Sevigny’s character has lost her son, her marriage, her entire family, but seeing Holden again will leave her making decisions that may even shock the viewers.
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“Her look is basically a classic beauty look”, Mekash explained. Detective John Lowe (Wes Bentley) will also be one of the guests in the party, and he will be joined by villain James March and other well-known serial killers such as John Wayne Gacy (John Carroll Lynch) and Aileen Wurnos (Lily Rabe), the report details. John brings Gabriel to the emergency room where he unfortunately dies, but not before telling John that he thought he was killing Sally for what she did to him.
Back to Tristan, he approaches Will in an attempt to seduce then kill. Additionally, the oft-overused yet never aging “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus served as an eerie, discordant background to The Countess (played by Lady Gaga) revealing a few of the hotel’s darkest secrets contained within the walls and chipping paint – literally.
Sex, drugs, fashion and plain weirdness all set to a great soundtrack? The Countess is a socialite with a penchant for 1930s glamour, and that’s what American Horror Story makeup artist Eryn Krueger Mekash and showrunner Ryan Murphy chose to accent her with.
“The biggest serial killers of all time all come to the hotel“.
So why would a pregnant woman have been going to the Murder House in that year? Low and behold, it’s Angela Bassett as Ramona Royale. She knocks Donovan over the head and puts him in her trunk. With lyrics such as, “Try to cry out in the heat of the moment/possessed by a fury that burns from inside/cry like a child, though these years make me older/with children my time is so wastefully spent”, late vocalist/lyricist Ian Curtis conveys the inner workings of a tortured, mourning soul.
The actress also addressed a few of the conspiracy theories surrounding Lady Gaga’s The Countess and her own character possibly being related. After being turned into a vampire, Ramona fell in love with someone else and also transformed him.
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The episode culminates with Alex visiting the hotel to give John divorce papers. While in the bathroom, she sees things out the corner of her eye. Furthermore, we know that Alex will be working hard on trying to discover what is wrong with her son. Feeling alone and dejected, Donovan goes back to the hotel, realizing he has nowhere else to go. Donovan may have told Iris he hated her. But in the end he learned that there’s nothing like a mother’s love.
