HAIL SATAN! I wasn't a fan of this episode at all. It almost seemed like it was a spoof of AHS. For a season with only 10 episodes, I feel this was completely unnessisary. But, I also can understand it's importance for story development.. however, it lacked enthusiasm and shifted away from the shows eerie aesthetics. Hope the next 2 episodes are good because this season has been wonderful up until now.
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Not my favorite episode. But not bad
arebazas31 October 2018
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It was a decent episode. Too slow at this point in the season in my opinion. Was a short yet long episode. A few questions are Answered but it seemed to bring the momentum to a halt. Now I'm not so sure in 2 episodes left, how all of this will be resolved, I'm just wishing the next 2 episodes are as good as I know it can be. Loved seeing a certain. Sarah Paulson character back!
Satan revives his assistant
mohamadacma16 October 2019
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After seeing his allies burned to the stake, Micheal is traumatised and can not think straight; he joins a church where the attendants are supposedly waiting for satan to rise or as they call him antichrist,. He tells them that he is satan by showing them the tatoo on the back o his neck. He gains followers and in the end he meets two guys that worked at a robotic company and helps him create a replica of his burned ally which is pretty much the same. The pace of the episode is slow and nothing seems to happen. The focus was just on the state of Micheal and how helpless he is.
Okay episode for the series, terrible for Apocalypse
acrazey572 November 2018
Everything from the title to the guest stars is a huge disappointment. Especially for Apocalypse and to premier on HALLOWEEN!! What a waste! It's also felt terribly short compared to the others. Sandra Bernhard is right up there with Lena Headey in terms of terrible guest stars. Less of a satanic priest and more of a cheesy goth comedian. And she managed to drag politics into it... We had enough of that in Cult thanks. It makes sense for the story to go where it is going at this point and even feels organic. It feels like a proper bridge in the story but a bridge you'd rather hurry cross to get to the next episode.
Don't know about you, but I was confused.
ashleigh_samantha_hayles26 September 2020
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I don't feel that the time hopping (excluding the time travelling witches WOW) in this season wasn't executed well enough. I found myself confused more often than not. I kept thinking "I thought there was an apocalypse so how is the murder house still standing? How are they dining at a posh restaurant? How are they making a robot?" It eventually becomes clear that this was in the past but the fact that each character plays at least 2/3 characters just in this 1 season is super confusing, also.
Yeah, it was different. Not bad.
spoling673 November 2018
I guess people just don't get camp anymore. I noticed this episode seemed awfully short after watching it on dvr. I went to imdb and saw that it was indeed a pretty short episode, which is the only thing I didn't like about this episode. After seeing the low score I read some reviews wondered what everyone else had watched. The scenes with Sandra Bernhard and the Satanist church were clearly meant not to be taken seriously, you know... It's the church of Satan. A little comic relief never hurt anyone. I thought it was a pretty clever way to fill in some back story.
Making connections
g-haslerud31 October 2018
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This episode was not great on first watch, I'd say 5 out of 10. Compared to the rest of the season, absolutely not great. However, on second watch I really enjoyed it. Yes, it was campy. Yes, it deviated from the plot of the witches. Yes, it was generally weird.
This episode provided significantly more backstory on Michael and his connection with the Cooperative, and more backstory on Ms. Mead. I do appreciate the origins, but I wish it were longer. Either way, give it a second watch before judging it to harshly.
This episode provided significantly more backstory on Michael and his connection with the Cooperative, and more backstory on Ms. Mead. I do appreciate the origins, but I wish it were longer. Either way, give it a second watch before judging it to harshly.
Don't they get it?
goddamnit799 November 2018
It's American Horror Story. A show who wholly is based on all kinds of horror. This episode is like every other. Treat it a homage to the genre. Bloody Brilliant talant for all involved from day one till now. And hopefully for a longtime to come
Robo Miriam!?
ZegMaarJus12 July 2021
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This episode begins with Michael, he sees the three burned bodies at the pyres. Michael hallucinates in the woods. Michael has a conversation with Madelyn. Michael slits Leticia and Theodore's troath open with a knife, they died instantly. Michael burned the Call Girl to ashes. Jeff and Mutt brought Miriam back to life, they made a exact copy of Miriam. Solid episode of American Horror Story Season 8, this episode broke the storyline a bit. Nothing special really happened this time.
American Comedy Show?
WhenAmyMetSalad1 November 2018
This was an unneeded slow filler episode. And for it to premiere on Halloween is kind of disappointing since it felt more like cringey comedy than it did like horror. They added ominous music in awkward scenes and Sandra Bernhard feels so out of place cast in this show. I felt like I was watching a very bad MadTV skit for the first half and then some boring drama the second half.
