Besides The Walking Dead, the other TV show we’re all madly waiting for is the fourth season of FX’s American Horror Story: Freak Show. The upcoming season will be set in Florida circa 1952 around a sideshow carnival. We’ve got the new poster debut and expectations are high with the recent Emmy Award wins for Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates. Read on for more details.
Freak Show premieres Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 10 p.m. on FX.
We have new cast art that hints at what’s in store for the fourth season of American Horror Story: Freak Show. Kathy Bates as the bearded lady. Michael Chiklis as the strong man. A two-headed Sarah Paulson. Sword eaters and oh so much more. This is the first look at what co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have in store for the upcoming fourth season of the FX anthology series.
Season four of the FX anthology starts in Florida, circa 1952, and centers on a “troupe of curiosities” that arrives at the same time that a dark entity emerges, threatening the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike. From the official description: “This is the story of the performers and their desperate journey of survival amid the dying world of the American carny experience.”
Jessica Lange stars as Elsa Mars, a German expat managing one of the last remaining freak shows in the country. Emma Roberts is set as Maggie; Paulson is Bette and Dot Tattler; Bates is Effil Darling; Chiklis is Wendell Del Toredo; Angela Bassett is Desiree Dupree; and Evan Peters is Jimmy Darling. Frances Conroy and Gabourey Sidibe will also return to the cast, which includes newcomers Wes Bentley, Fargo’s John Carroll Lynch as the central villain and The Normal Heart’s Finn Wittrock as well as the world’s smallest living woman, Jyoti Amge. Patti LaBelle will also appear in a four-episode arc, with Matt Bomer set for a guest stint.
“It’s darker than Coven; it feels very unique,” says Murphy. “I directed the first one and I haven’t done that since the very first one of season one.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
