The first five episodes of Roanoke were disguised as My Roanoke Nightmare, a cheesy TLC-esque reality show about a couple who barely survived a year in a house full of spirits and monsters. This season gets points for trying, but that’s about it. Freak Show was basically a “ spin-wheel trick” that hit the woman every time, even though she was never the target. In the end, it was all just too confusing and annoying to enjoy. Freak Show gave us a different villain every week, whether it was Twisty Edward Mordrake (Wes Bentley), a two-faced man who returns every Halloween to harvest souls the closeted strongman Dell Toledo (Michael Chiklis) Stanley (Denis O’Hare), the guy who wanted to kill the freaks and put them in a museum the insane magician Chester Creb (Neil Patrick Harris) or Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock), a sociopathic rich kid who always got his way. The funny thing about Freak Show is that it had the best first episode of any AHS season: It featured Twisty the Clown (John Carroll Lynch) murdering a pair of picnicking ’50s sock-hoppers, then capped off with Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) doing a anachronistic performance of the David Bowie classic “ Life on Mars.” But man, was it all downhill from there. Finn Wittrock as Dandy Mott in AHS: Freak Show.

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