American Horror Story: 6 Most Controversial Moments Of Season 3

6. Queenie And LaLaurie Bonding

Upon her introduction to the main cast, Madame LaLaurie, played by Kathy Bates, has gradually insisted herself as a character it's nigh impossible to dislike. She's fiesty, otherworldly (thanks to being from over a century ago) and quick witted, and she also forms an unexpected friendship with Queenie, the only black witch in the coven.

But, why is all of that controversial? Well, for those not in the here and now of New Orleans history, Madame Delphine LaLaurie was an infamous torturer of the black slaves she owned.

The scenes where we're treated to her living in her own time show her to be a sadistic, cut throat woman, who mutilates one of her house boys to look like a minotaur, all as punishment for sleeping with one of her daughters. She not only loathed black people, she saw them as subhuman, and this relationship was not dealt an olive branch when voodoo queen Marie Laveau is revealed to have been the unfortunate houseboy's lover, extracting her revenge by giving Delphine immortality whilst burying her alive. So to sum up: LaLaurie is an unforgivable racist, who was given a platform to hate even more atop. So it's incredibly sketchy that, upon her reintroduction to the world, she ends up forming a bond with Queenie. Despite their misunderstandings, and even Queenie turning her over to Laveau, the pair still seem to get along, as Queenie keeps the now severed (but hilariously still immortal) head of Delphine in her room, attempting to educate her on black history.