Gloria Mott is lying on Dr. Feinbloom’s couch, her therapist whose face we never see. She is anxiously smoking a cigarette while playing with her gold lighter. She tearfully vents that she won’t commit Dandy, and we see flashbacks about his childhood days & upbringing. She thinks of Dandy as foreigner because he can play the part of an aristocratic boy, but he can’t understand the language. The word NO caused him offense & outrage, and he acted out in psychotic ways. He even killed the family cat when Gloria complained that it was digging in her azaleas. From that moment on she never let Dandy out of her sight; except for that time that he skipped away with the gardener’s son, Emil, who has never been found since. The therapist insists that she bring Dandy in for a session, but Gloria knows he would never agree to psychoanalysis so the plan is to trick him into going. He asks her if Dandy has had any recent psychotic incidents that has triggered her recent anxiety and she lies, “No, only a mothers intuition.” #Psycho
Dell & Jimmy are leading a search party in the woods for Ma Petite with a Bloodhound, and the dog leads them to a tattered & blood stained dress. They suspect that a coyote snatched and ate her, but spit out her dress because it was a carb and not a protein. #BadJoke.
Back at camp, Elsa is truly devastated with grief when told of the news while Ethel just glares at her with deep suspicion. Later that night Ethel brings Elsa some soup to her tent expecting her “to be high as Limehouse whore.” But Elsa observes that it is Ethel who is drunk. After Elsa praises Ma Petite for her life, she says Christmas is cancelled because she’s in mourning. Then Ethel gets bold and confronts Elsa and compliments her acting skills & staged grief for Ma Petite. Elsa slaps Ethel so hard that her beard nearly fell off. #LadyShave
Elsa is angry & tearful because Ma Petite was her most precious one, but Ethel tells her the only thing precious to her is the roar of the crowd. She thinks Elsa killed Ma Petite because she was jealous of her stealing the spotlight. Elsa is indignant for being accused. Ethel cries that after 14 years of devoted friendship she’s developed uneasy feelings about Elsa. Elsa growls that she is her savior & resents being called a murderer when she is grieving and flips the side table with soup on it, “Damn you for this!” #SoupNazi
Ethel tells Elsa she is like everyone’s mother. Even Ethel was rejected by her own mother. She thinks Elsa uses fake motherly love to control & manipulate her freaks until someone steps in her spot light; then the motherly love turns into murder. Ethel admits that she heard Elsa talking with Stanley when he suggested a mercy killing for the twins. Ethel cries that she died when she heard Elsa’s reply, “That’s quite a solution.” Elsa gets in her face, “That was a turn of phrase”, and she wants to be judged by her actions, not by her words. Elsa begins to storm out to find the twins to prove her innocence, but Ethel tells her she won’t find them because she took them somewhere safe away from her. As Elsa turns to leave again Ethel pulls out a gun and shoots her piercing a hole clear through her wooden leg. Ethel is stunned that she is not injured and wearing prosthetics, but Elsa laughs because she is freak like the rest of her children, “I love you because I understand you.”
In a flashback Elsa explains how a young soldier saved her from dying after the snuff film. He took her to a very skilled & talented prop maker, Massimo Dolcefino (Danny Huston, the Axeman from Coven.) He emigrated from Italy to Germany after he fell on hard times after the war making prosthetics for soldiers. He gave her medical care & promised to make her beautiful again and that she was his greatest challenge. Massimo meticulously hand carved her new limbs, “Let my legs carry you.” #Bellissimo
Elsa kept her secret from Ethel due to her shame. Still holding the gun, Ethel is not sympathetic and in her despair intends to kill Elsa and then commit suicide, “The curtain comes down tonight.” Elsa nervously looks around her room & asks Ethel if they can drink schnapps together before they die. Elsa goes to her bar cart and swiftly picks up a knife and throws it across the room, and it hits Ethel directly in her left eye & kills her. #BullsEye
Later Jimmy rushes to the big tent to see why Maggie is frantic. Elsa and all the freaks are present as Maggie explains to Jimmy that she was picking flowers for Ma Petite’s memorial when she witnessed a car crashing into a tree. Ethel was driving, and she thinks she committed suicide. Jimmy doesn’t believe his mother would kill herself, but Desiree & Dell confirm that she was terminally ill. They rush to the crash scene and find Ethel’s head in the grass, decapitated from the crash impact. A bloody chain was also found and Stanley concluded that Ethel wrapped one end of the chain around a tree and the other end around her neck so that her death would be quick. Elsa melodramatically drops to the ground screaming and crying “Why? Why? Why? Why?” Her wailing was quite the performance while a tearful Jimmy consoled his mother’s murderer.
