Season 1 – Grotesquerie

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Sep 2024

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Detective Lois Tryon feels a series of heinous crimes in her small community are eerily personal, as if someone or something is taunting her. At home, Lois grapples with a strained relationship with her daughter, a husband in long-term hospital care and her own inner demons. With no leads and unsure where to turn, she accepts the help of Sister Megan, a nun and journalist with the Catholic Guardian. As Lois and Sister Megan string together clues, they find themselves ensnared in a sinister web that only seems to raise more questions than answers.

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Critics Consensus

Equal parts campy and terrifying, Grotesquerie is a stomach-churning feast for viewers seeking a thrill.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Oct 16, 2024

2.5/4

Throw in grandiose crime scenes with those biblical implications and a bubbling cauldron in the desert and you have another bizarre guilty pleasure that taps into our dark sides and keeps us watching.

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Melanie McFarland

Salon.com

Oct 4, 2024

Murphy and his collaborators Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken use that bar to push onto the audience things we haven’t seen and yet can’t erase from memory

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Dan Einav

Financial Times

Oct 3, 2024

3/5

Where we might have expected camp kitsch, we instead find scenes redolent of classic gothic tales and gloomy neo-noirs such as Se7en and True Detective — a series prone to meditations on good and evil, faith and morality.

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Laura Fernández

El Pais (Spain)

Nov 27, 2024

Murphy rewrites noir in complete narcissistic and absurd harmony with the present. [Full review in Spanish]

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Jorge Loser

Espinof

Nov 16, 2024

1.5/5

Just the presence of Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift's current partner, clearly states that the intentions of the series are to be a commercial artifact... [Full review in Spanish]

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Nick Bythrow

Screen Rant

Oct 31, 2024

5/10

Despite strong performances and potent symbolism, Grotesquerie doesn't evolve much past its plodding narrative and scattershot storyline.

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leonard C

@leno63 Oct 18, 2026

started off great what a begging only to become predictable and then the whole lois coma thing WTF just stupid what a waste.

Joseph S

@Soulvey Sep 19, 2026

Truly a show that had potential and failed spectacularly to live up to even a gram of it. A plot twist two thirds of the way through makes the whole thing even more of a mess, before veering off a cliff in the finale. A graveyard of missed opportunities.

Raviteja S

@0btseprcsr4 Jan 25, 2026

Absolute garbage of a show.

Alessia M

@goose.bmps Oct 15, 2025

Possible spoilers! This series had enormous potential: the opening is effective and the brutality of the murders immediately grabs your attention. The figure of the serial killer, intertwined with the theme of religiosity, was a clever and promising idea. The problem is that from mid-season onwards, the plot spirals into chaos. It shifts to forced extremization, with plot holes as deep as canyons and creative choices that are, to say the least, questionable. The trailer sells the product as a psychological thriller with horror and almost splatter elements, but —spoiler— halfway through it drastically changes direction, to the point of feeling like misleading advertising. And then the ending is a disaster: wiping out everything that happened with the coma twist feels like a punch in the stomach for the viewer —a downright mockery. As if that weren’t enough, they randomly throw in every currently trending social issue, creating a pretentious mishmash that tries to pass itself off as auteur art without having the substance.

prawnda s

@RT72497680 Oct 5, 2025

it doesnt matter if you try to make a decent piece of film. ryan murphy will always be there to stop you.

Georgina W

@RT81512343 Sep 10, 2025

You have to get through the first half which seems a bit odd, but then it all comes together. I thought it was great. Original and very dark.

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Jon Robin Baitz

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Joe Baken

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Max Winkler

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Ryan Murphy

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Alexis Martin Woodall

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Episode 1

Aired Sep 25, 2024

Pilot

A crime rattles a small-town community as neighbors begin to distrust the people they know.

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Episode 2

Aired Sep 25, 2024

True Crime Catholics

Lois accepts the help of a nun to investigate the recent crimes.

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Episode 3

Aired Oct 2, 2024

The Bender

Detective Lois finds comfort in a surprising person at the hospital.

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Episode 4

Aired Oct 2, 2024

Coordinates

Lois gets a strange clue about Mr. Grotesquerie that leads her to a remote location.

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Episode 5

Aired Oct 9, 2024

Red Haze

Lois finds herself one step closer to the killer.

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Episode 6

Aired Oct 9, 2024

Good Caesarean Work

A new discovery leads Lois to someone from her past.

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Episode 7

Aired Oct 16, 2024

Unplugged

Lois is forced to make a difficult decision.

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Episode 8

Aired Oct 23, 2024

In Dreams

Lois discovers the connection between her coma-induced dream and her reality; she decides to accept help from a specialist.

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Episode 9

Aired Oct 23, 2024

The Stinging Aroma of Sulfur

Lois contemplates a new future and decides to leave for Florida.

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Episode 10

Aired Oct 30, 2024

I Think I'm Dead

Lois questions everything she thought she knew.

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