American Horror Story: Apocalypse - Boy Wonder *

When I started writing about Apocalypse, I should have known better. I haven’t watched many of the series seasons beyond the excellent Asylum, Roanoke, and some of Coven and Cult. That’s not to say I have not liked what I have seen so far in Apocalypse. For instance the opening of the episode, Boy Wonder, has Cordelia finding her school for “student witches” in ruins and rubble, a sky and the air of radioactive fallout, and a cache of diseased human cannibals attacking her in a horde, ripping her flesh from her body. It is staggering and impactful…and brief. It is a vision. So this is back in the past when Cordelia is mulling over “testing” Langdon (we obviously know he is Satanic because of the “present” scenes that opened the season) to see if he deserves to be the new “Supreme”. Cordelia tells Myrtle she’ll allow Langdon to partake in the Seven Wonders test to determine just how powerful he is. Clearly after “rescuing” Madison and Queenie from their looping “purgatory”, Langdon is “special”. Because no man is “made” for such a prominent position, Myrtle chastises Cordelia for even considering it. But Cordelia tells her she’s dying, and Hawthorne’s school’s faculty of sorcerers are quite psyched that a male might just actually secure the Supreme position. The one among the Hawthorne’s elite who considers Langdon quite dangerous is John Henry Moore, although Behold Chablis (still my favorite name of the cast up to this point) just calls him out as jealous. Moore should have been listened to.