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American Horror Story: Coven. It's very clear here that the third season of Ryan Murphy's batshit crazy, hypersexual anthology series will feature some witchy women. As we've reported, Jessica Lange, Taissa Farmiga, and Lily Rabe will all be back for the third season, as well as other regulars Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson. (Zachary Quinto assumes he's not invited back to the party.) First of all, I'm pretty pumped for this upcoming season, because (#RememberThe90s) how great was The Craft, you guys? But also, it makes my theory that Jessica Lange is the head of a coven of Hollywood witches even more solid. Art imitates life, folks. 

Zachary Quinto was one of the best reasons to watch American Horror Story (season one) and American Horror Story: Asylum (season two). But now the actor has revealed he hasn't been asked to come back for season three, as he assumes there is not a role for him.

I'm not sure if you guys are big fans of Homeland, but if you are, well, you'll totally understand what I'm saying here about American Horror Story: Even if you are writing about the most implausible, suspend-your-disbelief from a 90-foot crane kind of crazy, you still need to be internally consistent within the dream world you make up. So for instance, no way would Carrie have ever been let back in at the CIA, even if she was right about Brody. That's just not how it works. She has a mental problem, and it clearly makes her batshit insane, and she hid that information---a matter of national security--and don't even get me started on this Dana storyline...whatever.

I think most people who know me might be surprised that I'm pretty stoked for the new Star Trek movie. I loved the last one unexpectedly! I have a general distrust of anything science fiction or, as some might say, "fun," but I pretty much kicked back and took it all in. I have to also give J.J. Abrams credit for making it all about time travel, because five minutes in I was like, "Welp, I won't understand what the hell is going on anyway, might as well just relax and let this thing do what it needs to do." Also: Zachary Quinto's eyebrows. Can't resist 'em. Anyway, Benedict Cumberbatch is the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness, and he even narrates the first teaser trailer, which you can take a look at after the jump.

Nice, American Horror Story. I didn't think you could do it after four long, tedious episodes, but now that we have Lana down in the basement of Bloody Norman Bates Face, we are finally getting somewhere.

Have we turned a corner in this somewhat terrible but mostly boring season of American Horror Story? Perhaps we have! I mean, right off the bat guys, you know who just showed up at Briarcliff? It's Anne Frank! Yeah, that Anne Frank! I know, we all thought she was dead too! (I mean, maybe she is. There are zombies and aliens and THE DEVIL and immortal serial killers so maybe the ghost of Anne Frank is hanging out like the Black Delilah was last season.) 

Well, last night's episode hit a little close to home, didn't it? Look, I'm not saying that Ryan Murphy's team of psycho-horror fanboys over there writing American Horror Story were necessarily psychic when they devoted this week's episode to a Nor'Easter (which also happened to be the title) the same week Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast and scared us all shitless. That was probably just a coincidence. After all, if you throw enough creepy pasta at a wall, eventually something is going to stick, and last night we saw spaghetti flying everywhere. Somewhere else in the country, someone was probably like, "How did this show know that I am very scared of having my legs amputated by Nazi war criminals?" while someone else (probably on the West Coast) was like, "How did this show know how very scared I am that Adam Levine is almost impossible to kill, even with one arm?"

I'm not sure how I feel about American Horror Story: Asylum, you guys. Because either we are in a world where Satan can inhabit a boy—and when he dies, transfers itself over to Sister Mary Eunice—OR we are in a world where the horrors are confined to barbaric hospital conditions and Academy Award nominee James Cromwell trying to rape a prostitute after dressing her up like the aforementioned nun. It can't be both! Because as terrible as rape and electroshock therapy and BLOODY FACE all are, we are now on some next-level paranormal shit, and that will always take precedence over mortal problems. I'm sorry, Chloe Sevigny. You picked the wrong reality to try out your feminist theories about gender relations and sex, and how come men have as much sex as they want but when women do it, they're called sluts? Take it to Mad Men, lady, because Briarcliff has some real problems.

Called the gay 'Girls', 'The Outs' stands out on its own and fills a void currently left open on television.

Casting news can get so tedious, especially when you couldn't give a crap about the latest Breaking Hunger Potter Twilight Games franchise. But a casting update I can get behind is season two of American Horror Story, which will be set in an all-new setting and feature an almost all-new cast. Creator Ryan Murphy dished to The Hollywood Reporter that season two will be "fun, sexy and baroque" and set on an East Coast mental institution for the criminally insane. So who can we expect to see onscreen?