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American Horror Story: Hotel |OT| Uh oh! There was a monster in my bed!

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brotherbean

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Loved Murder House and Asylum, but never finished Coven or Freakshow. Are those worth going back for? I don't know why but I could never really get into either them for some reason. I was especially fascinated by the setting of Coven so I was particularly surprised with how little I cared for what I saw of it.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
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FloatOn

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brotherbean said:
Loved Murder House and Asylum, but never finished Coven or Freakshow. Are those worth going back for? I don't know why but I could never really get into either them for some reason. I was especially fascinated by the setting of Coven so I was particularly surprised with how little I cared for what I saw of it.
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No. Those are not worth going back for. They were both terrible with a few cool ideas/scenes but overall just a complete waste of time.
 
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liquidtmd

Banned
brotherbean said:
Loved Murder House and Asylum, but never finished Coven or Freakshow. Are those worth going back for? I don't know why but I could never really get into either them for some reason. I was especially fascinated by the setting of Coven so I was particularly surprised with how little I cared for what I saw of it.
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Id say go back and finish Coven if only for Jessica Lange, she was a goddamn rock.

Dont bother with Freak Show, not even she could save that
 
Monocle

Monocle

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liquidtmd said:
Id say go back and finish Coven if only for Jessica Lange, she was a goddamn rock.

Dont bother with Freak Show, not even she could save that
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Frances Conroy's Myrtle Snow was everything. Also, Angela Bassett rocked it as Marie Laveau.

Freak Show is the worst season but it was still entertaining and watchable. Decent ending.
 
Nemesis_

Nemesis_

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Wait, you just reminded me, why is Frances Conroy not returning? This is going to be the first season without her I think =(

Although given how wasted she was in Freak Show I couldn't blame her for leaving, lol
 
Monocle

Monocle

Member
Nemesis_ said:
Wait, you just reminded me, why is Frances Conroy not returning? This is going to be the first season without her I think =(

Although given how wasted she was in Freak Show I couldn't blame her for leaving, lol
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Damn, that's news to me. I must have just assumed she was returning this season.

She had a few moments in her Freak Show role. Criminally underused, though.
 
Nemesis_

Nemesis_

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Monocle said:
Damn, that's news to me. I must have just assumed she was returning this season.

She had a few moments in her Freak Show role. Criminally underused, though.
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She's apparently doing a comedy series called Casual this year. Probably some kind of scheduling issue?

Wouldn't be surprised if they checked Myrtle into the Hotel at some point though =P
 
Monocle

Monocle

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Nemesis_ said:
She's apparently doing a comedy series called Casual this year. Probably some kind of scheduling issue?

Wouldn't be surprised if they checked Myrtle into the Hotel at some point though =P
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I bet she has a room reserved as her summer home, with decor that could actually injure the unshielded eye.
 
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User 479360

Banned
I have this set to record, but I find it hard to get excited about American Horror Story anymore. I've seen three out of four seasons -- after getting the first one on BR and being blown away by it -- and so far it's been the only good one.

Season 1: Murder House - Great. I loved it. Smart, interesting, well-written.
Season 2: Asylum - All over the place, too silly, kind of boring. Had some okay moments.
Season 3: Coven - Missed
Season 4: Freak Show - A chore to watch most of the time. Nothing happened, and it wasn't very interesting.
 
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Bloodrage

Banned
brotherbean said:
Loved Murder House and Asylum, but never finished Coven or Freakshow. Are those worth going back for?
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Coven and Freak Show are both trash. Sometimes I forget they even exist. Coven had one or two good characters, but that alone couldn't make up for how bad it was. Just embarrassing. Freak Show had one good episode, and it was fan service for a character from Asylum (the best AHS season)
Pepper.

Don't bother watching those two. They are a complete waste of time, and there is literally no chance Hotel can be worse.
 
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Father_Brain

Banned
Monocle said:
Who cares? The characters were entertaining as hell.

My favorite season, even though 1 and 2 were better story-wise. I have no interest in revisiting anything but Coven, if I rewatch any of this show.
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Who cares? People who prefer some vague semblance of coherent characterization, a narrative throughline, and actual horror to Tumblr GIF Post: The Series.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Reviews are mixed:

