Holy crazy!!! A lot a lot a lot happened in tonight’s episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show “Magical Thinking”. We were introduced to a new character tonight and another murder took place at the freak show, so let’s discuss!

Jimmy’s Hand Situation: The episode begins with Mr. Spencer visiting Jimmy in jail. He reveals to Jimmy that the plan to get the moolah to get a good lawyer is for Jimmy’s left hand to be cut off and sold. Reluctantly, Jimmy agrees and Spencer hands him a vial of a vomit inducer which he instructs him to take. Jimmy is instantly sick and Spencer calls for him to be taken to a hospital at once. Sweet Jimmy Darling awakens in the hospital to find that both of his hands are gone, because Mr. Spencer is a SLIME BALL. While Jimmy is recouping in the hospital, he gets a visit from daddy dearest Del Toledo, where a sensitive moment is shared between the two of them. Jimmy’s plate of hospital food was sitting uneaten on the table, and Del ends up feeding his son saying “I’m almost fifty years old and I’m feeding my son for the first time.” It was extremely touching. After this visit, Del returns to the freak show to tell Elsa the news about Jimmy’s hands, she immediately tells him that he has to get Jimmy before he’s taken back to jail. Amazon Eve follows after Del asking him if he remembers his bullshit about making a “Strong Man/Strong Woman” act the night he tried to kill her. Eve says that she wants to put this act to the test to help Jimmy. That night when Jimmy is being transported to jail, we see Eve standing in the middle of the street right as the police car nears and breaks the windshield with a sledge hammer. Between Del and Eve, the cops are taken care of, and Jimmy lives to see another day outside of the jail.

New Character Alert!!!! Chester (Neil Patrick Harris): In tonight’s episode we meet Chester, a smooth talking lizard salesman from Georgia. Peddling lizards isn’t exactly his dream job though, because he wants to be a professional magician. Elsa is unimpressed by his magic tricks and ventriloquism act with dummy Marjory. It’s only when Chester mentions the money he’s made from selling lizards and the records he’s kept of it that makes Miss Elsa take notice. She hires him to help with the book keeping and gives him permission to warm up the crowd with his magic tricks. Chester could not be more thrilled. With this exciting news, he visits the twins Bette and Dotte in their tent to thank them for putting in a good word to Elsa. He also makes them an offer to be his assistants on stage during his magic act. He calls the girls beautiful and of course this makes them swoon, he’s a handsome guy! The girls happily accept the offer and the lusty feelings they have towards him. So far so good, right? Chester sounds normal enough? Well let’s talk about his beloved dummy Marjory for a moment and maybe that will change your mind. While interacting with the twins, Chester envisions their heads turn into two completely different women. We then see a flashback of him watching some girl on girl action (these are the ladies who Bette and Dotte’s heads turned into) with Marjory the dummy in his hands. Through out the episode Chester talks manically to Marjory, and during one of these moments, Bette and Dotte happen to walk into his tent. They decided that Chester would be the perfect guy to lose their virginity to and would like to make the sexy time happen ASAP. While they share kisses, Chester becomes extremely agitated and you can hear his ears ringing. The girls try to relax him to no avail. Then Chester gets Marjory from the stool she was seated on, saying that she helps him relax. So during the twins’ deflowering, Marjory the dummy is present. While having sexy time with the twins another flashback occurs to the girl on girl action with him and Marjory watching. You’ll learn about these mystery women and some more crazy Marjory tales when we talk about what Dandy boy is up to in this episode!

PS: CHESTER IS THE NEW OWNER OF THE FREAK SHOW! SURPRISE!!!!!! Elsa decides that Chester is the perfect one to run the show after she heads off to Hollywood. While they discuss the deal in Elsa’s tent, Chester asks if she’ll be taking all of her furniture with her. “It’s a bit feminine for you, no?” She asks. Chester then tells her that he’d like the tent to be for Marjory his BFF….to each their own???

Dandy Plays Detective: If you recall from a few episodes ago, Dandy now has a cop working for him that he’s paying handsomely. The cop acted as a spy during a freak show performance, and took note of the flirtatious magic act between Chester and the twins. This upset Dandy deeply, “they were supposed to be mine!” he cried. The cop does some snooping around and gives Dandy the back story on Chester’s crazy antics. We learn that the two ladies that Chester was envisioning was his wife and her lover. The husband of the lover and himself went off to war, and the two ladies fell in love with each other. Chester came home from serving to come home to two women. After a verbal tussle with his wife’s lover, the Marjory dummy comes to life, asking Chester if he’s going to let her talk to them like that. He then retreats from the argument to look for his doll only to find her not in the case. The lover claims that she hid her for his own good. That night, the two women are murdered from maniacal stabbing which Chester blamed on Marjory. When Dandy learns all of this new found info he grins, “what a sicko!!” #bestlineEVER Dandy shows up at the freak show when Chester is in a full blown panic because his Marjory doll is missing, similarly to when the lover took her. Dandy tells Chester that Marjory told him that she ran away because of what he did to the twins. He then tips him off to look for Marjory in the performance tent. We see the Marjory doll in human form sitting on a chair onstage. She tells Chester that he has to get rid of the people who are keeping them apart. Marjory then tells her owner that she’s not going to do the dirty work this time, and that he has to saw the twins in half.

Del Toledo’s Death: At the end of the episode, Maggie tells Elsa that she needs to show her something urgent. She takes Elsa into Del and Desiree’s tent so they can listen in on the conversation that they’re having. When Del enters the tent, Desi is pointing a gun at him. She questions who he’s killed since he arrived at the freak show, and Del swears it was only the cops he killed for Jimmy’s sake. She continues to interrogate him and finally he cracks. “Who did you kill Del?” “I killed Ma Petite.” “And how did you do it?” “…..I smothered her.” And with that, Elsa storms in and shoots Del square in the head. #RIP

So there you have it, episode eleven in a nut shell! How did you feel about Neil Patrick Harris’ phenomenal American Horror Story debut? Is Marjory only in Chester’s head or could she somehow be real? With AHS, anything can happen! I’d love to hear your opinions, questions, comments, or concerns on tonight’s riveting episode, so leave me a comment and let’s chat! Goodnight! -Sarah