Author: Jackie Strause / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
[This story contains spoilers for FX’s American Horror Story season eight.]
The chaos has won.
It’s the end of the world, but that’s just the beginning on American Horror Story. The eighth season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s horror anthology firmly established a new world with the launch of Apocalypse on Wednesday night.
Though the season arrived with much anticipation — the cycle features the long-promised crossover of earlier seasons Murder House and Coven — it also debuted with much secrecy. Aside from a trailer and brief character descriptions (the episode was not screened ahead of time for press), many questions begged answers from episode one, namely: How exactly will the show’s inner mythology play into the Apocalypse theme?
The setting for Apocalypse is Outpost Three, one of 10 underground havens for the lucky chosen ones — either rich or hand-selected — who survived a catastrophic ballistic missile attack. The fallout shelter was a former boys school that was co-opted by a group called The Cooperative in order to prepare for the attack. The cost of admission: $100 million per slot.
The house is run by Wilhemina Venable, one of the three characters Sarah Paulson will play on the season, and functions as a class system with three rules: address her only as Ms. Venable, there is no going outside or reentry, due to radiation contamination, and no unauthorized copulation. Anyone who disobeys is punished or even shot in the head.
There are “the Grays,” the workers of the outpost, and “the Purples,” those who were chosen to join.
The house is a “collection of a dozen of the greatest minds mankind has to offer, the visionaries,” Venable tells two Purples, Timothy Campbell (Kyle Allen) and Emily (Ash Santos), who were selected because their genetic makeups made them prime candidates to survive the blast. “It may seem to you a regression, but you’d be dead wrong,” Venable says of the outpost being a place where “natural order will restore itself.”“Technology is what destroyed the world. Social media gave people the illusion they were equal, but that’s all been swept away,” she says.
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