Before the finale I spent a few days going over the season once more to get a sense of finality from the episode, I wanted to feel that it had truly ended when the story was over.

Doing this is a pathology of mine. I do it with nigh on every other show in order to bring about that sense of build-up, maybe work on catching foreshadowing, and use it to make final predictions. Its habitual.

Season 3 of AHS was possibly the most undefined in terms of its rules, the way its world functioned. Season 1 had a very defined set of rules for the house, and indeed the rules could be said to be the base story. Season 2 was one I didn't like at all, but it set up that angels, demons, and aliens could all exist in the same universe. Everything was allowed, nothing held back. Season 3, however, has been a nightmare to untangle and due to that felt like it was being made up as they went rather than thought out like a coherent storyline.

• Awkward Rule 1: Death. We get several issues with this, as no one's death is final. Why is Fiona obsessed with avoiding it? She could obviously come right back. Madison is too damaged to come back, but then oh wait she isn't? Zoe's murdergina isn't even mentioned beyond episode 2 of this season, but what could have happened with that? Can people be brought back from that or is there too much damage? Oh wait, there's no such thing because Kyle can come back from any amount of damage.

• Awkward Rule 2: The Afterlife is beyond confusing here. The house seems to keep some spirits, but not others. Spalding is kept as a house ghost (apparently raising a baby? But enough on that...) and we all know that the Axeman was kept around (no idea how he became corporeal after his 'release'). Then there is Madison, who had her throat slit and was kept around as...a doll of some sort. She said that there was nothing after death, no heaven or hell (Murphy doesn't believe in this kind of thing so I took that at face value), just the blackness that was described as 'smothering'. Kyle experienced the same thing and it was stated a couple of times. Then we have Queenie, Marie Laveau, Delphine LaLaurie, and Fiona Good who all go to hell (well so does everyone else, but we actually see these). Papa Legba puts everyone in their own personal hell. All these conflict, there are no consistencies.

• Awkward Rule 3: Organization of the Coven seems...odd. With as many witches as there were during Fiona's youthful periods that we saw I can't help but wonder where exactly they all went. The council consisted of Myrtle Snow (who was obviously not stable enough to run it), Sicily Pembrook (who was a witch but we don't know much else), and of course Quentin something (the gay guy who had absolutely no powers, he just knew how to butter Fiona up to get magiked to the top of the bestseller list) and that was about it. With the 3 of them and Fiona that gives us 3 witches and a co-conspirator, so where the hell is everyone else and their magic offspring? Why isn't there anyone investigating the disappearance of 2 of those people, and why is Myrtle worried about someone creating a scandal out of it if no one else exists to care? It seems that the Coven consists of 4 or so adults, 4 or so kids, and a couple creepy bodyguards (that blonde bastard seriously needs to consider a new hairstyle).

These are the largest issues I noticed, but others would include the floundering plot for Misty Day and the issues with Laveau needing more backstory work. I won't say I didn't like this season because I found it a blast, but its just kind of odd that they would allow things like this to happen in a show that had 2 seasons of meticulousness.