It turns out that the car crash was a set up by Stanley to help Elsa cover up Ethel’s murder. We see a flashback of how Stanley staged the cover up. Since Ethel had an obvious knife wound to her eye, he needed to create an illusion to distract from it. Elsa is serving Norma Desmond glamour in a turban and is second guessing Stanley’s plan & motives. He tells her that this is what agents do in Hollywood for their clients. He is fulfilling his obligation to protect her & her career because she is going to be a star and win an Oscar. He wrapped a chain around Ethel’s neck & tied it to the tree, and then put a stone on the accelerator. Voila! Again for the 2nd time in two AHS seasons, Kathy Bates gives #GoodHead.
At the Mott mansion Gloria comes home to find that Dandy has been entertaining Regina (Gabourey Sidibe), Dora’s daughter, with a game of Chutes and Ladders. She wants to speak with her mother, but Gloria stalls her by saying Dora is on an expedition for squash & candelabras. Clearly Regina doesn’t believe her, and says she’ll wait. #TickTock
All the freaks, except for Elsa, attend Ethel’s nighttime funeral. Jimmy eulogized about her ability to fix anything & her dirty jokes. He tearfully adds that his mother was a woman of culture & recites poetry by Emily Dickinson. Afterwards the men leave for a drink, while Desiree, Amazon Eve, Legless Suzi, & Penny remain at the grave site. Desiree also eulogizes Ethel by saying she was tough & funny and didn’t need a man to take care of her & Jimmy. Then Penny talks about how her father tattooed her face when he couldn’t control her anymore. They have no confidence that the police will charge her father, so an angry Desiree leads the women freaks with a pact to get vigilante justice on Penny’s father. #Revenge
Dandy is at Dr. Feinbloom’s office under the pretense that he is being tested for his IQ. The therapist gives him the Rorschach test, and Dandy sees a bloody murder scene in every one of the inkblots. The shrink tells Dandy he can’t determine his score yet, but he needs to see him twice a week. Dandy realizes he is being tricked, but he has zero self-awareness. Instead of shutting up & hiding his crazy, he indulges in talk about National Geographic and cannibalistic tribes in New Guinea that eat other tribes to get their power. He stares at the doctor and rhetorically asks him if the same thing can be done by bathing in someone’s blood. Dandy is Bed Bath & Beyond CRAZY!!!
Later at the mansion, Dandy is wearing a red tartan plaid suit that only a few men can pull off. He looks like a Ralph Lauren ad. If I wore that I would look like a Xmas wrapped teddy bear. Gloria is decorating a Christmas tree in his room, and he confronts her about tricking him into a session with Dr. Feinbloom. Regina interrupts because she is still waiting for her mother, and if Dora doesn’t return soon she is going to the police. Dandy is annoyed by her and tells his mother that he will agree to see the therapist for one month if she kills Regina. If she doesn’t, Regina would send him to the electric chair. If that happens, he expects Gloria to be sitting on his lap. He turns on the Christmas tree lights, and it bathes him & Gloria in an eerie red glow because #Foreshadowing.
Elsa travels to a fancy spa in Miami looking for a new recruit for her act to replace Ethel & Ma Petite. She discovers Barbara, an obese Park Avenue debutante who has been exiled to Florida by her mother to lose weight. Barbara likes herself the way that she is and hates being forced to change. Elsa eats a Baby Ruth candy bar and entices her to go to a place where every pound of her glorious jiggle would be celebrated. #ChubbyChaser
The freaky girl gang, led by Desiree, break into Penny’s father’s house. They knock him out & kidnap him back to Desiree’s trailer. He was stripped down to his underwear & tied to a chair. Desire tells him he is chicken shit for what he did to his little girl. She taunts & terrorizes him with determined sass “Now you got to look the part. Then I’m gonna cut your dick off and shoot you in the head.” Penny starts to pour hot tar over her father’s body scalding & torturing him while the other ladies cover him in feathers. If Meep was alive, I’m sure he’d try to bite his head off.
