Spoilers

“Pilot”

“True Crime Catholics”

I did not need another series on my watchlist. Currently, I am watching Agatha All Along, Only Murders in the Building, Bonus Action on YouTube, The Penguin, Mr. McMahon on Netflix, Raw and Smackdown, as well as coming to the end of season four of Bates Motel, preparing to start season seven of The X-Files, in the middle of season two of The Greatest American Hero and nearing the end of season two of Battlestar Galactica. The schedule is pretty tight at this point.

Yet, seeing the series entitled Grotesquerie pop up on Hulu (originally aired on FX), a series that I had seen intriguing trailers for at Cinemark, and a series by American Horror Story producer Ryan Murphy, I thought I could find a time to add this to the rotation.

The first two episodes became available together and it combines a vicious and brutal serial killer with the world of religious iconography.

Niecy Nash stars as Detective Lois Tryon, who finds herself at these horrendous crime scenes, really not wanting to be on the case. Still, the cases feel so very personal. Drinking heavily throughout both episodes, Lois is joined by a journalist who also just happens to be a nun, Sister Megan Duval. Sister Megan is an odd duck as a nun, unlike most nuns that you would see.

Lois’s husband, played by the incomparable Courtney B. Vance, is in a coma after being revealed as a cheater. Lois’s feelings toward her husband Marshall is complicated to say the least. However, she feels as if she needs to protect him from a nurse at the hospital, Nurse Redd, who has other ideas of what to do with Marshall. Nurse Redd is maybe the creepiest character on the show so far.

Showing on FX, Grotesquerie is available on both Hulu and Disney + the next day. I hope this is stronger than the last American Horror Story that we got.