American Horror Story: Cult Episode 5 Recap
Wow, American Horror Story Had Too Many F*cked-Up Moments to Count This Week
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Are you OK? Is everyone OK? We know the answer is probably no, because this week's episode of American Horror Story really did a number. In what must be one of the most f*cked-up episodes to date, we meet a "gimp" who's hanging on some hooks in an attic, watch a centipede crawl out of Ally's neck, and watch the group of clowns plunge a bunch of nails into a poor guy's head. And that's just the tip of the emotionally scarring iceberg. Quite frankly, it all makes Emma Roberts's brutal on-air stabbing look like child's play. If you can bear it, let's all rehash the most disturbing moments from this week's episode together. Maybe we can process it as a group and get some closure.
1 When the Term "Fake News" Gets Tossed Around
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2 When Kai Abruptly Slaps That One Guy in His Cult
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3 When Kai Says, "The Perception of Credibility Leads to the Perception of Power"
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4 When Ivy Reveals Herself as a Member of the Cult
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5 When Ally Looks in the Mirror and Starts Scratching at Her Neck
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6 When a Centipede Crawls Out of Her Neck and Back Into Her Neck
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7 When Ally Gives Ivy a Sex Toy
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8 When Ivy Says, "I Hate This Country and What It's Become"
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9 And Then She Says, "I Hate My F*cking Wife For Letting It Happen"
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10 When They Show That News Anchor and He's Wearing Latex Gloves and Sucking His Fingers
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11 And Then He Says, "There's a Gimp in the Attic!"
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12 And Then They Go up to the Attic
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13 When You See the Gimp and It's a Guy in a Leather Mask and a Diaper
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14 When You Realize He's Hanging by Hooks That Are Stuck in His Skin
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15 And Then Kai Kills the Gimp and Then Everyone Brutally Murders the News Anchor
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16 When You Realize Meadow Is Not Dead but Is at the Bottom of a Hole in Her Own Yard
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17 When Meadow Bangs on Ally's Window and Is Like, "Your Wife's in the Cult!"
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18 When Kai's Like, "Come on — We're Going to Take Care of a Problem"
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19 When Kai Brings Out the Nail Gun
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20 When He Tells Ivy to Put a Nail in the Camera Guy's Head
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21 AND THEN IVY ACTUALLY DOES IT
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22 And Then EVERYONE Puts a Nail in His Head
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23 When Beverly Makes Kai Share His Backstory, and He's Like, "My Parents Are Dead"
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24 When We Watch His Mom Blow Her Brains Out
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25 When We Realize Kai's Older Brother Is Actually Dr. Vincent
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26 And Then Dr. Vincent Is the One Who Decides to Lock the Bodies in the Bedroom
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27 And Then We See the Rotting Corpses Like 100 Times
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