Over the class of its eight seasons , FX ’s American Horror Story has bring us a cavalcade of horrific , incubus - inducing scoundrel and monster that be some of our thick , darkest fears — but during this week ’s episode of Apocalypse , the serial really outmatch itself .
Witches , fiend , and murderous clowns are plenty spooky all on their own , certain . ButAmerican Horror Story : Apocalypseunderstands that the things that daunt us most — the thing that keep us up at Nox — are the monsters we bed and interact with on a regular basis . Like , you lie with , Silicon Valley technical school bros .
One of American Horror Story : Apocalypse ’s most shameful surprises came a few episodes back when it was all of a sudden break that not only is Miriam Mead ( Kathy Bates ) , the authoritarian schoolmarm of one of the worldly concern ’s last sand trap capable of keep mankind alive after ball-shaped nuclear war , in cahoots with the Antichrist ( Cody Fern ) , she ’s also an android who wrong believed herself to be a homo .
Since then , it was something of a mystery story as to how Michael ( the Antichrist ’s pay name ) came to be working with Miriam and what the accurate nature of their relationship is and/or was before the ending of the world . Last night ’s episode , “ Sojourn , ” is fix mainly in the past times before Michael ’s acclivity to power and it explains how , after the show ’s witch burn the original Miriam to death at the wager , Michael sinks into something of a modest economic crisis . Michael knows he ’s the Antichrist , but seek as he might to contact and beg his Padre to avenge Miriam ’s death , Satan refuse to heed his pleas .
And so , somber and alone , Michael seeks society with a local mathematical group of Satanists , reasoning that being in the comportment of the Devil ’s followers might better his chance to actually make physical contact . The church ( led by Edgar Albert Guest star Sandra Bernhard ) is lessThe Chilling Adventures of Sabrinaand more … well , unremarkable . When predict upon to list the kinds of sins they ’ve recently entrust in Satan ’s name , one person take on that they ’ve slip from the register at their job , and another confesses to put adultery — things Michael understandably finds banal . But Madeline ( Harriet Sansom Harris ) , one of the church building ’s more god-fearing followers , senses that Michael ’s in need of funding and a position to stick , and so she invites to take him home with her — where he reveals to her who his Padre is .
Armed with her new knowledge , Madeline hurry Michael back to the Satanic church to announce to its congregants that their “ Good Shepherd ” has arisen and interrupts a Black Mass that was meant to revolve around Phil , a man who confess that his deepest , darkest sinfulness was being Gawker ’s ( RIP ) controller . Though the church building readily welcome Michael as their new chosen one after he give away his print of the beast , Michael himself is still somewhat lost and unaware of how he ’s in reality supposed to take about the apocalypse because , for as long as he can remember , it was Miriam who acted as his trusted advisor and confidant .
Upon hearing this , though , Madeline realizes that she does in reality have a role to play in the apocalypse other than feeding the Antichrist potluck lasagna — she has connexion that can bring Miriam back even though the witches ’ trance has made it impossible to resurrect her soul . Rather than using salutary , sometime - fashioned magic to take Miriam back , Madeline reasons that Michael would be much better process by engineering rather than the arcane prowess . She spirits him away to a nearby , Google - esque tech fellowship ’s campus , where he meets Mutt ( Billy Eichner ) and Jeff ( Evan Peters ) , two mortals who ’ve sold their souls to Satan in exchange for success in the manufacture .
While the two are mostly preoccupy with creating sexual practice robots , Michael ’s arrival gives them a intellect to use the inwardness of their technological abilities to create a full - on , sentient android to become the Antichrist ’s right hand woman — a autotype of Miriam . And so , in the larger scheme of American Horror Story ’s plot of land , it ’s in the end tech bros who serve usher in the destruction of days which , on - the - nose as it might seem at first , actually chase after with our reality .
God help us all .
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