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Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way before we continue this discussion of American Horror Story Season 4 Episode 2.

That clown? That clown is the freakiest freak who ever freaked. Never did I think there would be a clown more psychotically terrifying than Pennywise, but now there is and we don’t even know his name.

Dandy Mott is freakier. (Also a sociopath, and those are always fun.)

The police have turned their attention to Elsa’s monsters now that one of their own has turned up missing and the last place he was known to have been was at the freak show.

Jimmy Darling and Co. chopped him into tiny pieces last week, and this week they buried his body, but not until after Jimmy’s little explosion in the mess tent.

Jimmy has a temper, and it’s quite volatile and will not serve anyone well if he can’t keep it in check. But there’s a part of me who doesn’t think he should have to.

Here’s a pretty attractive late-teens, early-20’s guy who just wants to be normal. The world keeps telling him he’s a freak. The people inside his world keep telling him he’s a freak.

That’s the one thing he doesn’t want to be and doesn’t think he is. I kind of feel bad for the kid. For now at least. (I mean, he’s a murderer. But still.)

Angela Bassett is magnificent as the three-breasted woman, Desiree, and Michael Chiklis’ Dell Toledo is quite the hotheaded asshole. To have begged for his position within Elsa’s show he sure is trying to take it over. The jerk.

And having Meep killed? I can’t wait to see what Jimmy will do to him when he finds out.

Right now, however, I’m most curious about what Elsa wants to see happen to the sisters. Does she want Bette to cut out Dot’s tongue? Disfigure her? I don’t get the sense that Elsa wants the sisters to die, but she does want Dot to be unable to steal the spotlight.

Of course, then she’ll have to deal with Dell Toledo and Desiree to regain her place as a headliner. Something tells us she’ll find a way to do that.

What did you think of “Massacres and Matinees”? Will you watch American Horror Story online?