Warning: This post contains spoilers for the October 16 episode Grotesqueness.
Niecy Nash-Betts has been keeping a big secret for a while now.
The actress hosts Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquenessin which, until the seventh episode, her character, Detective Lois Tryon, seemed to be investigating a deeply disturbing killer who was rampaging through her town.
The October 16 episode turned all that on its head, as it was revealed that Nash-Betts’ character was actually in a coma the whole time — and the story that played out was happening in her head.
“Lois was in a coma the whole time, and what we saw before that [this episode] were her dreams,” Nash-Betts, 54, tells PEOPLE. “Now that she’s awake, what’s going to happen?”
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Calling the revelation “a very big plot twist,” Nash-Betts says, “What you think is the beginning of the series [about] it’s not really what it is.”
“We start with horror. We move into family drama, and then we end with who is it?” she teases what’s to come in the final three episodes.
Niecy Nash as Lois Tryon in ‘Grotesquerie’.
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Ever since she signed up for the series, the actress knew that this twist was coming. In fact, that’s part of what prompted her to join the project. “I thought, ‘Oh, wow, and we’re never going to see that?’ [And he said] ‘No, I never expect that’. I said, ‘Yes, please sign me up. I want to be a part of this.'”
Along with the revelation that Lois was in a coma the whole time, episode 7 also saw a complete role reversal for the rest of the cast, which includes Courtney B. Vance, Micaela Diamond, Raven Goodwin, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Travis Kelce, and Lesley Manville.
“I knew that all of us, as artists, would have to play the duality of the characters,” she says, referring to the fact that not all characters are actually what the audience thinks they are.
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“Each character, [I] was like, ‘What to say?’ Travis Kelce went from being suave and charming to owning a mullet and working in a mall. My daughter didn’t want to be on a reality TV show for obese people, and she ended up being the head doctor at a medical facility,” she says of Kelce’s character Ed and Goodwin’s character Merritt.
“My husband, played by Courtney B. Vance, wasn’t really in a coma — I was the one in a coma. So every character — even Nurse Redd (Manville). She went from being this badass nurse to OnlyFans in your living room. It’s like, ‘Wait a minute, what?'”
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Travis Kelce, Raven Goodwin in ‘Grotesquerie’.
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The episode ended with Lois waking up from a coma — right after Marshall (Vance) decided to take her off life support, despite Merritt’s opposition.
“She wakes up and has to deal with the consequences of her dreams,” Nash-Betts says of what’s next for Lois. “Then, dealing with that, there are a few more twists and turns.”
And there’s “more to come,” she teases. “I’d just say – nothing is what it seems.”
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Grotesqueness airs Wednesdays at 10pm ET/PT on FX and airs the following day on Hulu.
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