Spoilers below for American Horror Story S8.05 — Boy Wonder

American Horror Story S8.05 — Boy Wonder

Tonight’s episode mainly acted as setup for the BIG RETURN next week to Murder House and let me know tell you I was happy to watch an entire episode of people not understanding that Michael is the Antichrist for that moment.

After she collapses, Cordelia sees a vision of the world on fire and a white demon, who is responsible for the carnage. Who is that white demon? No, not Brett Kavanaugh — it’s obviously Michael. She agrees to let Michael take the Test of the Seven Wonders in 2 weeks and returns to New Orleans with her girls. She realizes her power is fading and knows that he will beat her.

Meanwhile, John Henry (Cheyenne Jackson) is very aware that Michael is evil and decides to drive to NOLA to tell the witches. Isn’t the warlock coven in upstate New York?? Why is he driving to New Orleans??? He is literally a magical being, he could probably teleport there or at least take Spirit (get it?) last minute!

Instead, he gets into his weird town car, stops for gas on a dark side road and is promptly murdered by Miriam (the real one — she’s not a robot yet — we assume). She returns to the warlock coven to celebrate with Michael and — surprise — Ariel (the Grand Chancellor) who has been in on it the whole time. Except that he doesn’t know who Michael’s father is… so he has not really been in on anything.

In New Orleans, we see Mallory murdering the magic game again by bringing a baby deer back to life. We also witness the beginning of Coco’s time at Miss Robichaux’s Academy — apparently, she is as rich and spoiled as a witch as she is in hiding. Her power? Detecting gluten. Girl, everyone with an upset stomach can do that.

When the women return, the Test of the Seven Wonders begins. In the same silent movie style as Coven, Michael passes them with flying colors. When they reach the last one, Cordelia raises the stakes by asking him to retrieve Misty from hell. But..is that actually raising the stakes? He already did this twice, so what’s the difference?

Fairly easily, he finds Misty in her personal hell, which is a high school biology class where she continually brings the frog back to life and then her teacher forces her to dissect it. Michael graphically murders the hell teacher and then all of the hell students lift their scary hell faces up and garble some weird hell noise that only he can understand. Oh yea, he’s the Antichrist.

When they return, Cordelia’s nose starts to bleed and thus, her rein as Supreme ends. She loudly whispers to her girls that she knew he was evil all along because, of course he was. But, she used his powers against him by forcing him to get all of her girls out of hell. Now, she must figure out exactly what she is.

Using Stevie Nicks’ surprise appearance & performance (lol) as a time for plan-making, she tasks Madison (Emma Roberts) with the recon mission back to Murder House to learn more about Michael. One of the warlocks is suspicious of Michael too, so he decides to join.

Basically, this whole episode was a setup for next week, which will be an amazing return to where it all began, with a side of a music video for Stevie Nicks. Can’t wait for some Jessica Lange (and Dylan McDermott) action soon!