"AMERICAN HORROR STORY: Coven" - First Teasers

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Better shot of Angela Bassett and first shot of Kathy Bates.

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Entertainment Weekly details: -

  • Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange) is a "supreme" known throughout the witching world for her abilities. She is considered witch royalty, and has been using her powers to stay "fabulous". (I assume this means young. >_>)
  • The murder of a young witch near New Orleans prompts Fiona to return home from L.A.
  • Her return to home reunites her with her previously estranged daughter, Cordelila (Sarah Paulson), who has been running Hogwarts as a safe haven for witches.
  • The witch bloodline is dwindling because many members won't reproduce as they are fearful their children will be persecuted.
  • There will be "multiple enemy factions" to the witches, but the only ones they're talking about right now are the voodoo witches.
  • Fiona wants to train the witches up to battle the voodoo, while Cordelia wants to come to a peaceful resolution.
  • Madison (Emma Roberts) is a troubled teen starlet who is also a witch.
  • Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) is a tough girl
  • Nan (Jamie Brewer) is a mysterious and enigmatic witch
  • Zoe (Taissa Farmigia) is a shy girl with a gift, and the newest to the coven.
  • Kyle (Evan Peters) is a Tulane frat boy who crushes on Zoe.
  • Both 1970s and the 1830s timelines will be explore (there may be more)
  • Kathy Bates features in the 1830s timeline, as Delphine LaLaurie.
  • LaLaurie uses the slaves blood as a wrinkle cream and is a prime enemy of the voodoo witches, whose head is Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett).
  • LaLaurie and Laveau's storylines are tangled through the ages, apparently (I don't know what this means)
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EVERYONE LOOKS ICONIC ;_;

Precious looks a MESS tho but I'm perched for her performance
 
Iced_Eagle said:
Each season is completely standalone, not even loosely connected in terms of story, so you'll be fine.

Hopefully they put Asylum up on Netflix soon since you haven't seen it. It was awesome/horrifying.


Just read that first episode synopsis. Can't fucking wait!
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Good...yeah I wasn't sure if there were any connections at all with the overlapping cast members and everything. Good to know they stuck with the standalone series idea. I like self contained stories like this.
 
Mr. Sandman said:
Good...yeah I wasn't sure if there were any connections at all with the overlapping cast members and everything. Good to know they stuck with the standalone series idea. I like self contained stories like this.
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The thing I love about is the team can basically write it as one story. While it is still ridiculous, it stays fresh and cast members can enter and exit like they please (Lizzie Brochere and James Cromwell spring to mind from last year, while Alex Breckenridge and Taissa Farmigia are returning this year from Season 1, for example).

It also means they don't have to keep putting in meaningless plot twists or plot holes with intention to write them out later - they can write it all from the beginning knowing it will end this season.

I really hope they keep coming up with great ideas.
 
Nemesis_ said:
I really hope they keep coming up with great ideas.
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Not only that, I'd like to see this format expand to other genres. American television needs more self contained stories. I feel that is one thing anime has in spades that we don't get often enough.
 
Mr. Sandman said:
Not only that, I'd like to see this format expand to other genres. American television needs more self contained stories. I feel that is one thing anime has in spades that we don't get often enough.
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Would you consider 24 to be this kind of thing? As far as I remember, most of it was all contained within one season.
 
Nemesis_ said:
Would you consider 24 to be this kind of thing? As far as I remember, most of it was all contained within one season.
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It kinda was but the world continued on so while the season had a contained story, the characters had to evolve from year to year.
 
Nemesis_ said:
-Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange) is a "supreme" known throughout the witching world for her abilities. She is considered witch royalty, and has been using her powers to stay "fabulous". (I assume this means young. >_>)

-The murder of a young witch near New Orleans prompts Fiona to return home from L.A.

-Both 1970s and the 1830s timelines will be explore (there may be more)
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I feel like season 3 could end with Jessica Lange returning to LA, season 1's events play out, then season 4 picks up where S1 left off. The writers could make up something to resolve the timeline of Sarah Paulson being two characters of different ages (Lana/Billie Dean) in the present time period, like anti-aging magic or whatever. Not sure what they would do with Violet or
Ben
from S1, though.

I'm rewatching S1 right now, and Constance can tell that Vivien's pregnant because she has the "nose of a truffle pig" (but really because of witchcraft DUNDUNDUN) and Billie Dean's powers could be explained the same way. Maybe Tate and Violet have some kind of residual connection from being Kyle/Zoe in S3. I'm only on the third episode so S1 isn't that fresh in my mind anymore. This theory's pretty out there, but with aliens and witchcraft they can basically write whatever they want.
 
Hige said:
I feel like season 3 could end with Jessica Lange returning to LA, season 1's events play out, then season 4 picks up where S1 left off. The writers could make up something to resolve the timeline of Sarah Paulson being two characters of different ages (Lana/Billie Dean) in the present time period, like anti-aging magic or whatever. Not sure what they would do with Violet or
Ben
from S1, though.

I'm rewatching S1 right now, and Constance can tell that Vivien's pregnant because she has the "nose of a truffle pig" (but really because of witchcraft DUNDUNDUN) and Billie Dean's powers could be explained the same way. Maybe Tate and Violet have some kind of residual connection from being Kyle/Zoe in S3. I'm only on the third episode so S1 isn't that fresh in my mind anymore. This theory's pretty out there, but with aliens and witchcraft they can basically write whatever they want.
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My only issue with this is that Billy Dean was kind of built up to be a flakey psychic. She could communicate with the dead, but there were times where her skills were ridiculed by other members of the cast and sometimes I felt even by the writers too.

