Ranking all the Grotesquerie characters by how utterly evil they are

Grotesquerie is a show so wickedly evil that literally barely a single character emerges from it resembling anything even remotely close to nice. It’s one of the darkest shows Ryan Murphy has ever made, and when his repertoire includes American Horror Story, American Horror Stories and Monsters – that is not an easy achievement. With Grotesquerie wrapping up with a much hated finale and the true colours of most of the characters being revealed, here’s a ranking rundown of all of them by how evil they ended up being in the end.

14. Coma Ed

Travis Kelce makes his acting debut as Ed Laclan, specifically as the Ed Laclan we meet first in what we now know to be Lois’ coma. This Ed is literally heavenly. Ridiculously sweet and nice and caring. It’s no wonder he’s utterly fictional!

13. Merritt

The real life Merritt has been through the absolute ringer. Her mum’s been in a coma and before she was in one she slept with her daughter’s husband. Great. Had her whole family torn apart and never got treated with the love and respect she deserved even though she was extremely intelligent and successful.

12. Coma Marshall

He didn’t get much chance to be evil because of the aforementioned coma. Infidelity was afoot, though.

11. Cherry Redd

She had an affair with Marshall, sure – but she was actually a great person with a kind soul and a bit of an icon.

10. Merritt in the dream

Not really straight up evil but a bit of a lost soul.

9. Chief Megan

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Something terrifying about Micaela Diamond’s performance as the flip side of Sister Megan. Obviously way less evil than her Lois coma counterpart and has been through the wringer but I do kind of feel like she was a bit horrible to Lois. I may also be bias to Lois.

8. Coma Dream Lois

Sure, she’s prickly. Sure she’s got an extremely destructive drinking problem. Sure, she’s nasty to her daughter even though she’s trying to give her tough love. But this Lois is a great cop and dragged us through some absolute hell, and I have to respect her always for that.

7. Actual Lois

Okay, so the twist that Lois was in a coma was wild. But the real wild twist was that Lois actually destroyed the happiness of her family by having an affair with her daughter’s husband, Ed. It’s kinda hard to root for someone who does that to her own child. And yet you still kinda do. God bless the power of Niecy Nash-Betts.

6. Nurse Redd

Okay, she’s clearly malicious and a weirdo – but does she slay? Of course she slays! Lesley Manville chews up the script like a pro, swanning around like Nurse Ratched in quaffed hair and big red heels. How can you not say mother? Although that puss squirting bed sore scene will literally scare me for the rest of my days.

5. Sister Megan 

Truly an absolute icon until we had to deal with the harrowing bombshell that she was actually instrumental in some of the most despicably gory murders ever put to television. Ouch. To think I nearly cried when she was shot.

4. Ed Laclan

Blurgh. I felt a bit sorry for him, with his crappy Cinnabon in the mall job. Even with the news he cheated on his wife with his wife’s mother. And then he reveals himself as a member of some anti-#MeToo men’s rights movement. Made all the worse with the reveal of today’s presidential news.

3. Father Charlie

Literally a despicable serial killer, luv. Not even the shots of Nicholas Alexander Chavez in ass-less chaps can redeem him. Only reason he isn’t at the top is because he’s lowkey fictional.

2. Marshall

One of those characters who you feel a bit sorry for, given that he has to learn in a restaurant that his wife cheated on him with his son in-law. He was unfaithful too, but at least not inside the family. Forget all that, though – because he all too willingly rushes to turn off Lois’ life support for her coma, and then he gets accused of sexual assault by his students. And then goes to the weird men’s rights group. HORRID.

1. Dr Charlie

Leading the ranking for evil Grotesquerie characters is of course, Dr Charlie. He was literally hosting orgies in the room where patients were in comas and impregnanted an unconscious patient by raping her. Truly horrific and the most harrowing part of the whole show.

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