American Horror Story: 6 Most Controversial Moments Of Season 3

2. Fiona's Cancer

It's not exactly new ground for a TV show to focus on a character going through an illness, particularly one as ugly as cancer, because the experience can create opportunities for drama and emotional scenes. American Horror Story however, attempted to go one step further by expressing the understandable desperation that must reach cancer victims at some point, but this time show it taking hold of someone with supernatural powers. Fiona, as an exceptionally talented witch is capable of tremendous things just by willing them, with the resurrecction of the dead not being beyond her powers. However, ridding herself of the cancer ravaging her body seems to be something that not even she can manage, and her struggles to beat it are shocking. Throughout the series we see Fiona desperately searching for ways to prevent the ageing process, it's more or less the main reason she digs up LaLaurie in the first place. So upon discovering that she's ill, her life spirals out of control and her loneliness is finally unveiled, as she becomes desperate for one last great love. That love turns out to be the ghost of a notorious mass murderer, but I'm sure we can forgive someone for a slip of judgement when their very mortality has been shaken. To see Fiona fall from the stylish, hardened supreme of the coven to an isolated cancer victim, hated by her daughter and rapidly losing the beauty she deemed so important is an extremely hard-hitting piece of television.