The
saga continues for poor ‘Anne Frank’. Just as sister Jude pours
all faith and belief into Anne’s story, her husband arrives at
Briarcliff to take her home. She is not Anne Frank after all but a
young wife and mother called Charlotte with severe postnatal
depression according to a rather speedy diagnosis from Dr Thredson.
Dr
Thredson seems so monotone, calm and balanced while hell happens
around him that you quickly begin to wonder if he is a good guy at
all. He professes to be able to save Kit from the death penalty if
he can prove his sanity, and promises to break Lana out of the asylum
that night. But the longer he stays on the screen the more unsettling
he becomes. Your gut proves you right in the last third of the
episode with a revelation which will leave you in disbelief.
Jessica
Lange deserves an Emmy nomination for this episode alone. We see her
become more fragile, old and lonely as her ivory tower begins to
crumble from its very foundations. Sister Jude closes in on Dr
Arden’s Nazi past it is and she turns to her beloved Mon Senior for
support but is rejected and the Mon Senior wonders if Briarcliff is
too much for her. The Mon Senior knows far more than he lets on.
Chloe
on the other hand has problems far worse. Nazi Dr Arden has begun
his devils work and testing on her as a human guinea pig. She is
unrecogniseable and has become a poor tortured creature that I can
barely look at on the screen. You find yourself wishing for her
misery to end.
Sister
Eunice continues creeps around in the shadows as the possessed El
Diablo and is a gripping character to watch. You wait and wonder who
becomes her next toy to play with.
I
am Anne Frank (2) Brings American Horror Story Asylum right back to
true form. Slick production, A-list acting, fast pace, and horror
beyond your wildest nightmares.
Review by JoAnn Duff
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