Author: Andrea Reiher / Source: Variety
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Fire and Reign,” the ninth episode of “American Horror Story: Apocalypse.”
As “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” continued to work its way back to the actual apocalypse that kicked off the season, the penultimate episode, “Fire and Reign,” revealed why there only seemed to be six witches at the bunker in present day and also how the apocalypse came to be in the first place.
The show picked right back up with the two billionaire twits, Mutt and Jeff (Billy Eichner and Evan Peters, respectively) — and yes, those really are their names. Jeff was so sick of how awful the world is that he wanted to just burn it all down and start over. As luck would have it, he and Mutt were meeting with the Cooperative shortly. Ms. Venable (Sarah Paulson) asked to play a more important role in their company by meeting with the Cooperative too, but was rudely rebuffed (at first) and told them she quit.
Meanwhile, at the Coven in New Orleans, Mallory (Billie Lourd) was struggling with her powers and she started freaking out about Michael (Cody Fern) coming for them. Cordelia (Paulson) assured her that all witches would be safe under her aura shield, but Dinah (Adina Porter) broke the spell for Michael and Mir-bot (Kathy Bates), who then mercilessly gunned down all the witches with her shotgun arm. Cordelia, Mallory and Myrtle (Frances Conroy), who were upstairs at the time, survived, but Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) and Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) weren’t so lucky. Dinah surveyed the carnage, too, with a nauseated look on her face — but hey, Satan’s “thank you” for her helping his son was to give her a talk show, so she didn’t feel too badly.
In a really fun twist, it turned out that Mutt and Jeff planted a camera in Mir-bot and were using it to spy on Michael. They also could control Miriam’s speech and suggested to him that he burn…
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