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American Horror Story – Coven, Episode 7 The Dead

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American Horror Story – Coven, Episode 7

The Dead

Aired Nov 20, 2013

Horror

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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Fiona finds purpose in a dangerous love affair; Queenie questions her place in the Coven; Cordelia makes a decision about her mother.

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"The Dead" throws outlandish preposterousness at the wall, not the oddest of which is monstrous Franken-sex, and it sticks -- with extra stickiness.

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Kathy Bates

Madame Delphine LaLaurie

Sarah Paulson

Cordelia Foxx

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Taissa Farmiga

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Halle Kiefer

Rolling Stone

07/20/2016

"It wasn't only a different time. It was a different world," LaLaurie pleads with Queenie. It is a testament to Kathy Bates' phenomenal acting skills that her statement holds any emotional or narrative water whatsoever, because come on.

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Rakesh Satyal

New York Magazine/Vulture

07/19/2016

4/5

This episode was written by co-creator Brad Falchuk, and he injected it with his usual mixture of humor, awe, and dark, dark tomfoolery.

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Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

07/12/2016

"The Dead" offers a bleak corrective to any potentially incoherent, pandering dissonances of the past.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/18/2018

We're in it for the long haul because we know it's going to surprise us. And besides, there hasn't been a season of this show yet where the writing didn't disappoint, especially around the middle of the season.

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Christian Law

We Got This Covered

08/10/2016

It's a great twist that works in more ways than one.

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Nick Harley

Den of Geek

08/02/2016

4/5

Tonight's episode mainly paired most of the main cast in teams of two to varying degrees of entertainment.

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Synopsis

Fiona finds purpose in a dangerous love affair; Queenie questions her place in the Coven; Cordelia makes a decision about her mother.

Executive Producer: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, Tim Minear, James Wong, Jennifer Salt
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 20, 2013