Warning: Full spoilers for the American Horror Story: Asylum finale follow...
The Season 2 finale of AHS: Asylum, "Madness Ends," effectively brought us up to the present day, wrapping things up neatly, and mostly happily, in a way that felt surprisingly rewarding. No, nothing ever came of the alien story to make it feel any less screwball or random, but the Nazi crimes of Dr. Arden bubbled back up when it came to taking down Cardinal Howard. There was a nice sense of closure here; something the the Season 1 finale kind of did with the Harmons, but that season ender felt more like a tacked on ending after the intense events of "Birth."
Let start with the ending, shall we? And Lana's total sucker takedown of her psycho son, Johnny. The way she played him; pretending to recognize him and then care about him. Sure, modern Lana had traits that I'm sure we were supposed to frown upon, but they never fazed me. If there was one thing I think Lana earned the right to be, after all she'd been through, is was being snippy. She was always ambitious, but after surviving Briarcliff and Thredson, there was no way she was going to let anyone stand in her way, even if it meant being a bitch. In fact, some of her drive was echoed in Jude's advice to Kit's daughter, Julia, when she told her, on her death bed, that she could do anything and to never let a man tell her who she was. This coming from the woman who had warned Lana about ambition right at the outset of the season.
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