Grotesquerie does one thing AHS couldn't.
While Ryan Murphy’s new show Grotesquerie may not recapture American Horror Story’s cult success, the series is trying something that the anthology show never quite pulled off. According to TheHollywoodReporter, nearly a fifth of scripted TV shows from 2019-2020 were cop shows. The police procedural has been one of the most popular formats in American television history since Dragnet began back in 1951, so it is no surprise that Ryan Murphy’s new series Grotesquerie leans into the format.
3 While every season of American Horror Story is connected, all the show’s outings vary wildly in terms of tone and style. Some are largely period pieces, like season 4’s Freak Show or season 2’s Asylum, while others are mockumentaries, like season 6’s Roanoke. American Horror Story season 12 was a straightforward riff on Rosemary’s Baby but, only two years earlier, season 10’s Double Bill split its episodes into two separate stories about vampires and aliens.
Although American Horror Story season 11 NYC and season 7 Cult both focused on less supernatural storylines, neither of these outings ever centered the cops solving their mysteries. In contrast, the main character of Grotesquerie is Niece Nash’s Detective Lois Tryon, a troubled cop who pairs up with a young nun to solve a series of gruesome murders. Judging by Murphy’s earlier horror shows, the story outlined in this premise is likely to become more convoluted and twisty as the series unfolds.
Grotesquerie's unlikely pairing of a cop and a young nun is already quirkier than Tue Detective's pair of gritty, grizzled cops.
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