“I initially lamented at the start of this season ... that an episode that's set within an existing American Horror Story season would be a better way to end the anthology series than to begin it. Well, it turns out that American Horror Stories decided to...” Bloody Disgusting · 4 years ago
Reviewers on forums and YouTube often highlighted the episode's lack of emotional closure.
: Many reviewers on IMDb and TV Fanatic expressed exhaustion with the setting, noting that the franchise needs to move on from its origins to allow new stories to flourish.
“This is easily the worst episode of American Horror Stories and is amongst the worst episodes of the entire franchise. Why? ... It teases us with the destruction of Murder House [but] it does not deliver on this and instead gives us one of the worst bait...” Another Millennial Reviewer · 4 years ago