Rumblings had recently began to stir up further to this point when Lily Rabe was announced to reprise her Sister Mary Eunice character late last week, but with still non-specific appearances to come from Gabourey Sidibe and Jamie Brewer, there is still much that can be connected to other seasons of the show.

“The interesting thing about doing a show like this is every season is incredibly its own story and its own beginning, middle and end… But we have always from the very beginning in the intertwining mythologies and how things connect [sic]. This is the first year where we begin to tell you that season two is connected to season four which is connected to season one,” confirms Murphy. “There’s definitely a rhyme or a reason and a connectedness to all of these seasons, but in the same way, they’re standalones, which is the fun of it.”