Niecy Nash-Betts Is Hunting an ‘Unhuman’ Evil that Travis Kelce Warns Will Lead to ‘No Future’ in Grotesquerie Trailer

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end introduces the FX series’ trailer as he teases some “familiar faces” will appear

 

Niecy Nash-Betts is fending off an “unhuman” evil in Grotesquerie‘s first official trailer.

Ryan Murphy’s new FX series sees Nash-Betts, 54, star as Detective Lois Tryon, who sees the evil plaguing her small town as a signal of “the end of time” — and Travis Kelce agrees.

“Check out the trailer for FX’s Grotesquerie,” Kelce, who stars in the series as a yet unnamed character, says as he introduces the trailer. “That’s right, you might see some familiar faces.”

In the trailer, Nash-Betts’ character believes that something “hellish is here,” and as she joins forces with nun and journalist Sister Megan Duval (Micaela Diamond), the religious and cult-like iconography only grows.

“This killer is someone who knows anatomy. The blood, the DNA — was left there for us to find,” Nash-Betts says in the trailer, before telling a priest, “It’s like God left the keys to the candy store to the devil.”

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The mysterious evil that Nash-Betts is investigating “murdered” an “entire family,” Sister Megan says as she slides over the local newspaper, which shows that 27 people were killed in a “mass cult death.”

Lois calls her “the nun who’s a journalist covering crime,” and Sister Megan says she’s “interested in rituals, cults and their place in American life,” signaling that the series will explore themes related to religious rituals and cult behavior.

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As she continues investigating, Nash-Betts’ daughter, Merritt (Raven Goodwin), tells her that it “seems like this killer is taunting [her],” while Nurse Redd (Lesley Manville) says she’s “in an alcoholic’s haze.”

The case consumes Lois, and Kelce’s character warns, “There’s no future after this.”

Meanwhile, Sister Megan is developing an increasingly erotic relationship with Father Charlie Mayhew (Nicholas Alexander Chavez), as she and the priest talk about looking at “evil” rather than ignoring it, and the priest offers, “And what if you enjoy the looking?”

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Lois describes the lingering evil as “the worst thing you could never unsee,” before classifying it: “You have to really hate people to do what was done here. It’s inhuman. No — it’s unhuman.”

As the trailer concludes, and a series of mysterious and disturbing images flash across the screen, hinting at the evils to come, Nash-Betts says it’s “the end of time,” and Nurse Redd eerily admits, “I get a shiver in my quiver just thinking about it.”

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Per the official description, Grotesquerie sees Lois grappling both with the “heinous crimes” that she feels are “eerily personal” to her and “a strained relationship with her daughter, a husband in long-term hospital care (Courtney B. Vance) and her own inner demons.”

As she “fears the world is succumbing to evil, Sister Megan “still believes in [the world’s] capacity for good,” but as they “string together clues, they find themselves ensnared in a sinister web that only seems to raise more questions than answers.”

Grotesquerie premieres with the first two episodes on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

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