{"id":37608,"date":"2024-11-11T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37608"},"modified":"2024-11-10T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T23:28:38","slug":"grotesquerie-season-1-2024-starring-niecy-nash-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37608","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Grotesquerie&#8221;: Season 1\u00a0(2024) starring Niecy Nash \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z111124zview_grotesquerie_s1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Grotesquerie: Season 1<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n<p>Created by: <strong>Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Max Winkler<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Eps. 1-2; 5-7); <strong>Ryan Murphy<\/strong> (Ep. 3); <strong>Alexis Martin Woodall <\/strong>\u00a0(Eps. 4; 9-10;); <strong>Elegance Bratton<\/strong> (Ep. 8)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay: <strong>Ryan Murphy <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Jon Robin Baitz <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Joe Baken <\/strong>(Eps. 1-10)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Niecy Nash, Courtney B. Vance, Nicholas Alexander Chavez<\/strong><strong>, Micaela Diamond, Raven Goodwin, Lesley Manville, Joshua Bitton, Jay Alan Christianson <\/strong>and<strong> Brooke Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A serial killer is murdering multiple people at a time.\u00a0 The killer then poses the bodies into elaborate scenes.\u00a0 Detective Lois Tryon (Nash) is assigned the case.\u00a0 Lois&#8217; plate is already full.\u00a0 She&#8217;s drinking too much.\u00a0 Her husband remains hospitalized in a coma.\u00a0 Lois and her daughter&#8217;s relationship is strained and not getting better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the killer strikes again, Lois is introduced to Sister Megan Duval (Diamond).\u00a0 Sister Megan sees religious symbolism that the killer leaves behind.\u00a0 Her insights into the case are helpful.\u00a0 Lois brings Sister Megan on board.<\/p>\n<p>As Lois works the case she begins to sense that something isn&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p>And, boy, is she correct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Grotesquerie: Season 1\u00a0<\/em>starts off well enough.\u00a0 A brutal serial killer that murders multiple victims each time out.\u00a0 A detective who drinks too much and has family problems.\u00a0 An unconventional nun who may provide the key to the investigation.\u00a0 This is a great combination for a fun\/creepy\/scary tale.\u00a0 The actors are excellent.\u00a0 The direction is as well done.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; (You could feel that coming, couldn&#8217;t ya?)<\/p>\n<p>As the series progresses we get the feeling that something is off kilter.\u00a0 Then so does Detective Lois Tryon.\u00a0 We are both proved right.\u00a0 Ok, things to a turn but this can work as long as the writers stick the ending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They don&#8217;t.\u00a0 The ending didn&#8217;t resonate with me.\u00a0 While this ending could lead into a season two (that we may or may not get), it leaves me dissatisfied.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I took the journey, but the trip was more fun than the destination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Grotesquerie: Season 1<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2024) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z111124zview_grotesquerie_s1b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grotesquerie: Season 1\u00a0(2024) Created by: Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken Director: Max Winkler\u00a0(Eps. 1-2; 5-7); Ryan Murphy (Ep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37619,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions\/37619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}