American Horror Story: Coven Season Premiere "Bitchcraft" Review

            I do watch FX’s American Horror Story. But, even though it has the word Horror in its title, as it has gone from American Horror Story to American Horror Story: Asylum to American Horror Story: Coven, it has become less like a horror story, and more like a true story bent up and taken completely farther than it needs to, because aspects of this season are based on true events, but turned into something much different.

            Now we have a new story with new characters, but mostly the same actors and actresses, except for this season introduces Emma Roberts and Kathy Bates. The main character is played by Taissa Farmiga in this season. She is very good as her character. Sarah Paulson is very good as her character, too. And, of course, Jessica Lange is great as her character. Emma Roberts is very good as her character and Kathy Bates is very good as her character. Lastly, Jamie Brewer is good as playing her character. This episode had very good acting.

            Like the first two seasons, this show has absurd lines, illogical actions, and events that would not really happen that way. But these elements of the writing are written into the show so well that they work to add onto the show’s quality. I am glad that this story of the show is written to be fun and not a series horror show that is not scary. It has some humor, it is really enjoyable, and it is somewhat fast passed but somewhat not fast paced in a way that we still have character development but it does not move slowly. Anyway, with that element to the script it does not really have one dull moment. However, I have flaws with it. Certain scenes really seemed out of place or did not need to happen at all. And, I know this show always goes a bit too far, but this episode goes way too far in some moments. Though, even though those are somewhat major flaws, those are the only flaws I had in this section with this episode. That is why the screenplay for the show is very good.

            I like that they are doing the story of the tortured slaves in the 1800’s and I like the twist they added onto it. It was cool to add that true story into this season about witches. Also, the end of the episode was very surprising and a great setup to what looks like could be a great season. The main characters are funny, so they are likeable, and they, for the most part, have decent back stories behind them. This season’s plot may be my favorite of all of the first three stories. The plot is, of course, over-the-top, like the other seasons, but I think that is the only flaw I have with the story, because the story for this season of American Horror Story is great.

            I had already said that I really enjoyed this episode, because I did. The way they paced the episode, it only has about three scenes of character development for the main character, but it develops her character in almost the exact way they needed for this type of story, like they did with the rest of the characters. That way, you do not feel like you barely know the characters, but the episode has almost no dull moments. That makes is fast-paced, but also not fast-paced. This episode is really enjoyable.

            American Horror Story: Coven season premiere “Bitchcraft” has very good acting, very good writing, a great story, and is really enjoyable, but also has elements of the episode that went way too far, some over-the-top elements, and some scenes that felt like they were out of place or just did not need to be there in the first place. This is a very good season premiere.

            On the grading rating system, I give the episode a B+.
            On the out-of-ten rating system, I give the season premiere an 8.1/10.