American Horror Story: Freak Show
| Season 4 of American Horror Story | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| title | Freak show | ||
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| Episodes | 13 | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| First broadcast | Oct 8, 2014 - Jan 21, 2015 on FX | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
Nov 26, 2014 - Mar 4 2015 on FOX | ||
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American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of American Horror - television series American Horror Story , based on an idea by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk based. The first broadcast took place between October 8, 2014 and January 21, 2015 on the TV channel FX . The German-language first broadcast ran from November 26, 2014 to March 4, 2015 on FOX .
The story of the season takes place in Jupiter in 1952 and tells the story of a circus run by Elsa Mars, whose staff were born with special characteristics and are now fighting for their survival.
Recurring cast members include Sarah Paulson , Evan Peters , Frances Conroy , Denis O'Hare , Emma Roberts , Angela Bassett , Kathy Bates , Jessica Lange , Grace Gummer , Gabourey Sidibe , Danny Huston , Jamie Brewer and Mare Winningham .
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The fourth season takes place in a freak show in the USA in 1952. The main location is the city of Jupiter in the state of Florida. Elsa Mars, the show's operator, is fighting with her “monsters” against the extinction of her trade. When the Siamese twins Bette and Dot Tattler are discovered, she senses her chance to bring the show back to success with the twins as the main attraction. When some murders happen in town, the freak show members are the prime suspects. The killer is a clown who also kidnapped some children. The spoiled dandy Mott takes the clown killer as a role model. In a flashback you learn something about the past of the clown "Twisty" and he finally dies. Elsa Mars tries to sell her show lucratively in order to gain a foothold in Hollywood, which she only partially succeeds in. In the end, the rich dandy Mott buys the show, who has already killed a few people, including his mother Gloria. After being exposed, Dandy instigates a massacre in which over half of the freak show is shot. He marries the two twins Bette and Dot, who have prepared an intrigue with the last freaks and let him drown. In addition to the horror elements and conflicts with one another, a large part of the plot revolves around the discrimination of the “freaks” by the public and the past of the main characters. Freak Show also has by far the fewest supernatural plot elements compared to the previous seasons of the series.
Musical anachronisms
In several episodes of the fourth season, members of the freak show perform music tracks that were only released years after the time of the plot. Ryan Murphy explained that with this anachronistic selection of music he wanted to introduce musicians to the season's environment, who themselves perform in an unusual way or as outsiders.
| episode | role | title | Original interpreter | Initial release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.01 | Elsa Mars | Life On Mars | David Bowie | 1971 |
| 4.02 | Dot Tattler | Criminal | Fiona Apple | 1997 |
| 4.03 | Elsa Mars | Gods & Monsters | Lana Del Rey | 2014 |
| 4.07 | Jimmy Darling | Come as you are | Nirvana | 1991 |
| 4.13 | Elsa Mars | Heroes | David Bowie | 1977 |
Cast and dubbing
main actor
| actor | role | Main role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Lange | Elsa Mars | 4.01-4.13 | Karin Buchholz |
| Sarah Paulson | Bette & Dot Tattler | 4.01-4.13 | Ulrike Stürzbecher |
| Frances Conroy | Gloria Mott | 4.01-4.09 | Katharina Lopinski |
| Finn Wittrock | Dandy Mott | 4.01-4.13 | Roman Wolko |
| Evan Peters | Jimmy Darling | 4.01-4.13 | Jan Rohrbach |
| Kathy Bates | Ethel Darling | 4.01-4.09, 4.12-4.13 | Regina Lemnitz |
| Michael Chiklis | Wendell "Dell" Toledo | 4.02-4.11 | Jörg Hengstler |
| Angela Bassett | Desiree Dupree | 4.02-4.13 | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Emma Roberts | Maggie Esmerelda | 4.03-4.12 | Gabrielle Pietermann |
| Denis O'Hare | Stanley | 4.03-4.12 | Udo Schenk |
supporting cast
| actor | role | Supporting role (episodes) |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skyler Samuels | Bonnie Lipton | 4.01-4.04 | Maria Hönig |
| Naomi Grossman | Pepper | 4.01-4.10 | Elke Appelt |
| John Carroll Lynch | Twisty the clown | 4.01-4.04, 4.13 | Werner Böhnke |
| Ben Woolf | Meep | 4.01-4.02, 4.13 | Marcel Collé |
| Mat Fraser | Paul "The Illustrated Seal" | 4.01-4.13 | Tobias Lelle |
| Amazon Eve | Eve | 4.01-4.13 | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Jyoti Amge | Mahadevi "Ma Petite" Patel | 4.01-4.13 | Julia Stoepel |
| Christopher Neiman | Salty | 4.01-4.10 | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Grace Gummer | penny | 4.01, 4.06-4.08, 4.12-4.13 | Julia Kaufmann |
| Patti LaBelle | Dora Brown | 4.02-4.05 | Joseline Gassen |
| Celia Weston | Lillian Hemmings | 4.03-4.12 | Isabella Grothe |
| Wes Bentley | Edward Mordrake | 4.03-4.04, 4.13 | Alexander Doering |
| Gabourey Sidibe | Regina Ross | 4.05, 4.08-4.09 | Maja Maneiro |
| Danny Huston | Massimo Dolcefino | 4.08, 4.12-4.13 | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Lily raven | Sister Mary Eunice | 4.10 | Cathlen Gawlich |
| Neil Patrick Harris | Chester Creb | 4.11-4.12 | Philipp Moog |
| John Cromwell | Dr. Arthur Arden / Hans Gruber | 4.12 |
- Notes (Season 4)
- ↑ Naomi Grossman embodied the role of Pepper in the second season.
