Spoilers from " Chapter 7 " ofAmerican Horror Storyfollow .
peck of inquiry paved the way for tonight ’s episode ofReturn to Roanoke : Three Days in Hell . For one , would we get to see Evan Peters again ? Also : Where did the wood witch go ? And why is Agnes , to borrow a full term from former kid champion Dickie Roberts , so nuckin ' futs ? " Chapter 7 " provided answers ( shout - out to Rory ’s sentimental corpse ) . But it also sent this execution train of anAmerican Horror Storyseason totally off the rails .
The drive to Crazytown started with Sidney and Agnes , who quickly confirmed a couple things : that Sid truly was the ultimate sleazeball , laughing as Dominic and Matt exchanged clenched fist , and dreaming of dollar signs to the very end ; and , more important , that the ghosts and deaths you ’ve see on screen inReturn to Roanokeare veridical . The way Agnes pitilessly hacked down Sidney , his cameraman , and his helper was precipitous , shocking , and harebrained . ( A little part of me thinks you should still be skeptical of what you ’re watch these next couple chapter , that maybe Sidney really is a TV sensation and is grass everything from Matt ’s demise to his own . But , yeah , vehemence on " small . " ) It was the complete manner to coiffure the feeling for an episode that made elbow room for several of those types of instant .
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" Chapter 7 " saw more bloodshed than usual , as Shelby also endured a reprehensible Agnes onrush ( only to recuperate and repeatedly pommel her husband ’s head with a crowbar , Negan - expressive style ) ; as the real Polks made their small - blind unveiling , captivate Lee , and fed bacon snatch of her leg to Audrey and Monet ; and as the real Butcher almost split up Agnes ' face clean in half . These inauspicious highlight did n’t just reenforce how much freakier you should expect the second one-half of Season 6 to be . They reinvigorate the show ’s sense of mystery , too .
How ? What was most unnerving aboutReturn to Roanoketonight had less to do with the trauma that happen on screenland – we ’ve already pick up a disembowelment this time of year – and more to do with the frequency at which it come about . The fib that the real Matt and Shelby relayed to Sidney forMy Roanoke Nightmareseemed freaky as hell , sure , but everything happened at a digestible pace . Now mayhem ’s coming at twice the speed , with exponentially more force .
The spirits are terrifyingly different . To an extent , that ’s to be expected . The reenactment were never break to be solid representations of what Matt and Shelby claimed to have experienced , but the ghosts we ’re seeing onReturn to Roanokeare immeasurably more malefic and daunting . If the tangible Edward Phillipe Mott is any indication , what we saw tonight did n’t seem anything like Peters ' semi - friendly hugger-mugger - burrow guide . These phantasma are n’t taking their time introducing themselves , they have no patience , they do n’t even talk . Matt and Shelby ’s initial tale made it seem like escaping the haunt reason was doable , like you could conclude with the extrasensory antagonists . The mass murder and terror we ’re seeing now say otherwise .
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Something about it all feels somewhat shady .
Is that what Almighty Ryan Murphy meant when hetoldE ! Online : " you’re able to not trust [ Matt , Shelby , and Lee ] . What they say and what they explain in their reading of [ My Roanoke Nightmare ] is not actually the true statement " ? The ghosts sure are dissimilar . What else about Matt , Shelby , and Lee ’s stories was fudged ? As the chyron from last week explained , only one of the plaster cast members make it out alive .
That solitary subsister speckle should belong to someone already intimate with the Roanoke earth and spirits ( i.e. , a " non - role player " ) . An other favorite was Matt , in declamatory part because he had tie to the wood witch – many thought she was protecting him so she could have sex with him . But tonight ’s Negan minute , which make out after Matt revealed he returned to the star sign forAmerican Horror Story ’s original supreme , at once end his terrible liaison and dashed his hopes of survival .
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Shelby ’s crimson outburst serve as an exclamation item for this goriest ofAHSepisodes , one that irreversibly changed the grouping moral force . Dominic claimed he was the bad guy in his confessional , but it ’s clear that very few of these remaining characters gasconade redemptive qualities . We ca n’t entrust them , and none of them should trust each other . With Shelby and Lee stand as the only non - actors lead , the former is likely in the more ideal spot : temporarily good with Dominic . Is she in cahoots with glum forces as some have suspected ? Has she made a deal with the Butcher to surrender a fresh batch of psyche for this Blood Moon ?
If viewers learned anything tonight , it ’s that this show has adopted a new breakneck tread and tone , one with no regard for its characters ' lives or its fans ' theory . The tortuousAHSmurder train barrels toward Episode 10 , where one more monster twist awaits .
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