Like seriously how is the spawn of satan supposed to be menacing if hes always crying about Ms Meade and his followers shoving food in his face looking for approval for their recipes. I also didn't care for Evan's or Eichner's new characters.
The only good scene was when Michael was in the forest praying for answers. If they had cut out all that bad humor and shorten this episode to the first 15 minutes and then changed it up for the last 30 minutes leading to the beginning of the apocalypse aka the first episode in turn coming full circle this episode could have been better. But instead they stretched out a story that could have been said in less than half the time.
This is by far the worst episode of the season and I hope the next 2 episodes are of the quality like episodes 3 through 5 have been. Heres hoping we're not let down.
Like seriously how is the spawn of satan supposed to be menacing if hes always crying about Ms Meade and his followers shoving food in his face looking for approval for their recipes. I also didn't care for Evan's or Eichner's new characters.
The only good scene was when Michael was in the forest praying for answers. If they had cut out all that bad humor and shorten this episode to the first 15 minutes and then changed it up for the last 30 minutes leading to the beginning of the apocalypse aka the first episode in turn coming full circle this episode could have been better. But instead they stretched out a story that could have been said in less than half the time.
This is by far the worst episode of the season and I hope the next 2 episodes are of the quality like episodes 3 through 5 have been. Heres hoping we're not let down.
Useless Filler
shunkhood1 November 2018
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Do not watch this episode if you want to be able to still have respect for this episodes director and writer.
Seriously what were they thinking when they decided that this episode needed to be an hour long, there was nothing but learning the origins of the robot and Ms. Venables or whatever her name is (she's dead anyway it doesn't matter). The whole thing about how he found a Satanist meeting is ridiculous, they better explain why Satan didn't come, otherwise he deserved to die in that useless circle he made. Seriously the character development with Michael was ruined with this episode.
Even the plot loopholes in season 3 and 5 are more unforgivable than this trash of an episode. The season could've done without this episode, I'm sure if I never watched this episode and watched the finale I would understand what all of the bs that happened in this episode was.
This is by far worse than any other episode from ahs, every other episode in this season was absolutely amazing. Jumping through hoops plot, waste of time, inconvenient filler, this could have been done in 10 minutes without the filler and only the needed info and then we could go back to the actual story. Completely useless. Why would we need any filler episode with a 10 episode season. this episode aggravated me.
Seriously what were they thinking when they decided that this episode needed to be an hour long, there was nothing but learning the origins of the robot and Ms. Venables or whatever her name is (she's dead anyway it doesn't matter). The whole thing about how he found a Satanist meeting is ridiculous, they better explain why Satan didn't come, otherwise he deserved to die in that useless circle he made. Seriously the character development with Michael was ruined with this episode.
Even the plot loopholes in season 3 and 5 are more unforgivable than this trash of an episode. The season could've done without this episode, I'm sure if I never watched this episode and watched the finale I would understand what all of the bs that happened in this episode was.
This is by far worse than any other episode from ahs, every other episode in this season was absolutely amazing. Jumping through hoops plot, waste of time, inconvenient filler, this could have been done in 10 minutes without the filler and only the needed info and then we could go back to the actual story. Completely useless. Why would we need any filler episode with a 10 episode season. this episode aggravated me.
Loved it
alex37768725 November 2018
Best one in the season.
cruise0113 November 2019
4 out of 5 stars.
The episode follows Michael Langdon in trying to back a character. His character is the strongest and most interesting. Even the performance. It is cheesy. It is fun to see actors play different characters in this one.
The episode follows Michael Langdon in trying to back a character. His character is the strongest and most interesting. Even the performance. It is cheesy. It is fun to see actors play different characters in this one.
Unwatchable
endrdy10 November 2018
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Yeah of course I know that the one star is pretty dramatic rating, but I'm just so angry. It was a pretty good series til some point, but it feels like the writers don't even have a script, they just make up ideas on the set, so the whole story is a mass now. That awful scene, where Cordelia Goode talked with Michael in front of the ashes, and then she says they ain't just simply in the hell, but in a spell only she can break.. It reminds me when we were children at the kindergarten and we just made up rules when we were losing.
Such a same, it really feels like the walking dead now.
A very weak episode of the season from Ryan Murphy!
vincentlucia-3770023 June 2019
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Well I have got to say that this episode was one of the weakest episodes of the season. And but the only two things that I only loved about this episode was the opening scene where Cordelia tells Michael that "he can certainly go to hell but you won't fine Ms. Mead there and her soul is hidden by a spell that I can only break, its over" and finall when we got to see Ms. Venable again! But thing that was really unnecessary in this episode was the scene where Ms. Meade becomes a robot which we already knew. And to be quite honest, I really hated Evan Peter's And Billy Eichner's new characters who are both really annoying in this episode. And just generally everything else that happened in this episode was just okay and I just cannot believe that we are still in the past already still.
