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)…
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Battle Royale’
byI 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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘She Gets Revenge’
byThe 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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘She Wants Revenge’
by“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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘The Ten Commandments Killer’
byAny 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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Flicker’
byIn 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,…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Room 33’
byWith 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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Room Service’
byIt’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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Devil’s Night’
byIn “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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Mommy’
byWith 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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Chutes and Ladders’
byIn 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…
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL – ‘Checking In’
byI 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…