This post contains spoilers for " Chapter Six " ofAmerican Horror Story : Roanoke .
Everyone saw this coming , but not like this . For five instalment , Ryan Murphy and hisAmerican Horror Storyensemble put the piece in place for a major twist to the Roanoke arc . The faux - mystery seriesMy Roanoke Nightmarewas never going to support itself ; how many time could we see Reenactment Shelby howler in reverence , only to die hard into homicidal inbreeds and sanguinary compound ghosts ?
" Chapter 6 " of the sixth season give birth on expected value witha huge bend , and it could n’t have been … peculiar ? The 2nd half of the season will be presented as a found - footage subsequence toMy Roanoke Nightmare , calledReturn to Roanoke : Three mean solar day in Hell , and the resolution anticipate loads of battue … and laughs .
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The mythology and intrigue of theMy Roanoke Nightmarehalf of the time of year is mostly gone inReturn to Roanoke : Three Daysin Hell . There was morePiggy Man , beast slaughter , and overtake - in - a - sideways - glance ghosts – was thatLady Gaga ’s sovereign witchstanding in the length when production executive Diana was murdered mid - driving ? – but the focus foursquare shifted from mythical brick - laying to found - footage lampoonery , producing something closer to Murphy’sScream Queensthan the campiestAmerican Horror Storymoments .
American Horror Storycan present scares , but it can also sprain Cheyenne Jackson into a pompous reality - television producer , couple Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters as a aroused couple , and recast Kathy Bates ' " Agnes , " an actress so wrapped up in herMy Roanoke Storycharacter The Butcher that she develop a disconnected personality and brandished a chopper down Hollywood Boulevard in costume , landing her a six - calendar month sanatorium condemnation . " There are two great parts in the American canyon , " Agnes says . " Mary Tyrone inA Long Day ’s Journeyand The Butcher . " This is Murphy ’s stain of # problematic funniness , and you either enjoy it or hate it .
American Horror Story : Roanokestill look to pay off the whodunit define up in the first one-half of the season – the show ’s just doing it now with a blinking and a few behind - the - scenes bloopers ( more of that , please ) . The newfangled premise rounds up the veridical - life Matt , Shelby , and Lee , all shatter from the success ofMy Roanoke Nightmare(a data point drop said that theMy Roanoke Nightmaredrew in 23 million viewer , toppingThe walk Dead ! ) ; the trinity is pair with their reenactor counterparts for aBig Brother - inspired reality scarefest calledReturn to Roanoke : Three Days in Hell .
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The bake - in drama : afterMy Roanoke Storyblew up , the real Shelby cheat on the real Matt with the thespian who play Matt ( Cuba Gooding Jr. , whose fictional character ’s name is Dominic Banks ) , while Angela Bassett ’s Monet , the actress who play Lee in the reenactments , cull up herMy Roanoke Nightmarecharacter ’s imbibition problem . you could practically get a line Murphy giggle with delight as the meta - plot twists into knots .
Fans of Evan Peters must have been ball over when " Chapter Six " shifted back into creepyAmerican Horror Storymode . As promise by a statute title board , only one member of this ragtag hurl will make it out of the menage alive . Peters ' Rory Monahan does n’t look to be the one who ’ll survive ; after Monahan ’s powdered wig - wearing fibre Edward Philippe Mott died in " Chapter Five " at the hands of The Butcher , only to reelect as Mott ’s ghost later in the episode , the reenactment actor bit the dust –or did he?– at the hands of the two trace nurses from " Chapter Two , " who lastly nabbed that " radius " they were looking for .
There are seeds of disclosure that should vary in ridiculousness . We know Agnes ' Butcher is lingering around the compounds , ready to strike in tandem with any paranormal goings - on . We screw Lady Gaga ’s hellish being is out there … somewhere . We know Lee is drive to clear her name and out the dependable manslayer of her x - hubby . We know that everyone who look on the undead side of the reenactment should return again … in fresh - faced form . All those original specters were worker ( include Denis O’Hare ’s Dr. Elias Cunningham , who look shortly in this episode in a raw form ) . So who will take their places in reality ? We know we ’re cut across our fingers for Jessica Lange as The Butcher .
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Our burning question , through fit of laugh : Who makes it to theReturn to Roanoke : Three day of Hellfinale ? Matt , conservative about rekindling the fire with Shelby but aware of the supernatural mechanics of his reality - show home ? Any of the stay on puke members who think the " true " tale of the Harvest Moon and the Roanoke house was total bullshit before two nurse ghosts strap Rory ’s pharynx ? Shelby ? Lee ? Cricket , who ’ll probably just show up out of nowhere ? Hard to say , but avidAmerican Horror Storyviewers are on the compositor’s case .
" Chapter Six " put a solid accent on redemption for the OG Matt and Shelby , fracture by their encounter in the Roanoke home . They ’re a piddling like Kate and Jon Gosselin , a reality relationship car crash shoot in dense movement . I ’d think Sidney ’s continuation series would give them a chance to do work thing out , extend a romantic metaphor , but as the title carte du jour says , only one somebody lives …
People really wantRoanoketo be a sequel toCoven . This reveal would be out of nowhere , which in theAHSuniverse , does n’t actually unfit it from being honest .
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There ’s been meditation since " Chapter Five " thatMy Roanoke Storywas an elaborate gambit by Matt and Shelby to lead Sidney and his fertile film - everything cohorts to Roanoke for a Harvest Moon slaughtering . OK , OK , Hollywood hotshot pedigree is n’t exactly utter , but it works . This Redditor narrows the theory – maybe it ’s just Matt who ’s in cahoot . He did spend some , ahem , quality time with the Witch of the Woods .
We do see Agatha return to the Roanoke home in " Chapter Six . " Or we think we do . The aging actress may be happier succumbing to the compound ghosts and assuming a spot next to the real fuckup . At this point , it ’s schizophrenic portion .
look , nowShelbyis the hag ? Only if Lily Rabe brings back Misty Day .
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