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| A new inmate has appeared at Briarcliff and she claims to be Anne Frank. Is she another asylum whackjob or did she survive? |
Just when you think that
American Horror Story – Asylum can’t get any more bent and
twisted then episode four bursts onto the screen. You are plunged
into pure horror and cold, dark scenes which have you hiding behind
the cushions on your couch within the first five minutes.
Psycho Dr Arden’s web
of lies and evil is unraveling. The pace of the plot slowly but
surely ticks and tocks towards his undoing which can’t come soon
enough for viewers I’m sure.
A new inmate has appeared
at Briarcliff and she claims to be Anne Frank. ‘Anne’ spots Dr
Arden in the rec room and claims that he was a Nazi Doctor who
performed depraved surgical practices on women back in the Auschwitz
camps. Is she another asylum whackjob or did she survive?
There is also more of the
gruesome boxing Helena style scenes which are pretty tough to watch
as well as the odd fleeting glimpse of the Devil possessed Sister
Eunice which is disturbingly refreshing given all the terror
elsewhere in the asylum.
The most uncomfortable
scenes are not that of blood and gore but of poor Lana Winters who is
put through horrific 1960’s aversion therapy. The mental torture
is far more difficult to watch than the blood and gore that seems to
ever more present with each episode.
There are some further
developments in some of the characters which haven’t had much
airtime of late. Assumed ‘Bloody Face Killer’ Kit (played
brilliantly by Evan Peters) is cracking under the pressure of the
asylum as his trial looms and he also discovers his partner in crime
Grace isn’t so sane or innocent. There are no flash-forwards to
the present day in this episode; this one keeps you strictly within
the walls of Briarcliff in the 1960’s along with the rest of the
inmates. Not a great place to be for anyone.
I
hope that the next episode comes back stronger and that Asylum isn’t
lost to ludicrous plots and storylines. It happened to a great
series like Lost. I hope it doesn’t happen here as I am really
enjoying the series. If only I can be brave enough to see it through
to the end!
Review by JoAnn Duff
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