The antichrist prophecy she talks about, with the Pope's box doesn't really come true in the way that she describes it (though this might've been the writers simply not knowing what to do with it) and her method of vanquishing the ghosts also didn't work.

Maybe I'm reading into it too much, but I saw her character as a kind of commentary on the idea of "psychics" in the modern day.

But the more I think about it, the more I think I'm wrong since she clearly communicated with so many dead characters throughout the series. But I find it interesting they only showed her communicating with certain characters and not all of them - for example, why didn't they show us Adelaide and her talking when she was talking to Constance about her child? That always striked me as odd and made me wonder if Billie Dean was just making shit up whenever she couldn't get a proper "read" of people.
 
Her powers were weak because she's still recovering from regaining her powers and de-aging herself! ;)

Nemesis_ said:
But the more I think about it, the more I think I'm wrong since she clearly communicated with so many dead characters throughout the series. But I find it interesting they only showed her communicating with certain characters and not all of them - for example, why didn't they show us Adelaide and her talking when she was talking to Constance about her child? That always striked me as odd and made me wonder if Billie Dean was just making shit up whenever she couldn't get a proper "read" of people.
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From what little I can remember, I think that scene felt like it was supposed to be legit? Might have just been an actor availability issue. Or just making things up like you said.
 
So I just finished season 1 on Netflix and I had a question. It seems the cast (or some of them) return each season. I am guessing each season is like a self-contained show right? Like there is no season to season plot. Because the returning cast members confuse me on that part.
 
Koomaster said:
So I just finished season 1 on Netflix and I had a question. It seems the cast (or some of them) return each season. I am guessing each season is like a self-contained show right? Like there is no season to season plot. Because the returning cast members confuse me on that part.
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Each season is self-contained and has nothing to do with each other besides some common actors. AHS is kind of like a meta-show with a completely new series in each season.
 
Kathy Bates is going to be phenomenal because that's the only thing she ever is.

I look forward to another trainwreck, because that's all this show is, but it sure is a wonderful trainwreck.
 
BrokenEchelon said:
Kathy Bates is going to be phenomenal because that's the only thing she ever is.

I look forward to another trainwreck, because that's all this show is, but it sure is a wonderful trainwreck.
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Kathy Bates and Gabourey Sidibe are going to deliver big time (no phun intended) but Angela Bassett is going to be the fiercest bitch in this joint.
 
eLZhi said:
Alex Breckenridge is back? My body can never be ready.
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Yeah, a lot of the season 1 cast seem to be returning now that I think about it. I think the only one who isn't right now is Connie Britton, and that's odd to me since this season is very female focused. I'm not sure what she does outside of AHS, maybe she is busy?

Dylan and Connie are the only cast members waiting to come back from Season 1 (if they even are coming back). I wouldn't be surprised if Connie were to make an appearance during the second half of the season as a surprise, much like Dylan did.
 
Nemesis_ said:
Yeah, a lot of the season 1 cast seem to be returning now that I think about it. I think the only one who isn't right now is Connie Britton, and that's odd to me since this season is very female focused. I'm not sure what she does outside of AHS, maybe she is busy?
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She's a lead on Nashville.
 
First look at Patti LuPone's character.

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LuPone has said about her character

"she's a personification of the religious right, much like Piper Laurie in 'Carrie.'"​

I guess she'll be a bat shit insane religious person against the witch movement?
 
It looks like Coven may be more (darkly) humorous than the previous seasons (not a bad thing, considering that Asylum was a lot better than S1 due to it).

Lyla: Obsessed obsessed obsessed with the American Horror Story promo featuring my favorite, Sarah Paulson. Do you have any spoilers on her character and storyline?

Good news, we just talked to Paulson about Coven, and she told us that this season will be more fun than Asylum and it's a story about the "forgotten" people. "I definitely feel that this season has a lighter tone. There is some humor there. Jessica [Lange]'s got some real zingers this year," she says. "Last year, to me, was really extraordinary because it was really about something and that time period in our country's history. But I sort of feel like this year Ryan [Murphy] finds a way to tell the story of the forgotten and left behind and that's what he does so brilliantly and this will be some of that as well. But there are a lot of powerful women and there are some extraordinary actresses on the show and some real powerhouses, so the fireworks are liable to fly!" Is it October yet?
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Also, new posters
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RatskyWatsky said:
The whole levitating witch thing is dumb and isn't visually interesting at all imo. I like the bottom right one though. It's actually sort of creepy.
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I think the hovering thing is a little bit creepy when you see it in motion and while you're in the "atmosphere" of the moment. I remember it creeped the fuck out of me during the ending of Paranormal Activity 3.

But you're right when you say it's not as visually interesting. Especially compared to the other posters we've got.
 
Now that Copper has been cancelled, Franka Potente needs to join the cast of Coven as, like, a Cajun voodoo priestess or something.

Nemesis_ said:
I missed this, but did you guys all consider Asylum to be much more "humorous" than the first season? I thought Asylum was much, much darker (besides the whole Name Game sequence, obviously).
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I thought Asylum was much darker as well, but it also had a lot more humor than Murder House. Season one was mostly unintentionally humorous, while season two was much more conscious of its silliness.
 
I seriously cannot wait for this to start. The cast is just phenomenal. I hope Patti LuPone has scenes with Kathy Bates and Jessica Lange.

Also, if they miss out on the chance for another musical number when they have Christine Ebersole and Patti LuPone in the cast then I don't even know what the world is coming to.
 
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