Stephen Campbell
Jul 6, 2019
Thoughts on Apocalypse > In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet. - William L. Shirer; The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1960) Less a stand-alone narrative than a sequel to Murder House, Hotel, and especially Coven, American Horror Story: Apocalypse makes explicit what fans have implicitly known since Pepper (Naomi Grossman) was committed to Briarcliff towards the end of Freak Show - each season takes place in a shared universe (as well as being a sequel to the three aforementioned seasons, Apocalypse also features oblique references to Asylum, Freak Show, and Roanoke). In recent years, the show has unquestionably stumbled, first with the poorly constructed meta-narrative of Roanoke and then with the horrendous Cult, leaving a fanbase yearning for a return to the brilliance o







































