to heart over her hair salon massacre. Fiona thinks the voodoo witch is crying over her comrades, but in reality, Marie is touched by Fiona’s kindness. She leaves Marie to rest, telling her they will form a truce and plan for the battle ahead in the morning. Poor Marie can barely lay her head down before she is visited by Papa Legba, a spirit who serves as the gateway between the living and the dead. He’s also really effing creepy.  

We finally learn now how Marie has stayed alive for 300 years. I had assumed she made herself some sort of potion like she did for Madam LaLaurie (where is she?), but this magic is much darker. The liquid she gave Madam LaLaurie was simply her tears. Marie’s price to live though is through sacrifice. Not a goat or chicken…Marie must sacrifice a baby to Papa Legba in order to keep her immortality. She steals one from the local hospital and coldly tells the child: “Shut up. I’ll give you something to cry about.” Hmph. And just when I was starting to feel sorry for this bitch...
 
When Fiona tries to plea with Marie to help her live the way she helped Madam LaLaurie, Marie reveals that she sold her soul to Papa Legba. She tells Fiona that in her young days she thought she was invincible and wanted to stay that way. Marie also explains that sold her soul without fully understanding the consequences. She found out the hard way as she had to sacrifice her own baby as part of the deal. She makes a baby payment once a year. The wheels start to turn in Fiona’s head…
 

Stupid Cordelia
Our “blind but now I see” witch is just finding out that Hank was responsible for the hair salon shooting. And you thought he was just a douchebag…he was so much more than that, Cordelia. Your second sight gave you the ability to see him banging Kaylee, but not killing witches. Probably just as well that power was short-lived.

Marie explains how she hired Hank, what his mission was, how he hated Fiona and the coven and so on. The Supreme dashes across the room and I figure she’s about to bitch slap Marie, but instead she backhands Cordelia. “You brought a viper into this sacred house!” Fiona realizes that Hank is part of an ancient order of hunters and suddenly the witches’ battle just turned into a long-existing war.

The witch hunters come from The Delphi Trust, which you can find on the internet if your second sight is useless, and if you click through the pictures on The Delphi Trust website you’ll find pictures of Hank and his daddy. Neat. Seriously Cordelia – WHAT did you know about this guy when you married him? Anywho, The Delphi Trust evolved from the family business. Hank’s family had been carpenters and furniture makers but evolved into private equity businessmen. They make a shit ton of money, y'all.
 
Marie is ready to high tail it to Atlanta to confront The Delphi Trust dudes, but after some consideration, she and Fiona come up with another plan. Using a maze, a trap and some money, the witches are able to simulate the corporation to lure the mice into their trap. Suddenly the company is taking an enormous financial hit…and Hank’s daddy knows it’s time to finish off the coven.  
 

Edge of Seventeen
Misty receives the surprise of her life when Fiona gives her a new Stevie…literally. Stevie Nicks has arrived at Ms. Robichaux’s Academy. Misty promptly faints upon seeing her, causing Fiona to tell Stevie “you owe me five bucks.”  Hell, I probably would have fainted too, and I also probably would have peed myself if Stevie sat behind a piano in my living room and played “Rhiannon.” Instead though, Misty launches into a shawl twirl that is just fantastic.

The three remaining student witches arrive toward the end of the song, and Madison is seething. The teen queen thought for sure she was the next Supreme but Fiona shuts her down. She tells Madison she’s certain Misty will pass every test. Misty, at the moment, could care less about this shit because Stevie gives her a parting gift – her own shawl.

As Madison bitches some more about how she deserves to be the Supreme, Nan lets us know that her powers are strengthening. Before she could only read mind, but now she can control them as well. She makes Madison put out her cigarette…before telling her to put it in her vagina. Ha! Zoe reminds Madison that she has a heart murmur and can’t possibly be the Supreme. Apparently though when one gets their throat slit, sits in Spalding’s lair for a good long while and then returns from the dead, they do so with no heart murmurs. Who knew?

Madison, Misty and Misty’s new shawl have some girl time at a local cemetery where Madison boasts of her powers. She too can raise people from the dead and resurrects a recently departed man from his coffin just before entombment. Madison tells Misty to put the shawl in the coffin to signify that she is her own person – this is the only way she can rise to be a Supreme. Misty leans over the coffin, hesitates, then clutches the shawl close to her and turns to leave. Madison clocks her in the head with a brick, dumps her in the coffin, steals the shawl and walks away as Misty is put in a tomb. Um, I’m holding back my rage because this CAN’T be how Misty meets her end. I’m going to be devastated if it is.   
 

Better to have loved and lost…
Nan and Zoe make their way to the hospital only to find out that Luke had passed away the day before. Poor Nan. She just can’t catch a break. The two girls come up with an immediate plan to find Luke’s body so Misty can bring him back to life (duh), so the witches go to the Ramsey house to ask momma Joan which mortuary Luke is in.  Joan unfortunately tells her neighbors that she’s already had Luke cremated…and whips the urn out right there in the kitchen.
 
Nan can apparently hear ashes though? She suddenly loses her shit and screams that Joan smothered Luke with a pillow. Nan then uses her mind control powers to make Joan drink a container of bleach. With a wicked grin on her face, Nan sends Zoe across the room, looks and Joan and says “You have to be cleansed.” Oh my. The things people do for love.

Speaking of which, Fiona is doing her damnedest to summon Papa Legba. She thinks of her love, The Axeman, and she is re-motivated to continue her fight to live. Papa evidently likes cocaine, so spreading a few lines out on a mirror did the trick. He tells Fiona he will give her everlasting life in exchange for her soul…and a service one night a year. He doesn’t quite clarify, asking her only if she would murder an innocent or cripple her daughter. Still too vague for me but Fiona doesn’t care. She asks Papa to seal the deal. When he goes in for the kiss, he tells her the deal is off – she has soul! Oh snap! The Axeman appears and tells Fiona that all they need to do is find the young girl bringing her down. Fiona does a line of cocaine and says “I’ll just kill them all.” She wouldn’t, would she?

Nan is on cloud nine now that she believes her actions place her as a Supreme frontrunner. She wanders through the house searching for the source of a noise and finds the baby Marie had kidnapped. Marie is right behind her and demands she hand the baby over. Nan talks A LOT of shit about being the next Supreme and Fiona hears her….cut to Fiona and Marie drowning Nan in the bathtub. Papa Legba appears and he likes the Marie/Fiona combination. He leaves with Nan, and I don’t wonder about Fiona’s soul at all now. I believe she is just plain evil.

  


With Nan gone, Misty (hopefully just) missing, Cordelia feeling like a failure, has Madison created a scenario that puts her head to head with Fiona now? After all this Supreme BS, could it be Zoe after all? Where the hell was Kyle during all of this? Was he worried Stevie would cast a spell on his ass after he “broke” her? Oh, and is Precious Queenie actually dead? Seems that bit of information is still pretty foggy.

I had hoped we would have more of a Witches v. The Corporation theme on our hands tonight, but with the witches dropping off, I’m not sure who will be left to defeat the hunters. Maybe Kyle the guard dog? Will he serve a purpose this season after all? Time will tell.