It won’t end well, believe me.” Lana, not being an idiot, agrees to be treated for something she knows full well isn’t an illness at all.Īversion therapy, unfortunately, isn’t as easy as glancing through dirty magazines and declaring oneself cured. “You’re a fish out of water, gasping for life. When she hesitates, he gives her a kindly but serious look from behind his nerd-cool glasses and sighs. He informs Lana that, if she agrees to work with him on aversion therapy for her lesbianism, he’ll spring her from lock-up. In this episode, Thredson decides he’s going to try to bend the rules for not one but two patients - Lana and Kit. Sister Jude isn’t as completely evil as, say, Sister Mary Eunice (who is actually possessed by the devil), but she’s no slouch in the messing-people-up department. He’s simply getting too involved in the lives of the patients in the asylum, and he seems far too comfortable messing with Sister Jude (Jessica Lange). I suspect some very bad things could also be awaiting Dr. I’m telling you, the mash-ups on this show are starting to make my head hurt. Arden to me! And also “Marathon Man” with some “The Human Centipede” thrown in. scientist under Hitler’s command during WWII who conducted horrific experiments on some of the internees. More importantly, she makes an even better case as to Dr. When Anne (or whoever she is) ends up in the asylum for slicing some anti-Semitic oafs like kosher brisket, she doesn’t seem entirely sane - but sitting down with Sister Jude to discuss exactly why she’s kept her identity a secret (given the power of the book, she soon realized she could do more good dead than alive), she makes a pretty compelling case for being Anne Frank. This would be one of those times.Īnyway, as played by Franke Potente, this version of Anne Frank is all grown up, pissed-off and ready to cut anyone who gets in her way, sort of like Anne Frank: Vampire Killer, I suppose.

As much as I enjoy the tossing-spaghetti-at-the-wall madness of this campfest, at times it can feel random, less like homage than writers opening up Wikipedia, closing their eyes, and typing wildly into the search box. Arden, I’m expecting cameos from Snow White and Captain Hook any minute. The show takes a turn into “Once Upon A Time” territory by (possibly) tossing in an iconic literary character given that we already have Dr. The first potential victim is a new character - Anne friggin’ Frank. The only question, really, is who will be the unlucky one on this episode. As we all know, bad things are about to happen. Well, the fun keeps on rolling at the non-stop carnival that is Briarcliff Asylum, and I’m thinking everyone on this particular ride desperately wants to get off of it.

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