Milkmaids
- Episode aired Aug 11, 2022
- TV-MA
- 48m
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4.6/10
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An outcast risks everything to save her town from devastation.An outcast risks everything to save her town from devastation.An outcast risks everything to save her town from devastation.
Madonna Young Magee
- Elderly Woman
- (as Madonna Young-Magee)
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- TriviaThe discovery of the role cowpox can play in preventing smallpox infection was a total accident. (Not the one you think) Smallpox inoculation was becoming widespread in England, and doctors checked for a "successful" inoculation by looking for smallpox pustules. If an inoculation was deemed unsuccessful the patient had to be reinoculated until a reaction was observed. One day after an unsuccessful inoculation, a farmer, grasping at straws, mentioned that he had recently had cowpox. This triggered the doctor's curiosity resulting in research into the instances of patients, (particularly farm workers) who had had cowpox before having no reaction to the smallpox inoculation. Many doctors collected a lot of data, and had many discussions before hypothesising that recent cowpox infection could prevent smallpox infection. While Edward Jenner did test the hypothesis, the story about him noticing the unblemished milkmaids and having a Eureka! moment, is an entirely fictional account designed to make immunisations more appealing to the general public.
- GoofsAlthough much less likely to be fatal, cowpox is not without symptoms and the pustules are far more painful and debilitating that those cause by smallpox. Cowpox lesions "mature" into large, painful blisters, most often on the hands (transferred through skin contact, from the cow's udder to the milkmaid's hands), preventing the sufferer from performing everyday task or working. It also only lasts up to 3 months. Had Celeste contracted cowpox from being a milkmaid, the pox would have begun on her hands, making it impossible to hide the infection with her clothes. She would not have been able to bare the agony of a corset over the boils she inexplicably had all around her torso. She would certainly not have been able to work as a prostitute, fully clothed or not, due to the pain of the lesions. And she would have been free of infection before her son was born, many years before the events in the episode.
- Quotes
Pastor Walter: If only Adam had struck Eve, he'd still be in the garden of Eden.
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Worst AHS yet??? Such bad writing and acting this EP
Milkmaids. Good grief, did the writer win some sort of contest to do this episode? I mean Manny Coto's offerings are middle of the road with pokes of fun but this was just dreadful. I kept waiting for a Shamalan twist but there was none. It was straightforward embarrassing to watch and I felt bad for the actors that tried to give it life. Wow such insufferable ego massage and yet naive and ignorant writing. I watched Murdoch and even Strange Empire, so I don't mind historical SF, but this was just a series of angsty attacks on societal pillars (and done clumsily) by a teenager that is mad at themselves for writing JERK on their face and then saying it's "society's problem" we don't want to interact with them. I can only hope this is the last we see of this writer. The most notable thing about this episode was the foley work. The hay swish and walking on dirt sounds were done very well and should be commended. The rest was pretty poor.
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- Aug 11, 2022
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