American Horror Story: 1984 Review: Final Girl (Season 9 Episode 9)

Mr. Jingles son makes an appearance at Camp Redwood, Margaret’s karma comes full swing, Brooke proves why she’s worthy of being the final girl, and one person gets a real happy ever after on American Horror Story: 1984 Season 9 Episode 9, “Final Girl.”

This season of American Horror Story hasn’t, by far, been the best season, but the finale is satisfying, for me, and allows the fans to see what they’ve been wanting to see all season; Margaret’s death.

I have been repeating week after week how I want Margaret to die at the hands of everyone she’s harmed, and to say that my wish is fulfilled is an understatement. Throwing Margaret’s dismembered body parts into a wood chipper is not something that ever crossed my mind, but it sure is what she deserves and I like the creativeness to it.

I do, however, find it weird that for thirty years nobody notices that she’s alive in the woods. I get maybe a few years of hiding out, but thirty while on the same ground as everyone else? It seems like a bit of a stretch but we’ll go with it. It’s also hard to believe that Margaret could be in hiding for that long without trying to kill anyone new.

This season has been nowhere near as bad as Freakshow, a season I have never finished, but the only thing that kept drawing me back in is Jingles’ storyline and wanting to see Margaret dead. That’s it. Every other storyline felt like an unsatisfying appetizer.

The top moment of the episode, hands down, is Bobby looking at his family before he leaves Camp Redwood forever. It truly brings me joy that even though Benjamin is dead and can’t see his son whenever he wants, he still gets a bittersweet moment to tell him how much he loves him and saves him from the Nightstalker one last time.

Benjamin and his little ghost family is something that I wouldn’t mind visiting in later seasons as we’ve done with Murder House and the witches from Coven. I wouldn’t mind the whole crew of Camp Redwood having a little cameo in a later season because I think that the whole phenomenon of being stuck on campgrounds became more interesting as more people got stuck.

Give us another crossover season with the people of Camp Redwood and the witches from Coven. I don’t know what the plot would be or what it would even revolve around, but it’s something that I would most definitely watch.

Brooke has been the final girl since the very beginning of the season and it’s only right that she survives because of how genuinely good she is and she proves that by leaving Camp Redwood in her rearview mirror, but still sending money to Jingles son over the years as he grew up.

It also says a lot that Brooke willingly helps Trevor cross the threshold of the camp before he passes so he and Montana can spend an eternity together. She easily could’ve just watched him die and laughed in Montana’s face for every bad thing she did to Brooke, but Brooke is a better person than that.

It’s a pleasant surprise that Donna left her murderous ways in her past and becomes the Medical Director at the asylum. At least now she can study serial killers and whoever else she wants every day for the rest of her life.

Overall this season ends on a happier note and will be placed in my top five seasons of American Horror Story, only for the Jingles storyline and how much joy I got out of it.

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American Horror Story will return in 2020 for its tenth season on FX. 

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