American Horror Story: Coven (Fox) can be relied on for a dose of Deep Southern fried steaminess but this week Ryan Murphy opened things up with a nifty definition of Generation Y, the kids born between the birth of Aids and 9/11.
‘We are the global generation, known for our sense of entitlement and narcissism, the first generation where every kid gets a trophy just for showing up… our one defining trait is a numbness to the world, an indifference to pain.’
Which makes some kind of sense of why everyone cries on The X Factor and no one minds Nicholas ritually disembowelling Beyoncé.
That observation was served up as a typically dark twist on the sugary intro voiceover you usually get in US dramas.
It set the tone for a macabre rumination on racism and the living dead, with Kathy Bates’s prejudiced New Orleans madame finally getting a taste of her own twisted medicine. Not before time.
