-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email The following contains spoilers for the season finale of "Grotesquerie" “ Grotesquerie ” may have been inscrutable to most of us when it began, but its star and executive producer, Niecy Nash-Betts , knew exactly where it was going, and the importance of staying mum about it. For some actors that means steering clear of social media or Reddit threads to guard the story’s secrets or peace of mind. For Nash-Betts, whose Det.
Lois Tryon led us through the show’s mind-freakery maze, avoiding the comments wasn’t a luxury. “Anybody who had my phone number called me or texted me,” she told Salon earlier this week. Not surprisingly, their questions were the same ones bedeviling the rest of us.
What’s happening now? What’s going on? And simply: What?! Inscrutability is rarely presented as an asset when a show debuts in a crowded fall season, but “Grotesquerie" creators Ryan Murphy , Jon Robin Baitz , and Joe Baken turned it into a selling point. Nothing about the show turned out to be what it looked like at first: a standard albeit graphically gory serial killer cop show with a Murphy-esque horror twist, pairing Nash-Betts’ Lois, an alcoholic cop at the end of a failing marriage, with Micaela Diamond ’s Sister Megan, a homicide-obsessed nun and..
.practicing journalist? “You know, a lot of people expected it to be very similar to the other projects that Ryan has done before, but this one absolutely stood alone,” Nash-B.
