‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ spoilers: Expect more Twisty the Clown
If you hate clowns, then we suggest that you be wary of the rest of “American Horror Story: Freak Show.” After all, things are not going to be getting better anytime soon when it comes to Twisty the Clown. He’s still going to be around, and he’s also going to be just as frightening (if not more so) than anything that you’ve seen on the series just far.
After the premiered aired on FX last night, executive producer Ryan Murphy did an extensive interview with Entertainment Weekly. On the subject of this character, he did his best to try to explain just how and when we could end up seeing a whole lot more of him:
“When we first started to do Twisty, he was the same character. Then it was my boss Dana Walden who said I think you need to do something physically with him so that he’s different than the other clowns we’ve seen in pop culture. The clown is such a trope in that genre. So we worked a little bit before we even started to write on the backstory and we really came up with a gruesome, hideous story that you find out in episode four. You see the bottom part of his face in episode two. But in episode four we spend a lot of time with that and you see it more and you learn what is going on with him and it’s really awful and scary.
“A lot of people are freaked out by this clown. A couple people walked out on the premiere because they were too upset by the clown. I personally don’t have that phobia but I understand that people do. To them I say, watch it in the daytime because it only gets worse.”
At some point during the season, you are also going to find out specifically what his desired endgame is, which you have to think is also something terrifying. After all, you do not opt to get into this business of killing people will dressed like a clown unless you have some sort of plan or motive. It’s just not going to be a good one.
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