American Horror Story recap: Coven' recap: 'Head'The best thing about the horror genre is that all of the usual rules of decency go out the window. Characters break the code of law, or religion, or conventionally accepted morality; in turn, many of the great horror movies break the basic rules of filmmaking. And she was naked, too!). While Odetta sang a black freedom song on the soundtrack, a character based on one of history’s most miserable racists watched footage of the Civil Rights movement and wept; meanwhile, downstairs, a white man with a gun murdered his way through Marie Laveau’s salon. ![]() It was genuinely horrific. It rode a knife’s edge between offensive and profound. What made it even more unsettling was the episode that preceded it, which pulled back to give us a better perspective on the warring powers of Coven. The episode started with a young Hank hunting with his dad in the Chattahoochee National Forest, circa 1. Dad gave Hank typical All- American Dad advice: “There’s nothing to be nervous about! We’ve been hunters for generations!” But this was not a deer hunt. They were hunting witches. Dad flushed out one of them. Or maybe Dad regularly kidnapped witches to play a refined version of the Most Dangerous Game?) Hank hesitated. The witch used her pyrokinesis. She burned Dad’s arm; Dad shot her in the face. And when Witch Hunters are around, no one is safe. At least, that’s the line Fiona fed to Marie, visiting her salon in an attempt to combine their rival schools, just like Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and Cutler Gleason & Chaough. Marie didn’t like the idea — and Fiona had no way of knowing that it was Marie who hired the Witch Hunter in the first place. She also didn’t like the Decapitated Head of Delphine Lalaurie, which Fiona returned, still in her box. Marie commanded Queenie to burn Delphine’s head. END OF ASIDE.)Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Hank returned to home base. American Horror Story: The 10 Best Sex Scenes. Moira the Maid Cleans Up. After finding red lingerie in the head nun's dresser drawer. American Horror Story. Maid who works in the murder house. Neighbor of the murder house. The names of the red haired twins. The Witch Hunters appear to operate out of a Very Big Corporation called the Delphi Trust. But they’ve been around for awhile: Since before Salem, maybe since the very early colonial era. Hank’s dad is the current Big Man in charge. And Hank is no loner his chosen son. Dad has a trusted lieutenant; you got the sense that Hank has been given Charlie Work, sent on long undercover missions while the cool guys handle the big picture things. ![]() Dad was not happy with Hank. When his son protested that he took down the red haired pyro in Baton Rouge, Dad gave him the real story. Hank used a credit card; he showed his face to too many people; they had to take down a desk clerk and a maid just to clean up his mess. The vision of men in a beautiful decadent office idly conjured up lots of mid- 2. They’re like the faceless bureaucrats of the Bourne series, plotting death from afar. But the Witch Hunters were also coded as more recent topical villains. Dad complained that “the liberals in Washington are just looking for an excuse to sneak the FCC on companies like Delphi.” The Witch Hunters are Evil Corporate Guys and Evil Shadow Government Guys; they’re also, notably, all guys. So far in Coven, we’ve mostly spent time in various woman- on- woman rivalries and wars. This scene seemed to argue that all of that has been a distraction. It was revealed that the Witch Hunters burned Delia — a crime that was blamed on Myrtle. The recently resurrected redhead was agonizing over that accusation. She begged Delia to use The Sight so she could see the truth. Delia didn’t need to: She trusted her Auntie Myrtle. But Myrtle didn’t stop there. She brought the other members of the Council over to Miss Robichaux’s for a dinner. Lobster will be served!”) The Council said they regretted that whole burnt- at- the- stake thing. Myrtle laughed it off. They all took a sip of the vino. Turned out it was poisoned, freezing the Council members into Human Statues. Myrtle said she wouldn’t kill them. She did, however, use the melon baller for a purpose that had nothing to do with melons. Delia had two new eyes. Fiona was happy to see that her daughter had regained her vision, although she complained that Myrtle couldn’t even be bothered to get two matching eyes. Myrtle said that the generous donors wished to remain anonymous. SMASH CUT TO: Myrtle carving the other Council Members up into ambient bits and then boiling them up Walter White- style. Myrtle strikes me as a fascinating wild card as we approach the Coven endgame. American Horror Story: Murder House is the first season of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story. The season's theme is infidelity, and focuses on the. The Maid from American Horror Story Season 1. Gorgeous Gals Stunning Women Beautiful Ladies Beautiful People Red Hair Alexandria Breckinridge