Maggie hears his screams and runs into the trailer just as Desiree is about to cut his penis off. Holding the knife Desiree tells her “Get out! Freak women only.” Maggie convinces Penny to spare his life because “Blah blah blah this will change you, blah blah blah then you’ll really be a monster, blah blah blah.” Desiree checks her by calling her a pretty white girl who doesn’t know what it’s like to be a freak. Maggie pleads with them that if they kill him it will ruin their lives more. Penny all of the sudden feels empowered because she is the Astounding Lizard Girl and her father gets to live because she says so. But she threatens him that if he ever comes near her or the freaks, she will kill him.
Elsa comes back from Miami and finds that Jimmy is turning into a drunk. Even though he’s mourning his mother, Elsa reminds him that she & other freaks helped raise him. He resents that she wasn’t at Ethel’s funeral, but Elsa explains that she had to go recruit. She introduces Barbara as her new act with the stage name Ima Wiggles while the other freak set a huge feast on the table for her. Jimmy sees no hope for the future of the Freak Show without his mother, but Elsa encourages him to take comfort in Ima Wiggles ample bosom for whenever he’s feeling down. #BoobBuffet
Gloria reaches in her purse for her lighter, and we see a shiny gold revolver. She calls the psychiatrist to tell him that she is taking Dandy to New York so that they can take the Queen Mary ship to Europe for a little while. The doctor fears for her safety and warns her that Dandy needs to be committed. She said he was fragile, and Dandy overhears the entire conversation. Gloria fires the psychiatrist and hangs up. Dandy confronts his mother that it is her fault that he is unbalanced & sick. It seems Dora told Dandy some family history when he was 5 years old. Gloria’s father lost all his money in the stock market crash of 1929. Gloria was so desperate to maintain her rich lifestyle that she married her second cousin even though she knew he was crazy and the incest could double the chances of some family insanity. Gloria claims she loved his father, but Dandy adds that he was born of deadly sin. He accuses her of knowing what his father had done to little girls when she married him. Despite knowing the risks of incest, she still married her cousin, “You’re no better than the Roosevelts.” Elitist #Shade.
Dandy refuses to go to Europe or anywhere else with his mother. He face plants into the chaise and cries because his mother hates him so much. She caresses his face and tells him his father was not the love of her, but he is. As Gloria weirdly rubs her face on him “I loved all of you Dandy, even the madness.” She gets up emotional exhausted & staggers towards her purse, “I have no more love to give. You have tapped me out.” She opens her purse for the gun, but Dandy has it now. He aims it his head, “It’s time for this madness to end.” Gloria begs him not to shoot himself for she can’t go on without him. Dandy replies “OK” and points the gun at Gloria and shoots her right in the middle of her forehead. Her blood splatters all over the giant teddy bear and mirror with Dandy’s reflection behind her. Dandy sheds a tear, shudders, smiles & sighs. #MommieDearest
Back at the Freak Show camp, Maggie tries to soothe Jimmy’s grief, but he prefers to be drunk. They get into an argument, and he tells her to buzz off and live her life without him. He spots Ima Wiggles sitting outside eating, and he kneels down to cry with his faced planted into her double triple sized D breasts. Thanks for the #Mammaries.
Dandy is wearing a blood red colored robe as he walks towards a free standing clawfoot bathtub in the middle of his room. He disrobes showing his tight pasty white ass and submerges himself into a bath filled with blood. #TheEnd
I have so much commentary to add here, but TT is pressing the button on my shock collar. I’ll just keep talking below in comments and please join me there. You can stalk me like Ima Wiggles looking for candy @Urethra_F.
Do you think that there is going to be a big reveal with Dr. Feinbloom, the psychiatrist? At first I thought it was going to be Danny Huston, but he turned out to be the prosthetic maker.
Or will see the the doctor later played by some other actor/character that is supposed to surprise us? Anybody recognzie his voice?
Or was him being anonymous & faceless nothing more than a stylistic approach like a narrator? Thoughts????
I had thought we didn’t see the face because therapists are supposed to be tabula rasa or blank slates to their patients.
How is that even possible? Of course patients in real life & fiction must “see” their doctor. There is no way it can be a 100% blank slate.
