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5 Things We Learned from This Week's Plot-Twisty American Horror Story: Freak Show

5 Things We Learned from This Week's Plot-Twisty American Horror Story: Freak Show

5 Things We Learned from This Week's Plot-Twisty American Horror Story: Freak Show

This week we bid a gruesome adieu to one of the freaks! Who could it be...

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The Edward 'Morbackstory' returns this week for the second half of his quest to kill a freak after having been awoken in last week's Halloween episode. As per usual, he interviews the freaks, trying to decide which one is tragic enough to drag with him and his creepy crew back to the afterlife. Indeed, he succeeds and we're one main(ish) character down from last week. But who on earth is no longer on this earth?! Well, you'll have to read on to find out, and get ready to learn a few lessons on the way...

5. Elsa's legs didn't just walk away on their own: Elsa was weepier than ever this week as she told Edward the story of how she lost her legs. However, she first regaled him with the tale of her life as a 1930s in-demand German dominatrix whose tricks involved human dog walking and forcing men to sit on nail-ridden toilets. Rather than kill her, Edward was all, "Um, this is just making me worry about tetanus and not how tragic you are," and requested she tell him how she lost her legs. Turns out that instead of achieving the singing career she always dreamed of, Elsa was instead the drugged star of a snuff film that involved a chainsaw whirring her legs right off. And even though this story ended in her pleading with Edward to kill her, he moved right along. The biggest oversight here was that this would have been the perfect moment for a stylistically misplaced cover of Frozen's "Let It (/Them) Go." Dropped ball, Ryan Murphy. Dropped ball.

 

4. Freak Show can go an episode without a musical number: As bummed as we are that there were no Frozen homages this week, it's nice to know that we can spend some time dealing with story and not music videos. It also seems the money for CGI Sarah Paulson may be a little tight, since Dot and Bette are absent till the very end of the episode when Elsa informs them she was minimizing their act. Perhaps there will be two songs next week to make up for it! After all, a new Taylor Swift album just came out so...

 

3. Love is in the air: This week, Jimmy and Maggie find themselves kidnapped and thrown into Dandy and Twisty's little horrifying Halloween play. The only problem is, this involves Maggie getting sawed in two, and Jimmy's not about to let another 'freak' die. He attacks the clown duo long enough to help everyone escape and win Maggie's heart, so look forward to that love story. Since Jimmy also helps the kids return to their families safely, he's now the toast of the town, and a large group of Jupiterians stop by the freak show to show their appreciation. They even baked brownies, so you know the conflict of the season is pretty much wrapped up and everything's going to be just fine from now on!

2. Twisty had a pretty crappy life: Twisty's spooky smile mask finally came off this week as Edward Mordrake visited him to discuss if he should be America's Next Top Dead Freak. No surprises here, his smile isn't exactly a Crest commercial, as it's been totally grotesquely destroyed. But it's actually pretty interesting and unexpected to get a look into Twisty's dismal life, in which he was a happy clown whose peaceful existence was ruined when his freak show crew decided to accuse him of child molestation. He was driven from the group, and ended up living alone in his dead mother's house trying to figure out how to go on. He decided to try to be a clown again, but the town wasn't too thrilled with having a rumored child molester walking around building kids toys and shunned him. He tried to kill himself with a shotgun to the face, but only succeeded in blowing his jaw off and becoming the Twisty we know today. He also continued on with his dream of making children smile, only now it involves kidnapping them and holding them in a school bus while he puts on shows. 'Ding ding ding,' goes Edward Mordrake. He stabs Twisty to death and they travel off into the afterlife together. Goodbye Twisty. We're completely happy you're gone.

1. There's a new clown in town: Disturbing pretty boy Dandy levels up this episode after Twisty's murder. Before abandoning the scene of the crime, he grabs Twisty's signature smile and runs off to his house (but not without yelling maniacally a lot). Patti LaBelle is waiting there for him, pretty adamant about him moving on from Halloween and taking off that stupid clown suit, but he responds instead by slashing her throat and grinning as blood gushes onto the ground. We all knew it was coming, and now Dandy's the big bad to watch out for. But, hey, good news is the really cute blonde girl Twisty had kidnapped made it out alive, so sometimes there's a tiny ray of light in the horror story. Though it's probably about to get snuffed right out.

 

 

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