I do so hope the scenery onAmerican Horror Story: Apocalypseis insured, becauseJessica Langeis back to chew it to pieces. Speaking at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, executive producerAlexis Martin Woodallconfirmed that the three-time Emmy winner would return for theCoven/Murder Housecrossover. FX has also reportedly [viaDeadline] “invited all the witches to return,” referring to fellowAHS: Covenco-starsTaissa Farmiga,Lily Rabe,and Emma Roberts.No guarantees yet, “But the invitation is out there.”
What the TCA panel definitely, 100% couldnotconfirm, despite using some linguistic gymnastics that will make your head spin, is what in the actual heckAmerican Horror Story: Apocalypseis about. As is typical for Ryan Murphy’s long-running spook-a-palooza anthology, the exact nature of season 8 is being kept tightly under wraps.
“The story begins with the end of the world, and then our world begins," Woodall said, working incredibly hard to say exactly nothing.
“It’s the apocalypse in the truest sense of the word,” added longtimeAmerican Horror Storystar,Sarah Paulson. Just for shits and gigs,thisis the first result for “apocalypse” in Webster’s Dictionary:
One of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200b.c.toa.d.150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom
So, you know, season 8 could be about…that.
Winning the award for most baffling explanation goes toKathy Bates, who told the assembled TCA crowd, “It’s notNight of the Rabbits.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Kathy Bates is referring to the so-bad-it’s-good 1972 sci-fi filmNight of the Lepus—based on the even more amazingly named 1964 novel,Year of the Angry Rabbit—which is about a world overrun with giant, mutated rabbits.
So, to recap,American Horror Story: Apocalypsewill include: Jessica Lange [✔], The Apocalypse [✔], giant, mutated rabbits [X].
