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American Horror Story – Asylum, Episode 12 Continuum

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American Horror Story – Asylum, Episode 12

Continuum

Aired Jan 16, 2013

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Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A deadly new inmate threatens Sister Jude's chance of release; Grace's obsession with the aliens turns violent.

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Penultimate episode "Continuum" forces wrap-ups of too many open-ended arcs, though it still manages to entertain by throwing more wrenches into the mix.

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J. Bryan Lowder

Slate

Aug 30, 2016

I didn't dislike the episode (or the aliens!) -- I just found it a surprising change of pace.

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Halle Kiefer

Rolling Stone

Aug 30, 2016

We're coming into the home stretch, and Ryan Murphy is putting the pedal to the metal! Full throttle!

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Emily St. James

AV Club

Aug 29, 2016

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It's perhaps fitting that an episode named "Continuum" would embrace all that's wondrous and all that's awful about this season of American Horror Story, occasionally within the same scene or line of dialogue.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

Jun 19, 2018

Say what you will about AHS, it's not a show that spins its wheels. It moves and expects you to keep moving with it.

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Tess Lynch

Grantland

Aug 30, 2016

I'm totally flummoxed and disappointed by certain aspects of last night's episode, namely the fact that Kit Walker (Evan Peters) had the unbelievable bad luck to cohabitate with two ax murderers. Ax murdering is not contagious: It is not the flu.

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Kevin Yeoman

Screen Rant

Aug 30, 2016

With 'Continuum,' the penultimate episode of Asylum, Ryan Murphy pens what definitely feels like the end of several character threads, even those that had, more or less, already wrapped up in a significant way.

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Synopsis

A deadly new inmate threatens Sister Jude's chance of release; Grace's obsession with the aliens turns violent.

Executive Producer: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, Tim Minear
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Jan 16, 2013

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