AHS: Freak Show episode 5, “Pink Cupcakes,” just aired on FX.
Desiree, Dell, and Dandy. Find out what makes the three D’s tick on tonight’s AHS: Freak Show episode 5, “Pink Cupcakes.” Meanwhile, promises of fame on the small screen tempt some members within the tent.
American Morbidity Museum: If high society loves one thing it is a gala that allows them to balance cocktails in white gloves while gazing upon those of lesser status. Stanley has the vision, but the practicalities of collecting the bodies for such a dream still needs some work. Tanks from an aquarium, a lonely barn, and an assistant willing to work on the inside are not a bad start.
Christmas Morning:When the coffee isn’t brewing by 7 a.m., Gloria finds an unlikely present on her dining room floor. Dandy follows down the stairs like a cat waiting to present a mouse to their owner. Gloria’s initial reaction, in light of Dandy’s forced apologies, is to send him to his room.
Gloria does the next logical thing and hires men to dig a new, very deep, flower bed for her tulips. When the spring arrives, Dandy notes that the colors will remind them of Dora. Gloria takes this opportunity to explain that Dandy’s eccentricities are a result of keeping the estates in the family, if you know what I mean. Inbreeding drove his father to succumb to his own mental perversions as he hanged himself from a tall oak.
All Dandy desires in life is to be the greatest actor. Having achieved the “body of America, strong, violent,” and the steel of murder, Dandy considers the lessons from his mentor. He needs to find a way to satisfy his taste for murder, but in a way where the bodies of the victims will not be missed.
The underground: In the dark corners of a basement bar sits the artist known as Andy (Matt Bomer). Across from him, the man who is madly in love with him, is Dell. Andy is a prostitute, one whom Dell has come to know quite well over the past month. This incident sheds some light on his rage issues with the men back in Chicago and his attraction to certain parts of Desiree over others.
Death of Art: When presented with the idea of working for television, Elsa Mars replies to Stanley with a string of beautifully delivered lines. They include, “I’d rather be boiled and oiled than be on television,” and that she’d rather “be in the tent than perform in the death of art and civilization.” All of this comes before her act in front of a packed house is met with a rain of popcorn.
Preparing herself for television, Elsa makes herself up in pink only to find that Stanley is taking the twins to a picnic in the fields.
Not so modern mutation: Jimmy, on display from the moment of his birth, still gets stage fright. Pacing before a packed house, Maggie attempts to soothe him with a palm reading. Instead of filling his mind with ease, she offers a warning against a liar entering the camp. In her own caring way she dismisses Jimmy’s affections while giving him a shot at freedom from the wrath that Stanley is about to inflict on the camp.
When Dell is MIA before the big show, Desiree and Jimmy sort out their issues with the man. Desiree knows he is a brute, but she did once enjoy her life. Dell made her take pride in her body, but now he makes her feel empty. As empty as Jimmy feels with Meep gone. Attempting to fill the void, Desiree allows Jimmy to try his handy work out on her. Jimmy strikes out again that night when Desiree begins to bleed everywhere at his touch.
Inside the doctor’s office with Ethel, Desiree recounts her childhood with a mother who was proud to have been blessed with a son. However, at the age of 12, Desiree’s body began to compensate for an estrogen deficiency by producing so much that she grew three breasts. The examination reveals that she is not the freak she always thought herself to be. Her bleeding was the result of a miscarriage and, contrary to her beliefs, she is 100% woman.
Pink cupcakes: At a picnic in the park, Stanley daydreams about what price two heads on one chest would bring him. He hands each lady a pink cupcake, but only Bette accepts and dies. The scene unfolds and Dot watches and feels her sister die inside the same body. But in reality the twins refuse the treats in order to watch their figure for television.
Elsa arrives to provide her mentorship to Bette and Dot for the future of the “Tattler Hour.” But Elsa has different plans for the girls and takes them on another trip.
End of beauty: Dandy finds his victims in the secret underground of Jupiter, where he pays Andy $100 to venture into an abandoned bus, strip down, and see whatever magic happens. But when Andy turns around, he is met with a knife to the chest, over, and over, and over. Andy’s workout regime must be superior to Dandy’s American male routine, for he does not die easily, making Dandy shout, “Will you just die, you’re make me FEEL BAD.” Eventually, after cutting him limb for limb, Andy dies as his body is dissolved in a bathtub of acid.
Desiree tells Dell of her miscarriage and plans to move on with her life away from their shame marriage. Ethel discloses the information of Jimmy’s paternal lineage to Desiree. Dell has different ideas for Desiree’s future as he pays the doctor a visit, breaking his hands so that even if he wanted to operate on Desiree, he could not.
As the episode closes, Gloria receives a call from Dora’s daughter (Gabourey Sidibe), who is attending secretary school in NYC. She worries that her mother missed their weekly call, but Gloria is more concerned about clearing her name with someone who witnessed how absent she was in Dandy’s childhood. Uncomfortable with the direction the call takes, she hangs up.
Gloria turns around to find Dandy waiting in the doorway, covered in blood. In the driveway, Elsa waits to drop off the twins into Dandy’s custody.
Watch AHS: Freak Show episode 6, “Bullseye,” Wednesday, November 12 at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.
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