American Horror Story: Freak Show

Disturbing yet mesmerizing 😳 I've covered my eyes a dozen times and still can't look away🙈 With a phenomenal cast like this there is no question that the acting is superb🙌🏻 And the costumes and sets are extraordinary 🙌🏻 The only reason I give it less than excellent stars is because it is certainly not for the kiddies or faint of heart🙏 If you do ever happen to watch it, DO NOT look the clown in the eyes🤡

It's another season of blood and gore but AMERICAN HORROR STORY never fails to deliver. FREAK SHOW takes us behind the scenes of a carnival that seems to stay in one place. No wonder they have trouble getting an audience. Our favorite stars are back and this season lovely Jessica Lange is Elsa Mars, the owner of the freak show and mother hen to her outcast troupe.I loved the previous 3 season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY so I was eager to watch Season 4. It was hard to get beyond the first couple of sad and violent episodes but I stuck with it. Expect to see the most frightening clown you could imagine. Twisty the Clown is the stuff of nightmares.At times, Season 4 seems confused and directionless and then it gets back on track. Twisty will haunt your dreams and then he is gone and then his back and then gone. The writers seemed not to know how to follow through with Twisty's story.The problems with FREAK SHOW are the multiple stories and the "fake" freaks. This season Sarah Paulson plays Siamese twins--two heads with one set of arms and legs. The visual effects don't often work well and we see one Paulson face at a time or Paulson with a fake head. Evan Peters is Lobster Boy with fake hands, Kathy Bates, with a seriously odd accent, wears a fake beard to be the bearded lady.The real gems of this season are the life "freaks" and let's not call them freaks. They are vibrant people overcoming serious abnormalities. As I watched the show, I wondered how they made Paul the Illustrated Seal look so real with his deformed arms. How did they make Ma Petite look like a living baby doll? Fantastic visual effects to make Legless Susi "legless." I researched the characters and found the actors have special conditions that make them "different". These fine actors are the stars of the show. Mat Fraser really has deformed arms and Rose Siggins lost her legs up to her hips. And amazingly, Jyoti Amge is a full grown woman just over 2 feet tall. These actors are amazingly talented and I hope they were return in future seasons.In the end, the real freaks are murderous Twisty the Clown and pretty rich boy Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock). Being a freak is not a physical deformity but rather having an evil mind and soul. In the carnival world, the freaks are a family and stay together. There is a strong homage to the 1932 cult classic freaks that actually featured circus freaks getting their revenge. Don't miss with one of their kind or be prepared to pay the ultimate price. Season 4 doesn't play as much on the supernatural as in the past. Only one other worldly character appears to take the soul of the most evil.There is an amazing array of actors in this season beyond our regulars. This season's visiting singer turned actress is Patti LaBelle. Pepper the pinhead is back and barely seen until she is featured in a sad and tragic story. They even cross over to the connection to Season 2 AYSLUM. What could be better? Season 4 will keep your interest but the writers have lost their way with the Elsa Mars character. Her story goes all over the place.Sometimes we hate her and other times she is an object of pity. The season finale is an incredible disappointment as if the writers had to quickly tie up their story and took a page from the TV show LOST.Although I was disappointed at times in Season 4, I was totally addicted and can't wait for Season 5.

Glossing over the lack of Jessica Lange, this season took some initiatives that paid off. You get decent acting from the cast. There is excellent set design balancing current day California with an Art Deco style hotel from early 20th century.The writers set up a few plot lines. There are numerous flashbacks to the past. More plot threads are given to tie the many seasons together.Overall the season was a departure from the previous offerings.You will find it to be gorier than the rest, and the writers wanted to introduce modern social discussions, which I felt distracted from the platform.

I'm only halfway through this season, but having seen most of the seasons, Freak Show is BY FAR my favorite. Mainly because the writers do not kill off the main characters just to resurrect them... which has become a stupid habit of theirs'.The visuals of the carnival and the performers are awesome. It's a feast for the eyes, and most of the characters have storylines with some meat. I also love this time period of the early 1950's. Jessica Lange is just fabulous in her role.If you want a tamer AHS season, Freak Show and Murder House would be the ones to watch. By far the most offensive, were Apocolypse and Hotel.

Season 4 is very dear to many hearts. The goths, the rejected, the handicapped, gay, misfits, any of us who have been stared at or outcasts, will love this season. The entire cast was great, most notably the women. Jessica Lange in her Dietrich-esque leading role is excellent (as always) and Kathy Bates stole my heart in this one, as the bearded lady. She gives a speech about "hope" and it's dangers that is reason enough to buy the boxed set. We'll all identify with that.There is gore, sexy stuff ("Dandy" despite being a despicable character, is hopelessly sexy) great acting, very cool music, and most of all, the majority of the cast are 'the real deal' and not really actors. I have season 1, 2 and 4 on DVD. Season 3 and this current one, 5, will not be a part of my collection. Something missed the mark in those two season that I cannot quite pinpoint.

Freakshow is one of the two most "human" of the AHS series.Jessica Lange does really well as Elsa Mars. It's subtle but the arc really follows the adage of "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." The more successful Elsa becomes, the unhappier she becomes.Kathy Bates turns in a great performance as well.

Next to Murder House and Coven, Freakshow became another one of my fan favorite seasons for American Horror Story!Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett and Jyoti Amge's performances in Freakshow were incredible and I love this series' theme of morality. I also enjoyed how actors and actresses with qualities a regular person would seem strange - like Jyoti, Mat Fraser and Rose Siggins - are involved, making Freakshow authentic. I think because of that, many people who are misunderstood and have quirks society wouldn't understand will enjoy watching this season of American Horror Story!This season makes you ask: Who are the real monsters? The members of Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities, or people no one would suspect of committing unspeakable acts?

dark twisted and delicious can see all the homages to classic horror films also 1930's freaks it reminded me too of carnivale which is a superb but sadly no longer with us tv series, highly recommend if you like the surreal and macabre with excellent performances from all the cast, jessica lange oozes a narcissistic persona which you love to hate....... warning you will get addicted to it with only one viewing!

So much wasted potential with this one. While this has great casting and good visuals like everything Jennifer Salt gets her hands on it just falls apart.There is no cohesion to this series with stellar actors being curtailed, poor character development, performances stunted for whatever bland message Salt wants to push. Unfortunately good story telling has taken second place to barely cohesive set pieces that go nowhere - and take a long time doing it.

After the waste that was season 3, Coven, AHS is back on track with freaks of all kinds, and the most hidious clown since Pennywise from It. Engaging story, with characters who all have flaws. I really loved the timeless theme of the show, where they performed music from Bowie and Nirvana in a tale from the fifties. Not really scary, cause the bad guy is to wacky, but macabre. And Jessica Lange is the queen of AHS

The media could not be loaded.  Just love these series and have purchased all previous sraspns which iv enjoyef. . I was excited to receive season 4 only NOT to be able to watch the conclusions because the 4th dvd continuously jumped, then stuck when he told her he had a bone disease and a month to live. Check the quality and ensure there watchable guys, these are not cheap and now i have no clue what happened to Elsa, Jimmy or the twinsThanks !!!

The first 4 seasons of American horror story are just brilliant because you have Jessica Lange who's just amazing in the show. The fifth season called "Hotel" wasn't completely bad but wasn't that great because it was full of s*x pardon my language. It also has lady gaga in it replacing Jessica Lange which didn't make me very happy, enough about that though I was really impressed by the quality of this disk. Amazon you never fail to make this customer very happy 😉