American Horror Story Season 13 is almost upon us, and it will be the biggest season yet of Ryan Murphy’s groundbreaking horror anthology series. As the first trailer for ASH: 13 reveals, the show is bringing back several major characters and lore from past seasons for a major crossover event. Needless to say, Season 13 will require some “homework” to know all the characters and lore, which even diehard fans may struggle to remember, since it spans 15 years of show content.
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To help prepare viewers for Season 13, American Horror Story has released a rewatch list to help fans take the shortest possible route to knowing what they need to know. What’s surprising about it is that there are entire portions of the series that are not listed as essential viewing.
American Horror Story: Every Episode You Need to Rewatch Before Season 13
As you can see HERE, American Horror Story posted a slideshow featuring poster-style images of each episode you should revisit (13 in total). If you want the list broken down to a quick read, we have that for you below:
- “Pilot” – Murder House Episode 1
- “Spooky Little Girl” – Murder House Episode 9
- “After Birth” – Murder House Episode 12
- “Bitchcraft” – Coven Episode 1
- “Go to Hell” – Coven Episode 12
- “The Seven Wonders” – Coven Episode 13
- “Edward Mordrake” – Freak Show Episodes 3 & 4
- “Devil’s Night” – Hotel Episode 4
- “Charles (Manson) In Charge – Cult Episode 10
- “The End” – Apocalypse Episode 1
- “Return to Murder House” – Apocalypse Episode 6
- “Fire and Reign” – Apocalypse Episode 9
- “Apocalypse Then” – Apocalypse Episode 10
The previous installments that don’t seem to be mixed in with Season 13’s crossover story are Asylum (Season 2) and Roanoke (Season 6). Neither are 1984, Double Feature, NYC, and Delicate, which are all seasons that came after the previous American Horror Story crossover event, Apocalypse (Season 8).
While the exact threat isn’t clear yet, the trailer for American Horror Story Season 13 and the rewatch list make it clear that this new story will be picking up threads from Apocalypse. That crossover story (between Murder House, Coven, and a bit of Hotel) featured time-travel mechanics to prevent the antichrist, Michael Langdon, from destroying the Earth. However, the epilogue of Apocalypse teased that with a new timeline, a new antichrist candidate, Devan Campbell, was born, who was quickly embraced by the Church of Satan and its leader, Anton LaVey.
Unlike past seasons of the show, American Horror Story Season 13 will be released in a batch episode format of three episodes, three episodes, and two episodes, which will give fans plenty to talk about each week as Halloween approaches. It will air on FX and stream on Hulu.
Forum Conversation: LANTERNS EP 4 MANHUNTER REVEAL
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We don’t know how Hal knows — the ring could have told him. We DO now that Hal is not in the habit of checking in, and he goes “with his gut”, so he could just be reacting to his perception of the information he has. The ring could have detected another ring being used when John has his test, and knowing he hasn’t exactly been a model corps member and his age now being more and more a factor, plus his ego… it’s more than likely his behaviour is all driven by assumptions (they are trying to replace me) that just happen to be partially correct, therefor (in his eyes) reinforcing the prospecting telling him all he thinks he needs to know.
What I do love about this show is it leverages the Rashomon storytelling style of telling one even from the perspective of different characters (sometime unreliably), and every time we are told what we “already know”, we actually learn more about what really happened. The answers are most likely right in front of us, it just hasn’t clicked (by design) from the right perspective yet.
Yeah, my comment wasn’t praise (per se) about John’s method — just pointing out their very different approaches — which I feel adds to their disconnect since they aren’t communicating motives. They could actually learn a lot from each other (both for this case, and how to be better Lanterns) had they not been played against each other by Lianna.
Personally, I don’t think time matters (narrative-wise) in relation to one or several Manhunters. They have no real individual personality or motivation outside their human cover, and since we’ve already been introduced to who they are and what they did, having one, three or ten hiding in the town, or hell — the whole town — would need little more setup. All the things you mention can be covered easily in the remaining four episodes, while also revealing half the town (for instance) are Manhunters seeking refuge from those searching for them. What If that is what Abin Sur discovered? Not one, but a colony of them — having Zoe as the narrative’s “representative” for them — and that way providing their exposition.