Variety said:
Filled with arresting imagery, much of the action takes place in a beyond-creepy L.A. hotel.... There’s almost an indifference to story--after the premiere, it’s hard to see a huge motivation to watch in order to unlock the show’s lingering mysteries.
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Philadelphia Inquirer said:
The overall picture is just a little too busy, too dense. The first episode of Hotel--the only one available to critics--is so busy trying to set up its divergent cast of characters it ends up being confusing and exhausting.
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New York Times said:
That set is easily the most interesting thing about the show so far.... In Ms. Lange’s absence, the role of malevolent den mother appears to have gone to Lady Gaga, and that’s a pretty steep drop-off. Other members of the Horror Story repertory company return and continue to do amusing work, however. The story they inhabit this time around barely comes into focus in the first episode, which plays like a series of vignettes with only the loosest of connections.
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San Francisco Chronicle said:
The cast is mostly terrific, of course, including Mare Winningham as an unhinged hotel maid. The exception, unfortunately, is Lady Gaga. Don’t get me wrong: She makes an enormous visual impact, but the minute she opens her mouth to deliver a line, it’s obvious that acting just isn’t one of her many talents. That may be one of the reasons that the first half of the premiere episode has so little dialogue that you may occasionally wonder if you’re watching a silent movie.
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The Hollywood Reporter said:
Early on, Hotel hasn't hooked me with its storytelling, but it's always fun to see what the series does with its repertory acting company and with new additions. Throw in the normal grotesquerie and visual panache and that should keep me going for a while, even if all of the humor appears to have been funneled into Scream Queens.
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RogerEbert com said:
American Horror Story: Hotel is cluttered, unfocused, ridiculous, and silly, but it is very self-aware and stunningly confident at the same time. Murphy and Falchuk almost dare you not to join in the chaos, and it certainly feels more assured than the inconsistent “Freak Show.”
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Replicant

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Can it at least be better than Freakshow? Or at least have a redeeming ending like Coven.

I think only season 2 can be truly classified as horror show. And the occasional mini-flashbacks of season 1. The rest are more annoying drama than horror.
 
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Bloodrage

Banned
RatskyWatsky said:
Reviews are mixed:
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Sounds like every first episode of every new season of AHS. Doesn't mean much to me, especially when a lot of critics have had trouble "getting" the show in the past.

Replicant said:
Can it at least be better than Freakshow? Or at least have a redeeming ending like Coven.

I think only season 2 can be truly classified as horror show. And the occasional mini-flashbacks of season 1. The rest are more annoying drama than horror.
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I'm pretty sure Coven and Freak Show were intended as comedies. The tone for both was completely different from S1 and S2.
 
Forsythia

Forsythia

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I skipped the last season as I fucking hate clowns (Pennywise scarred me for life) but I'm on board again for season 5! It's been too long for me after Coven.
 
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T.O.P

Banned
Murder House was good, Asylum was fantastic, Coven was bad but with decent ideas, Freakshow was dogshit

...but i'm always intrigued when a new AHS starts tho, so i'm in...for a couple of episodes at least
 
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PeskyToaster

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ugh my friends are going to make me watch this. Can't believe they want to after we couldn't get through Asylum, Coven, and Freak Show. I was glad Jessica Lange was gone but then they added Lady Gaga. God help me.
 
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mjc

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I won't be fooled into watching this...at least until I see if it's decent or not. Freak Show was a giant pile of shit.
 
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MrV4ltor

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... with a gaze so penetrating it's worthy of Lange. Given her enormous persona, the subtlety and duality Gaga brings to her role as the Countess comes almost as a shock. Her line readings have an amusing quality in that she's aware of the inherent hokiness of the series, yet committed to it all the same. She purrs like no other American Horror Story cast member has, turning the arch dialogue into something spellbinding, maybe even sexy.
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Would Slant lie?
 
Pilgrimzero

Pilgrimzero

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Each AHS season has the problem of bloat. It's something that could be told in 6 episodes. Instead they have to pad it with more inane stuff that over all hurts the plot.

the only season I've been able to finish is the witch one.

Each season I go in expecting something watchable and usually I'm proven wrong.

I would say the worst offender was the Asylum one.
Not only did it have demons. It also had a crazy scientist, a murderer, AND ALIENS!
COME ON! Pick one and weave a tale around it.

Every season does this. Lets cram as many clichés as we can, shake it up and see what comes out in the end!
 
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tbd

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dan2026 said:
Oh God they are doing another one?

How does this crap keep getting renewed?
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Only watched the first season and a few episodes of the second one and it was the worst shit I've watched in my life. I also still have no idea how this is supposed to be a horror show.
 
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Matt_

World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
AHS would be one of the shows that would benefit from having a double episode premiere like Scream Queens did
One episode to establish setting, another to establish story (if there is one that is, Freak Show would beg to differ)
Only letting reviewers see one episode seems especially odd given that some other shows let them watch 5 episodes to do a season review
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
New episode tonight:

Checking In

In the season premiere, detective John Lowe investigates a series of murders in Los Angeles, and a peculiar tip indicates the Hotel Cortez as a place of interest.
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KefkaPalazzo

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Will probably take a wait and see approach to this one.

Didn't like Murder House at all, enjoyed all of Asylum, didn't watch Coven, Freak Show started off good but fizzled out.
 
drotahorror

drotahorror

Member
First season - Great, the best season imo
Second season - Solid, I liked it better the second time I watched it.
Third - Tras
Fourth - Watchable, had it's ups and downs but I enjoyed it.

I'm hype for the fifth though.
 
indigo-cyclops

indigo-cyclops

Member
Wow this snuck up on me. The premise once again sounds pretty intriguing, actually more so than Coven and Freak Show. Hope they can pull it off. Question, is it set in the 80s?
 
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