My Review of Grotesquerie: "I Think I'm Dead"

 

Written by Ryan Murphy And Jon Robin Baitz And Joe Baken 

Directed by Alexis Martin Woodall 

Lois: "This is not the real world. This is the other world and I am dead."

And just like that,  we have a cliffhanger finale. Gotta admit, I am disappointed with the choice of prolonging the identity of Grotesquerie. Saying that, at least we can rule out one character for the killer. That's something, right?

The character who isn't Grotesquerie was Dr Charlie Mayhew. Now maybe he does or does not have sex origins and maybe he does think Lois is a bitch but given that he was strung up and bleeding out in The Last Supper, it's not him. Which means everyone, except Lois and maybe Megan could be Grotesquerie.

Now, irs more like that these murders are the consequences of the Mexicali Men's Club, which had every single male character of note in attendance and was led by Dr Smythe. It also had a mullet free Ed recruit the recently cancelled Marshall and it didn't take much for the latter to make an impression on that archaic club.

Actually the first half of this episode was very much about Marshall. His attempts of trying to get a throuple dynamic between himself, Lois and Cherry was a failure all round and then he was accused of sexual assault by Mary Colsby, losing his job. Not to mention one of the victims with  Charlie was also Colsby. Doesn't look good for Marshall, does it?

As for Lois, she convinced herself that she was still in a coma and her scenes with Witticomb had her trying to rationalise recent events, though it didn't stop her from comparing Witticomb to a clever demon. I mean, he's clever because he definitely turned it around on Lois as she committed herself.

However it was Megan who got Lois to snap out of her funk by telling her the truth about what to Justin's body and it was the new murders that gave Lois some determination again. At this point, the show better hope it did enough to secure that second season.

- Gale Hanover does exist here and Glorious McKall was whom Megan contacted to clean up Justin's body.

- When Merritt was talking about children to Marshall, I did think she was going to reveal her being pregnant.

- Every male character in that club but Charlie's killed? Maybe he had a moral objection to their foundation plan. 

- Chronology: Not long since the previous episode. 

Finale wise, I Think I'm Dead was a lengthy episode and certainly wanted to have a deep dive into masculinity,  MeToo and so on, but did it offer anything new or insightful to those conversations? I'm not sure it did tbh. I can't help being a bit disappointed with this one.

Rating: 7 out of 10