How much is a Second Class stamp? bupropion muscle twitching Exemplars of the monstrousness are the drunken Epps and his cruel wife (Sarah Paulson). Epps is obsessed with his young slave Patsey (heartbreaking newcomer Lupita Nyongâo), telling his jealous wife heâd divorce her before heâd sell Patsey. Then Epps sits unflinching as Patsey is beaten during late-night dances in which the exhausted slavesâ forced decorum is a macabre echo of the affairs Northup once performed at.