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Is Grotesquerie Just Another American Horror Story?
It isn’t. But also, in a way, it is.
The presence of nuns, priests, and religious imagery — the serial killer in this series, whose name is Grotesquerie, is very into biblical references — echoes American Horror Story: Asylum(not to mention Evil, the first season of True Detective, and the movie Se7en). She’s written in the vein of practically every cop in every vaguely prestige crime drama in recent history: an alcoholic, workaholic obsessive who uses her police responsibilities to escape her painful family life, which includes caring for a husband who has been in a coma for nearly a month. (See Adam Levine in Asylum, Stevie Nicks in Coven and Apocalypse, Lady Gaga in Hotel and Roanoke, and Kim Kardashian in Delicat e.) Actually, AHS ’s most consistent selling point has always been the caliber of its performances, and Grotesqueri e has that going for it, too.
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