American Horror Story is back with another great episode, the fifth of this season, entitled “Holes” and in it we finally learned a few things more about the cult.

Right in the first few minutes of the episode, it was officially confirmed that Ivy is a part of Kai’s cult. In fact, in this episode, we found out exactly who are its members: Kai, Winter, Ivy, Harrison, Meadow, Beverly, Detective Samuels, Gary (the guy who cut his arm to go vote in the last episode) and a guy who appeared for the first time, R.J. It was a bit surprising seeing that Ivy is a part of all this craziness. I know that I said in one of my previous reviews that maybe she was, but I don’t think I actually meant it. I really wasn’t prepared for this. But of course that it makes all the sense in the world, because even though their house was always full of evil clowns, Ivy was the only one who never seemed to see anything.

That one scene in the end of the episode made me wonder if there is someone else on the cult, and by “someone else”, I mean Rudy Richards, or better, Rudy Anderson. Apparently, Winter isn’t Kai’s only sibling, Ally’s psychologist is too. In fact, I think it is safe to say Rudy was the one who made Kai start walking downthe dark road he is on right now. I thought I saw some weird things in shows and movies before, but keeping your parent’s corpses in their old bedroom, lying in their old bed, definitely beats a lot of them. Not to mention the fact Kai goes there from time to time to speak to his mother. As weird families come, the Andersons really are very close to the top.

In contrary to what I thought, Meadow being missing isn’t really a scheme (at least not in the way I thought it was). Harrison was simply preparing territory to kill her, since she had been doubting Kai. The good news is that, before she was killed (at least I think she was), she told Ally that she can’t trust anyone: not the police, the neighbors… nor her wife. I am glad Ally knows about this now. I was a bit tired of seeing her continue to run back to Ivy every time. I hope she realizes she is alone in all of this, so she will have to toughen up, and fight if she wants to see her son everyday like she used to.

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But Meadow wasn’t the only one the cult turned against in this episode. Because R.J. was showing some hesitation when it came to spreading fear, all the members joined forces and killed him, slowly and painfully. Even a hesitant Ivy helped, making up for the fact she didn’t help killing Bob.

Another thing I have to say is that it has been great how this season has been dealing with fear. I love this topic, and it has really been well developed. Sure people get scared when there is a serial killer on the loose, but they don’t really care that much, because we all think that is something that happens only to other people, never to ourselves. Sure they can make curfews, and start being a little bit more careful, but in end of the day, not a lot changes. Of course things do change when a tape of someone being murdered by very freaky clowns is shown on national television. Fear is definitely starting to spread and it probably won’t take long for the city to fall into chaos. And then Kai will be able to have the “kingdom” he always wanted.

Overall, this was really an amazing episode. Finally we have been receiving much needed answers. American Horror Story never really had very long seasons, and this one is already almost halfway through. Hope things start getting more and more intense. This season has been really great, and I am sure it will continue down this road. I am giving this episode a 9.2/10.

The sixth episode of the season will air next Tuesdays, October 10^th, and it is entitled “Mid-Western Assassin”, so don’t miss it, because I won’t either.