American Horror Story: Coven
| Season 3 of American Horror Story | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| title | Coven | ||
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| Episodes | 13 | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| First broadcast | Oct 9, 2013 - Jan 29, 2014 on FX | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
Nov 20, 2013 - Feb 26, 2014 on FOX | ||
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American Horror Story: Coven is the third season of American Horror - television series American Horror Story , based on an idea by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk based. The first broadcast took place between October 9, 2013 and January 29, 2014 on the TV channel FX . The German-language first broadcast ran from November 20, 2013 to February 26, 2014 on FOX .
The season takes place in 2013 and includes a coven of witches who descended from Salem and are fighting for their survival. It also shows flashbacks to the year 1692, during the notorious witch trials in Salem (other periods: 1830s, 1910s, 60s, 70s, 90s).
Recurring cast members from previous seasons include Sarah Paulson , Taissa Farmiga , Frances Conroy , Evan Peters , Lily Rabe , Denis O'Hare , Jessica Lange , Jamie Brewer , Alexandra Breckenridge and Robin Bartlett .
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The main plot of the third season takes place in the present. When young Zoe tries to sleep with her boyfriend for the first time, he dies of a brain hemorrhage . She must realize that she is a witch and that her family is descended from the witches of Salem . Because of this, she is sent to a witches' coven in New Orleans . This is led by the herbalist witch Cordelia. Besides Zoe, there are three other young witches in the house: the self-centered, telekinetically gifted actress Madison, the overweight, black, human voodoo doll Queenie and the somewhat naive, clairvoyant Nan. After a few days, the head of the circle, Cordelia's mother Fiona, appears. In search of eternal youth and in an attempt to prevent a new colonel from gaining strength, she also walks over corpses.
Fiona takes the students on a trip to Delphine Lalaurie's house . There Nan discovers with her abilities that the sadistic former mistress of the house is still alive. In revenge , she was buried alive by the voodoo witch Marie Laveau after receiving the gift of eternal life. Fiona takes Lalaurie into the house of the circle and thus arouses the wrath of Laveau, who has long harbored a grudge against the white witches. Meanwhile, Madison drags Zoe to a college party. Zoe flirts with likable Kyle, while his frat brothers attack and rape Madison. In revenge, Madison later crashes the connection's bus. Almost all boys die, including Kyle. Zoe is horrified at first, but then decides to kill the only survivor in the hospital with her witchcraft. In return, Madison shows her a way to save Kyle. They sneak into the morgue to wake it up. When they discover that he had lost some body parts in the accident, they replace them with parts from his fraternity brothers. Zoe manages to wake Kyle. However, he is very confused and can hardly speak and think. The hermit witch Misty appears and helps her bring Kyle back to life.
Fiona now recognizes Madison's strong powers and that she could become the new head of the circle. Apparently she starts to support her, but then cuts her throat in an argument. The butler Spalding hushed up the murder, but nevertheless the circle council appeared to indict Fiona for this murder. Councilor Myrtle had tried years earlier to hold Fiona accountable for the murder of the last colonel. Fiona is able to ward off the accusations and even convince her daughter Cordelia of her innocence. The two go out together, but Cordelia is attacked and her eyes are burned with acid. With Queenie's help, Fiona manages to convince the council that Myrtle carried out the attack. Myrtle is burned, but later resurrected by Misty. Cordelia has been blinded by the acid, but has received a second face. She thereby realizes her mother's deviousness, but also that her husband Hank is a murderer. She throws him out, but does not yet know that he should kill the circle on behalf of Marie Laveau as a witch hunter. Cordelia wants to fight her mother with Zoe, who is developing new strong powers.
