They stuff a load of different themes into one. They do in every season but this time out they make so many of them important that none of them do.

First Lana's character. She's a reporter that wants to bring down the Asylum, well just she didn't she wanted to get a big scoop on the murderer being transferred there. She then doesn't listen to anyone and gets herself committed to the Asylum when she upsets Sister Jude. The next load of episodes show her moaning and bitching and being uppity in the Asylum, not believing that Kit could possibly be innocent when he says he is but not caring whatever it was that brought Grace to the Asylum. She's like one of those annoying feminists where all women are innocent if they so say but men are guilty by association. She then turns to a man to help her, baring in mind I came up with four or five escape plans that could have worked she goes along with a guy who ends up torturing her to stop her being a lesbian. Now these practises probably did happen back then but for a women like her she'd have turned her nose up on the uppity man, but she didn't. It just turns out that this man was the ACTUAL killer and he IS framing Kit. Never does she really apologise to Kit about that one. He lets her out of the Asylum just to lock her up and rape her. She ends up back in the Asylum, just to bitch (and yes it really was just bitching) her way out. She then uses the whole event to sky rocket her career. She doesn't admit to being a lesbian, she writes about how heroic she was and how terrible everything was. Everyone looks up to her as a brave BRAVE women *vomit*. In later life she's given away the kid that she had with the murderer and is living life at the top. She finally comes clean about basically lying to everyone her whole life but is still held up as a hero to the reporter interviewing her. She never saved anyones lives, she never did anything unless it bettered her life. And then she kills her son (who admittedly is there to kill her). I'd have preferred her to die because it would have been a lesson.

THAT is the main story.

You then HAVE the story about Bloody Face the murderer. Kit is portrayed as the main character until the later half of the season. I mean they all have pretty equal standing but a lot of it centres around him to begin with. He's just a normal nice guy who married a black girl. His story is all Sci-Fi. There are aliens, abductions, babies implanted into the women.... There needs to be no more explanation because they never really gave it. Grace come back saying that they'd chosen him because he has so much empathy and is such a wonderful guy but it sounded much more like her overies speaking then a highly intelligent group of aliens. After all he was no more empathetic then anyone else. He stopped mourning his dead wife the second a pretty face showed up, he unceremonious ****** her on the kitchen side, it was basically his fault that she died. He was a lovely character but there was never anything special about him.

Bloody Face himself was the Doctor played by Zachary Quinto. Now the slasher element and the Who is it part all were interesting. Take away Lana and her story and the aliens and their story and focus in on Kit and Bloody Face and you'd have a great series. Bloody Face has mummy issues and kills women to be closer to their skin, he passes this trait down to his son who in the modern time is killing people also. At first you don't really know who it is, I thought they'd just got the wrong guy I never thought that anyone in the Asylum would be Bloody Face let alone Quinto's character who was always the beacon of light not wanting Jude to be barbaric to the inmates. In actual fact he was only there to frame Kit. That whole story was really interesting and would have worked without Lana, he could have easily abducted Grace and made her pregnant leading to a confrontation with Kit.

Away from that we had the story of Sister Mary Eunice McKee. At first she was just a wimp but then she got possessed by the devil itself and starts to plot against everyone and everything. She brings so much fun to the series but is also quite evil. Before her possession she was the one innocent thing that had changed Dr Ardent's life, Dr Ardent being a Nazi during the war, afterwards he joins forces with her but loses his will to live as her innocence disappears completely. There was so much that could be mined in that story, SOOO mmuch. Her war against Sister Jude ad her and Ardents monsters. But no. She prances around the place and looks like she'll be the big bad at the end of the season only to be pushed off the balcony by Monsignor Timothy Howard and then cremated with Ardent on top of her. Two brilliant characters that could have brought no end of horror to the series dead. In such an undramatic way.

Sister Jude had the best character story and the best ending. A dark past, becoming a sister, doing what she thought was best even though at first we just think she's evil she isn't she's just living in a different time, her imprisonment after Sister Mary gets her own way all the way to Kit freeing her and taking him home. Now of course if I'd changed it I would have just had the Asylum shut down and I'm not sure how I'd have ended it with Jude but in what we got her story was the best.

Slasher monsters and psychological reasons that monsters like Bloody Face would become a thing. Demonic possession. Evil scientist. Scary Asylums in general.