Grey. Horror Story: Deadliest Snatch. She appears to have more power after her resurrection. And has her ultimate goal really changed? Does she still want Fiona dead? List of American Horror Story: Murder House characters. American Horror Story: Murder House is the first season of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story. The season's theme is infidelity, and focuses on the plight of the Harmon family, Ben and Vivien, their daughter Violet and their dog Hallie, as they try to adjust to their new life in present- day Los Angeles, after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben has an affair with one of his psychiatry students, Hayden Mc. Claine. Violet, although originally upset about the move due to her being unable to make friends at her new school, begins to bond with the house, viewing it as a symbol of empowerment after she and her mother fought off home intruders. Violet also grows fond of one of her dad's therapy patients, who is being treated with psychosis, Tate Langdon. Ben and Vivien must endure the trials and tribulations of Ben's constant infidelity while Vivien is pregnant, prompting vengeful ex- mistress Hayden and overly maternal next- door neighbor and former resident of the house, Constance Langdon, to scheme to steal the children. The family soon learns that things are not how they seem when they begin encountering people who they thought were dead in their house. Cast members. Prior to the series' start, she had a miscarriage that caused her withdraw from Ben, who then had an affair with Hayden Mc. Claine, one of his college students. Vivien initially finds it hard to forgive Ben, but Ben is committed to keeping the family together, and she agrees to move to Los Angeles to start over. She slowly warms up to her husband, and they have sex for the first time in months. She later participates in what she thinks is a kinky sexual encounter with Ben in a rubber bondage suit. When Ben's now- pregnant ex- mistress, Hayden, shows up in Los Angeles to lure him away from Vivien, she is killed and she and the other ghosts plot to drive Vivien insane, in order to get her out of the house and raise her children. Vivien gives birth to both twins . At the series start, Ben had an affair with one of his psychiatry students, Hayden Mc. Claine, after his wife Vivien had a miscarriage. As a result, he and Vivien decide to move the family from Boston to Los Angeles to start over. After a heated argument he and Vivien have sex. Some time later, a figure in a black latex suit (called the . Vivien believes it to be Ben, and has sex with him, unaware Ben is sleepwalking downstairs. Vivien learns that she is pregnant, and Hayden later reveals to Ben that she is pregnant as well. Ben returns to Boston to support Hayden through an abortion, but leaves while Hayden is in the operating room, after discovering multiple missed calls from Vivien. Hayden later shows up in Los Angeles and reveals to Ben that she has not received an abortion and plans on moving to Los Angeles so they can raise the baby together, but before she can do so she is killed by Larry Harvey, who attempts to extort Ben. During a scuffle, Ben is able to pull off the Rubber Man's mask, and discoves that he is Tate before going unconscious. He is presumed by the living to have committed suicide. As a ghost in the house, he, Vivien, and Violet take it upon themselves to scare away new tenants to prevent them from suffering the same fate. He is a sociopathic Teenage ghost who resides in the Murder House, and becomes romantically involved with Violet Harmon. He first appears in the pilot episode as one of Ben's new patients. During a session, Tate describes an ongoing dream in which he commits a mass shooting at his high school. During Halloween night (the only time ghosts are allowed to leave the property, and the first time he had left the house since his death) he and Violet are visited by the ghosts of his last five victims. He also rapes and impregnates Vivien. In the pilot episode, Violet befriends Tate Langdon, one of her father's patients, and the two eventually start dating. She later discovers that he is in fact a ghost who died in the house after committing a mass shooting at her school in 1. Following this discovery, she attempts to talk to Tate, but is instead confronted by many of the other ghosts that reside in the house. Overwhelmed with fear and shock, she attempts suicide by ingesting a bottle of pills, but is seemingly saved by Tate. When she tries to tell Ben that she's a ghost and therefore cannot leave the house, he refuses to listen to her, and accuses her of being on drugs. As a result, she banishes Tate from contact with her by using the trick he taught her in . She is then comforted by Vivien, who died during childbirth. Violet apologizes for Vivien's death and the loss of the baby, and the two reconcile. In the season finale, Tate tries to murder a teenage boy who is currently living in the house in order to give Violet someone else to love, but she stops him and kisses Tate