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Grotesquerie season 1 finale aired on FX on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at 10 pm ET. But anyone who goes to episode 10 seeking answers on several subjects from the previous episodes will be sorely disappointed. The FX drama ended its first season with even more mystery and very little to offer in terms clarity about what was real and what was fantasy in Detective Lois Tryon's story.
Previously in Ryan Murphy's Grotesquerie, Detective Lois Tryon found herself in an explosive incident that forced her to pull off a cold-blood murder. Megan's abusive boyfriend, Justin, arrived at the motel and started physically assaulting the police chief. Lois came to Megan's rescue and killed Justin without hesitation.
With the Burnsides murder happening in real life and killing someone in cold blood, while she grapples with what's real and what are her coma-induced thoughts, Lois is beside herself at the Grotesquerie season 1 finale. Detective Lois Tryon ended up in a psych ward after she admitted herself, but she didn't stay there for long, as she was needed to solve another murder case.
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Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for the Grotesquerie season 1 finale. Reader discretion is advised.
Where did Detective Lois Tryon end up at the end of the Grotesquerie season 1 finale?
Since she woke up from a coma in Grotesquerie season 1 episode 7, Detective Lois Tryon has been confused about what's reality and what's imagined. The subsequent episodes found her grappling with the truth and trying to understand what her coma-induced dreams, the murders, mean in real life.
The Grotesquerie season 1 finale came, and Lois is nowhere near in her quest to find clarity about her life and coma-induced murders. Episode 10 starts with Lois driving a car, seemingly lost and unsure about what's been happening, which sums up the finale.
It was revealed later in the series that the scene where Lois was driving at the beginning of the show's final episode was right after she had killed Justin. She tells Dr. Witticomb all about it — that she can't remember how long she had driven the car and that she blacked out. But when she returns to the motel, she tells the doctor that nobody is there. Megan isn't there and so is Justin's dead body. There was no trace of blood in the scene as well.
At this point, Lois Tryon has admitted herself to the psychiatric ward, and she doesn't want to talk to anyone except Dr. Witticomb. She thinks that what's happening isn't real and that she hasn't woken up from the coma. Lois theorizes that she's in some kind of otherworld because what's happening doesn't make sense to her.
Believing that she's going crazy, she lists all the reasons why she believes she's trapped in some kind of otherworld. She tells Dr. Witticomb about Marshall and Redd asking her to be a part of some sort of menage with them and Dr. Charlie Mayhew having s*x parties in her hospital room when she was still in a coma. She thinks that everything is a sick joke that's too elaborate and that nothing living could construct them.
After their conversation, Lois finds herself ending up inside a padded psychiatric hospital room. However, her psych ward stint didn't last long, and she soon ends up in her true element at the end of Grotesquerie season 1 finale — a crime scene.
Megan takes her out of the psych room because another murder from Lois' dreams happened, and Lois supposedly knows one of the victims.
Grotesquerie season 1 finale reveals Travis Kelce's Ed's fate
Episode 7 has been explosive for the rest of the Grotesquerie cast. Besides the revelation that Lois was in a coma all along, it also revealed that she and Travis Kelce's character, Ed Laclan, who is Merritt's husband and Lois' son-in-law, have an affair. He was his AA sponsor, and they found support from each other when Lois was feeling lonely.
However, after Travis Kelce's "Fast Eddie" sporting his mullet in the seventh episode and breaking down when he can't get to Lois at the hospital, he didn't return for Grotesquerie season 1 episodes 8 and 9. Naturally, viewers took to the Grotesquerie season 1 finale to find out his fate, and it didn't disappoint.
As seen in the episode 10 finale, Ed has joined a group of men called the Mexicali Men's Club. He tells Marshall when they met, on the way to a meeting, that the group helped him change his life for the better. They were also the reason he let go off the mullet and is now back to his clean-shaven face from Lois' dreams.
Grotesquerie season 1 finale reveals the truth about the men in Lois' life
Ed isn't the only one getting some shocking truth b*ombs in the Grotesquerie season 1 finale, as the episode also revealed some hard and mind-boggling truths about the men in Lois' life.
Early in the finale, Marshall gets a worthy takedown after Redd reveals that she knows that she wasn't the only affair in Marshall's life. It turns out that he's a serial cheater and appears to have s*x addiction.
One of his students had accused him of s*xual assault. As seen in the Grotesquerie season 1 finale, Marshall is in police custody, and while he's sent home after taking his mugshot, he later tries to end his life. It wasn't successful, and he lived and was later recruited to the Mexicali Men's Club.
Oddly, all three of Lois' doctors — Dr. Charlie Mayhew, Dr. Witticomb and Dr. Smythe — are also a part of the mysterious Mexicali Men's Club, with Dr. Smythe being its founder. Several police officers whom Lois had worked with were also in the basement during the group's meeting.
Who died in the Grotesquerie season 1 finale?
Despite the boggling Grotesquerie season 1 finale in terms of clarity, the season concluded with another crime befitting the psychological horror drama's title.
In the final scene of episode 10, Megan arrives at the crime scene with Lois in tow. There, the detective finds the murder scene that's eerily similar to the fourth murder from the Grotesquerie premiere — the Last Supper.
However, while the beggar's dead body was used as the Jesus figure in the murder from Lois' dream, in real life, it was Charlie. Dr. Charlie Mayhew died in the series finale, as well as Mary Colsbly, the student who had accused Marshall of s*xual assault, and other unhoused people.
Grotesqueries identity remains a mystery
Grotesquerie, the series, may have ended, but Grotesquerie, the killer, remains on the loose. The series finale ended in a cliffhanger, teasing that Detective Lois Tryon's hunt for the killer continues.
At this point, the killer's identity remains a mystery, although Dr. Witticomb toyed with the idea that Lois herself was the killer because she had previously claimed that Mr. Grotesquerie knew intimate things about her. And as per Dr. Witticomb, no one knows Lois better than herself.
That said, Lois' final words before the Grotesquerie season 1 finale closed tease that she knows who the serial killer is. She said:
"Jack, I know who did this."
Catch the Grotesquerie season 1 finale streaming on Hulu on Friday, October 31, one day after its FX premiere. The entire season of the Ryan Murphy horror drama can also be watched on the platform.
