There be spoilers ahead. On the latest episode of American Horror Story: The Dandy Show television's most beautiful, most Emmy-worthy, and most bratty psycho-killer goes to see a disembodied psychiatrist (why are they hiding his face: stunt casting?), kills his mother and makes like Countess Bathory with her remains.
Some other stuff probably happened in this episode, too, but the titular bath was uh... distracting
The truth is my brain has been on kind of a Finn Wittrock loop this week due to the return of Freakshow after the holiday, my first screening of Unbroken in which Finn has a small but memorable role, and two Unbroken events. I'm off to the second tonight (hence my lack of Peter Pan'ing) but I actually talked to Finn himself at the second of those but more on that soon.
Ummm... "Bloodbath". What else what else? Oh, yes. Elsa recruited another freak 'The Fat Lady,' Lobster Boy dumped Esmeralda, and the female freaks -- led by enunciating Bassett -- nearly killed Streep Junior's evil dad through a tar & feathering ritual until they thought about the consequences. And the twins were not even in the episode. I'm going to blame Sarah Paulson's workaholism because how else to explain how little they've used her this season despite her Best in Show status as those conjoined sisters?
MVP: Jessica Lange because though one can never accuse the Grande Dame Double Oscar winner of under acting, she did do a stellar job of delineating Elsa's real tears and oversized emotions from Elsa's crocodile tears and oversized "emotions" via Ma Petit's funeral and her Bearded Lady showdown.
Body Count: Four. We knew that the show would soon have to start shedding main characters since the death count has been low. We lost Ethel Darling (see ya Bates), Dandy's cat and Dandy's best childhood friend in flashback, and Dandy's mom Gloria Mott. She was killed so unceremoniously that we'll have to steal a moment from AHS: Coven for closure.
Any last words, Frances Conroy you genius genius crazy bitch?
That's all! So I trust that you'll provide the usual "Most Quotable" "Funniest Moment," ,"Episode Grade" and "Best Line Reading" categories in the comments. You will, won't you?