'[It] is a commentary on social reality television,' says co-creator Ryan Murphy of the game-changing twist in episode 6.
- Oct 20, 2016
AceShowbiz - The huge twist on "American Horror Story: Roanoke" that had been teased since a few weeks ago has finally been revealed in "Chapter 6". In the October 19 episode, [SPOILER ALERT!] "My Roanoke Nightmare" producer Sidney (Cheyenne Jackson) pitched a reality show where the actors and real players of the documentary would be living together in the haunted house for three days.
In the said outing we saw Agnes (Kathy Bates), who played the Butcher, had a massive breakdown and thought that she was actually the Butcher. Shelby (Lily Rabe) and Matt's (Andre Holland) marriage was on the rocks and she had an affair with Dominic Banks (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who played Matt. Audrey (Sarah Paulson) is married to Rory (Evan Peters), who played Phillipe Mott.
The group used camera on their deactivated phones to record their activities in the house and they began to realize that what happened on "My Roanoke Nightmare" was real. A title card informed us that every single of them, except one person, died and the show never aired.
As seen in a preview for the next episode that will air Wednesday, October 26 at 10 P.M. on FX, they are scared by strange things happening around them. Sidney, meanwhile, is excited after watching the footage as he believes that the follow-up show, "Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell", will become a huge success.
Speaking of the newly unveiled twist, co-creator Ryan Murphy tells E! News, "We are giving you stakes" after they all survived in the first half of the season. He adds, "What I love now is everybody's in the house and they all think it's fun and games, and then we are told that every single one of them dies except one person."
"So the next four episodes, we are figuring out, OK, who's the one person who's going to make it out alive? And what are they going to do to do payback against a network that put them all in a situation where they all are going to be killed? So it kind of was and is a commentary on social reality television because I do feel like that is the next level where something really bad is, somebody's going to die for the sake of real TV."
Murphy says that Matt, Shelby and Lee, whose experiences on the haunted house were reenacted on the documentary, cannot be trusted. "You cannot trust them. I think all three of them are...What they said and what they explained in their version of events is not actually the truth," he dishes.
On what to expect for the rest of the season, Murphy teases, "It's a very energizing twist and subsequent episodes are even more intense and even more harrowing. ... Who's going to be the last one standing. And then what's going to happen to that person. So that's what the rest of the season is."
