在一个弥漫着不祥气息的夜晚,约翰(彼得·穆尼 Peter Mooney 饰)和莎拉(泰勒·席林 Taylor Schilling 饰)迎来了家庭的新成员,与此同时在世界的另一个角落,某个冷血杀人狂遭受警方枪击,倒在血泊之中。此后不久,莎拉发现她这个有着异色瞳的儿子迈尔斯具有远超出同龄人的智慧,她为此兴奋不已,一门心思以天才的方式培养儿子。可是随着儿子年龄的长大,种种异相接二连三在迈尔斯的身上发生。他会在梦中用匈牙利语咒骂他人,会以残酷凶狠的手段殴打同学,他眼神中透露出来的冷酷凶残令约翰、莎拉夫妇站立不安。 从他人口中得知,迈尔斯体内有可能住着另一个人的灵魂,而那个灵魂以残杀嗜血为乐……
Ryan Murphy dropped a teaser for a new series titled Grotesquerie in an Instagram post (see it below) on Friday. According to the post, it will star Niecy Nash-Betts — who has worked with Murphy several times before and is coming off an Emmy win for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville and is set to premiere in the fall.
The teaser features Nash-Betts’ voice, sounding very disturbed about a crime scene: “I don’t know when it started. I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s different now. There’s been a shift. It’s like something’s opening up in the world — a kind of hole to the center of nothingness. What I saw today — they sent shrinks for everyone who worked this crime scene. You think, ‘Well hon, evil has always existed,’ and cite some statistic about how the world’s getting better, less murder, more help, less global horror, never been a better time to be alive, honey.”
Her voice cracking, Nash-Betts (or rather, her character) concludes by saying, “Come back. It’s not getting better. And I keep needing to hear your answers, because something’s happening around us, and nobody sees but me.”