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American Horror Story is brought to you by Glee creators Murphy and Falchuck. This has never been more apparent than in Episode 10, The Name Game. Tonight’s ep brought us some swingin’ 60’s music, along with departures, returns, an a few chuckle-worthy nods to classic horror. We heard a knock-knock joke, played the Name Game, and saw Jessica Lange don the cutest dress in the history of television. I WANT that dress!

The episode begins with Kit waking up on Arden’s table to the news that the experiment failed. According to the esteemed Nazi doctor, the aliens didn’t come; and Kit risked death for nothing. In reality though, Grace is back and ready to pop. Pepper is taking care of her with amazing competence. When Arden moves to X-ray Grace, Pepper lays it out. She tells Arden that he’s not in charge; he’s fumbling in the dark like a fool. And if he messes with Grace, he’ll be super lobotomized and see what it’s like to be a vulnerable freak. Pepper rocked it!

“Why don’t you go to your whore nun and have her soothe your deflated ego?”

Monsignor Tim just hasn’t been himself since being crucified by Santa Claus. Go figure. Tim is weak and tired. When he called for death, the Dark Cousin told him no. He has work to do. She assured him that God would help him in releasing the devil from Sister Mary Eunice. Speaking of our favorite possessed nun, Mary Eunice has scored a jukebox for the common room. The patients are bummed that it doesn’t also dispense cigarettes, many of them are happy to have some new music. Mary Eunice seems to be causing havoc just for fun this week. Her newest hire illustrates this pretty well.

Oliver Thredson has been hired back at the hospital full-time. It doesn’t seem like Bloodyface should be able to just come back to work after all that’s happened. But looking around the asylum—there’s no one in power there who would stop him. For whatever reason, the guards, orderlies, and other nuns are either deaf and blind, or have no moral compass whatsoever. None of them seem to notice or mind the cruelty, the changing of allegiances, or the terrible bedside manners at Briarcliff. Thredson is back to find the recording that proves his guilt. He also wants to make sure Lana carries his child to term, and that she breast feeds for at least the first year. La Leche League be praised!

We viewers had to endure another horrifying scene depicting more electroshock therapy. Even if we know Jude “deserved” it (sort of like Carter Burke in Aliens) it’s still a ghastly thing to see someone go through. Afterward, Jude’s brain was so fried that she didn’t know her own name. And then—the song. The internets already seem sharply divided on whether or not the dancin’ dream sequence was a travesty. I vote no. I dug the hell out of it. I found it a wonderful interpretation of what happens when an addled brain (yes, I’m using that term ironically) creates its own reality. When the sequence begins, Lana and Kit are standoffish. By the end, they’re smiling and dancing like they’re—well, like they’re on Glee. We’ve barely seen either of them smile all season, so that was fun. Plus, c’mon, that’s a great novelty song.

American Horror Story has never shied away from the subject of rape. Tonight was no exception. To put it delicately, Monsignor Tim loses control over the body he gave to his god when he was a young man. Not unexpectedly, he is left with profound shame and a crushing sense of loss. He’s broken, devastated. Yet, his resolve to release Sister Mary Eunice remains.

Arden witnesses Mary Eunice’s rape of the Monsignor. He now knows that she is beyond redemption. Already disheartened by Pepper, Arden lures his deformed subjects out of the woods and kills them. Pow! Pow! Pow! He declares that his experiments are over, and pleads Mary Eunice to take pity on him. She doesn’t. Arden considers suicide, but can’t follow through—another character broken in the wake of Mary Eunice.

“You have no idea what it means to have lost you.”

The Monsignor is remorseful for his treatment of Jude. He admits that trusting Mary Eunice was an epic fail. He confesses his shames and failings to Jude, and asks her for guidance. Jude comes out of her haze just long enough to advise Tim to murder Mary Eunice. I’ve felt that Joseph Fiennes was underutilized for much of the season. It’s great to see that is no longer the case. I’m loving his understated performance and the subtlety with which he portrays the Monsignor’s anguish.

Pepper helps Grace deliver Kit’s baby without incident. Thredson immediately uses the child to leverage Kit into telling him where the incriminating recording is. Kit tells, having no idea that Lana was sent to the hydrotherapy room earlier and has since hidden the tape. Kit is delighted to see Grace, and to have a child. Enjoy it, Kit. It won’t last. Thredson is outraged at his own impotence–he doesn’t have the tape, and he can’t injure Lana. Victorious, Lana goes so far as to spoil the ending of a Dick, Jane, and Dog book. (Spoiler Alert: Dog jumps.)

We see the real Sister Mary Eunice one last time. She’s been fighting, but is tired and ready to stop. The Monsignor hurls her over the railing and watches her plummet to her death. It seems as if The Devil had plenty of time to jump into someone else. But the Dark Cousin kissed Mary Eunice, and essentially said she was smoochin’ for two. Surely the head honcho of hell can’t be banished. Did it go into someone else? Is it really gone? Oooh, maybe it’s in that baby.

Jude gets a visit from the Mother Superior, where she babbles about things that happened in earlier episodes. Ravish Me Red, anyone? In a lucid moment, Jude shows Mother Superior who Lana is, and implores her to help her get out of Briarcliff. It’s clear that Jude is confused, but the Mother looks to believe at least that part. Maybe Lana will be able to get that tape to the police after all. We do know that the truth comes out eventually—if only because future Son of Bloodyface knows that Thredson is his father. We also know that Lana is goddamn plucky—maybe even plucky enough to have a life after Briarcliff.

Monsignor Tim says that Cremation is a pagan practice that denounces the idea of resurrection. Yes. Pagans were afraid of zombies. This is probably why Arden decided to kill himself with an homage to Return of the Living Dead. Burned alive has got to be one of the most painful methods of suicide—he’d have been better off shooting himself like he shot his remaining subjects. James Cromwell and Lily Rabe have been beyond exceptional this season. I thank them both for the incredible performances.

This was another great episode. It had a good beat; I could dance to it.

See you’s next week!

–Wednes