I wonder why this season turned out so less structured than the previous ones.
Too many characters, but I can't really say that I blame the writers. They had so many cast members signed on that they had to try to make the most of each of them. I can understand, I mean, how often would one get to work with Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Patti Lupone and all the supporting cast (including guests like Christine Ebersole, Leslie Jordan, Mare Winningham etc.).
They really should've focused the storyline down - removed Taissa and Kyle (seriously, what do they do this entire series? Taissa was a red herring for supreme but it's increasingly obvious that she isn't).
Heck I wouldn't have been angry if they dropped Queenie and Nan and expanded Joan a bit more. Joan was obviously meant for more in the series (Ryan himself said he wanted her to do more episodes) so they kind of rushed her to death.
Asylum had roughly eight members in it's main cast, with around six that get their own guest arcs throughout the series.
Coven has nine members in it's main cast, with around three guest members who are more or less main cast anyway, and roughly five more guest characters that popped up at random intervals.
It's just too crowded.
I won't lie, I've loved every minute of it, but I did enjoy Asylum the most out of the three thus far.
Besides the aliens, Asylum was pretty coherent and at least had well planned and executed arcs. Practically nothing here has been well executed and certainly did not seem well planned.
I still love it, but again, because it's very entertaining regardless. Objectively looking at things that make a good TV show, Coven is quite worse than Asylum. Better than Murder House though, IMO.
I honestly felt like the aliens belonged in Asylum, but the more I think about it the whole idea of invasion literature and what not was much more prominent the decade prior.
.....which is exactly why I think they're teasing aliens right now for the season 4. It just fits the era, it was only touched upon in Asylum and they have a better opportunity to explain it a bit better too.
Heck, we might finally get our first series that remotely ties into a previous or future one. Using the aliens as a link between series could be a thing.