In the olden days, the therapist sat behind the patient so the patient didn’t see them.
I wonder if it was Dell or Stanley that planted Ma Petites dress in the woods.
What? No gorilla upside down in the chimney? You’re short changing us, Urethra!
What the????????? Huh?
You could just feel the heaviness that Ethel felt when she described the decline of her friendship & trust with Elsa.
I think we’ve all had friendships deteriorate, but I really felt it from Ethel’s perspective. It was gut wrenching for me because I can empathize with having thoughts & feelings of seeing people in different light after a many years of friendship.
I felt that sadness too, this week. I just recently found out a dear friend of mine has been living a double life in our small town. We have been friends for over 5 years, and it pains me to see what she is. I didn’t want to believe the rumours, I even asked her about them about 3 years ago and she lies right to my face. She has caused great pains and trials not only for her family, but for our group of friends. I think I really understood Ethel.
Well it had to be brilliant acting by Kathy Bates to make me feel her pain. So sorry about your friendship disappointment; been there, done that.
So Massimo crafted these perfect one of a kind wooden legs for Elsa, and Ethel shoots a bullet hole clear through one of them. Elsa wasn’t even pissed, she just laughed. What’s she gonna do, use some spackle to fill it? I wonder if this is going to cause her to call Massimo to come back to Jupiter and make her a new leg?
So Elsa’s knife throwing skills that was showcased in the Bullseye episode was just a setup for the audience for when she killed Ethel. I bet she uses that trick one more time in the season.
It also means she hit Paul on purpose and maybe that look on her face wasn’t remorse but regret she didn’t outright kill him.,
I had to google “Limehouse whore”. Limehouse is district in London.
Where were the twins in this episode?
The only reason the twins were not in this episode is because they are too freaking expensive with the CGI special effects. It would have been too complicated to have them be part of Ethels funeral and the several other scenes with large groups of people. So it was written that Ethel sent them away to protect them.
And how are they going to come back? No one knows where to find them.
OMG I haven’t even thought of that. Just now I went to look at next week preview clip & the twins are in are some shed with corrugated metal walls. I bet it is somewhere on land nearby the Freak camp. Also in the preview clip we see Elsa & Stanley there so they do find the twins.
Maggie confuses me. Though people change personalities on a dime in AHS, who is she?
Is she a bad girl con-artist turned good, or is she always a good girl that is in over her head with Stanley?
Why isn’t Stanley pissed off that she’s in love with Lobster Boy? This shit needs to be clarified soon.
Stanley doesn’t care because he doesn’t need her. Dell gave him Ma Petite, Elsa gave him Ethel. But, watch him try to cut Maggie out of the money. Then we will see those two go at ít.
Part of me thinks Maggie new that Stanley covered up Ethel’s murder with the car crash. I mean she’s picking flowers and see’s a car crash and assumes its a suicide? I thought that was weird.
Is it supposed to be a running gag between Ryan Murphy & Kathy Bates that she gets decapitated every season that she’s in?
You all know I LOVES ME SOME JESSICA LANGE MORE THAN ANYTHING!… But I can’t help but notice she keeps playing the same character every season. It is starting to bug the shit out of me. If she comes back next year I want her to do something completely different.
Jessica always plays Frances Farmer. Always. Tribute- style.
“Frances” was the movie that made me fall in love with Jessica Lange. Truly, my favorite actress.
As a Jessica Lange fan, I don’t even know how I don’t know about the movie Frances. If I saw it 32 years ago & forgot about it, its because I was young.
The first Jessica Lange movie I recall ever seeing and being mesmerized by was The Postman Always Rings Twice. I love her in that movie. Whenever I see a butcher block island I always think of her sex scene with Jack Nicholson screwing on top of all that bread she was making.
I am obsessed with Dandy’s wardrobe, and I’m not ashamed to say I have a man crush on him. #Weird
He is hot. I’d ignore his persistent need to murder if he kept me warm at night.
I don’t think he’s hot per se cause he’s not hairy, but he is sure is wickedly adorable. I love his expressive face, dark hair, and wardrobe.
To me it is interesting how much people like Dandy. He is adorable in his own way, and can wear plaid with aplomb, but as much as I like his style, I find him predictable.
So the rented land that Elsa uses for her Freak Show is peppered with graves.
