So this is it, the end of American Horror
Story Apocalypse, and boy does it end in a
shocking way.
I guess you can’t stop the antichrist after
all?
So the episode begins with the coked up Evan
and Billy (that’s what I like to call them)
talking about which outpost they want to be
in.
Then Myrtle pays them a visit.
Coco’s father Van der Bilt wants to be in
outpost 3 and Myrtle makes sure his family,
or just Coco and Mallory, get there.
The witch’s plan is to use Coco’s money
to hide Mallory in the outpost, place them
both under an identity spell, and eventually
use Mallory’s power to reverse time and
prevent from everything that happened this
season, including the apocalypse, from, well,
happening.
I predicted thi a few weeks back, it seemed
like the obvious end game here.
So really, no surprises, but what does end
up happening right in the end is now a twist.
After a few goodbyes are said, Cordelia does
the spell and we move forward to the, kinda,
beginning of the season, when Mallory is working
as an assistant for Coco months before the
apocalypse happens.
Madison is driving, bringing them to get Coco’s
hair done.
Madison also spots a billboard for Dinah’s
new show, we she got after selling the witches
out to Michael.
Madison tells Myrtle and Cordelia about what
Dinah has done.
Though they want to get revenge against Dinah,
they decide not to do anything to risk exposing
their plans to Michael.
So that’s why Dinah survived at outpost
3 as well.
They wanted to get after her after the apocalypse.
We then go that awesome scene of Michael and
Mallory at outpost 3, when both their powers
are really revealed, and suddenly Cordelia,
Myrtle, and Madison rise from the grave.
They buried themselves for a year or two to
survive the fallout.
So that’s what the witches were doing, just
hiding out in the dirt I guess?
Which is pretty weird.
Why were they waiting so long?
Maybe for Mallory’s powers to grow again?
That’s the most logical explanation.
The witches arrive at the outpost and bring
Mallory and Coco back to life.
And we’re finally at the present timeline
after all this time.
Michael has apparently broken the seventh
seal and unleashed hell on earth.
Dinah’s sister comes out of nowhere, Marie
Laveau, to help out Cordelia.
She then takes down Dinah in crazy fashion.
The Meade robot then malfunctions and explodes
for some reason.
Madison takes out Michael with Meade’s machine
gun for a temporary time and tries to hold
him off while the witches do their magic.
Then crazy Billy comes out of nowhere and
stabs Mallory, who then gets lit on fire by
Myrtle.
And then Michael comes back to life.
Then Madison jokingly says it’s back to
working as a cashier as Michael takes out
her head like a water balloon.
Michael takes out Marie Lavue and Coco as
well as this point he’s gone completely
terminator here.
Mallory is pretty much done from the stab
wound and the only way to make her regain
her powers if she becomes the next supreme.
Cordelia and Michael face off and she makes
the ultimate sacrifice, end herself so that
Mallory can have her full powers and go back
in time.
We go back to 2015, with Constance confronting
Michael after he took out that priest.
She tries kicking out Michael because Constance
just can’t take his evil anymore.
He tries to choke Constance but he couldn’t
do it, with Constance saying he’s still
good deep down inside.
I don’t know, is he?
He’s done some gnarly stuff.
Mallory then runs Michael over with her SUV
and that’s how she stops him.
Pretty anticlimactic, right?
It seems Mallory is the only who knows what
actually happened, as we’re still in 2015.
All of the witches are alive and well.
However, Myrtle is still dead because Cordelia
never brought her back, she had no reason
too.
Queenie is talking about going to a concert
and staying at this weird hotel, ahem, and
Mallory convinces her not to stay there, saving
her in the process.
Mallory is also able to save Madison and bring
Misty back because she got some street cred
with Hell after taking out Michael.
All seems well until we get to 2020, and this
is where we get our shocking ending.
Emily and Timothy meet during this coffee
protest, a year later Emily gives birth three
years later we find out that, well, a new
antichrist was born, taking over for Michael.
Their kid took out the babysitter and just
right on time, the black pope shows up with,
including Meade.
So what does this mean?
Will there be a sequel?
No.
This just means that, at the end of the day,
you can’t stop the inevitable.
With Mallory taking out Michael, that didn’t
mean there won’t ever be another antichrist.
The events that were supposed to happen with
Michael, will instead happen with this new
kid.
It’s just taken longer, 5 years longer to
be exact.
The devil and evil will always find a way
to give birth to the antichrist and seek out
ways to end the world.
It’s this constant struggle between good
and evil.
Mallory said that even though she reversed
time, she was still worried about the future.
And that’s because, deep down, she knew
the fight wasn’t over.
And it won’t be over, ever really.
The coven will always have to fight the antichrist,
no matter which form he takes.
It’s a bittersweet ending, because even
though the good guys win, this victory is
only temporary.
The struggle against evil will always be endless.
That’s destiny.
So, let me know what you thought of the ending
and this season.
Did you like the way Michael’s story concluded,
or would you have preferred a different ending?
