AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Be Our Guest’
byWhile the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel wrapped up a few of the show’s plotlines, there were still enough loose ends—Sally’s (Sarah Paulson)…
While the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel wrapped up a few of the show’s plotlines, there were still enough loose ends—Sally’s (Sarah Paulson)…
I don’t have nearly as many observations as questions about “Battle Royale,” the penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Hotel. The series typically ties up whatever…
The high points of “She Gets Revenge” are the scenes between Liz (Denis O’Hare) and Douglas (Josh Braaten), the son she abandoned 31-years ago. The…
“She Wants Revenge” begins promisingly, with the Countess (Lady Gaga), in voiceover, making plans to rid herself of everyone but Rudolph Valentino (Finn Wittrock); her…
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 a detective trying…
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 to 1920s Hollywood,…
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, with varying degrees…
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 my reviews of…
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 ghosts of other…
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 by this week’s…
In the first two (and best) seasons of American Horror Story, there’s a point in the first few episodes where the disparate, seemingly haphazard plot threads…
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 after friends encouraged…