Meanwhile, Zoe realizes that Madison is dead and, with the help of the demon spirit of an ax slayer, finds her near Spalding. She thereby frees the mind. Madison is also revived, but as the undead she feels numb and dissatisfied. She starts sleeping with Kyle. In the meantime Queenie has made friends with Delphine, but then delivers her to Marie Laveau, who decapitates Delphine. The head lives on. Myrtle returns to the Coven's house with Misty, and everyone devises a plan to drive Fiona to suicide and make Misty the new colonel. The plan almost succeeds until Spalding's ghost appears and tells Fiona that she has been tricked. While Nan is with the son of the bigoted neighbor, he is accidentally shot by Hank, who was actually after Nan, but later resuscitated by Misty. It turns out that Hank's family has been witch hunters for centuries. His father heads this order under the guise of a very wealthy financial company. Hank was supposed to infiltrate the coven by marrying Cordelia and then kill them all, but he actually fell in love with them, so he didn't implement his plan until they separated from him.
Fiona wants to work with Marie against the killer. She only refuses, but when her entire circle, including Queenie, is shot, she accepts. Meanwhile, a fight for the position of colonel breaks out among the witch students, because each of them wants to be the queen of witches. To get Misty out of the way, Madison knocks her down and then has her buried in a coffin. Meanwhile, Myrtle ensures that Cordelia gets her eyesight back (through one of the eyes of the council members who betrayed her), but she has to lose her second face.
Marie, meanwhile, reveals to Fiona that her immortality comes from a pact with the voodoo spirit Papa Legba: He preserves her soul and she has to sacrifice another innocent soul to him every year - in the form of babies. Nevertheless, Fiona would also like to enter into this pact in order to be able to avoid her impending death from cancer. Papa Legba then informed her that no pact could be reached because she had no soul. This time Laveau is not willing to offer the infant she abducted as an offering, as he reminds her of her own baby, which she had to sacrifice to Papa Legba in the first year of her pact. Fiona feels sorry for her and decides to sacrifice Nan instead. The voodoo ghost is not very happy about this sacrifice, as it was expecting a baby, but then accepts it because it is impressed by Marie's and Fiona's collaboration.
To get the second face again, Cordelia stabs herself in the eyes with a pair of secateurs and goes blind again. At first she does not regain her strength and does not realize when she touches Madison that she buried Misty alive. Only later can she use her gift again. Marie Laveau and Fiona team up and, with the help of the ax man, who is now with Fiona, kill the witch hunters in order to solve the problem. Meanwhile, Madison and Zoe argue over who should get Kyle, but Kyle chooses Zoe because he loves her. From then on, the two are inseparable.
The young witches begin to prepare for the power showdown, in which they have to perform all their powers, also known as "the seven miracles". So, one after the other, they show all the powers that they have mastered, starting with telekinesis (being able to move things), which everyone can perform skillfully. Also on display are lighting fires, mind control and teleportation. Misty dies on her descent into Hell, unable to come back and stuck in her personal Hell. When teleporting, Zoe accidentally "beams" herself too high into the air over the fence and is impaled. For the next task, resuscitation, Madison is supposed to resuscitate Zoe, but refuses and instead resuscitates a fly in order to still pass the task. Queenie fails to resuscitate Zoe and so fails that task, which means she cannot be the next Colonel.
In the last task (reading things out of stones) Madison fails too, and Cordelia (Fiona's daughter / headmistress) tries her luck with the seven miracles. She manages them all until she only has the resuscitation ahead of her, which she masters with ease, so that Zoe is alive again. Cordelia is the new Colonel, and through the knowledge she gets her eyesight back, better than ever. Angry at Madison for not healing Zoe, Kyle kills her and hides it up with the help of the butler. The other young witches Zoe and Queenie are now head witches who live alone with Cordelia in the school. They make the academy public, to which hundreds of young girls respond and go to school to join.
