American Horror Story
Warning : Spoilers for American Horror Story time of year 12 , episode 8 .
Summary
AlthoughAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 , episode 9 , did not end Anna Alcott ’s story , the outing did at long last explain a lot of the season ’s complicated conspiracy . Every time of year ofAmerican Horror Storygets more and more grisly , distorted , and surreal as it remain , but time of year 12 broke from the show ’s common formula . Unlike other outings of the revulsion anthology serial publication , American Horror Story : Delicateis based on a novel , Danielle Valentine’sDelicate Condition . Delicatetells the story of Emma Roberts ’ Anna Alcott , an ambitious actor who struggles to keep her sanity while balancing pregnancy with an awarding safari .
The subject of maternity has given this outing some ofAmerican Horror Story ’s most disturbing episodesin a farseeing time , as the series make merry in macabre exigency C - plane section , traumatic births , and violent medical maladies . Anna tolerate a miscarriage early on , only to become pregnant again soon after . In the episode since , she became convinced that her married man Dex , her publicist Siobhan , and a host of other characters were secretly taste to sabotage her pregnancy . The truth , however , take care like it will be something even darker and stranger , approximate by the events of time of year 12 , episode 8 , “ Little Gold Man . ”
7American Horror Story Season 12 Revealed Another Victim of Delicate’s Cult
Delicate Introduced Mia Farrow During The Rosemary’s Baby Shoot
“ Little Gold Man ” start with a flashback to 1967 as Mia Farrow shot the originative repugnance classicRosemary ’s Babywith film director Roman Polanski . After a tense tiffin appointment with Frank Sinatra , Farrow undertook a grave stunt that involved walking through Manhattan traffic . This real - life story incident shortly turned to fiction as Farrow give to her dressing elbow room and felt her costume ’s faux gestation bump move by itself . As blood poured between her wooden leg , Farrow panic and urgently call for avail . A reassuring , intimate voice told her to calm down and promised to save her .
When Farrow followed the voice ’s teaching and removed her costume , the bleeding vanished . American Horror Story : Delicaterevealed Kim Kardashian ’s Siobhanis part of the season ’s villainous cut as she entered Farrrow ’s fertilization way and offer her an unsettling smile . Kardashian ’s Siobhan has been tease asDelicate ’s scoundrel since episode1 but , until now , the show never quite confirmed that she was part of the supernatural cult dedicated to tampering with pregnancy . This cold open finally proved that she was cardinal to the cult , just like Nicolette and Ivy .
6American Horror Story: Delicate’s Siobhan Is Part of the Cult
Kim Kardashian’s Character Was Finally Revealed To Be An Ageless Villain
Earlier episodes ofAmerican Horror Story : Delicatefeatured similar stale opens where major recur fibre were let on to be ageless cultist who had engineered various issue throughout history . Since Siobhan was the last soul to see Hamish live before his mistrustful last , it seemed almost certain that she was one of season 12 ’s villains . However , the publicist trifle her cards close to her chest and , until “ Little Gold Man,”American Horror Storyseason 12 could technically have let on that Siobhan was innocent . Her neglect for Hamish and Babette Eno ’s lives might have just been tasteless oversharing .
The opening twirl of “ Little Gold Man ” altogether exchange the season ’s write up , since it confirms that Siobhan is in league with the villains who down Sonia inAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 instalment 7 . Siobhan is almost certainly responsible for Babette ’s dire accident and Hamish ’s decease , meaning Anna is n’t as safe with her closest confidante as she thought . As if this were n’t bad enough , “ Little Gold Man ” also revealed that Anna ’s other potential source of comfort was a lose effort after Dex had Ms. Preecher kicked out of his female parent ’s funeral .
5Dex Had An Affair With Dr. Hill’s Assistant
Tavi Gevinson’s Cora Has Been Sleeping With Anna’s Husband
Anna visited Ms. Preecher in hospital but she was signed out by a chemical group of unseen women before Anna could talk candidly with her . Anna then divulge that she was nominated for an Oscar while in the infirmary , and soon she was link up by Siobhan at a glamourous cause event . Even though Preecher warn Anna to manoeuver exculpated of Siobhan inAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 episode 6 , the glamor of the awards electric circuit before long watch Anna leave her fear . During the effect , Anna stumbled upon Dr. Hill ’s helper , Cora , and recognize her mantle from Anna ’s home intrusion weeks earlier .
Cora forthwith admitted that she was the one who broke into Anna ’s family six sequence to begin with , and it was not long before her account got convoluted . Dex start an affair with Cora after meeting her during Anna ’s fertility handling , and he pinch her up with an apartment that , inexplicably , had a live video linkup to his and Anna ’s family . Obsessed with Anna , Cora continued her thing with Dex and commence to watch Anna every daytime . Her behavior soon grew even weird as Dex kept hiding his extramarital activity from his wife .
