Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House.
His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series.
Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.
Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air.
But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season.
