Season

Freak Show

by Danny Huston, Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Frances Conroy, Sarah Paulson and 15 others

In 1952, in the quiet, sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, a troupe of human "curiosities" has just arrived to town, coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike.

(7 total)

Characters

Brad Falchuk (2)Jennifer Salt (2)Ryan Murphy (2)Elsa Mars (2)Jessica Lange (2)Mat Fraser (1)Dot Tattler (1)Paul the Illustrated Seal (1)Gloria Mott (1)John J. Gray (1)

“I have met many a craven killer, many a sniveling coward in my time, but every one of them could admit the blackness in their own hearts when the hour came. You have caused the demon to weep.”

— Jennifer Salt, imdb.com

Tagged: demon, Weep, Killer, Craven, Sniveling Coward

“The world hated me. But no more than I hated myself.”

— Jennifer Salt, Paul the Illustrated Seal, Mat Fraser, imdb.com

Tagged: Hate, Scorn, Self-hatred

“Truth is—all goodness guarantees ya is an early grave. But the biggest joke of all—the thing that'll sink ya every time is hope. Hope that the world will right itself. That the just will be rewarded and the wicked punished. Oh, once you buy into that horse shit, you're dead in the water. The only wa…”

— Crystal Liu, Ethel Darling, Kathy Bates, imdb.com

Tagged: Truth, Goodness, Early Grave, Biggest Joke, Godforsaken

“Fate. Destiny. Luck. The prisons of man. People pass the time, enjoying the choices life provides—coffee or tea, right or left. As if it matters. We are all just spinning on the wheel. There is but one way to keep off the wheel. It's not youth. It's not beauty or true love. I know how to stay off th…”

— John J. Gray, Elsa Mars, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Luck, Survival

“You have the sickness like your father had before you. He stifled it the only way he could. These mental perversions are an affliction of the extremely affluent. Cousins marry cousins to protect the money, to keep the estates whole. Inbreeding. Becomes a rite of passage to have a psychotic or two in…”

— Jessica Sharzer, Gloria Mott, Frances Conroy, imdb.com

Tagged: Psychotic, Rite of Passage, Perversions, Affluent, Inbreeding

“I'll tell you who the monsters are! The people outside this tent! In your town, in all these little towns. Housewives pinched with bitterness, stupefied with boredom as they doze off in front of their laundry detergent commercials, and dream of strange, erotic pleasures. They have no souls. My monst…”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Elsa Mars, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

Tagged: monsters, Heroic, Boredom, Depraved, oddity

“Dear Diary, my soul plumbs new depths of despair. I long for the quiet of the farm. The warmth of my bed, the smell of flowers outside my window. I'm surrounded by a cesspool of activity. No words can do justice to the depravity that permeates the grounds.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dot Tattler, Sarah Paulson, imdb.com

Tagged: Diary, Soul, Smell of Flowers, Depravity