REVIEW: American Horror Story, Episode 706
American Horror Story continues with this sixth episode of its Cult season entitled “Mid-Western Assassin”, and this was really a very enlightening episode with lots of twists and turns.
For a change, the episode started with a flashforward scene, and a very intense one I must say. It wasn’t that hard to guess Kai survived the gunshot, but I really didn’t expect Ally was the one who fired. Of course, we later found out it wasn’t exactly her, but I didn’t know that at the time.
Continuing last week’s episode, after Ally saw Meadow she decided to finally toughen up and go save her neighbor. I am so glad Ally finally grew a spine, because she really knows by now she isn’t imagining things and the clowns after her are very real, so she has to fight if she wants to prevail. Ally frees Meadow from the garage, and we learned why the cult turned against her: she realized what we did from moment one, which means, she realized Kai is an asshole who cares about himself and getting what he wants, so he will do whatever he has to, to get it. Kai was just playing her, and everyone else really, and after Meadow finally realized that, she left (or almost did, since she was kidnapped). Even though this whole story was fake, I still believe Kai cares about getting what he wants, and nothing more, because if he cared about the cult wouldn’t ask Meadow to shoot him, because there is no scenario in whichc that would turn out good for her.
This new idea of making Ally crazy by telling her the truth is really a struck of genius. Sure she was scared, but she had Ivy to run to when things got tough, which means she now has no one. She knows the whole truth, everything that has been going on, but she can’t say it because she will sound beyond crazy. The one person she thinks she can count on is doctor Rudy, but we now know better. Maybe he isn’t on the directly cult, but he probably reports to Kai. Kai may be a jerk, but he is smart, and this was probably his smartest idea yet.
We also found out why the cult is targeting Ally specifically: because of Ivy. Ivy hates her wife now, and it all started when Oz was born. We learned Ozzy is Ally’s biological son, and Ally made sure to mention that many times, especially when she was breastfeeding him. Adding to this, came Ally’s annoying phobias (I am going to have to agree with Ivy on this one), and now she wants a divorce, but Ivy knows she will never get full custody of Oz. Unless of course, Ally completely loses it, proving she is unfit to take care of their son.
In another great twist, Kai met Sally Keffler, a woman who decided to run against him for the empty sit on the city council. I really liked the scene in which she presented herself, because everything she said was very true. But because she represented serious competition for Kai, probably unlike the other candidate, I realized she wasn’t going to live much longer, and I was right. Even though Sally did look smart and like someone who would do a much better job than Kai, she also looked very weird. I guess that is customary in American Horror Story. When Ally told her about the cult, she wasn’t surprised at all, she just kept making casual conversation as if Ally had simply told her rice was on sale at the supermarket.
After having Sally killed and posting a suicide note on Facebook (“People won’t believe it”; “Of course they will. This is Facebook”), we finally got to see the scene from the beginning. It was finally in then that we found out Meadow was still working for the cult. Even though I believed her story in the beginning, I wasn’t too surprised by how most of what she said was a lie. Of course, it was still very surprising seeing Meadow kill herself. Now the police took Ally, but I don’t think they can arrest her, since she didn’t do it, and there are many people to testify that. I am sure she will be out in no time, because this will probably not be something left for the local police, so Samuels won’t put his hands on this.
Overall this was, as usual, a great episode. I definitely continue to say this season is shaping up to be one of the best ones (if not THE best one) so far. I am giving this episode an 8.9.
The seventh episode of this seventh season is entitled “Valerie Solanas died for your sins Scumbag” and in it we will start to see some previous cult leaders, so stay tuned.