American Horror Story: Ranking Every Season Finale From Worst To Best

Title: "Madness Ends"

Synopsis: Lana Winters is made famous by her book "Tales from Briarcliff" where she charts her time in the asylum and her run in with the infamous Bloody Face killer. In present times a 75-year-old Lana recaps those she has lost over the years while also facing the demons she left behind.

Lana survives, hooray! The problem with the Asylum finale is that we had left any real sense of Briarcliff Manor, or what made the season one of the best, behind in the previous episode. Too many people revisited the rundown asylum and it didn't add anything - everyone was left asking, "where is Pepper?"

We neatly tied up the murder of Adam Lambert's Leo, but did it really need to take 13 weeks to get there. Elsewhere a reformed Sister Jude peacefully passes away, which is the best that Lange's legendary character could hope for, and one by one the characters say their goodbyes. Where "Madness Ends" unfortunately drops several places in ranking is the return of that maligned aliens plot and the ending for Kit. Season 2 would have done just fine without the intermittent appearances of E.T. and friends and it feels so out of place.

However, the Johnny Morgan twist was a great touch, and for a second it genuinely looked like Lana might bite the bullet. Of course she didn't though, and Winters goes on to become the Laurie Strode of the Horror Story franchise. Will anything ever knock her down? Appearing again in Roanoke aged 78, and taking a gun to the face, it looks like even old age can't defeat this old bird.