History YMMV / AmericanHorrorStoryCoven

*** There's also a significant portion of the fanbase who believe [[spoiler: Madison was the true Supreme and Cordelia assumed the supremacy right as Madison died.]] The editing of the show really doesn't help this one as [[spoiler: Cordelia is finally able to successfully perform Vitalum Vitalis, her last of the Seven Wonders, at the exact moment that Madison is murdered]]. There is nothing in canon that suggests the supremacy can manifest in multiple girls per generation, although Apocalypse muddies this up slightly. [[Spoiler: Madison also successfully performing Divination on Hayden's skull at the Murder House completes her Seven Wonder bingo card. Aren't only Supremes able to master all Seven Wonders?]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: An odd version. Even though this is the third highest-rated season of ''American Horror Story'' so far, yet some find none of the characters particularly sympathetic.

* TheWoobie

* TheWoobie: Cordelia.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Was Fiona's decision to make Delphine Queenie's slave sincerely because she hated racism, because she wanted to humble Delphine, or just because she wanted to endear one of the students to her.
** Possibly because Delphine is a normal human--albeit one cursed with immortality--and Fiona's opinion of [[{{Muggle}} normal humans]] is only ''slightly'' better than, say, her bigotry towards Voodoo practitioners.

* AlasPoorScrappy: Though the fandom didn't take well to [[spoiler:Hank]], some found his death to be rather tragic.

* AwesomeEgo: Fiona Goode and Madison Montgomery.

** [[spoiler:After Zoe stabs Spalding, he proceeds to stick out his tongue in such a silly way that it looked like he was trying to blow a raspberry at her]]. Probably intentional, given the morbidly camp nature of the show.

** Arguably inverted, many people felt ''Murder House'' and ''Asylem'' were much darker, while ''Coven'' was too campy and indulgent.

** "Foxxay" for Misty Day/Cordelia Foxx

* FanPreferredCouple: The fandom has taken a huge liking to Misty Day and Cordelia Foxx: ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Foxxay]]). This is mainly due to the LesYay between the two, and the chemistry between Paulson and Rabe. The ship easily outranks all other pairings from the whole series in terms of numbers on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn, and is still quite popular on Tumblr and [=YouTube=] to this day. It also resulted in many fans in [[ActorShipping shipping the two actresses]] as well.

* FanPreferredCouple: The fandom has taken a huge liking to Misty Day and Cordelia Foxx: ([[PortmanteauCoupleName Foxxay]]).

** People have also expressed desire for Fiona to kill everybody and win, because it's [[MagnificentBastard her]].

*** There's also a significant portion of the fanbase who believe [spoiler: Madison was the true Supreme and Cordelia assumed the supremacy right as Madison died.]] The editing of the show really doesn't help this one as [[spoiler: Cordelia is finally able to successfully perform Vitalum Vitalis, her last of the Seven Wonders, at the exact moment that Madison is murdered]]. There is nothing in canon that suggests the supremacy can manifest in multiple girls per generation, although Apocalypse muddies this up slightly. [[Spoiler: Madison also successfully performing Divination on Hayden's skull at the Murder House completes her Seven Wonder bingo card. Aren't only Supremes able to master all Seven Wonders?]].

* MagnificentBitch: Fiona Goode is able to play everyone around her like a fiddle and she always looks good doing it.

** Was Madison's traumatic reaction to [[spoiler: being brought back from the dead]] actually a delayed response to [[spoiler: the gang-rape she initially seemed to have gotten over quickly]]? Emma Roberts, for one, seems to think so, stating that she played those initial scenes as if everything was catching up to Madison at once.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: While ''Coven'' is the highest-rated season of ''American Horror Story'' to date, longtime viewers have not been shy in criticizing the show's radically different atmosphere compared to previous seasons, calling it ''[[Series/TheRealHousewives The Real Housewitches of New Orleans]]'' and the main mystery as ''[[Series/AmericasNextTopModel America's Next Top Supreme]]''.

* CriticalDissonance: The highest rated season on Website/RottenTomatoes yet a far more divided fandom.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: An odd version. Even though this is the highest-rated season of ''American Horror Story'' so far, yet some find none of the characters particularly sympathetic.

* CounterpartComparison: Madison Montgomery and [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Zoë Rivas]] have a lot in common. Both are [[FormerChildStar former actresses]] who struggled with substance abuse issues on set, their mothers are emotionally negligent [[StageMom and mooch off of their daughters' careers (and it's implied that they pushed them into acting in the first place),]] both serve as the AlphaBitch as thus were both the Veronica in a BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle, and both were [[spoiler: gang-raped at a party while unconscious.]]

* CounterpartComparison: Madison Montgomery and [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Zoë Rivas]] have a lot in common. Both are [FormerChildStar former actresses]] who struggled with substance abuse issues on set, their mothers are emotionally negligent [[StageMom and mooch off of their daughters' careers (and it's implied that they pushed them into acting in the first place),]] both serve as the AlphaBitch as thus were both the Veronica in a BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle, and both were [[spoiler: gang-raped at a party while unconscious.]]

** Delphine closing her eyes and [[ICantHearYou loudly singing "Dixie"]] when Queenie tries to force her to watch ''Series/{{Roots}}'' as part of a crash course in African-American history. Did we mention that [[spoiler: she's a ''disembodied head'' in that scene]]?

* DesignatedHero: The witches' varying degrees of morality from PayEvilUntoEvil Zoe all the way up to out-and-out VillainProtagonist Fiona can make them an unsympathetic bunch.
* DesignatedVillain: The witch hunters may be {{Knight Templar}}s, but witches like Fiona could convince anyone to commit VanHelsingHateCrimes.

** Cordelia didn't say the powers were temporary, and the situations were still similar. But [[spoiler: Zoe's wounds were more severe than Misty's oxygen deprivation]].

* LoveItOrHateIt / ItsPopularNowItSucks: While ''Coven'' is the highest-rated season of ''American Horror Story'' to date, longtime viewers have not been shy in criticizing the show's radically different atmosphere compared to previous seasons, calling it ''[[Series/TheRealHousewives The Real Housewitches of New Orleans]]'' and the main mystery as ''[[Series/AmericasNextTopModel America's Next Top Supreme]]''.