“Death Valley” has, according to fans posting to the “American Horror Story” subreddit, continued the show’s tradition of failing to stick the landing of its season finales. “Was that ending…an accident? Like did they accidentally cut the rest of the episode?” asked u/charlesluka94, of a conclusion which saw an immortal (thanks to alien technology) Mamie Eisenhower (Sarah Paulson) fail to stop a mass extinction event engineered by aliens so that they can take over the planet with their new human/alien hybrids. It’s a bleak and abrupt ending to a short series, one that had fans like u/Nitsua-Nat remarking, “I feel like I just got stood up on a date.”
Twitter fans were equally harsh on the conclusion. “Just took every alien conspiracy theory of the past 70yrs and mashed them together,” said @TrooperFozzy. “What was the point of Death Valley? Four episodes that resolved nothing and answered even less,” said @JCalabration6.
We previously noted that fans had expressed a dislike for the ending of “Death Valley,” if only because it didn’t touch on the lore previously established by “American Horror Story: Asylum,” where alien abductions were a big part of the narrative. But the somewhat more benevolent creatures from “Asylum” were not involved at all in the dire storyscape of “Death Valley.”
“Death Valley” has, according to fans posting to the “American Horror Story” subreddit, continued the show’s tradition of failing to stick the landing of its season finales. “Was that ending…an accident? Like did they accidentally cut the rest of the episode?” asked u/charlesluka94, of a conclusion which saw an immortal (thanks to alien technology) Mamie Eisenhower (Sarah Paulson) fail to stop a mass extinction event engineered by aliens so that they can take over the planet with their new human/alien hybrids. It’s a bleak and abrupt ending to a short series, one that had fans like u/Nitsua-Nat remarking, “I feel like I just got stood up on a date.”
Twitter fans were equally harsh on the conclusion. “Just took every alien conspiracy theory of the past 70yrs and mashed them together,” said @TrooperFozzy. “What was the point of Death Valley? Four episodes that resolved nothing and answered even less,” said @JCalabration6.
We previously noted that fans had expressed a dislike for the ending of “Death Valley,” if only because it didn’t touch on the lore previously established by “American Horror Story: Asylum,” where alien abductions were a big part of the narrative. But the somewhat more benevolent creatures from “Asylum” were not involved at all in the dire storyscape of “Death Valley.”