Cast and dubbing
main actor
| actor | role | Main role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Paulson | Cordelia Foxx | 3.01-3.13 | Ulrike Stürzbecher |
| Taissa Farmiga | Zoe Benson | 3.01-3.13 | Luisa Wietzorek |
| Frances Conroy | Myrtle Snow | 3.01, 3.04-3.05, 3.08-3.13 | Katharina Lopinski |
| Evan Peters | Kyle Spencer | 3.01-3.13 | Jan Rohrbach |
| Lily raven | Misty Day | 3.01-3.13 | Cathlen Gawlich |
| Emma Roberts | Madison Montgomery | 3.01-3.13 | Gabrielle Pietermann |
| Denis O'Hare | Spalding | 3.01-3.13 | Udo Schenk |
| Kathy Bates | Dolphins LaLaurie | 3.01-3.12 | Regina Lemnitz |
| Jessica Lange | Fiona Goode | 3.01-3.13 | Karin Buchholz |
supporting cast
| actor | role | Supporting role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angela Bassett | Marie Laveau | 3.01-3.12 | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Gabourey Sidibe | Queenie | 3.01-3.13 | Maja Maneiro |
| Jamie Brewer | Nan | 3.01-3.10 | Marie-Luise Schramm |
| Josh Hamilton | Hank Foxx | 3.02-3.09 | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Patti LuPone | Joan Ramsey | 3.03, 3.08-3.10 | Katarina Tomaschewsky |
| Alexander Dreymon | Luke Ramsey | 3.03-3.05, 3.08-3.09 | Marcel Collé |
| Alexandra Breckenridge | Kaylee | 3.04, 3.06 | Maria Koschny |
| Danny Huston | The axman | 3.06-3.13 | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Stevie Nicks | Stevie Nicks | 3.09-3.10, 3.13 | Denise Gorzelanny |
| Lance Reddick | Papa Legba | 3.10-3.13 |
- Remarks
Episodes
The first airing of the third season ( American Horror Story: Coven ) was from October 9, 2013 to January 29, 2014 on the US cable channel FX . The German-language premiere was broadcast from November 20, 2013 to February 26, 2014 on the German pay-TV channel FOX .
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script | Spectator (USA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26th | 1 | Bitchcraft | Bitchcraft | Oct 9, 2013 | Nov 20, 2013 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk | 5.54 million |
| 27 | 2 | The perfect friend | Boy parts | Oct 16, 2013 | Nov 27, 2013 | Michael Rymer | Tim Minear | 4.51 million |
| 28 | 3 | The successor | The replacements | Oct 23, 2013 | 4th Dec. 2013 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | James Wong | 3.78 million |
| 29 | 4th | The dead will rise | Fearful Pranks Ensue | Oct 30, 2013 | Dec 11, 2013 | Michael Uppendahl | Jennifer Salt | 3.71 million |
| 30th | 5 | Burn, witch, burn! | Burn, Witch, Burn! | Nov 6, 2013 | Dec 18, 2013 | Jeremy Podeswa | Jessica Sharzer | 3.80 million |
| 31 | 6th | The axman comes | The Axeman Cometh | Nov 13, 2013 | Jan. 8, 2014 | Michael Uppendahl | Doug Petrie | 4.16 million |
| 32 | 7th | The dead | The Dead | Nov 20, 2013 | Jan 15, 2014 | Bradley Buecker | Brad Falchuk | 4.00 million |
| 33 | 8th | The Holy Sacrifice | The Sacred Taking | 4th Dec. 2013 | Jan. 22, 2014 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Ryan Murphy | 4.07 million |
| 34 | 9 | The head | Head | Dec 11, 2013 | Jan. 29, 2014 | Howard Deutch | Tim Minear | 3.94 million |
| 35 | 10 | The magical joys of Stevie Nicks | The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks | Jan. 8, 2014 | Feb 5, 2014 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | James Wong | 3.49 million |
| 36 | 11 | Protect the Circle | Protect the coven | Jan 15, 2014 | Feb 12, 2014 | Bradley Buecker | Jennifer Salt | 3.46 million |
| 37 | 12 | go to hell | Go to Hell | Jan. 22, 2014 | 19th Feb. 2014 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Jessica Sharzer | 3.35 million |
| 38 | 13 | The seven wonders | Seven Wonders | Jan. 29, 2014 | Feb. 26, 2014 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Douglas Petrie | 4.24 million |
Web links
- Season 3 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b American Horror Story. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Lesley Goldberg: 'American Horror Story' at PaleyFest: Season 3 Title Revealed . In: hollywoodreporter.com . March 15, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Coven . In: Zap2it.com . Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 14, 2013.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Season 3 . In: Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved November 14, 2013.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Coven: (Season Three) Ratings. In: TV Series Finale. January 30, 2014, accessed March 21, 2018 .
