This episode was truly incredible. Pepper is probably the single character of the entire series that pulls most at your heart strings, and the tie in with Elsa on the cover of Time was absolutely perfect. I'm blown away.
This is gonna be the season with the least amount of people who appear in all 13 episodes in the main cast-- Only Jessica & Evan are in the running now.
I give props to Ryan Murphy for pulling it off and also still connecting to Freak Show! 
