American Horror Story: Coven - Bitchcraft - Review (S3 Ep1)

Full Plot Summary

The episode starts off with a flashback of Madame Delphine Lalaurie's (played by Kathy Bates) house of torture. Next we see the return of Taissa Farmiga as Zoe, a young witch who accidentally kills her boyfriend... while they're having sex. Wait, let me rephrase that, BY having sex.

Zoe's Parents send her to Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies where she meets a group of other witches including Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts), Queenie (Gadibe Sidibe) and Nan (Jamie Brewer.) She is also introduced to Cordelia Fox (Sarah Paulson) who is the headmaster of the school. Cordelia tells Zoe of the witch-world and the Supreme, a very powerful witch that has numerous powers where normal witches only have one.

Next we're introduced to The Supreme, Fiona Goode (played by the fantastic Jessica Lange!) who is searching for a way to regain her youth, after failing she decides to go to Miss Robichaux's Academy to help Cordelia, who is actually her daughter, run the school.

Mishka is not amused...

Zoe and Madison decide go a a frat party where Madison is drugged and raped by numerous members of a fraternity. One of the members, played by Evan Peters, finds then and chases them from the party. When he tries to confront hid buddies, they knock him unconscious and start to drive away. Before they can get away Madison comes outside and flips their bus, killing almost all of them, including Evan Peter's character.

The next day Fiona decides to take the girls out to a field trip but end up in Madame Delphine's house, which is now a museum. While they're there we are told that the Madame was poisoned and presumed to be dead even though her body was never found... Nan tells Fiona that she can hear Madame Delphine voice outside. 

Zoe visits a hospital and finds the boy who survived, also realizing that he was the one who drugged Madison. She proceeds to have him enter her, which leads to him dying...

Finally the episode ends with Fiona who goes back to Madame Delphines House and digs up her coffin exactly where Nan said she heard the Madame. Fiona opens it and finds Delphine alive and well...

Bitchcraft Review

WHOOO, American Horror Story is back! After the masterpiece that was American Horror Story Asylum and what can only be described as fantastic marketing, I think we were all pretty exited for Coven! This season is about "Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies" AKA a house fo' witches. Right now I think it's too early to tell if this season is gonna be even more awesome than Asylum but at the moment its looking very promising!

One of my favorite things about the AHS series is the fact that they keep using the same actors but change the story, Coven is no different. This first episode featured so many of the fantastic actors from the previous seasons, the most notably being Taissa Farmiga as Zoe and Jamie Brewer as Nan. The only missing face that I can think of was Zachary Quinto's, but considering that in both the previous seasons he never made his fist appearance in the first episode we will hopefully still see him return! I'm also not sure if Evan Peters' character will make a comeback or if he is actually dead. Coven has also brought in some stellar new actors like Kathy Bates, Emma Robert and Gabourney Sidebe.



Another thing that makes AHS so special is how stylized it all looks. Once again Coven captures this perfectly, from the artistic camera shots and editing to the amazing symbolism, to the costumes and practical effects, everything is awesome and creepy. It also seems as though they aren't afraid to show anything "too disturbing" anymore.

The witch aspect of this season also seems very interesting. Seeing Jessica Lange being a reckless and ruthless bitch and Kathy Bates playing a deranged torturer is awesome, it really seems like they're going full on with this season. I'm also happy to see Taissa back again (but seriously though, I have to say that her power sucks, really badly.)  It was also great seeing Sarah Paulson's character making potions, which suggests that there's a lot more to the witch world than just moving stuff with your mind.

All in all this episode was great, it showcases everything that made Asylum amazing. Taking in to account the previous seasons, it's almost impossible to predict what will happen next but I'm extremely exited to find out! 

So tell me, what did you guys think of this first episode? Are you exited for the rest of the season?

Rating: 8/10

Sleepy Hollow S1, Ep4 - The Lesser Key of Solomon - Review

Sleepy Hollow is a retelling of the classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In this version the story takes place in the present. The series stars Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane who wakes up in modern day New York to find the Headless Horseman is also present in the city. Together with Lt. Abbie Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) and his deceased wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter) they try and stop the Horseman (Death) from bringing back to life the other Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse...

Season 1 Episode 3: For The Triumph of Evil..., Recap:

• Abbie dreams of the Sandman who is busy exacting revenge on everyone who did not help Jennifer (Abbie's sister) when they had the chanceto do so.
• Before the Sandman can get Abbie, she and Ichabod then decide to enter the dream world to try and defeat Rokaronti.
• Abbie admits that she could've and should've helped her sister and by doing so, she wards away Rokaronti.
• Abbie decides to visit her sister but finds that Jennifer has escaped the Asylum.

Read the full review here!

Sleepy Hollow Season 1 Episode 4: The Lesser Key of Solomon - Summary

This week's episode began with Abbie exiting the asylum and telling Ichabod her sister escaped.After Abbs and Ich (yeah, that's what I'm gonna call them from now on because keping on saying, "Abbie and Ichabod", deal with it) speak with one of Jenni's previous foster parents, they find out that Jenni used to visit a cabin up in the woods numerous times when she was younger.

Abbs and Ich decide to go to the cabin and find Jenni but also that it was Sherrif Corbin's Cabin. After Jenni and Abbs have a quarrel Jenni explains that Crobin believed her and that he knew all along about the legend of Sleepy Hollow and what might happen. 

