“I want the footage to shock the public out of their
complacency, you understand? I want moral outrage. I want to put America in the
asylum.” (Lana
Winters)
I recently finished to watch
for the second time the second season of American
Horror Story (AHS) and I feel to write about it. First of all,
it is common sense to state it was a success. It was very satisfying to notice
a more monitored narrative structure and a strictly planned story development. However, it is certain that in this context we have to
give a particular shade to the adjective monitored,
since in thirteen episodes we assist to exorcisms, electroshocks,
anti-homosexuality therapies, racism, aliens, Nazis, cruel experiments on human
beings, crucifixions, serial killers, suicides and even musicals! There is no
doubt that the final result does not leave the viewer unenthusiastic.
Lana (
How about Sister Jude? After she was forgotten by the world, the good Kit saved and took care of
her, and basically made her a sort of granny for his children. The excessive
presence of aliens, however, disturbs and disrupts the poetry of the epilogue.
Frankly speaking, Kit’s final segment of the story is the one that does not
work at its whole. Besides Evan Peters’ great interpretation, I believe Kit is
the most useless character of the season.Last scenes show an old Lana, maybe satisfied with what she achieved in her life and career, or maybe not. After she gives an exclusive interview that works as backbone for the episode and helps unraveling the last knots of the season, the old lady faces her abandoned son. Lana has grown stronger, or maybe simply more bitchy. She learned how to play the game and shots her son right in the face, like she did with his father, Dr. Thredson. I have to admit that the sick psychotic, elegant shrink is my favorite character and I am quite disappointed to know he will not be part of the third season.
The very last scene increases the feeling of completeness of the season, by bringing us back to the 1964, at the first meeting between Sister Jude and Lana.
“Just remember: if you look in the face of evil, evil’s going to look right back at you.” (Sister Jude)Lana sneers and walks toward the exit, and in the background we start to hear the damn Dominique.
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