Coming on the heels of Asylum, AHS Coven is even more of a disappointment than considered by itself.
The story is paper-thin and at times, mind-numbingly stupid (those times being 99% of the season); the characters are half-note despite the talented cast, and the intended message of female/minority empowerment is totally lost in this world of despicable women who get more attention and screentime the more absolutely AWFUL they are, and whose "feminism" is the Kill-All-Men kind, which is kinda telling by the fact that a) warlocks are barely touched upon (as in we know NOTHING about warlocks in this world except for the fact that they exist) and seen, b) that the whole male cast dies, and by the end of the season only one is alive, and that's because he was reanimated, and c) the Council is shown to be corrupted with one warlock and one witch, but at the end we're supposed to believe it will be better because it's made by two witches, despite the fact that one of those two was a horrible person for most of her on-screen time and the other one is a complete, vacuous idiot.
There's an over-reliance on shock for the sake of itself and the introduction of the 'resurrection' power quickly shatters any shade of enjoyment you could've had in Coven, aka seeing hated characters bite it. Even if they did by the end, there was always the worry that they could be brought back to pollute the show again, so that satisfaction was erased.
If this season showed us anything, it showed us that even anthology series aren't immune from Ryan Murphy show's Rule Of Third Season Suckage.
No spell can make this season not-unwatchable.
Coming on the heels of Asylum, AHS Coven is even more of a disappointment than considered by itself.
The story is paper-thin and at times, mind-numbingly stupid (those times being 99% of the season); the characters are half-note despite the talented cast, and the intended message of female/minority empowerment is totally lost in this world of despicable women who get more attention and screentime the more absolutely AWFUL they are, and whose "feminism" is the Kill-All-Men kind, which is kinda telling by the fact that a) warlocks are barely touched upon (as in we know NOTHING about warlocks in this world except for the fact that they exist) and seen, b) that the whole male cast dies, and by the end of the season only one is alive, and that's because he was reanimated, and c) the Council is shown to be corrupted with one warlock and one witch, but at the end we're supposed to believe it will be better because it's made by two witches, despite the fact that one of those two was a horrible person for most of her on-screen time and the other one is a complete, vacuous idiot.
There's an over-reliance on shock for the sake of itself and the introduction of the 'resurrection' power quickly shatters any shade of enjoyment you could've had in Coven, aka seeing hated characters bite it. Even if they did by the end, there was always the worry that they could be brought back to pollute the show again, so that satisfaction was erased.
If this season showed us anything, it showed us that even anthology series aren't immune from Ryan Murphy show's Rule Of Third Season Suckage.
0/10.