Ryan Murphy Teases New Horror Series ‘Grotesquerie’ on FX

Ryan Murphy will tell a different kind of horror story on FX later in the year.

The megaproducer dropped a teaser for a new series titled Grotesquerie in an Instagram post (see it below) on Friday. According to the post, it will star Niecy Nash-Betts — who has worked with Murphy several times before and is coming off an Emmy win for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville and is set to premiere in the fall.

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FX had no comment about the cryptic teaser.

The teaser features Nash-Betts’ voice, sounding very disturbed about a crime scene: “I don’t know when it started. I can’t put my finger on it. But it’s different now. There’s been a shift. It’s like something’s opening up in the world — a kind of hole to the center of nothingness. What I saw today — they sent shrinks for everyone who worked this crime scene. You think, ‘Well hon, evil has always existed,’ and cite some statistic about how the world’s getting better, less murder, more help, less global horror, never been a better time to be alive, honey.”

Her voice cracking, Nash-Betts (or rather, her character) concludes by saying, “Come back. It’s not getting better. And I keep needing to hear your answers, because something’s happening around us, and nobody sees but me.”

Murphy has a long relationship with FX: He created Nip/Tuck, part of the first wave of the cabler’s original series in the early 2000s, and is behind American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Feud and the upcoming American Sports Story. He signed a nine-figure overall deal with Netflix in 2018 but departed the streamer when it concluded. He’s widely presumed to be back in the 20th Television fold, his pre-Netflix home that’s now part of Disney (though no one there has officially confirmed a new pact).

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