My husband and I were just talking about that. Doesn’t Elsa rent? So after they leave the first time the farmer plows up the field, that they were going to find all these graves!
Desiree really delivered the sass in this episode. I loved the way she spoke her dialogue when she was terrorizing Penny’s dad, and the way she checked Maggie. Sassy Desiree all day all night is fine by me.
So all of a sudden Dandy has a clawfoot bathtub in the middle of his room? How convenient for his bloodbath. That tub was never there before? Is it not in the budget to set design a bathroom for him in that huge mansion? #Details
And who put it there! Where did the water come from? If he only had blood on his front side from the shooting it wouldn’t be enough to make the water that red.
At first thought that there was no way he could get that much blood to fill a tub. Plus it was too watery to be blood. But I think you’re right, it must be a lot of blood that is just mixed in with water.
OMG I just noticed you can see my reflection in the picture of Penny’s dad being tarred & feathered, and in the pic of Dandy with the gun. You can see my plaid shirt. I took those pics directly off my TV. #YIKES I need to do better quality pics next time, but TT kept rattling my chain to hurry up.
I had to go back and look for you, I cannot really notice anything except a color shift just because you mentioned it. I wanted to see more of you.
Great hashtags, my favorite is #BedBathandBeyond.
I am over Dandy, he is just plain bad, nothing freakishly exciting about him. He made a waste of his good looks and easy, rich life because he is a whiner with a quirk in his genes. I wish Twisty had as big or as long a role, I like characters that deserve some empathy or relatability. I too think the Elsa/Jessica type casting is getting played out. I still love the freakshow and it is my fav AHS, but I have felt some of the thrill is waning with each episode, #1 is still my best. I could not watch Asylum and got bored with Murder House.
Your great recaps help, you see things I gave little significance, or passed over completely. I prerecord everything I watch, I can be over zealous in fast forwarding through commercials. I really hope the upcoming episodes delve into outing Stanley and Dell for killing Ma Petite and do something with Jimmy. In one episode he will show possibilities of being a hero that may get smart to Elsa and other bad guy’s, then the next episode he is a quivering waste.
Thanks for all your hard work UF, I really wish you had better working conditions. TT seemed to be softening with her return to sanity, but she treats Kudjo Banjo better than you who helps keep the lights on.
What’s all the bitching about down here tonight? After the fresh coat of paint on the radiator for the new season…. people are so ungrateful. You just can’t get good help anymore.
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Thanks Ange for reading. My 2 favorite hashtags are soup nazi & mammaries. Sometimes I have to rewrite something just because I’m obsessed with a certain hashtag.
What did I say now? Does it count as insubordination? Give the shock collar button a rest please until next week. 😛
Yes even though the actress that plays Ima Wiggles is fat, clearly she was padded with a fat suit to make her even larger. It was so obvious in the scene when Elsa was eating the Baby Ruth candy bar. Her sideways profile looked very fake fat and unrealistic.
When Gloria opened up her purse for the gun, do you think her intentions were to kill herself or kill Dandy?
Dandy. She told the doctor they were going to Europe. Then she spoke about him in the past tense. This was a woman who married her cousin who was some sort of known deviant to stay rich and save face. Nannies raised Dandy. The minute he told her he’d kill her she made her decision.
So you’re saying she was gonna kill Dandy?
Thanks UF for the great article! As usual, your hashtags rule (my favorite was “thanks for the mammaries”!) I think Gloria was going to kill her son and put him out of “her” misery. He beat her to it.
Thanks PuraVida! Yeah I think you’re right about Gloria. I don’t think she would kill herself just to leave Dandy alone to do what he does; but he is alone now. #YIKES next week is the Tupperware Massacare! Can’t wait for that one.
You just reminded me that I need to go read something. Wink wink.
I really thought her plan was to kill him – she’d watched over him, kept him in check and once Regina showed up, she knew it was over. I was yelling at the screen “kill him!!!” but if she had we’d have no story. This was a good episode!
thanks UF, i missed the episode but could see most of it thru your recap. will watch the rerun next week bit now wont be totally lost since the new episode runs first. dandy is like elizabeth bathory bathing in the blood. so they just chalked ma petite to coyotes? did eve say anything about kicking dells ass to anyone?
