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American Horror Story
Orphans
Directed by
Bradley Buecker
TV-MA
S4 • E10
Dec 16, 2014
53m
8.7
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The death of a Freak sparks troubling behavior in Pepper. Elsa reveals the history of the Freak Show. Desiree grows suspicious of Maggie.
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Cast of Orphans
Sarah Paulson
Bette Tattler / Dot Tattler
Evan Peters
Jimmy Darling
Michael Chiklis
Dell Toledo
Frances Conroy
Gloria Mott
Denis O'Hare
Stanley
Emma Roberts
Maggie Esmerelda
Finn Wittrock
Dandy Mott
Angela Bassett
Desiree Dupree
Kathy Bates
Ethel Darling
Jessica Lange
Elsa Mars
Andrew Duplessie
Troy Miller
Lily Rabe
Sister Mary Eunice McKee
Mare Winningham
Rita Gayheart
Naomi Grossman
Pepper
Celia Weston
Lillian Hemmings
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Angus T. Jefferson
Jyoti Amge
Ma Petite
Christopher Neiman
Salty
Matthew Glave
Larry
Rose Siggins
Suzi
Robert Walker Branchaud
Erickson
Mat Fraser
Paul
Bradley Buecker
Director
James Wong
Writer
Alexis Martin Woodall
Producer
Robert M. Williams Jr.
Producer
Orphans Ratings & Reviews
The NitPic
Angela L. Harmon
I'm afraid we've gone one step forward, two huge steps back. Or three, or more, honestly. It's hard to say.
Baltimore Sun
Lacy Baugher
It's the best episode of the season so far. By a lot.
Screen Rant
Kevin Yeoman
With "Orphans", as it sometimes has in the past, American Horror Story zeroes in on the rarely seen sincere side of its characters, and the results are oddly affecting.
IGN Movies
Matt Fowler
The Pepper stuff didn't add anything to the main carny chaos. It just made the episode a bit better than it would have been.
Entertainment Weekly
Keertana Sastry
Sadly, there wasn't as much death as there was a lot of talk in Freak Show's fall finale, but there was enough intriguing bits to make us impatient for new episodes in 2015.
AV Club
Emily L. Stephens
In a show known for its spectacle and excess at the cost of emotional realism, Grossman's almost wordless performance strikes a ringing note of feeling.
Washington Post
Lauren McEwen
Freak Show really ramped up the bloodshed in the previous episodes but things slowed down a bit in the winter finale, "Orphans," which upped the emotional stakes for the last bit of the season by revealing several characters' backstories.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Brian Moylan
Anyway, this season doesn't seem to be jelling into some greater whole, so I'll just enjoy these fun stories when we get them.
Paste Magazine
Ross Bonaime
"Orphans" presents the strongest profile of a character that I can remember on the show and the result is a touching, beautiful look at one of AHS's side characters-one who is so much more than we thought.
TV.com
Price Peterson
Yes this season has been a southern-fried soap at heart, but whenever AHS sprinkles these moments of sheer humanity into its cauldron of turmoil, it always lands like a sucker punch. Sorry for all the mixed metaphors but poor Pepper!!
TV Equals
Mark Trammell
On a surprisingly touching episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show ... we got a look at how the freak show came to be, the sad tale of Pepper...and a tantalizing glimpse at the future
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
"Orphans" is an unexpectedly generous Christmas gift that proves what American Horror Story can still be, when it dares to sidestep inane smart-assery and go for the heart, in addition to the throat.
Observer
Drew Grant
Now Freak Show-which originally had more of that Coven-style celebration of "otherness"-has boomeranged back into the dour and joyless air of Briarcliff.
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