For some reason, Thomas thinks eating it might be a good idea, so the pastor does so, and tells Thomas to make Edward eat it. Pastor Walter and Thomas go to Rachel’s body and take her heart out. Now they are not scientists or that bright, but it’s almost as if no thought went into their actions at all.
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This whole point is moot and stupid though, they all know the town is built on shallow groundwater-water that is full of sodium. The only reasoning the other town gives for this is that they dug up the bodies, for some reason, and they were barely decomposed. Sure, it doesn’t seem far-fetched that in a world where the Salem Witch Trials weren’t too long ago that people would think the dead rise at night, so then why not set up guards outside of the cemetery? If God tells you this is happening, wouldn’t you want to see it for yourself? It seems like a slap in the face to American Horror Story/-ies fans that this is the crap they think is groundbreaking and worthy of our time. Thomas says he heard a town over had taken control of their smallpox problem by removing and burning the hearts of the recently deceased, because, oh boy, God told them at night the dead rise from the ground to infect the living with smallpox. Thomas quickly changes the subject, for a reason we’ll find out later, and is incredibly stupid, to something that could possibly help the town. Later in the day Thomas and Pastor Walter have a sit-down, where the pastor tells Thomas he doesn’t like how he intervened in his idea to hang Celeste. Thomas tells everyone to settle down-this is his wife’s funeral, after all. It’s hard to tell whether the bone break is practical or not because the shot feels like less than a frame, but it’s one of the last actual solid moments of the episode. They throw Celeste out of the church, breaking her forearm clean in half. Pastor Walter says Celeste must be hanged, and the congregation quickly turns on her. Celeste claims the pastor is ushering in a new era of death, which will be proved right sooner than the congregation would realize. The next day we arrive at the funeral for Rachel, when Celeste breaks into the funeral.
There are so many opportunities to use goop and pustules for some rad body horror, but this is less of a horror story and more a moral tale of listening to women (which is fine, but with a lack of good horror the message really falls flat). This is really the only bit of gross horror we get, which is unfortunate. Pastor Walter ends up taking Celeste up on her offer, as she inserts two pus-covered fingers into his mouth. This had a modicum of success, but would soon take the backseat to what we now know of inoculations.
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How inoculations, or as they were actually called variolations, worked back then was to take scabs from people who had smallpox, crush it up into a powder, give a few minor cuts to the skin of the patient, and rub the smallpox scab mélange onto the open wounds. While Celeste uses her pustules to *bleh* feed people her pus, it just so happens the people who feed on her don’t get sick. Now we know inoculation works best through shots and vaccines, but back then it was quite different. The word ‘inoculation’ in this episode isn’t exactly the way we understand it today. This whole idea is super interesting and was more historically accurate (to an extent) than I realized. Celeste tries to calm him down by telling him she is not contagious, rather, she is a healer. Understandably, the Pastor is taken aback by this information, as smallpox is going around like wildfire. After paying for sex, he sees boils on Celeste’s chest. We quickly cut over to Celeste (Julia Schlaepfer), who is a sex worker, when Pastor Walter (Seth Gabel) pays her a visit. We start with the grim knowledge of the death of Rachel Browne, the wife of Thomas Browne (Cody Fern) and the mother of Edward (Ian Sharkey). Taking a break from modern times, Episode 4 takes a set back into 1757’s New England. Sure, you can argue the situations are horrific, and I would not want to be put in them, it just felt like they had the message and crafted a sloppy script around it. On top of the lackluster script and acting, there’s little to no actual horror in this episode. There is nothing wrong with creating a story that is steeped with commentary, but they just got it so wrong here. American Horror Stories Episode 4 “Milkmaids” does what American Horror Story does best: creating interesting ideas and doing nothing with them.
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