"The Axeman Cometh" is the sixth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on November 13, 2013, on the cable network FX.
This episode focuses on the girls awakening the spirit of a long-dead serial killer, The Axeman (Danny Huston).
The witches of Miss Robichaux's Academy debate whether to play jazz music, which the manifesto claims will spare them from murder.
Later, bold witch Millie leads the Axeman to the Coven, where he proceeds to kill her but she uses teleportation and stabs him.
Furious, Marie demands Hank to bring her the heads of all the witches and to burn the school down, or she will kill him.
Misty detects bad vibes and leaves the Academy, while Madison slowly recovers from her death.
Club gave the episode a C rating, and wrote, "I realized that I don't give a good goddamn about anything that happens to anybody this season.
Hank's been ordered by Laveau to kill everyone at Robichaux's, Spalding's been caught red-handed as a necropheliac (nice Rocky Horror Riff Raff reference there too!
"[3] "The Axeman Cometh" received a 2.3 18–49 ratings share, up from the previous episode, and was watched by 4.16 million viewers in its original American broadcast.