Review: ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show – S4E6’ From The Editor

“American Horror Story: Freak Show”changed the game when they decided to kill off Twisty the clown who had a very different motivation for killing people then Dandy Mott does. Will he begin to target the freak show as revenge for rejecting him? Seems likely, but he will also have to content with Stanley who is out to harvest freak show cast members for the museum of curiosities in order to get a big pay day.

Episode six of American Horror Story: Freak Show, aptly called “Bullseye,” opens with Elsa (Jessica Lange) sending a giant, life-size bullseye wheel to the main tent. Ethel (Kathy Bates) wonders if it’s for the show, but Elsa says it’s for her television gig. She also claims that Bette and Dot (Sarah Paulson) made a run for it when they were out to town for new clothes.

Dandy (Finn Wittrock) has fallen in love with Bette and Dot, ever since Elsa gifted them to Gloria, and when Gloria (Frances Conroy) gives her son prophylactics to avoid mucking up their gene pool further, he tells her that he intends to marry them. He’s a freak, they’re freaks, and being with them makes him feel normal.

Dandy has been treating the twins like royalty, and of course, Bette loves it. Dot remains skeptical but is willing to put that aside when Dandy reads a newspaper article about two Siamese twins that have been successfully separated. She needs his money to fulfill her dream of being separated from Bette.

Later, Dandy points out that Dot has a lot of secrets. She even locks her journal. He suggests they trade a secret for a secret, and so he tells them that it was him that killed the serial-killing clown, not Jimmy. When Dot refuses a secret in turn, Dandy throws a temper tantrum.

Back at the circus, Elsa’s birthday week isn’t going quite as planned. The rest of the circus keeps moping around over the loss of the twins – even Elsa’s secret lover, Paul the Illustrated Seal (Mat Fraser). She offers to take him with her to Hollywood. He could pretend to be her chauffeur whenever her “normal” suitors show up. He declines.

On the surface, it may seem as if Elsa Mars is doing everything she can to protect and care for the freaks in Fraulein Elsa’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Unfortunately, as each day passes by it become apparently clear that the only person she truly cares for is herself.

In the final moments of last week’s episode, we watched as Elsa led Bette and Dot to believe that they were going into town to work on their new act. In actuality, Elsa never had any intention of taking the twins to town. Elsa was actually planning on giving them over to Gloria Mott.

We all know how much Gloria yearns for a companion for her demented, murderous, little brat of a child Dandy. We can only imagine what he has planned for the twins.

We are left with so many questions at the end of tonight’s episode of American Horror Story. What fate lies ahead for Jimmy? Furthermore what is going to happen when the truth eventually comes out about what Elsa really did? Worst of all, what is Stanley going to do when Maggie doesn’t come through once again?

Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait another week until we get some answers to these questions and more.

What did you think of tonight’s episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show? Do you think Paul is going to survive his little “accident?” Will Jimmy and Maggie ever get their “happily ever after?” Let us know what you think in the comments below.

American Horror Story: Freak Show airs on Wednesday nights at 10:00 p.m. on FX Networks.