4American Horror Story: Delicate’s Original Villain Wasn’t In The Cult
Cora Broke Into Anna’s Apartment and Gaslit Her
Cora broke into Anna ’s apartment legion times so she could rearrange things , tear up note , and generally gaslight Dex ’s married woman . Dr. Hill ’s assistant never put up a clear account for her need beyond being obsessed with Anna , imply thebreak - in that occurred at the beginning of the time of year had nothing to do withDelicate ’s villainous fad . Ironically , Cora was profess everything to Anna so that she could warn her about the cultus since , although she recently assay to make Anna question her own sanity , Cora was now apprehensive about Anna ’s prophylactic .
Cora explicate that Dr. Hill ’s patient never have their babies and that the charwoman who work for him are part of a shady administration who switch these infants for power , money , or something equally awful . American Horror Storyseason 12 ’s timingwas terrible here , since viewers already know the nature of the craze . After Ivy was give away to be an ageless supernatural entity in the precede instalment , it was reasonably easy to suspect that Dr. Hill was work with them . Still , someone ask to clew in Anna , and it ended up being her married man ’s kept woman .
3American Horror Story: Delicate Paid Off 1 Surreal Obsession
Season 12 Episode 9 Made Sense Of The Show’s Spider Imagery
After Anna ’s encounter with Cora , she fleetly broke up with Dex in a bizarrely brief scene that only boast two lines of duologue . Anna select the dissolution amazingly well , although the next morning brought challenge of its own . Anna wake up up with wanderer legs , in the end justify thespider imagination inAmerican Horror Storyseason 12 ’s promotional material . Siobhan ’s arrival forced Anna to hide her terrify new problem , but after grate her grotesque appendage with a razor , she was force to reveal them to her publicist .
ineluctably , Anna ’s legs magically return to normal when she reveal them to Siobhan , and she decided not to share her nightmarish ordeal with Kardashian ’s blunt character . On the way to the Oscars , Siobhan commend Anna for breaking up with Dex and Anna finally face Siobhan about Preecher . Siobhan dismissed Preecher as a hater , prompting Anna to ask Siobhan whether she was involved with the tragic death of Babette Eno . Siobhan laughed off this laughable charge and , free , Anna stepped on to the red carpet at the Academy Awards .
2Anna Went Into Labor At The Oscars
American Horror Story: Delicate’s Heroine Felt Contractions During The Ceremony
Seconds after joining the red carpet , Anna walked into Babette Eno ’s specter , gross with a head word reattached via Frankenstein stitches . Anna almost swoon in shock , but Siobhan overtake her . Anna finished the crimson carpeting without further incident . As the pair took their seats , Anna realized she was experiencing contractions , but Siobhan encourage her to ignore them until after her class was declare . Again , if it were n’t for the cold open revealing her nefarious nature , Kardashian ’s eccentric could have just been a particularly callous caricature of professionals in the amusement manufacture .
As Anna listened to the nominees , Siobhan placed a gloved handwriting on her pregnancy bump and asked whether she would be uncoerced to give up everything for professional success .
last , Anna endure into labor at the Oscars while her category was being announced , but a disarmingly calm Siobhan insisted that she should stay in her stern and wait it out . As Anna mind to the candidate , Siobhan placed a gloved hand on her maternity bump and need whether she would be willing to give up everything for professional success . Anna correspond to this Faustian bargain and the consequence she did , her name was harbinger . Siobhan congratulate Anna a second before she won , reassert that she either has supernatural powers or an oversize influence on the Oscars .
1Anna Won Best Actress
American Horror Story Season 12’s First Storyline Finally Ended
After losing her husband and perhaps her mind , Anna finally gain her firmly - earned Oscarin “ Little Gold Men . ” Dazed , she get up to make her acceptance speech and envisioned the entire locus empty except for her female parent . Grace Gummer’sAmerican Horror Story : Delicatecharacterreturned to give her daughter a remain firm ovation while fighting back tears , while Anna in conclusion got to enjoy her moment in the glare after weeks of gaslighting , trauma , hallucinations , betrayals , head game , and miscellaneous injuries . Her fantasy fade as Anna realized she was stand on degree in silence , and she was take off by two Man .
Although everything worked out in her favor , it was no coincidence thatAnna ’s destiny in the sequence ’s ending mirror Ms. Preecher ’s in its opening scene . Both woman were dragged out of an event when attendee were stir up by their behaviour , which ring a sentiment Siobhan share during her conversation with Anna . Siobhan warned Anna that there were two types of fair sex in the world ; successful winners and spiteful also-ran . Since Ms. Preecher tell Anna earlier inAmerican Horror Storythat she traded her pregnancy for professional success and rue this , it seemed like history was about to duplicate itself .
Episode Number
Episode Title
Air Date
1
" Multiply Thy Pain "
September 20
2
" Rockabye "
September 27
3
" When The Bough Breaks "
October 4
4
" go away 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
