New season of “American Horror Story” thrills

Don’t read it if haven’t seen the episode.

By American Horror Story standards, My Roanoke Nightmare’s third episode is still holding back. And thanks to master of secrets himself, Ryan Murphy, we know when it’s coming: Episode 6. Though a bit ridiculous for the most part, the structure is already starting to unravel.

The episode kicked off immediately after the disappearance of Flora. Matt’s security footage captures her returning to the house four hours later, which wouldn’t be a big deal were it not for the phone call Matt gets from the cops: They found Mason’s body in the woods, burnt to a crisp and hung up inside that same straw-man sacrificial circle the teens have been doing everywhere. Matt had no memory of this but Shelby refused to believe him and called the cops on Lee. It is here they discover two feral kids covered in dirt, drinking milk from a pig. It remains to be seen what Cricket’s role will be in the docuseries; in the meantime, we’re obsessed with the urgent mystery of his astronomically bad haircut.

When the poor traumatised pig-suckling children are at the police station, Matt notes that the only word they seem to know is “Croatoan“, which they yell again and again.

The first episode had some clear parallels to Season 1-an attractive couple buys a haunted, murdery house and soon learns to regret it.

The search for Flora lead the dramatic reenactors through a trail of horrifying and seemingly demonic symbols – body parts of Flora’s doll recreated with the bloody dismembered limbs of a pig – and to an old house riddled with animal skulls and other remains. It’s unclear whether or not these are supposed to be related characters, or possibly parallel characters from different universes.

The task at hand is to find Flora. Cue my collective shock and awe, but then my delight at the arrival of Cricket, a psychic Andy Warhol-looking southerner whose specialty is finding missing children. According to him, a young colonial girl (from another colony) named Priscilla likely led the girl away. With this, Lee is convinced, and ponies up the cash in order to find Flora by whatever means necessary. Yikes! We can’t imagine who else would have motive to do such a thing, after all Lee was fast asleep, right? Nevertheless, for many fans, the voice resembled that of Cheyenne Jackson and it could be related to the huge twist announced for season 6 of American Horror Story! The twice-removed docu-format has sort of robbed the show of more than a few horror elements. She was left to die in the woods, only to be saved by Lady Gaga, who demanded Thomasyn’s soul in exchange for her help. White found her betrayers and butchered them with a meat cleaver – hence her nickname, the Butcher. Flora is nowhere to be found, and what they do find isn’t promising.

So, as the episode ends, Lee is out $25,000, doesn’t have her daughter and is headed to jail. Therefore, that is the weirdest that she has ever done in the show. While the ghostly settlers want everyone off their land, the other characters just want to get Flora back. As expected, they come across the Butcher and Ambrose instead, but Cricket manages to convince the spirit to help them get Flora back under the condition that they leave afterward. Shelby accuses her husband of trying to gaslight her. It turns out that Matt’s literally possessed by the spirit of Gaga and is engaging in some NSA forest coitus with her character as the hillbillies watch.

Shelby and Matt also find a home video of the previous owner of the house. Matt is seen, revealing that he couldn’t recall anything. Falchuk continued, “No matter what you think it is, it’s not that”. Do you hope the docudrama structure continues?