This very political season of American Horror Story comes to its conclusion tonight — and despite some bumps in our rough road to democracy, the will of the people must prevail.

[Warning: The following contains spoilers for the season finale of American Horror Story: Cult. Read at your own risk!]

Nothing isn’t political in 2017. We watch টেলিভিশন the same way we watch our fellow Americans, searching for hidden signals and revelatory telltales.

In the wake of last Sunday’s mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas that left 59 concertgoers dead, Ryan Murphy has confirmed that he has edited out the violent visuals in পরবর্তি week’s episode of American Horror Story: Cult.

Things are getting scary in the wake of the 2016 presidential election

A one-armed man walks into a polling place…

Kai becomes obsessed with ferreting out a আঁচিল in his cult’s ranks

Ally loses her grip on reality as some new neighbors সরানো in

The cult eliminates a weak link; Kai reveals his family history

The প্রদর্শনী picks an especially bad week to air an episode about a mass shooting