Ma Petite’s body is really in jar at the Morbidity Museum. But yeah as far as everyone else is concerned, it’s assumed she was eaten by coyotes which is dumb because it seems that the coyote undressed her first, then ate her.
Yeah the freaks know that Dell attacked Eve. That was in episode 7.
Remember some of the lady freaks rallied together to come up with an idea to kill Dell, but then Jimmy stepped up and said he would handle him. But he ended up drunk bonding with him and calling him Daddy by the end of the night.
You still mush watch it when it repeats though!! There was so much delicious dialogue & acting that I didn’t even write about. It’s impossible to cover it all.
i had forgotten why jimmy and dell went drinking. i definately want to see the rerun but since the new episode plays first i would really have been confused. dandy could only see murder in the ink blots, yeah that figures. and another head wound for Ms Conroy, that bites. Kathy Bates lost her head again. chain around the neck car suicide coverup, where do they get the ideas?
I have been remiss in my freaktard duties and haven’t commented much. Thank you Urethra for the great recap.
I’m curious about the unseen psychiatrist too. Is he from the asylum?
As soon as Elsa mentioned the last drink I knew Ethel was dead. And we get more proof that Elsa didn’t accidentally hit Paul. Don’t cross that bitch.
Maggie is confusing. First she hates Jimmy, now she wants to run away with him. She is obviously still under Stanley’s thumb. I think she is the one-headed equivalent of Dot and Bette. One body, two minds.
I did enjoy the female freaks going after Penny’s dad. Killing him may have been kinder in the end. Did you see his skin peel away when Eve let go of his head? He would not likely survive those severe burns.
OMFG Good observation. I had a huge brain fart and completely forgot about the murdering psychiatrist from Asylum. His name was Dr. Thredson. I wonder if he might turn out to be a relative of Dr. Feinbloom since Ryan Murphy has now rewritten AHS history to say all the seasons are connected.
10 years before Asylum wouldnt that put Thredson near or at finishing med school?
Yeah I thought he (Zachary Quinto) was too young to play a psychiatrist in Asylum. There’s no way Dr. Feinbloom is Dr. Thredson.
On that note, I’m very interested to see episode 10 when Lily Rabe comes to Jupiter for Pepper. She too has to be very young in 1952. I wonder if she is even a Nun at this point. Only 2 more weeks.
Bella-That would be cool if the “shrink” is from Asylum. That makes sense, since we know some or the other characters ended up there.
UF, sorry I messed up quoting my favorite hashtag #BloodBath andBeyond, not Bed.
#BedBathandBeyondCrazy had me laughing, out loud, for real. You are brilliant with the hashtags, UF.
Can I just say that I think Emma Roberts sucks as an actress?
I wanted to be snarky about her in my recap because Meryl Streep’s daughter was in a scene with Julia Roberts’ niece.
How fun would it be if the psychiatrist was Zachary Quinto (the serial murderer/psychiatrist) from Asylum??? I don’t think it is, though…
I was thinking the same thing!! Was this his beginning? Cultivating killers and using them to feed his own psychosis? Wouldn’t that be fabulous?!
Hey everyone, If you haven’t watched Season 3: American Horror Story:Coven, it is now available on Netflix.
You can read my scene by scene recaps for all 13 episodes here at TT.
Just put American Horror Story Coven in the search box and they all will show up. Episode 1 starts at the bottom and go up for Episode 13.
I would love to see some new people to Coven & my regular people who rewatched Coven to visit the recaps and continue the questions & discussion.
Enjoy
xoxo- Urethra Franklin
I started watching AHS during season two, then had to watch season one on netflix. I think the first season you watch may always be your favorite. I think my hopes were too high when Coven started as I was so excited about the witch theme, so I didn’t expect much from this season, and so I’m enjoying it more for what it is.
That’s what I’m doing this season also. Last year I made my self crazy with disappointment because I was expecting more than what Coven actually was. I was reading too much into the this and that.
This season I’m just taking Freak Show at face value (for the most part) of what it is: A show with some great acting, some shocking moments, a few roll your eyes moments, plenty of campy vignettes, and 1 deliciously wicked scene stealer—>>> Dandy Mott.
AHS does have a ton of talent at its disposal, which is why I am sometimes disappointed in the storylines. The actors/actresses are wonderful and why I keep watching. This season I do miss Twisty, and find Dandy far less interesting and scary. Twisty would send shivers down my spine with that unblinking stare, standing in plain view but somehow hidden. Dandy is the usual messed up serial killer, and other than his pretty pink cheeks he is not interesting to me.
