The following contains spoilers for Grotesquerie season 1, episode 7, “Episode 7.“Grotesquerieco-creator Ryan Murphy discusses the real meaning behind episode 7’s explosive plot twist about Lois' condition. The FX’s horror drama revolves around Detective Lois Tryon (Niecy Nash) as she tries to solve the surrounding mystery. However,episode 7 reveals that everythingtheGrotesqueriecharacterthought was real is a dream, and instead of her husband being the one in a coma, it’s been her the whole time.
In an interview withVariety, Murphy explained how thetwist is linked to the theme of love and hopeand how it’d affect further episodes. The co-creator stated thatshe’ll have to make sense of her nightmaresand “fight for herself” and “her family.” Murphy further stressed that the twist is about “a person waking up from a state that was a livingnightmare,” which he feels would resonate with the audience, but in the end,Grotesquerieis about “love” because the fight is either “to love or to be loved.” Check out his comment below:
“Now she has to explain to all of these people why they were doing these horrible things to her in her dream. [This is] the most optimistic thing I’ve ever made. What it really is about is a person waking up from a state that was a living nightmare, which all of us are living in. So she wakes up and what she’s trying to do is fight for herself and fight for her family and fight for survival. And she realizes that the only thing that’s going to get her through this experience is love, and that’s what I feel. That’s my world view.
It’s interesting in my work. If you look at my characters throughout the times, they do outrageous things, they say outrageous things, they wear outrageous things. But what they’re really all fighting for is either to love or to be loved. That’s what I’m trying to put out into the world. I said to him, ‘I’ve never done this before, but I want to write something for me.’ He’s like, ‘Well, you should.’ So I worked with my longtime collaborators, Joe Baken and Jon Robin Baitz, and we were just talking about what the world was, and we just wrote the whole first season. I never knew that I would even show it to anybody.
My work is based on a lot of interests and curiosities, and I’m wanting to learn something about either myself or the world when I make something. This to me, felt like a real meditation on the world that we’re living in. I wanted to write about what I’m living in right now, which is global warming, women’s reproductive freedoms, the election, war, identity, politics, all of that stuff. [The show] does become something else moving forward.”
What Murphy’s Comment Means For Grotesquerie
The Real Story Has Just Begun
The twist means that Lois has spent the first six episodes in a coma. Episode 7 puts everything in a new light and sees Lois finally wake up from the state of a “living nightmare.” Even in a coma,Lois is fighting hard to protect herself and her family. What Murphy said sheds light on the seemingly gruesome events in the past six episodes and how they are really “optimistic.”
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The comment also indicates whatGrotesqueriewill focus on from episode 8 and onward, as Lois' real fight has just begun. Now that the protagonist has woken up, the nextstep for her would be to make sense of what her subconscious mindhas been telling her while putting action into saving her family and herself. Episode 7 journeys through a dark plot with Lois' husband pulling her life support, but Murphy’s comment seemingly points out that things will take a turn for the better.
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Lois' Has a Challenging Life Ahead
Lois' literal nightmare has ended, but the horror doesn’t stop there.How her dream would affect her waking life will be interesting to see inthe next fewGrotesquerieepisodes.On top of that, Lois now has to deal with the fact that her husband wants her to go along with the consequences of her past actions.
The future doesn’t look very bright for Lois, given the challenges she’ll have to face now that she’s awake inGrotesquerie. However,Murphy’s comment gives some hope.Even though Lois' life is a mess in reality, as long as she is willing to fight for what matters the most to her, not all hope will be lost.
