The End (American Horror Story)
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| "The End" | |
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| American Horror Story episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Bradley Buecker |
| Written by | Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk |
| Featured music | |
| Production code | 8ATS01 |
| Original air date | September 12, 2018 |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"The End" is the first episode and season premiere of the eighth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on September 12, 2018, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk, and directed by Bradley Buecker.[1]
In the near future, while heiress Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt gets her hair done by Mr. Gallant in Santa Monica, people are warned of an impending nuclear missile strike. Coco escapes the city on a private jet along with her assistant Mallory, Gallant, and his grandmother Evie, but leaving Coco's boyfriend Brock behind. The nuclear blast hits, destroying Los Angeles. Several other world cities are also destroyed.
Teenager Timothy Campbell is also evacuated, without his family, by guards from an organization called the Cooperative who arrive, stating that this is because of Timothy's genetic makeup. After being evacuated, Timothy meets another chosen survivor, Emily.
Two weeks later, nuclear holocaust has effectively ended the world and nuclear winter has descended. Timothy and Emily are taken to Outpost 3, one of several fallout bunkers across the world under the rule of the Cooperative. Outpost 3's overseer Wilhemina Venable explains to Timothy and Emily that in Outpost 3 there are two castes: "purples" and "grays". Purples are the "elite", who bought a ticket or were chosen to survive. Grays are the worker class. There are strict rules, including no unauthorized sexual intercourse and no going outside due to the risk of radiation contamination. The "purples" consist of Timothy, Emily, Coco, Gallant, Evie, former talk show host Dinah Stevens, Dinah's son Andre, and Andre's boyfriend Stu. Mallory is a "gray".
Rations begin to run low and have only enough food for the next eighteen months. Miriam Mead, Outpost 3's sadistic warden, tampers with a Geiger counter so it detects traces of radiation on Gallant and Stu. The two are brutishly "decontaminated", but Mead pretends she still detects radiation traces on Stu and so kills him. During dinner later, Andre finds human bones in the meal and deduces that they have been eating Stu.
Over the next eighteen months, Timothy and Emily develop a romantic relationship. Michael Langdon then arrives at the outpost and tells Venable that many other outposts have been overrun. Michael states he will judge who is fit to be saved and join an impenetrable outpost with a ten-year food supply. Outside, Mead kills the horses that brought Langdon to the outpost, and their corpses are devoured by unseen monsters.
