The debunking of conspiracies in NYC is the most impressive and equally shocking coming from Murphy. Real-life crimes have haunted LA-based seasons, and even currently relevant conspiracy theories have been used as a host for the supernatural parasite to make a home. This isn’t the first time American Horror Story has seasoned its horror with actual incidents. Lying in the casket in a room full of loved ones and admirers, Gino’s fight has ended, but there’s still Adam.Īmerican Horror Story: NYC (Season 11): Review But as death will come for everyone, it comes for Gino too. Not even trying to hide the new lesions on him, Gino walks through the devastated streets of the contaminated city. In the last montage, Big Daddy represents AIDS, brutalizing everyone around Gino. This grim reaper haunts every character with a close brush with death or straight-up death. Even in Adam’s imagination of how he has gotten the disease, the person he got intimate with takes the form of Big Daddy.Īlthough never directly answered in the show, Big Daddy seems to be an angel of death and the phantom-like manifestation of AIDS. He wrecks the bar patrons and shoots up his coworkers at The Native’s office. In an entire sequence throbbing at the beat of Kraftwerk, the leather-masked death bringer destroys everything around Gino. On his way to move on, manic with his desperation, Gino visits bars and pubs but is never without the image of Big Daddy hanging over him. Even with his cancer worsening, Gino becomes an active part of the protest against the indifference shown for a community that is dropping dead like flies. ![]() But it isn’t like Gino to do anything in the face of the extreme. The entire city is now faced with a very real disease that’s here to stay. In a ghostly montage, he sees Big Daddy digging a grave and an endless line of men dropping dead into the grave. Gino sits at Patrick’s funeral with a bottle of AZT in his pocket. He is back in the hospital bed, now losing his battle with AIDS and being carried into the afterlife with the angelic Kathy singing “calling you.”Īmerican Horror Story: NYC (Season 11) Episodes 9 and 10: Ending Explained Who is Big Daddy? What remained of him was a botched-up, sewn-up soul that carried on, causing the pain that had started before him. Barbara reminds him of the countless times he has been shattered and has put himself back together. The diseased ex-cop finds himself in the Mai Tai killer’s murder room, and Patrick is, in a way, the Frankensteinian sentinel. He is brought back to the wholesome moment of meeting Gino for the first time and yanked back to the time he kisses a male coworker in a vulnerable moment and throws him under the bus to protect his reputation. It is now Patrick’s turn to walk through his purgatory. When alone, blind Patrick is visited by the apparition of his dead wife, Barbara, in a wedding dress. Gino is enraged by the lack of care and treatment Patrick receives in the hospital. The virus has taken his eyes and strength, and most importantly, there is no cure. Jump to 1987, the disease has a name it is, no shock to anyone, AIDS, and now Patrick is in the same hospital suffering from the very deadly HIV. Henry scatters Sam’s lonesome ashes into the sea. ![]() Removing the giant phantom’s mask, Sam finds a beautiful blonde, whom he kisses and gets accepted into the arm of death softly. ![]() Playing referee between death and Sam, Henry convinces Sam to stop and take a look at Big Daddy. He still has some running to do, and now he’s on the Fire Island beach running away from Big Daddy while the gorgeous deer-men, who now Theo is a part of, keep watch. You would think his purgatory would end here. In a flashback, Sam’s rough childhood outing with his bully father ends with his eardrum getting burst and bleeding when his dad shoots a gun too close to the “limp-wrist” kid’s head. Leather dom Big Daddy mercilessly whips Sam’s father, and his first homophobic boss’ nipples see a far worse outcome. What looks like death but isn’t wake Sam up encaged in endless darkness, and who do we have here? It’s Henry in a cop outfit, ready to force Sam into facing his trauma. The stroll ends in Sam’s very room, with his out-of-body miserable consciousness seeing himself struggle in the helpless hospital bed without any loved ones. “A Christmas Carol” -ish apparition Theo strings Sam along in his morbid purgatory and gives him a look at the pain he has caused. Waking up in a gloomy, blurry hospital, Sam is met with scrubbed Billy and Theo, who are medical professionals in his feverish, hardly conscious state. Sam is surprisingly present in the mourn-gathering and not so surprisingly collapses from the same disease that took the avant-garde photographer. CR: Pari Dukovic/FXĪ group of tuxed men flocks to say their goodbyes to Theo. American Horror Story: NYC (Season 11): Episodes 9 and 10: Recap AHS: NYC – Pictured: Russell Tovey as Patrick.
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