American Horror Story: Hotel, Love is Forever...and Hidden Within the Walls
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="79511" img_size="full"][title type="subtitle-h6"]© Copyright 2015, FX Networks. All rights reserved.[/title][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]What a wonderful redemption episode from last week! Finally, many questions are being answered, and of course there are still twists along the way. The most satisfying aspect of this episode was seeing the Countess’ origins, and finally getting my theory validated: March and the Countess are married!Let’s back up a hair; we come to find that the Countess started off as a lowly extra in flickers in the roaring 20s. In comes Valentino, a sexual Italian flicker-star *insert Lady Gaga swooning*. He invites her to dinner, and they have a nice and sexual time, just the three of them. Oh yes, did I forget to mention there was yet another threesome in this episode? The amount of action the Countess gets in this season is unreal. Anyway, the three of them fall in love with each other, and we finally know why the Countess wanted Tristan so badly: he looks (or looked, he’s dead now) just like Mr. Valentino.After she falls in love with Valentino and Natasha, the Countess meets James March; he’s throwing a shindig for his hotel opening, and she just happens to be there. News gets around that Valentino died that day, the Countess contemplates dying due to her broken heart, but instead marries March. Seems like a logical next step. The aspiring actress just wants to get her hands in the pots full of money....and watch March kill people.March is very quickly categorized as a jealous man; he follows the Countess to the grave of Valentino every day. One fateful afternoon, the Countess is cornered by her thought-to-be-dead lover and his wife, and they transform her into the vampire she is today. They plan to escape, but March seals Valentino and Natasha in the walls of the Cortez, leaving the Countess to think they didn’t want her anymore. This explains why she loves to turn people into vampires and set them loose after they fall in love with her: she is scorning them, just like she believes she was scorned. However, now she knows that her two lovers are here, and I am excited to see that love rectangle unfold.
Other noteworthy parts of the episode:
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Lowe is committed, but not just because he’s going crazy
Detective Lowe admits himself to a psychiatric hospital after a little incident at the police station. Right when you think that Alex and her tricks got to him, we find out that he wanted to be committed for another reason: he saw that the suspect of the Ten Commandment murders was committed at a hospital nearby. He feigns mentally ill (feigns, is...same thing) to get closer to the suspect. What a great ex-detective he is.
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Speaking of Lowe’s great detective skills, he breaks all the rules and a child dies because of it.
The suspect I just mentioned was actually a young girl named Ren, who is definitely a vampire by the way she dresses and the fact that she helped with all the Ten Commandment murders. The Countess turned her into a Little Monster after her father locked her in a parked car. Ren, tired of being a vampire, tells Lowe she’ll help him if he sets her free. Being the desperate man he is, Lowe agrees, and she runs in front of a bus. End scene.
I still don’t have a concrete idea of who the Ten Commandment killer is; I have a feeling we have not been introduced to him/her/them yet. If I had to come up with an idea now, I would say that the killer is Lowe, and he has some sort of split personality disorder that makes him forget he did it. A little Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde action, if you will. I predict he is going to go absolutely bonkers after seeing that little girl die, especially after he confessed she reminded him of Scarlett. I’m very excited to see where Valentino and the Mrs. fit into this story, and how they develop. Maybe they’ll gang up on the Hotel Cortez with Ramona and Donovan? I guess I’ll have to wait two weeks to see.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]