Worst ever episode
pegreen-737739 November 2018
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Begrudgingly given 1star rating which is more than it deserves, this has to be the worst ever episode, Fulchuk & Murphy must have been scraping the barrel for ideas, this is Dumb & Dumber meets Bill & Ted. The time line is all wrong, surely we already knew Ms Mead was an android, is the story going Backwards?
The show was doing well until this episode.
CoreyBergmann1 November 2018
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It was a terribly pointless episode. The church of satan scenes were at best cringe. Giving money to the NRA is the most evil thing you can do? Really? Killing a social worker and a "doctor without borders" to prove how evil you are? This episode was just a waste of 40 minutes to try to make a political dig at the right. Who was that actress anyway? Some washup comedian?
Insipid and just plain stupid....an insult for AHS fans
css-899512 November 2018
Mostly cringe-worthy
stratqueen-736-2476372 November 2018
I don't know what the writers were thinking. The Satanists were so stereotypical and unbelievable that I couldn't take them seriously. Terrible writing and direction this episode. The only good thing about it was Cody Fern.
Eh
rachelpalicki2 November 2018
This season has been really good. Probably the best AHS has been since Coven. And this episode flopped. It was very comedic but not in that charming way that AHS usually gets you. More like over-the-top-we-just-need-to-develop-the-storyline-so-throw-in-some-jokes kinda way. Nevertheless, I will proceed watching because Cody Fern is evil af and I love it.
Sandra Bernhardt
justplaindebb7 November 2018
Waste of digital space
moyetbear-224-5849601 November 2018
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Ryan Murphy cannot keep his train on track here. More backstory about Michael, the anti Christ, or so he's been told.
Sandra Bernhard is just awful as the leader of a cult. Hail stupid dialogue, hail an episode that doesn't need to exist.
They confirm he's the anti Christ and then they offer him food?
The whole season is a bad mash of all previous seasons.
Guest stars won't help when the writing is bad, much like Joan Collins career, this show just needs to fade away into obscurity or be about the Apocalypse in the title and not the awful filler episode that does nothing but resurrect Kathy Bates as a robot.
Sandra Bernhard is just awful as the leader of a cult. Hail stupid dialogue, hail an episode that doesn't need to exist.
They confirm he's the anti Christ and then they offer him food?
The whole season is a bad mash of all previous seasons.
Guest stars won't help when the writing is bad, much like Joan Collins career, this show just needs to fade away into obscurity or be about the Apocalypse in the title and not the awful filler episode that does nothing but resurrect Kathy Bates as a robot.
We interrupt your horror for some comic relief
otter681 November 2018
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This episode was so lame. The satanic church scenes were pure comic relief and so out of place. The dialogue was inauthentic, the dig at the NRA was unnecessary political preaching, and the scenes with the two tech guys with three year old boy haircuts was more comedy that was just totally out of place for the series. The whole episode was just to show how Michael got Mrs Mead back, and that could have been a 5 minute flashback in another episode. The season is going down hlll.
Why is Sarah Paulson nearly every character?
annamarygallagher2 November 2018
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I must state that I wouldn't be negative about this actress if it wasn't for the fact she's pretty much the protagonist and then plays other characters in the same story. I'm sorry but she's just not as versatile as the others who get away with this and being Cordelia she shouldn't. I understand when the series blend it's important to use the same actors but to create new ones? Really??
And im sorry but Cordelia isn't believable as a powerful witch, she comes accross weak. Just like in first witch series when It was ridiculous that she would take over from Fiona!
Also this series needs more Jessica Lange!! I stopped watching all the series after the carnival one- couldn't work out why it wasn't as good! Then I realised it's becsuse Jessica Lange wasn't in it anymore. Having her just as Constance in one episode (episode 6) is not enough!! Especially when Sarah Paulson was in it as the medium just to confuse us again, as she wasn't unlike Cordelia!
And im sorry but Cordelia isn't believable as a powerful witch, she comes accross weak. Just like in first witch series when It was ridiculous that she would take over from Fiona!
Also this series needs more Jessica Lange!! I stopped watching all the series after the carnival one- couldn't work out why it wasn't as good! Then I realised it's becsuse Jessica Lange wasn't in it anymore. Having her just as Constance in one episode (episode 6) is not enough!! Especially when Sarah Paulson was in it as the medium just to confuse us again, as she wasn't unlike Cordelia!
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