December 7, 2013
 
Episode 8: The Sacred Taking (Aired Dec. 4, 2013)
 
Another disappointing week. Each week they allude to something awesome happening, but it’s just a tease and frustrating. I’m not giving up. I have hope for the creators, but this show is slowly slipping down my ‘must-see immediately’ list.
 
After a week hiatus, The Sacred Taking didn’t come back with the bang it should have. Queenie is convinced that Marie Laveau will make her voodoo stronger. However, despite ripping a man’s heart out in front of an unconvincing Madison and Zoe, it does seem that Queenie has a soft spot for the still-racist LaLaurie. Marie has no sympathy for the woman who tortured her lover many years ago, as she takes pleasure in the fact that nothing can kill her, even after amputation.
 
Back at the school, Cordelia has gathered the remaining girls to try and force Fiona out and hopefully have the new supreme come out, take over and fix the coven, essentially. As they prepare a night of spells, Misty Day comes knocking with her ‘new’ friend, a newly awakened-from-the-dead Myrtle. Both are seeking shelter after an assassin, most likely Cordelia’s man, attacks Misty’s swamp home. The six women concoct a plan to ‘help’ Fiona’s decision to kill herself.  Fiona, slowly dying of cancer and losing her powers because the next supreme is close, doesn’t really need much convincing. However, in her drug-induced coma, she sees a dead Spaulding who tells her the truth and re-convinces her to stay alive, much to the dismay of the witches.
 
Meanwhile, their neighbors still have Nan distracted, as she hears when the guy is tortured by his Jesus-loving mother. Something weird is definitely going on over there, but do we really care anymore? The ever-curious and frustrated no one thinks she can be the supreme Nan heads over to find her love interest tied up in a closet. As she tries to sneak him out, his mother stops them. But just as things heat up, Cordelia’s man shoots the mother and attempts to kill Nan too, but hits the guy instead.
 
Misty apparently heard the commotion and sensed the death in the area. So, Fiona goes over to not only seek out Misty and her powers, but also to see her magic at work to bring the mother back. I have to admit Fiona’s mind powers are pretty impressive, but nothing to write home about really. Outside, Cordelia uses her newfound power of sight through touch to see that someone is out there witch hunting. She suddenly needs her mother afterall, and is glad that Fiona didn’t actually go through with her suicide.
 
And the episode wouldn’t be complete without Franken-Kyle, who was stuck in Zoe’s room the entire time learning and playing games on an iPad. However, when Madison overhears Franken-Kyle tell Zoe he loves her, it doesn’t sit very well with her.  What the hell? I thought dead people couldn’t feel after they come back. Wasn’t that the point of her whole speech last week? Oh, maybe when two dead people are together, they feel together? She feels connected to him because he was dead too?
 
And I just don’t buy the whole Axe Man loving Fiona thing. I get the whole dying and spirit being trapped, but to come back to life after being dead for so many years? Unless Zoe really is the supreme and has powers she just doesn’t know yet. I wish she was a better actress though. She’s very unconvincing as a witch growing into her own. Especially with her weird obsession with a guy who she met for an hour at a frat party, who later died and is now a monster.
 
With at least four episodes left, the series better start coming together. I’d like to see more of Misty and more of Marie Laveau. Actually I think Marie Laveau is a very interesting and underrated character. And I like that Queenie is over there. She needs a place to fit in, and the coven is not it. But who knows, next week, she’ll probably be back.