FX's 'American Horror Story' promises new scares
American Horror Story offers a new variety of scares. Coven,
the third season of the FX anthology
Series, differs in
many ways from Season 2, trading a harrowing asylum for a witches' coven; 1960s
Massachusetts for present-day New Orleans; and deep, deep darkness for scary
with a dash of comedy, co-creator Ryan Murphy says. Coven features a mix of veterans of earlier Horror seasons in different roles — including
Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Frances Conroy — and newcomers
such as Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett.
Lange, in her third Horror turn, trades in her nun's garb from Asylum for a more glamorous look as Fiona,
"the world's biggest liberal" and a Supreme, the most powerful witch
of her generation. Fiona comes back to New Orleans to protect the younger
witches in an academy run by her daughter, Cordelia (Asylum's Sarah
Paulson), with whom she has a hostile relationship. The youthful coven members,
played by Horror alumnae Taissa Farmiga and Jamie
Brewer and first-timers Gabourey Sidibe and Emma Roberts, have ties to the
Salem witches and possess a range of powers, including telekinesis,
mind-reading and an undesired ability to kill via sex.
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