American Horror Story is back with its fourth episode of season seven entitled “11/9”, an episode which didn’t really continue what we have been seeing in the last 3 episodes, but it was still a great one.

To make things a bit clearer, I will comment on the events by chronological order, since the scenes in the episode were a little all over the place. By the way, I am not saying this is a bad thing, I actually liked it because it made my brain start working right in the first hours of the morning.

In this episode politics definitely had a major role, since we were put through the last few hours before Election Day. Ivy asks Ally to go with her to a rally, but she doesn’t want to since she is sure Hillary is going to win, so the rally is pointless. It is precisely because of people like her that nothing gets done, not just in America, but all over the world. People who just think “Why bother going if I can stay home and do whatever I want?”. And when something they didn’t want to happen, really does happen, they complain. This is exactly Ally’s case. She was so sure Hillary would win that she didn’t even vote for her. Then she cried her eyes out and screamed until her lungs hurt when Trump won. Even though she is probably the character who complains most about Trump’s victory, she seems to be one of the few who can’t say anything about it, because she didn’t try to prevent it.

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But anyway, these flashbacks for the day before the election focused, for once, on Ivy. A Trump supporter harassed her right in the middle of the protest, and this was really the first moment she met Winter. Probably for the first time in the show, Winter didn’t act weird and even helped Ivy catch the man who did that to her. Even though what they did to him may have seemed a bit extreme, it was definitely nothing he didn’t deserve. The most unfortunate thing about this is that this man may be fiction, but there are real ones out there who think it is OK to do whatever they want to women and get away with it.

If there was a main character in this episode, that was Kai, who popped up in every time line. He made the harasser so desperate to vote, that he cut off his own hand. I think Evan Peters really nailed it in this episode. We hadn’t had the chance to really see Kai before. Sure he was in all 3 previous episodes, and we knew he was weird, but we never got to see how far he is willing to go to get what he wants. Not really at least. Kai managed to make that man think the entire result of the elections, the choice between Clinton and Trump, rested upon his hands, and if he didn’t vote he would have to see a woman lead the most powerful country on Earth.

It was with these kinds of arguments that Kai managed to recruit Harrison and Meadow Wilton. The couple had just lost everything, so Kai comes in with his ideas of world domination, and about the fact that there should be no labels. Sure it would be great labels didn’t exist, that we were all simply citizens of the same country/world, but labels will always be there. When we look at a person we label her/him immediately, from the most obvious: gender, color; to the ones we find out later: like sexual orientation, among others. If Kai thinks he can change this, he is very wrong.

But this weird couple weren’t the only people he recruited to his little cult. A reporter featured in the previous episode, Beverly Hope, also made it into Kai’s secret group. Understanding she had a lot of rage inside her, after looking into her past, Kai went to talk to her continuing to advertise his ideas: starting in the city council, and slowly climb his way up until who knows where. To prove he is serious and not just some guy who likes to talk crazy, Kai orders the death of Serena Belinda, Beverly’s rival, while the camera filmed it. I have to say that recruiting a reporter was a great idea, because, as we started seeing later in the episode, Beverly is slowly trying to spread fear while telling the news.

As I said before, even though this episode didn’t follow the footsteps of the previous ones, it was still a very nice one. The change of pace felt like a welcoming change. This wasn’t my favorite episode so far (I prefer the previous one because it was more intense), but I it will take the second place. Really looking forward to see this newish character of Beverly. I am giving it a 9.0/10.

The fifth episode of the season is entitled “Holes” and it does seem it will continue to mess with Ally’s fears, because we already know that she and holes don’t really get along.