S8E5

Boy Wonder

American Horror Story · 2018-10-10 · 40 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 18 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

After witnessing the Apocalypse, Coredelia must act quickly to stop Michael or face the end of days.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 18 comments — 4 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit18 read

“The scene with Misty's ashes rising and Cordelia dropping to her knees to comfort her after she resurrected felt like a punch int the heart.”
d4hm3r▲ 1,046about 75–100% inread it ↗
“minus some dragging (or filler) bits”
mssr_goose▲ 397about 0–100% inread it ↗
“we don't have 2.5 minutes to fap over Stevie Nicks, there are too many plot-lines running here”
▲ 385about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I promptly lost my shit when Miss Nicks appeared. I’m so glad that she came back for this season. The fact that she was singing to a recently resurrected Misty...what a scene!”

who made it

directed: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
written: John J. Gray

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Taissa Farmiga as Zoe Benson
Lily Rabe as Misty Day
Gabourey Sidibe as Queenie
BD Wong as Baldwin Pennypacker
Jon Jon Briones as Ariel Augustus
Billy Porter as Behold Chablis
John Getz as Mr. St. Pierre Vanderbilt

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