Episodes
The first airing of the fourth season ( American Horror Story: Freak Show ) was from October 8, 2014 to January 21, 2015 on the US cable channel FX . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German pay-TV transmitter FOX November 26, 2014 to March 4, 2015.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script | Spectator (USA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 1 | Monsters in our midst | Monsters Among Us | Oct 8, 2014 | Nov 26, 2014 | Ryan Murphy | Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk | 6.13 million |
| 40 | 2 | Massacres and matinees | Massacres and Matinees | Oct 15, 2014 | 3 Dec 2014 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Tim Minear | 4.53 million |
| 41 | 3 | Edward Mordrake - Part 1 | Edward Mordrake (1) | Oct 22, 2014 | Dec 10, 2014 | Michael Uppendahl | James Wong | 4.44 million |
| 42 | 4th | Edward Mordrake - Part 2 | Edward Mordrake (2) | Oct 29, 2014 | Dec 17, 2014 | Howard Deutch | Jennifer Salt | 4.51 million |
| 43 | 5 | Pink cupcakes | Pink cupcakes | Nov 5, 2014 | Jan. 7, 2015 | Michael Uppendahl | Jessica Sharzer | 4.22 million |
| 44 | 6th | Direct hit | Bullseye | Nov 12, 2014 | Jan. 14, 2015 | Howard Deutch | John J. Gray | 3.65 million |
| 45 | 7th | strength measurement | Test of Strength | Nov 19, 2014 | Jan. 21, 2015 | Anthony Hemingway | Crystal Liu | 3.91 million |
| 46 | 8th | Bloodbath | Blood Bath | 3 Dec 2014 | Jan. 28, 2015 | Bradley Buecker | Ryan Murphy | 3.30 million |
| 47 | 9 | The Tupperware Party Massacre | Tupperware Party Massacre | Dec 10, 2014 | Feb. 4, 2015 | Loni Peristere | Brad Falchuk | 3.07 million |
| 48 | 10 | Orphans | Orphans | Dec 17, 2014 | Feb 11, 2015 | Bradley Buecker | James Wong | 2.99 million |
| 49 | 11 | abracadabra | Magical Thinking | Jan. 7, 2015 | Feb. 18, 2015 | Michael Goi | Jennifer Salt | 3.11 million |
| 50 | 12 | The audience hit | Show stoppers | Jan. 14, 2015 | Feb 25, 2015 | Loni Peristere | Jessica Sharzer | 2.94 million |
| 51 | 13 | The last curtain | Curtain call | Jan. 21, 2015 | 4th Mar 2015 | Bradley Buecker | John J. Gray | 3.27 million |
Web links
- Season 4 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Here's The Story Behind That 'Life On Mars' Performance On 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' mtv.com, October 9, 2014, accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ a b American Horror Story. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Ryan Murphy, 'American Horror Story': Season 4 Title Revealed . In: Twitter.com . March 24, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Season 4 . In: Zap2it.com . Retrieved September 7, 2014.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Season 4 . In: Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ↑ American Horror Story: Freak Show Ratings . In: TVSeriesFinale.com . January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2015.