American
Horror Story: Asylum
Season
2, Episode 13
Madness
Ends
Aired
1-23-13
Brief
Synopsis: Lana comes full circle and we find out what happens to everyone.
I have to say that I have loved American Horror Story since the
beginning. I have yet to miss an episode from either season. More on this in my
full length review of the season.
This was one of Lana’s best episodes!
She showed how truly strong and an amazing she is. Not only was she a lesbian
and reporter during an awful time for women, but she stayed strong and persevered.
Lana (Sarah Paulson) played this episode flawlessly. From never blinking when
her son came to her face to face halfway through the episode, but she never
bats an eye as she tells the interviewer that she lied about him dying at
birth.
This was also Sister Jude’s best
episode, I have to say. Watching her decline fully into madness only to regain
who she was previously; her death scene was horrible, but well played. The way
the bed comes at the screen and the Angel of Death (Frances Conroy) slowly
moves towards the bed at the same time is great. It felt weird, in a good way
that Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) ended up with Kit (Evan Peters) and his
children, Thomas and Julia.
Kit’s ending was a little weak. The
aliens came back and got him before he passed on from cancer. That was it.
Monsignor, now, Cardinal Howard (Joseph Fiennes); after
promising Jude he would release her when Lana comes after him. She corners him
after weeks of trying to get an interview with him in the garage. After hearing
what Lana has to say to him about Dr. Threadson (James Cromwell) and his
experiments, so instead of taking it like a man and a Catholic, he takes the
cowards way out and killed himself. I shook my head at it. Catholics look down
on this sort of thing. Stupid.
As Lana interviews for a thing at the
The thing that I loved about the
episode was the wrap up every living character left through the eyes of Lana. I
also liked figuring out that I was right about how the whole show ended.
