This research centers on the television series, American Horror Story: Coven released onFX in 2013. The show is filmed and set in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a plot based on European and African-derived witchcraft (also discussed as Voodoo). Only two characters in the show are natives of New Orleans: Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau and the resurrected college student, Kyle. My research focuses on the purpose and presentation of these two characters for the audience as representatives of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. I argue that through these two characters, Coven’s showrunners present two extremes of one poverty-stricken community and use their monstrous characteristics for different types of engagement. Together, they present an imagined version of New Orleans that reinforces racist stereotypes of Black and Creole religions while proudly placing the show’s representation of whiteness on a pedestal and in a romantic engagement with the audience. I examine the two characters within their context in the show for a side-by-side analysis to demonstrate the stark differences between our idolized and villainized characters. I end with a discussion of the history of Hollywood’s involvement in New Orleans from the early 19th century up to the contemporary period. I emphasize the media shifts made after Hurricane Katrina impacted the state in 2005. The research brings attention to the exploitation of diasporic religion and impoverished communities in pop culture, which ultimately leads to wrongful interpretations of outside cultures taught to an American audience as fact.