Upon hearing that the fourth season of FX’s lurid American Horror Story franchise was subtitled Freak Show, you can be forgiven if your first reaction was “Redundant much?” Few series are freakier by their very nature than Ryan Murphy‘s annual anthology of grotesque Grand Guignol. Freak Show (Wednesday, 10/9c) upholds the grisly tradition, although the empathy shown for this year’s bizarre family of sideshow outcasts makes this edition of AHS initially less ridiculous than usual (especially when compared to the ludicrous hot mess of last year’s Coven).
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