by Cookie N Screen
Ryan Murphy: a man with great ideas but absolutely no focus. There is no denying that he has the motivation to create some different and unique television shows. But when it comes to mid-point, in either a particular season or a perhaps the show as a whole, it just disappears and becomes a ludicrous bunch of episodes that aren’t tied down. American Horror Story: Freak Show started off with a great amount of promise. Only, like watching a mouse in a glue trap, it refuses to accept its fate but doesn’t get far. Probably the worst in the AHS anthologies and after a mere thirteen episodes, Freak Show closed its curtains in the aptly named Curtain Call.
Ryan Murphy: a man with great ideas but absolutely no focus. There is no denying that he has the motivation to create some different and unique television shows. But when it comes to mid-point, in either a particular season or a perhaps the show as a whole, it just disappears and becomes a ludicrous bunch of episodes that aren’t tied down. American Horror Story: Freak Show started off with a great amount of promise. Only, like watching a mouse in a glue trap, it refuses to accept its fate but doesn’t get far. Probably the worst in the AHS anthologies and after a mere thirteen episodes, Freak Show closed its curtains in the aptly named Curtain Call.
The finale saw the reign of Dandy Mott come to a boil as he tries to boss around the freaks in the circus now that he owns it. However, when they take unkindly to his suggestions (suggestions being him raging insults against them all) and quit, Dandy must come up with a sensible solution of working together in order to get his way. And by that, we mean someone is going to die. Elsa is still trying her hardest to get into Hollywood whilst Jimmy is still recovering from the loss of his claws. Who will survive the Freak Show?
The shocking part about the finale is that it didn’t really feel shocking. Even when Freak Show tried its best to hammer the horror home, it actually felt predictable and rushed. The antics under the circus were all clichéd and tried to appeal to gore-tastic wet (and bloody) dreams but ended up sending us to sleep. The final episode, in short, was pleasant to begin with then ended up being too sickly. Does American Horror Story have an issue with ending on a dumbfounding, horrific note? Not to mention the last ten minutes felt like they used the storyline from Life on Mars…song and all! It was more American Cheesy Story than Horror...
The shocking part about the finale is that it didn’t really feel shocking. Even when Freak Show tried its best to hammer the horror home, it actually felt predictable and rushed. The antics under the circus were all clichéd and tried to appeal to gore-tastic wet (and bloody) dreams but ended up sending us to sleep. The final episode, in short, was pleasant to begin with then ended up being too sickly. Does American Horror Story have an issue with ending on a dumbfounding, horrific note? Not to mention the last ten minutes felt like they used the storyline from Life on Mars…song and all! It was more American Cheesy Story than Horror...
Let’s give it to Jessica Lange and Finn Wittrock who held the show together after the absence of John Carrol Lynch's Twisty the Clown. So it’s only fair to gift the bulk of the episode to them both, splitting the stories into half. Wittrock has been triumphant as Dandy Mott – the murderous rich brat who is basically a petulant child with a knife. Wittrock actually made you care for a psychopath who cried every time he didn’t get his own way. It put the actor on the map in Hollywood and television because he was excellent and rambunctious. Lange is always the highlight of AHS so her turn as Elsa Mars, the fame hungry head of the circus, worked alarmingly well. Here, she gave so many tender moments that despite her mistakes, you felt a ping of remorse towards her. Without these two, the show would have been a disaster. Well, much more of a disaster than it was.
Freak Show ended somewhat on a high because the previous episodes were, well, terrible and dull. Still, this isn’t the American Horror Story that we are going to remember. It’s doubtful that it will fill up gifs around Tumblr much like Asylum and Coven. Nobody is going to care about Jimmy’s whiney attitude and romanticise him like they very wrongly do with Murder House’s Tate. Freak Show was weak and finally, the tent has been scooped up and sent across the wind.
Freak Show ended somewhat on a high because the previous episodes were, well, terrible and dull. Still, this isn’t the American Horror Story that we are going to remember. It’s doubtful that it will fill up gifs around Tumblr much like Asylum and Coven. Nobody is going to care about Jimmy’s whiney attitude and romanticise him like they very wrongly do with Murder House’s Tate. Freak Show was weak and finally, the tent has been scooped up and sent across the wind.
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