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American Horror Story – Asylum, Episode 6 The Origins of Monstrosity

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American Horror Story – Asylum, Episode 6

The Origins of Monstrosity

Aired Nov 21, 2012

Horror

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A mysterious little girl is abandoned at Briarcliff; the Monsignor makes a Faustian pact with Dr. Arden; the origin of Bloody Face is revealed.

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"The Origins of Monstrosity" is not as engrossing as its predecessor, yet several plot machinations serve to fill in the gaps.

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Zachary Quinto

Dr. Oliver Thredson

Joseph Fiennes

Monsignor Timothy Howard

Sarah Paulson

Lana Winters

Evan Peters

Kit Walker

Lily Rabe

Sister Mary Eunice

Lizzie Brocheré

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Gwen Orel

Wall Street Journal

08/16/2016

The framing device returns, as a 911 call summons police to the ruins of Briarcliff.

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Julieanne Smolinski

New York Magazine/Vulture

08/09/2016

3/5

Thredson tells Sarah Paulson he wants her to be his new mother. ("GET IN LINE!" - everyone.) She eventually plays along to avoid being murdered, and he delivers the dialogue of the Episode/Decade: "Baby needs colostrum."

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Jeff Jensen

Entertainment Weekly

08/09/2016

The problem of evil is a tricky little devil. There is no single or simple answer to explain wickedness. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask and explore the question.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/20/2018

Defies conventional storytelling techniques and that it's going to gleefully keep throwing things in the air in order to keep our attention.

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Price Peterson

TV.com

08/15/2016

After five episodes of extremely dense storytelling, we got a breather episode in which the writers decided to fill in certain backstories to prepare us for a turbo-charged endgame.

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Christian Law

We Got This Covered

08/15/2016

Despite the amazing set up it was given from last week, The Origins of Monstrosity doesn't quite live up to the preceding episode. That's not to say it's a bad episode, especially since I've yet to see a bad outing from this series.

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Synopsis

A mysterious little girl is abandoned at Briarcliff; the Monsignor makes a Faustian pact with Dr. Arden; the origin of Bloody Face is revealed.

Executive Producer: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, Tim Minear
Network: FX
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 21, 2012