God, I love Myrtle Snow.
AHS: Apocalypse has wrapped up, and I have to say—despite a few hiccups along the way, this was in my opinion, the finest season of AHS so far.
The series been—for the most part—enjoyable. That being said, I couldn't make it through last year's Cult (perhaps its themes struck a little close of home with the arrival of the Orange Menace in the White House) and stopped watching about four episodes in. I thought Freak Show and Roanoake were the weakest from a series standpoint, while Murder House, Asylum, Coven, Hotel, and Apocalypse were the strongest.
[spoilers ahead]
The hiccups in Apocalypse I referred to concern Mutt and Jeff, along with the last ten minutes of the final episode. That episode in particular would've been much so stronger if they'd just left those ten minutes off altogether, leaving the now Apocalypse-free future open-ended,
Apparently I'm not the only one who feels that way. Regarding the ending (and a ton of other unanswered questions), Digital Spy opined:
Ever since season one, it's been established that the Antichrist can only be conceived through the union of a living woman and a dead man, so how did Emily (Ash Santos) and Timothy Campbell (Kyle Allen) give birth to Satan's spawn in the new timeline? We've known for some time now that their DNA is "perfect" or special for some reason, but they're not that special, right?
The only explanation that seems to make any vague kind of sense here is that their so-called "perfect" genetics are perfect precisely for the job of conceiving the Antichrist and the Cooperative knew this all along. While this still flies in the face of everything we've been told up to this point, such a theory does help tie up some of the loose threads that were created by their very existence in the first place.
If this is true, then it's likely that them meeting again in the new timeline wasn't a coincidence either. Through some demonic manipulations from behind the scenes, Satan was able to use Emily and Timothy as a contingency plans of sorts, encouraging them to create a replacement Antichrist in the event of Michael's death.
So is the future simply to play out again and again as a battle between Satan and the witches?
Still an incredibly satisfying season, and I can't wait to see what Ryan and Brad come up with for next year, although if there isn't another season at all, this one left it on a decidedly high note.