Warning: This recap of the “Chapter 10” episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke contains spoilers.

Found footage horror originally caught on for two reasons: It’s cheap to execute, and it’s an easy way to resensitize viewers to visceral fear. After several seasons of lighthearted, merely morbid happenings, the American Horror Story franchise needed to scare us again, but unlike cheapie found footage exercises of the past, this wild, frightening Roanoke season gave us verité with the full budget and cast of a prestige series. Like most seasons of this thing, Roanoke felt familiar in many very intentional ways — AHS remains the ultimate horror mixtape — but in the end it was a wholly original thing. Lurid, audacious, shocking, sickening, hilarious, and above all entertaining, Roanoke might be the scariest season of this show yet. And man, was it fun.

“Chapter 10” concluded this highly inventive season with not just one new installment of a reality crime series, but FOUR of them. Crack’d, The Lana Winters Special, Spirit Chasers, and a live news broadcast really rounded out our journey into the reality TV landscape of the American Horror Story universe. Though this finale certainly had its horror scares, the episode was more an exploration of how modern crime entertainment digests even the most brutal of tragedies. And while it was a gamble to place the dramatic heft of the season on Lee’s shoulders, it all came to a satisfying conclusion in the end. Let’s talk about it!

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We began with, obviously, a PaleyFest panel for My Roanoke Nightmare moderated by Trixie Mattel from RuPaul’s Drag Race!

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Clearly this took place well before everyone onstage was BRUTALLY MURDERED. Better times, simpler times. And the scene was about as wild as you’d expect — fans wearing pig masks, frequent raucous applause, girls attempting to kiss Evan Peters on the mouth. William S. Paley would be so proud.

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I loved many things about this scene. First and foremost, Cuba Gooding Jr.’s indoor sunglasses. Secondly, Angela Bassett’s hair. Thirdly, Kathy Bates’s character loudly and desperately demanding to be in Season 2. Sure, psycho.

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I really enjoyed this superfan’s drawing of Lee and her child. Imagine watching a season of this thing and Lee is your favorite character? Well, that wasn’t just a fleeting fancy in this episode, as it became clear we were then going to focus entirely on Lee’s life after the second, arguably less fun season of My Roanoke Nightmare.

Now, we just need to get into something right now that I still can’t stop laughing about. The “found footage” we recently saw of all the cast and IRL figures getting brutally slaughtered on camera? IT AIRED. It aired on television. Actual murders. I don’t know what kind of dystopic parallel universe the AHS franchise exists in, but something tells me that the American viewing public would not actually like to watch a dozen recognizably famous, beloved actors get eviscerated on camera. That being said, it was apparently a big hit! Unfortunately for Lee, it meant that every murder she’d committed had been caught on tape! Which meant, you guessed it, it was TRIAL O’CLOCK.