Mabel (Jess Weixler) is an actress filming on location. Her director had lived with a circus and has hired a bunch of circus freaks for his movie. The lead actor Rosenthal (Adam Pearson) has a badly disfigured face. Mabel and Rosenthal develop a relationship as they work together on the film set.
The theme from the opening text is the advantages of the beautiful over the lesser endowed. I always like Weixler as an actress and I like her relationship with Rosenthal. I like the acid twist and turning the table on the premise. The ending is a head-scratching. Instead of moving forward with the acid, it does something else. I'm not sure if they're dumping the acid incident. I'm not sure if it's a flashback. The ending doesn't give an ending for their relationship which is its biggest problem. This is a beauty and the beast situation. It seems to be going somewhere interesting with the premise. The ending confuses more than illuminates.
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