The third season of American Horror Story is currently showing on FX, and this one, called Coven, is about a pack of witches ranging from immature vindictive brats to mature vindictive brats.
Jessica Lange plays the lead role as "The Supreme," the witch designated by committee to be the head mistress of a school for young witches. Lange has a lot of acting range and does a good job with it as she rages at some lesser witch, uses her mind to toss someone across the room, or sobs in self pity at the frailty of her own human life form.
The story reflects an atmosphere of misandry, with the males in the show either being lying philanderers, self mutilating necrophiliacs, or crazed zombies. (It's probably politically incorrect to think about it, but one has to wonder what's up with the creators.)
But never mind the misandry, there's witchy misanthropy all throughout and demonstrated aptly when Jessica Lange's character, Fiona Goode, boasted that she voted for Obama, not once, but twice. A person would have to be pretty evil to want to give him so much power over the normal humans who populate America.
Oh great witch Fiona, release us from thy evil spell!
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