Belladonna, Dandy is the scene stealer this season. He is fun to watch.
And I don’t buy the romance between Maggie and Eddie – it’s so flat. Maybe it’s the acting but there is something off. However, I think she was part of Ethel’s “accident.”
What about Angela Basset? She is phenomenal! So angry and strong – I was surprised she let the dad off – I thought she’d take that knife and cut him up. However, tarring and feathering him – oof.
I think Maggie knew about the accident too. It was so suspicious that she called a car accident a suicide. But then again on AHS, somethings have purpose, and somethings mean nothing.
True – it’s why I watch even though it drives me crazy! There are times when bits come up and they are just dropped. I hope it’s tied up in the end.
I have only one wish for Christmas – more Mordrake! Lady boner inducing, indeed! 🙂
We are going to see Mordrake, and Twisty one more time this season. The only way I think that is possible is if the show advances to Halloween of next year for that Halloween superstition stuff…. and YES Mordrake is a hot sexy Goth Mofo; Only his front side of course #NotEvilFace
Lady boner, laughing, yes, he is strangely attractive.. Why oh why do we find Mordrake sexy?
Why wouldn’t Stanley take Ethel’s head w/ beard to the Morbidity Museum for some $$$$. It was conveniently decapitated thanks to his cover up accident. I’m surprised he didn’t capitalize on that opportunity.
That was my thought, as soon as I saw Stanley was involved in the coverup… #goodblog #niceass
I took it as a given that Stanley kept the head, and probably put a boulder in the wrap to be placed with Ethel.
I didn’t even think of the fate of Ethel’s head until today. I can’t believe I didn’t realize it sooner…. I would think at least the writers would allude to it, but they didn’t unless I missed it. Maybe her wounded eye made her an unsellable specimen.
To be honest- I thought this was the weakest episode so far IMO. I love the way the title sequence keeps changing. I like this trend.
Ethel probably wouldn’t be worth much in freak dollars. Ma Petit was a win, and the twins would be Stanley’s coup. He may have let Ethel be buried whole (although in two pieces) rather than risk a lot for so little.
@ Manny The title sequence has changed? That is my favorite part of watching an episode, and didn’t notice any changes.
I thought it was the same so far for the whole season?
Unless Manny meant that the music and imagery changed just for this Freak Show season, but the imagery changes every season. This is season is the first time that the music was remixed.
Whoever is doing the intros, sometimes I like it better than the show itself. For example, Coven, omg the intro and trailers had me so pumped, and then the show kind of let me down. I still watched every episode and I think Myrtle was my fave character on the show ever. And I watch the latest intro closely thinking I’ll get some clues for the next season.
Have you guys noticed that the figure in the wheelchair in the opening credits looks like Monsignor Timothy? I wonder if that has anything to do with Sister Mary Eunice? Also, I’m convinced next season is going to be Illuminati-themed. Which, if that’s true, I’m very excited about. This season so far is meh, imho. 🙁 Like, as much of a hot mess Coven ended up being, I was still excited every week for a new episode. This year, half the time I forget it’s even on.
You know I was wondering about that figure too. I thought it looked it clergy-esque but wasn’t sure. And what is going on with that person’s legs? All swollen with large bumps? I don’t know what kind of condition that person has. But I am waiting for that to represented on the show somewhere.
I am still not ready to commit to say which I like better, Coven or FreakShow….. But Season 1 will always be my favorite. And Season 2 will always be the scariest.
I just put the first two disks of season 1 on hold at the library (all disks are out, as you can imagine). The library has seasons 1 and 2 which is a big savings over buying them from comcast. I’m excited! Thanks again for turning me onto AHS.
You will LOVE the 1st season. Its a classic haunted house story with a bunch of twists. You must tell me how you liked it once you watched, here on twitter. Season 2 will scare the pants off of you, for real!
I had seen this question asked in my email, but couldn’t find the question in the thread when I went to answer it. So I’ll answer it here.
The man in the wheelchair in the credits, suffers from elephantiasis. His legs are swollen with lumps on them, gives the look of having “elephant” legs
You’ve answered in the right place. THANKS Jacque!