Warning: This article contains spoilers fromGrotesquerieepisode 7.
Who is theGrotesqueriekiller?
This is the question that has plagued Det.
“I like also that some people think it’s Niecy,” co-creator and writerRyan Murphyremarks toEntertainment Weekly.
Niecy Nash-Betts as Lois Tryon on ‘Grotesquerie’.Prashant Gupta/FX
The answer, as is the case in most of Murphy’s work, isn’t so straightforward.
At the end of episode 6, Lois is accosted by a masked man wielding a knife.
She’s able to subdue and identify him, though the audience doesn’t get to see his face.
Niecy Nash as Lois Tryon, Micaela Diamond as Sister Megan on ‘Grotesquerie’.Prashant Gupta/FX
And there may be even more to all of that than perceived.
(More on that later.)
Prashant Gupta/FX
When it seemed like we were done with the twists,Grotesqueriethrows viewers another curveball.
Travis Kelce as Eddie Laclan, Raven Goodwin as Merritt Tryon on ‘Grotesquerie’.Prashant Gupta/FX
All of this isn’t real.
It’s all playing out inside Lois' head.
She’s actually the one lying on a hospital bed in a coma.
Murphy points to the first shot we see onGrotesquerieepisode 1, some kind of hanging fabric catching fire.
“That is a burning hospital curtain.
That’s what all of that gauze is,” he reveals.
“That’s [Lois] behind the hospital curtain.
We did a whole sound pass.
A lot of car noises were replaced with hospital noises, for example.”
Lois subconsciously cast those in her own life as characters in this Grotesquerie reality.
“I have a 4-year-old and his favorite movie isThe Wizard of Oz,” Murphy says.
He always wanted two things: the witch melting and the scene when [Dorothy] wakes up.
So that was always in my mind when Robbie, Joe, and I were writing.
Those were the three things that I was always looking at."
This reveal changes the show moving forward and it’s only just the beginning.
“There’s a thing that’s coming back.
They’re all this sort of cool world building,” Murphy continues.
“I don’t want to give too much away.
I actually will tell you, I’m just really shocked that this has not gotten out.
Go with God.'
He wanted to capture that feeling of being trapped in a grotesque reality you couldn’t wake from.
“The last episode airs on Oct. 30.
That’s ultimately what I’ve been feeling and that’s what I wanted to write about.”
