The fourth season of “American Horror Story” wrapped up on Wednesday and it was an unsatisfying ending to an unsatisfying season.

The season started off promising with the premiere ending with plenty of questions, leaving viewers eager for the weeks to come. However, it soon became a boring game of “who is dying this week?”

“Freak Show” had no plot, unless you want to count Elsa Mars’s (Jessica Lange) constant need to get her own television show or Stanley (Denis O’Hare) and Maggie’s (Emma Roberts) lame con-artist scam.

The cast worked with what they were given, which wasn’t much. The dialogue was flat, making most of the episodes boring and the viewer waiting for any action, at all. Not to mention, a viewer barely had time to form an opinion about a character before they were axed off.

One of the only exciting things to come out of the season was that all previous seasons are connected in some way, especially “Freak Show” and “Asylum.” It’s unclear on how “Coven” and “Murder House” are connected, but fan theories have been running wild since show creator Ryan Murphy announced the news.

Now all the attention is on what next season will bring. Murphy revealed there was a clue in episode four in the form of a top hat on a coffee cup. Some theories jumped right to Operation Top Hat, a secret army exercise for the Chemical Corps in the ‘50s.

It involved people being exposed to dangerous chemicals and experiments, which leads many theorists to believe season five will be about human experimentation, which has been a running theme in several AHS seasons.

In any case, Murphy has promised next season will be much different than “Freak Show”- and hopefully so. What started as the most hyped and advertised season fell flat and is now probably the series’ worst. 

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