The story was unexpectedly well done, for sure. For me, the only real letdown was the bizarrely unmotivated turning of Lucy, which seemed like it was totally out of nowhere. ("Oh, that one girl you know hurt your feelings? NOW SHE'LL BE A VAMPIRE FOREVER!")

Maybe next season there will be an equally awesome new lady character to take her place?? We can hope.

Hmm, I definitely disagree with Les Chappell about the overall quality of the season. I found the majority of the episodes (basically all of them after the first three) to be surprisingly well-crafted, with strong narrative arcs, well-drawn and relatable characters, and genuinely surprising twists. (The fact that the…

It sounds like this show was written by the same people who wrote Glee!

Yeah, great point. WHERE IS THE SCHOOLING? That's one reason I have a hard time sympathizing with Cordelia's character— she seems to be so damned bad at her job.

Yeah, I agree that Fiona thought Misty was the Supreme. I just don't understand how that's much different from *Madison* being the Supreme with the power of Resurgence.

Looking for a coherent meaning here is probably just looking for disappointment, but did anyone understand why Fiona changed her mind about killing herself after learning about Misty? Sure, she learned that the other witches had lied to her, but it's not like they lied about anything significant— it's pretty much all…

Re the edit: OMG. (!!)

Also, it's not so much that it's hard to follow as that it really, really seems like the writers are making it all up as they go along. ("We need to do something with Hank." "I know, let's have him kill a woman out of nowhere!" "Okay, now what?" "Make him a witchhunter." "Now what?" "Uh, and he works for Marie…

MissEli, that's a great point about the underlying class tensions in this story. And you're totally right that the writers should make more of the fact that Laveau hasn't accumulated more wealth and power in all her years in New Orleans.

It's repetitive, for sure. On the other hand, everyone who has a mother seems to be getting abused by her this season… (Delphine's kids, Cordelia) This is the season for crappy, abusive moms, I guess.

Well, technically Delphine's decapitation does count as a gamechanger, since… she doesn't have a body any more. In that Delphine is almost entirely tangential to the plot, though, yeah, not that much moved forward.

The problem isn't that Laveau is a black villain, but that she's a one-note black villain in a show that's basically entirely about humanizing a complex and interesting white villain (Fiona). Compared with the amount of time and attention the writers are willing to lavish on villainous Fiona and Delphine, and the…

That would've been an awesome twist. Sadly, the writers don't seem to have that level of inventiveness in them this season…

It was Madison. It just didn't look like her in the moment because she seemed genuinely upset, rather than poutily apathetic.

I really like this theory, but what about Camille and her family? A lot of their present trauma seems to come from the fact that they *were* starting to move on after Camille's death. (Lena, at least, seems like she'd moved on, even if her mom and dad were still grieving. Though, maybe Claire's grief, and her prayers…

Also, if Lucy is now a revenant… does that mean that anyone else who dies from now on will be converted as well, like the least impactful zombie takeover ever?

Re Simon: I'm interpreting his reluctance to speak as a carryover from his previous life. So far, his defining characteristic seems to be an inability to cope with his own problems, i.e. his depression (alluded to in this episode, when Adele tells him accusatorily, "You told me you were happy, that you were over it,"…