American Horror Story: Delicate ends with a WTF, not a bang

polygon.com:

Perhaps two good American Horror Story seasons in a row was too much to ask for.

I’ll be the first to put on my clown makeup and call myself out for daring to wish for too much. But after the surprisingly poignantAHS: NYC last season, I was full of hope. Early episodes of AHS: Delicate had me bewitched by the more restrained psychological buildup. And I kept making excuses when the show failed to deliver, when it strung out the buildup for yet another episode.

I forgot the first fundamental rule of being an AHS fan: The show rarely, if ever, sticks the landing.

[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for the end of American Horror Story: Delicate.]

Delicate followed Anna Alcott (Emma Roberts), an actress on the road to campaign for an Oscar who is also desperately trying to get pregnant. After finally conceiving, she starts to experience a lot of weirdness: dark figures following her around, dolls of herself with various injuries left around, and cravings for raw animal flesh, among other things. Throughout it all, her best friend and manager, Siobhan (Kim Kardashian), reassures her that everything will be totally fine and normal.

But Siobhan is actually the mastermind behind everything Anna’s been experiencing. ’Twas she who orchestrated (almost) every creepy event this season!

Except… What the hell was she orchestrating?

Yes, she’s preyed on women who want it all for centuries, including familiar faces like her husband Dex’s tech mogul friend Talia (Juliana Canfield) and Sonia (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), the artist he works with. They’re all in this cult to birth creatures, which Siobhan claims will be a new race of superpowered beings that will take over the world and kill all men. This is all revealed in some weird luxury apartment where almost everything is painted bright red and all the cult members wear stupid costumes and fawn over Siobhan.

And it would be 1% more forgivable if the costumes weren’t so bad. Seriously, it’s bugged me all season that the