American Horror Story - Season 8, Episode 09: Fire and Reign
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In a horrifying and exciting atmosphere, this series presents a new story in each season, following it from the beginning till its' end. And it has managed to achive great success and get high rates among the critics. In this season, we see a new exciting story which takes after the final people who survived after the Apocalypse. They have to follow particular rules if they want to keep in safe.
This episode got the season as a whole back on track almost seamlessly. Nothing felt out of place, with the plot flowing simply into the final chapter of this story.
I have never seen The Omen III: The Final Conflict, but I hear terrible things about it. I love that Michael came up with his idea to destroy the world... by watching a sub-standard horror film from the 1980s.
Speaking of me being over something, I also think it is lazy writing, and has been repeated far too much over the course of this entire series, that at the end of the series the only way to get rid of everyone is a mass death.
While the episode did not return all of the season's luster, which had been sucked dry during the last episode, it was an intriguing and captivating take on revenge, time travel and the ultimate forms of magic.
And so now, all the pieces are in place for next week's season finale, except for any explanation whatsoever of Timothy and Emily's role in all of this.
You'd think Fire and Reign would've at least been the standard 48 minutes. Instead, we're given a much shorter episode - one that depicts only the events that we already knew, therefore feeling rather pointless.
