Grotesquerie<\/em>\u00a0airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX and streams the next day on Hulu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The show’s creator weighed in on a popular Swiftie theory about one of Kelce’s first scenes in the FX series Shortly after\u00a0making his debut\u00a0in episode three of\u00a0Grotesquerie,\u00a0Travis… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/div>\nShortly after\u00a0making his debut\u00a0in episode three of\u00a0Grotesquerie,\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0sped off with\u00a0Niecy Nash-Betts\u00a0in a getaway car. Naturally, Swifties were immediately on alert.<\/p>\n
In the scene, which aired on Oct. 2, Kelce’s character Ed Lachlan helped Nash-Betts’ Lois Tryon break out of the hospital after she crashed her car while drunk driving. The pair left the hospital hand-in-hand in a dream-like sequence before hopping into a red convertible and driving off.<\/p>\n
Ryan Murphy, who created the series and\u00a0created the role specifically for Kelce, told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0that the scene is “a little\u00a0Taylor Swift\u00a0nod” given that\u00a0the characters hop “into the red getaway car.”<\/p>\n
The reference is, of course, to a song from Swift’s 2017 album Reputation, titled “Getaway Car.”<\/p>\n After the episode premiered earlier this month, fans were quick to point out the reference that was seemingly made to the Swift song on social media.<\/p>\n A fan page for the 35-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end posted a\u00a0clip\u00a0of the scene on X (formerly Twitter), and several of the replies pointed out that Kelce was having his very own onscreen getaway car moment.<\/p>\n Another fan pointed out the possible connection on\u00a0TikTok, writing over a clip from the episode, “Does this look familiar Swifties?! \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d.”<\/p>\n “This can’t be a coincidence!” the fan wrote in the post’s caption.<\/p>\n Since Kelce made his debut as Ed Lachlan on the FX series, the show’s world has come apart. On the Oct. 16 episode, it was revealed that Lois (Nash-Betts) has actually been in a coma the whole time \u2014 and the vicious murderer she’s been hunting was all a vision inside her head.<\/p>\n The reveal adds some context to the getaway car scene, too, as Murphy told\u00a0THR<\/em>\u00a0that originally, Kelce and Nash-Betts “drive off to this black limbic space, which makes absolutely no sense. But it does make sense now, because you know [Lois] is in a coma.”<\/p>\n Another layer of that reveal is that all the characters fans have come to know from Lois’ dream-like state are not who they were believed to be.<\/p>\n Her husband, Marshall (Courtney B. Vance) is alive and well; her daughter Merritt (Raven Goodwin) is a doctor working to find a cure for cancer who is married to a downtrodden and disheveled Ed (Kelce). Father Charlie (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Sister Megan (Micaela Diamond) are also not who they seem to be.<\/p>\n Charlie is actually Lois’ doctor in the hospital, while Megan is a detective who works with Lois in the police force.<\/p>\n Murphy told\u00a0THR<\/em>\u00a0that it was “fun” getting to play around with the duality of all of the characters.<\/p>\n “It was kind of a fascinating thing to work with all of these actors on that. I think it\u2019s the reason why actors like playing twins, because they can do two things. They all couldn\u2019t wait to play the second character,” he said of the shift after episode 7’s big reveal. “Because they were either very different, or the circumstances were the same but they were still very different.”<\/p>\n![\"FX's](\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/k3edw8cIdMR05pz6qOsxaQ4Xm3s=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(768x151:770x153):format(webp)\/travis-kelce-grotesquerie-100224-2-5846a731b71648069a9ec0b01ee1a959.jpg\")
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