Jenni then proceeds to take out a big wooden box that Corbin asked her to protect. Inside they find a old sextant and a piece of cloth that Ich remembers seeing during the Boston Tea Party. Ich then realizes that the sextant actually projects and old map of sleepy hollow.

Before they can properly look at the projection, they are ambushed by gunfire. After two of the men escape with the sextant, Jenni, Abbs and Ich interrogate another one of them who didn't get away. Ich finds out they are Hessian soldiers (German soldiers who had been laying dormant while they wait for the return of the Horsemen.) They then fin out that the map was showing the location of the Lesser Key of Solomon, a old mythological book that can open a gate for 72 demons who can reign terror down on earth. The Hessian's final words, before he takes a cyanide pill, are, "Moloch shall rise."
They later find out that Moloch is a demon and the one who summoned the Horseman in the first place and is trapping Ich's wife.

They all quickly go to a Church that the map pointed out and find the other two Hessians have already opened the gate but before the souls escape they burn the book and kill both of the men, foiling yet another of Moloch's plans...


Sleepy Hollow Season 1 Episode 4: The Lesser Key of Solomon - Review

Whew, that was a mouthful! So in this week's episode featured The Lesser Key of Solomon. While the ever changing story arcs of Sleepy Hollow does keep the show interesting, it does feel as though they are blazing through them while not showing enough of Death. The last time we saw him was in Episode 2?! Seriously, where is the Headless Horseman? Is he chilling in Sleepy Hollow somewhere? Is he busy plotting his next attack? Because I sure would love to know.

Other then Death's absence from yet another episode I really think they shouldn't have rushed through this story arc in one single episode, I understand that season one was only commissioned for 5 or 6 episodes but then they should have waited and kept this for season 2. It's almost starting to feel like American Horror Story Season 1 where the show has all these different plots and characters that you end up not really caring about any of them.

We were seriously bombarded with new information this episode, from Corbin's involvement with Jenni to more back story for Inc and Abbs to all the Hessian bullshit and finding out that Moloch is the puppeteer causing all these problems. While I think it's awesome that the show has a lush and interesting plot I really think they should SLOW IT DOWN!

I don't know about you guys but I didn't even think that the whole Lesser Key of Solomon and Hessian story was that interesting. The demons were cool but they didn't even get through the gate. The whole episode built up to the scene with exposition, but it was a huge anti-climax which ended in less than five minutes.

I really hope that they will return to the Horsemen's story in the final two episodes while also exploring Moloch's plan since I genuinely find both of then very interesting.

One of my favorite things about the show is it's character design so I'm very excited to see Moloch's full from.

All in all I was not impressed with this episode, I'm definitely going to continue watching the show I just really hope they take everything a bit slower...

Rating: 6/10

Sleepy Hollow Season 1: Episode 3 Review

Sleepy hollow is a TV show which has recently aired on Fox and while I didn't review the first two episodes I think it's still early enough in the series to to do so (also early enough for you to catch up if you're are not yet watching!)

Sleepy Hollow is a retelling of the classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In this version the story takes place in the present. The series stars Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane who wakes up in modern day New York to find the Headless Horseman is also present in the city. Together with Lt. Abbie Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) and his deceased wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter) they try and stop the Horseman (Death) from bringing back to life the other Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse...

Season 1 Episode 2: Blood Moon, Recap:

• Ichabod and Abbie stopped Serilda of Abadon from being completely revived
• Abie had a vision of Sherrif Crobin who tells her to not be afraid of 49
• We see Abbie's sister beefin' it up in her cell and we also learn that she doesn't like to take her meds...

Season 1 Episode 3: For The Triumph of Evil...

Episode 3 started with Abbie's very creepy dream sequence where we are introduced to the awesome Sandman (or as he's referred to in the show, Rokaronti.) In te show Rokaronti is a dream-demon who punishes people who idly stand by when they could be helping others, just like Abbie let everyone believe her sister was crazy by not telling the truth. After Abbie finds out that the demon will come for her, she and Ichabod go into Rokartonti's dream world where she destroys him by finally admitting that she should have helped her sister and told the truth. After Abbie and Ichabod wake up, Abbie decides to go visit her sister only to find that she escaped the asylum...

I think that this was a really great episode. With each week I find myself liking the show more and more. I loved that they are exploring all these different types of myths and not just staying with the Horsemen story arch. That being said, I feel as though this episode was too disjointed from the previous ones, there was absolutely no mention of the Horsemen or Katrina. I understand that the purpose of this episode was to better explain Abbie and Jennifer's relationship and history but I still think they could have tied it in with the rest of the series in a much better way.

But again I have to say that seeing Jennifer and Abbie's story was really interesting and by using the Sandman they did a fantastic job at keeping with the theme and atmosphere of the series. Hopefully we will find out what exactly the demon was planning to do to Abbie and her sis those four days in the woods, since it wasn't explored in the episode. 

Something that I'm really glad about is that the new Sheriff is letting Ichabod and Abbie do their work even if he doesn't exactly believe it's real. Lastly I just wanna say that I think they did a fantastic job with Rokaronti's character model, he kinda looks like a cross between Pyramid Head and the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth...

dem' moobs

Anyway I think that this series has a lot of potential and is getting better and better with each episode!  Tell me, what did you think of the episode and are you guys enjoying the show so far? 

Rating 8/10