goodbye, allowing the boy to escape. At Christmas time, Violet is seen decorating a tree with her parents and Moira, as Tate watches from afar. He originally claims, in the . He is subsequently arrested and jailed for the murder. He is visited by Constance and tells her that he will be able to endure the punishment if she can just admit that she loves him, but she cruelly rebuffs him. For his performance, O'Hare was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange) is the next door neighbor to the Harmons, and a former resident of the house, who is determined to steal one of Vivien's twins and raise him as her own. Constance had four children: Tate, Adelaide, Beauregard, and one other unnamed child. She tells Vivien that her womb is . Constance originally moved from Virginia to California in order to become a movie star, but she was against nudity so her career never took off. At an unknown time, possibly due to financial hardship, Constance and her family moved out. The Harvey family moved in next, and Constance began taking advantage of Larry's affection in order to move back into the house. In 1. 99. 4, Larry told his wife Lorraine of his intentions to divorce her and move the Langdon family in with him; Lorraine then killed herself and their children as a result. Larry smothered Beau with a pillow, and Beau's ghost still haunts the attic. Later that year, her son, Tate went on a shooting spree, taking the lives of fifteen people, and was. Constance's last living child, Adelaide, was hit by a car on Halloween night and died before Constance could get her to the Murder House property so that she could come back as a ghost. Constance's much younger boyfriend, Travis, is murdered in the basement by the ghost of Hayden. In the season one finale, after the Harmon family die, Constance abducts her grandson and raises him in secrecy. Three years later, Constance claims to her hairdresser that after all the tragedy she's been through, the baby has given her the chance to be the mother of someone destined for . The last scene shows that her now 3- year- old grandson, Michael, has inherited his father Tate's psychopathy; he has brutally murdered his nanny, and is gleefully sitting next to her corpse. Constance looks at him with pride, and says, . Moira has been shown to appear as an old, matronly woman to women and a young, attractive woman to men. She was shot in the eye by Constance after she was caught being raped by Constance's husband, Hugo. Constance buried her body in the house's backyard. Out of all the ghosts in the house, Moira is the only one that genuinely cares for Vivien's well- being, and she talks to her frequently to comfort her. Moira appears to display a mistrust towards men, frequently using her younger form to taunt them. In her younger form, she repeatedly flirts with Ben, and though he continually rebuffs her advances, he does fantasize about her on multiple occasions. Once Ben realizes things in the house are not as they seem, Ben sees her in her . In the season finale, Moira assists the Harmon's ghosts in preventing any more tragedy by scaring away new tenants, and Vivien asks her to be the godmother of her newborn son. In the next episode, . She informs Ben that she plans on moving to Los Angeles and expects Ben to divorce Vivien, pay for all of her expenses, and help her raise the child. Hayden is then murdered by Larry Harvey. She is buried in the backyard, alongside Moira's body, and Ben builds a gazebo on top of the grave. Since that episode, Hayden appears several times as a ghost to harass the Harmons, particularly in an attempt to drive Vivien crazy enough for her to be admitted for psychiatric treatment, and to stake her claim on one of the unborn babies. After the birth of the babies and Vivien's death, Ben is convinced by Vivien's ghost to leave the house with their only surviving child, before being met at the stairs by Hayden's ghost and the ghosts of the home invaders, Fiona and Dallas. The ghosts forcefully hang Ben from the chandelier, strangling him to death. Constance finds Ben's body, and immediately goes looking for her grandson. She finds him in the basement with Hayden's ghost cradling the living twin in her arms, intent on not allowing anyone to take him. Travis slices her throat (simply a momentary distraction, since both were already ghosts), takes the baby, and gives him to Constance. Later, Hayden tries to convince Tate's ghost that Violet will never acknowledge him again. He tells her that he is willing to . Addie would frequently appear inside of or near the house, often giving ominous warnings of death to those who enter, or to play with some of the ghosts that reside on the property. Constance appears to be somewhat abusive towards Addie, such as locking her in a closet full of mirrors if she misbehaves, but is very protective of her and appears to love her regardless. Her mother unsuccessfully tries to bring Addie's body onto the Harmon property so that her ghost will remain there.
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