For the first time in the history of this show, I desperately wanted to turn AHS off. I kept asking myself, what about this show I was supposed to enjoy? All that I saw was a program trying to be scary, failing, and only succeeding at being overly weird and gross. What about that is appealing? Nothing that happened was scary. Nothing was shocking. Many moments believed themselves to be shocking, like the revelation of Dot and Bette’s not-death death, or a character like Dell being gay, but those moments were cheap, unearned, and insulting (I’ll get to that in a moment…). And the treatment of gay characters in this episode is completely unacceptable. Ryan Murphy usually is a champion at presenting complex gay characters on television, but here they’re just your typical demonized, homicidal homosexual or depraved sex addicts. A character literally says in this episode that the toughest part of being gay is “blood in your shorts and a load in your hair.” That’s so backward for 2014. Once again, that’s just shock-for-shock’s sake. Detailing the happenings of the plot in this episode is kind of pointless. Denis O’Hare’s character inches closer toward trying to trick, catch, and kill freaks, and Elsa moves towards getting rid of the twins. The twins and Paul the Illustrated Seal have their deaths foreshadowed. Desiree finds out she’s a real woman (through more gross-out means) and Jimmy and Gloria Mott feel guilty – Jimmy for getting Meep killed and Gloria for raising a monster. Dora’s daughter is looking into her disappearance and Maggie shoots Jimmy down. Nothing really moves forward and nothing on screen is enjoyable. We’re even subjected to Elsa singing a pitchy “Life On Mars” again, with the only saving grace being that they cut out before the chorus. I wish I had something to throw at her like the members of the audience. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
