AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Be Our Guest’
[usr 2.5] While the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel wrapped up a few of the show’s plotlines, there were still enough loose...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Battle Royale’
[usr 2.0] I don’t have nearly as many observations as questions about “Battle Royale,” the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel. The series typically...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘She Gets Revenge’
[usr 2.5] The high points of “She Gets Revenge” are the scenes between Liz (Denis O’Hare) and Douglas (Josh Braaten), the son she abandoned...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘She Wants Revenge’
[usr 2.5] “She Wants Revenge” begins promisingly, with the Countess (Lady Gaga), in voiceover, making plans to rid herself of everyone but Rudolph Valentino...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘The Ten Commandments Killer’
[usr 2.0] Any American Horror Story viewer who’s seen Adaptation has probably thought about “The Three”; the thriller screenplay by main character Charlie Kaufman’s brother Donald, about...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Flicker’
[usr 4.0] In retrospect, an undead, bloodsucking Rudolph Valentino is just what American Horror Story: Hotel needed. This week’s episode, “Flicker,” is mostly comprised of flashbacks...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Room 33’
[usr 3.0] With Jessica Lange having left the repertory cast of American Horror Story, the show has taken a more ensemble-driven approach this season than ever before,...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Room Service’
[usr 3.5] It’s not an accident I haven’t written much about Liz Taylor (Denis O’Hare), the barkeep at the Hotel Cortez, so far in...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Devil’s Night’
[usr 2.0] In “Devil’s Night,” this week’s episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, James March (Evan Peters), the show’s spectral H.H. Holmes surrogate, invites the...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Mommy’
[usr 3.5] With Jessica Lange having left American Horror Story‘s impressive repertory cast, Hotel is proving to be more of an ensemble-driven story than recent years. Judging...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Chutes and Ladders’
[usr 2.5] In the first two (and best) seasons of American Horror Story, there’s a point in the first few episodes where the disparate, seemingly...
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Checking In’
[usr 2.5] I skipped American Horror Story’s first season at the time because it looked like hot garbage. I wasn’t entirely wrong—I checked it out...