Composer:
Mac QuayleCast:
Wes Bentley, Lady Gaga, Denis O'Hare, Chloë Sevigny, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Finn Wittrock, Angela Bassett, Cheyenne Jackson, Matt Bomer (more)VOD (3)
Episodes(12)
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Checking In (S05E01)
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Chutes and Ladders (S05E02)
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Mommy (S05E03)
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Devil's Night (S05E04)
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Room Service (S05E05)
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Room 33 (S05E06)
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Flicker (S05E07)
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The Ten Commandments Killer (S05E08)
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She Wants Revenge (S05E09)
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She Gets Revenge (S05E10)
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Battle Royale (S05E11)
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Be Our Guest (S05E12)
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A pair of foreign sisters check into the Hotel Cortez, while an L.A. detective investigates a brutal murder. American Horror Story Hotel features an all-star cast of Lady Gaga, Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Wes Bentley, Matt Bomer, Chloe Sevigny, Denis O'Hare, Cheyenne Jackson, Evan Peters and Finn Wittrock. (20th Century Fox UK)
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Reviews (6)
I was generally satisfied, except for the somewhat lackluster finale and several plot digressions which barely had any impact on the story itself (vampire students). I appreciated how the filmmakers shrewdly avoided the hassle of creating scary monsters by casting Lady Gaga. She gave me the creeps every time she appeared on screen. I was amused by the recycling of Finn Wittrock, which was a great move. The star of this season for me was definitely Denis O'Hare, whose performance was excellent.
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American Horror Story isn’t usually my go-to, so it took me a while to finally dive into the Hotel season. Lady Gaga’s big debut as an actress was the main draw, and she definitely proved she’s more than just a great singer (even if Leo DiCaprio had a laugh at the Globes). But after watching, my main takeaway is that Lady Gaga is genuinely talented. As for the show itself, Hotel embodies everything that makes the series what it is. It feels like I’m watching a wild fever dream in a setting that reminds me of The Shining, but with characters so out there that delivering any of their lines must have had the crew in stitches. When they brought in vampires, I found myself questioning if Ryan Murphy is a genius or just completely off his rocker. Visually, the show is stunning, and I can’t help but wonder if maybe Murphy is wasting his talent on something so bizarre. But considering most people seem to love it, I’ll admit the issue might be more with me than with the show. Trying to find logic in this season is a lost cause — the opening scene sets the tone for all the madness that follows.
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It's as if, when Jessica Lange left the position of the perennial main character, they were looking for a new face. Not an acting face (which Ryan Murphy found immediately thanks to the phenomenal Lady Gaga), but the face of the entire show, because this year takes everything possible from previous years. It is closest to American Horror Story: Murder House, borrowing characters and atmosphere, from American Horror Story: Asylum the pervasive atmosphere of goosebumps, and from American Horror Story: Freak Show the storytelling pace with an endless number of supporting characters and detours. However, American Horror Story: Hotel has a crucial advantage over the last mentioned, as it remains gripping, focusing on the same storylines at the beginning and end, and more than ever before, it benefits from a delightful soundtrack. Even this time, the script cannot avoid certain mistakes, and for example, the civilian approach to John and his family's story feels last-minute, just like the reveals from his detective work. The contrast between the suffocating and fresh mood, the captivating performances of Denis O'Hare and the always brilliant chameleon Sarah Paulson, are such seductive temptations that the stay at the Cortez hotel became the second best season.
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AHS in an art deco hotel? I am in. Hotel is such a relaxing series - old friends have new cool fetishes and strangely enough, even Gaga is alright. So it's going to be an overall enjoyable season. Love, blood, plenty of joy... There’s also the tender connection to Murder House and Coven. And the plot with Rambo and Valentino is completely satisfying. It didn't kill the whole, but it was an interesting excursion into the world of unfulfilled happiness.
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The beginning was great, somewhere around the middle I lost interest, but I finished the second half of Hotel, and I’m satisfied. For me, in fact the second best season of AHS (after Asylum). It helped a lot that Jessica Lange took a break (in the last seasons she was playing always the same character and it was boring already), and instead of her, Lady Gaga brought her own special aura. Hopefully, Murphy won’t make the same mistake and won’t let us pass the next season, like Jessica. I would also bring in some positive characters, though I could develop a taste for this panopticon of eccentricity.
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