American Horror Story
Warning : Spoilers for American Horror Story season 12 , sequence 9 .
Summary
AlthoughAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 ’s ending finally explained a lot of unanswered doubtfulness , the show ’s rushed finis still left a spate unclear . Unlikeearlier seasons ofAmerican Horror Story , Delicateis adapt from a novel , Delicate Conditionby Danielle Valentine . The season tells the narrative of Anna Alcott , a successful doer who becomes positive that someone is cook her pregnancy . InAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 episode 8 , Anna gain her Oscar after promising Siobhan that she would trade anything for professional success . As the finale began , she was whisked away from the Oscars in an ambulance .
Anna ’s ambulance was driven by one ofAmerican Horror Story : DelicatePart Two ’s main villains , Ivy , who defeat Anna ’s bodyguard . Anna ’s baby bit her husband Dex ’s hand off before it was full comport and Ivy choked Dex to death with his cut off hired man . arrive at an empty motorcar park , Ivy and Anna were suddenly met by the relief of the villainous cult , let in Nicolette , Talia , and Sonia . They taunted Anna before their dissemble leader paralyzed her . Anna wake up ineffectual to move her leg and Siobhan , her ever - present publicizer and confidante , last revealed herself to be the cult ’s all - powerful hellish leader .
What Anna Gave Birth To In American Horror Story Season 12’s Finale
Anna’s Lengthy Pregnancy Ended With Dex’s Death
Anna gave birth to some sort of demonic baby , although its final form was never disclose onscreen , and the being was later turn into a normal infant . It was definitely demonic , judging by the claws . However , its font was never see , even when it drank Anna ’s blood for living in a creepy-crawly breast feeding scene . In the end , after Siobhan was destroyed , what Siobhan referred to as a “ Creature ” transformed into a seemingly normal baby . American Horror Storyseason 12 episode 4teased a exchangeable clawed fiend babe earlier in the time of year , but neither of these episodes divulge the appearances of these monsters .
What Happened To Dex During Anna’s Birth
Dex Lost His Hand To The Baby and His Life To Ivy
Dex tried to soothe Anna while he was traveling with her in the ambulance , but he was n’t able-bodied to stop the fomite or Ivy ’s design . When he attempt to help Anna deliver her baby , the infernal sister morsel Dex ’s manus white off before it was even born . The line of descent going and hurt from this event seemed destined to kill Dex , but Ivy made certain that he was done for when she mug up his severed hand into his lip and choked him to death . It was unclear why this happened until a little later when Ivy ’s mistake came back to ghost her .
Why Siobhan Killed Ivy In American Horror Story: Delicate’s Ending
Anna’s Publicist Was Revealed To Be Dex’s Mother
After instalment of hinting , American Horror Story : Delicaterevealed Kim Kardashian ’s Siobhanwas the big bad of the season all along . Siobhan was revealed to be the ageless drawing card of the all - female cult , and she admitted that Dex was her semi - human Logos , tolerate via a tryst with his amoral father . Bizarrely , Siobhan then killed Ivy for defeat Dex , even though Ivy resist that Siobhan regulate her to murder her Word . Siobhan said this was a test and slice the endure villain ’s pharynx , ending a life that set about back in around 20 A.D. , twenty years before she meet Siobhan .
The Cult’s Mission In American Horror Story Season 12 Explained
Siobhan And Her Minions Wanted To Create A Matriarchy
Siobhan explained to Anna that the fad ’s member took advantage of women who need to have it all , used them to spawn aggressive fiendish male person offspring , and used these men to bring about an Revelation so the craze could install a Utopian matriarchate .
Ivy was a loyal phallus of Siobhan ’s cult until the bitter final stage , as were Talia , Sonia , Nicolette , Ashley , Ashleigh , and Susan , the superfan that Anna ostensibly obliterate at the Gotham Awards . AlthoughAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 episode 6already reveal some of these villain were do work for the craze , their mission was n’t clear-cut until the finale . Siobhan explained to Anna that the cult ’s members take vantage of women who wanted to have it all , used them to breed aggressive demonic male person progeny , and used these humans to bring about an apocalypse so the cult could install a Utopian matriarchate .
How American Horror Story: Delicate’s Adeline Saved Anna
Anna And Adeline Praising Hestia Destroyed Siobhan
Siobhan outwitted Anna at every turn until , desperate to see her newborn nestling , Anna ultimately make up one’s mind to join Siobhan ’s fad by feeding her hellish child . In a deep disturbing moment , the monstrous infant began drink Anna ’s rake instead of tit milk , horrifying Anna and delighting Siobhan . Siobhan then inexplicably left Anna alone and , in a throwback toAmerican Horror Story : Delicateepisode 7 , the smell of Dex ’s previous wife Adeline returned to aid her out . Adeline have Anna to chant a supplication to Hestia , the ancient Greek god of home and hospitality . amazingly , this odd ploy raise incredibly efficient .
Siobhan’s American Horror Story Death Explained
Kim Kardashian’s Villain Disintegrated Thanks to Anna and Adeline’s Chant
When Siobhan returned with more “ B12 shots ” for Anna , she shake off in horror upon see Adeline ’s ghostly material body . As Anna and Adeline continued to chant a prayer for Hestia , Kim Kardashian’sAmerican Horror Story : Delicatevillain Siobhan crumble into junk in an anticlimactical end . It was never completely clear how Adeline ’s feel helped Anna or why pray to Hestia was enough to kill this on the face of it immortal daimon , but Anna before long found herself alone , able-bodied to take the air , and complimentary from the religious cult . dead , in an empty building , Anna walked into a sunny baby’s room where the episode ended on a strange greenback .
What American Horror Story Season 12’s Ending Really Meant
Delicate Had A Complicated Contradictory Take On Motherhood
In the nursery , Anna find her babe transformed into a normal shaver and picked him up to soothe him . She also saw her Oscar on the shelf and held it while cradling her babe before trying on the headstall that Siobhan get out behind when she disintegrated . This last effigy made the season ’s subject matter knotty to parse and proved that , whileAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 improvedon the show ’s late outings , the finale fail to make a clean-cut statement about its setaceous theme of pregnancy , distaff aspiration , misogyny , patriarchy , women’s liberation movement , and tradition . This messy denouement was an inauspicious letdown .
On the one hand , Siobhan and her cronies were using maternity to establish a Satanic matriarchy by falsely promising women they could have it all . On the other hand , Anna did end up having it all thanks to her praise of Hestia , a Supreme Being of home and family unit , as evidenced by her clutching both her Oscar and child . This ostensibly implied that the conflicted Anna could take over the fad after go out the nursery , while the baby magically turning into a normal infant did n’t have any clean-cut significance or intention . Thus , American Horror Story : Delicate ’s termination was an uneven , puzzling decision .
Episode Number
Episode Title
Air Date
1
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" Multiply Thy Pain "
September 20
2
" Rockabye "
September 27
3
" When The Bough Breaks "
October 4
4
" Vanishing Twin "
October 11
5
" Preech "
October 18
6
" Opening Night "
April 3
7
" Ave Hestia "
April 10
8
" Little Gold Man "
April 17
9
" The Auteur "
April 24
