WRITING: AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN

This third season of Ryan Murphy's soul-searching journey into America's darker side may be the best yet. Set in a witches boarding school in New Orleans, AHS: Coven is as brilliantly filmed, cast- and scary - as the previous miniseries. Like season two it also draws on American history, this time tackling slavery, racism and the persecution of witches from a female perspective. Jessica Lange once again plays a strong-minded woman facing the painful challenge of aging, while the other main characters, all female, together present a complete and nuanced portrait of what it means to be a woman today.