<i>American Horror Story: Cult</i>'s Angry Women
In its seventh season, the FX show tackled a timely subject with typical incoherence.
This article contains spoilers through the entire seventh season of American Horror Story: Cult.
To be fair to , the seventh season of FX’s anthology series was conceived, written, filmed, and edited before the Harvey Weinstein revelations opened the floodgates on half a century of female fury. The show’stopical references are pink pussyhats and , not exposés and . Still, the subject of angry women looms large over the season’s 11 episodes. “We’re sitting on the biggest bomb the universe has ever seen,” Bebe Babbitt (Frances Conroy) tells the cult leader Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) during—yes—an anger-management therapy session. “You know what that is, Mr. Anderson? Female
