And this society of embalmed freaks. Ok, so they’re nefarious, but the museum is open to the public, it flat out says on the jar her name is Ma Petite. No museum patron is going to connect the dots here?
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Plus it would seem to me people would pay more to see a living Ma Petite than a floating corpse, and they probably could have made her an offer that would have gotten her to move up there.
And if people did know Dell was gay- what are they going to do about it? Blackball him? He’s already a carny. Or try to bash him- good luck with that. He wouldn’t have that kind of irrational fear. The fact he’s openly living with a black professional hermaphrodite he calls his wife in 1952 Florida would be a WAY bigger strike against him. Are they making this script up as they go along?
And on top of that:
“So you like to go to a gay bar four towns over, I saw you there, made quite a scene.”
“You mean at the gay bar you were seen at too? I’m sure dudes are just lining up to publically corroborate your story. Let’s make a bet. You go spouting your mouth to the small redneck community about The Pink Menace and we’ll see if The Strongman With Friends or Lone Sniveling Yankee Salesman lives longest.”
And the doctor Dell attacked and whose grandchildren he threatened would probably have instantly called his daughter, had her and the grandkids on the next plane to somewhere not in Florida, and then had Dell arrested. He’s a respected doctor accusing a carnie with a history of violence: I don’t think there’s going to be a credibility problem in having law enforcement protect him.
I think that is one of the intended ironies of the situation. If they exhibit Ma Petite alive, then the fancy-schmancy museum becomes the freak show. So living human beings are relegated to a carny existence, but the same human beings, dead, are worthy of high society.
I think I’m the only one in the thread still loving it. Season 1 was okay, I liked the atmosphere and characters in most of Season 2, and thought Season 3 only had style but no substance. This time, there’s no nonsense tacked on like aliens, nor is there the typical “kitchen sink” approach that they seem to favor. As such, it’s more of a linear storyline about who the real freaks are in life. But again, I may not be the one to trust, as Jessica Lange is better (to me) than I’ve seen her previous years. So, it just depends on what you’re looking for. If you side with the majority opinion though, it sounds like you’d probably ought to skip it. Everyone else feels it’s a real stinker.
I loved Season 2 because of the over-arching conflict: the indestructible object (Lana) versus the unstoppable force (Sister Jude). The subplots were interesting, but it was the main plot that made the story memorable.
Season 4 doesn’t seem to have a main plot. There are plenty of bad guys doing terrible things, but it’s more like a soap opera than a cohesive story.
I was able to watch the most recent episode (on the 17th, I think) almost completely with no FFWD, but it’s still not very good.
Checking IMDb, this season is the same length as the others. But man, it feels like they’ve shown 7,412 of these craptastic freakshow episodes already.
I never watched previous seasons of this show but was bored over Thanksgiving weekend. So I watched the first seven episodes of this season and then watched all of the subsequent episodes as they aired. One question I had was about Pepper and Salty; are they meant to be people with Down syndrome?
To quote the great Leonard Pinth-Garnell, “That wasn’t very good, was it?”
Great acting talent and a generous budget totally squandered. If it weren’t for gratuitous wet underwear shots of Finn Wittrock it would have been a total waste of time, not to mention a horrible resolution for most of the characters.
I thought the ending should have been the episode from the previous week. Lobster boy gets new lobster hands, Jessica Lange runs off to Hollywood success and Dandy takes over the freak show. That would have been a fine resolution for a HORROR story. The real finale episode was BS American television, where evil has to be punished and everything else is tied up in a shiny happy bow.
Also, didn’t last season end by showing us Jessica Lange in a (less happy) afterlife?
Also also, I love Bowie’s “Heroes”, but we didn’t need yet another Jessica Lange musical number.
Also also, I love Bowie’s “Heroes”, but we didn’t need yet another Jessica Lange musical number.
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And it really doesn’t work as a Jessica Lange as Marlena Dietrich as Lotte Lenya number.
And I can’t even begin to imagine Elsa having gold records and a super hit show in the late 1950s. Dinah Shore she wasn’t.
And the twins - there was a flash-forward earlier in the season that showed their torso in one of the jars in the museum, but we never saw how that happened.
