American Horror Story: Hotel — Page 8

I'm liking the campiness. I don't need the show to make sense, just keep being crazy. Evan Peters' character slays me (pun intended). Accent and all. I think this is his most fun part on the show, of all his AHS characters.

On a different note, my husband and I both cheered the scene with Chloe's sensible pediatrician character vs the anti-vax mom.

The really gross stuff I could live without. (At least with AHS such scenes don't come as a total shock, unlike the latest Downton Abbey. No spoiler; if you saw it, you'll know what I mean. I was like, ofh!, did they have to be so graphic?)

Mare Winningham is perfection this season.

Oh, we'll keep watching. Besides, I bought the season on Amazon. We don't get FX on our cable tier, so we see it following night, at earliest, on streaming.

She plays a bored lady who talks like she's reciting words she memorized. It's a character choice! She ate lunch at Tisch once!

Updated On: 10/21/15 at 10:12 AM

And she likes pasties.

QUEEN!

^^^ I know, right? We've rescheduled our viewing parties for the weekend. Ninety minutes starting at 10pm is way too long for a weekday and it's not even a fun 90 minutes!

Lady Gaga does play the main villain of the season. I guess she's kind of the female lead of the show though this season the whole thing feels like more of an ensemble than it's ever felt, mostly because of the absence of Jessica Lange (and the fact Lady Gaga's acting is so wooden she obviously can't carry the show the way Lange did in earlier seasons). She's a vampire who owns the titular hotel. And yes, her acting is as weak as the other posters are indicating.

Updated On: 10/21/15 at 06:23 PM

FX Canada has it set for 70 minutes, for whatever reason. I still think FC has asked Murphy and crew to keep as many scenes as possible in so they can sell more commercials. I always watched on PVR anyway (since I'm west coast we get it at 7) so without commercials even 90 minutes is just a bit over an hour so the time isn't a big deal, it's that I fully am convinced it makes the episodes drag and seem shapeless even more than they would.

So, it's not Gaga who has the Lange role. It's Sarah Paulson.

I was wondering when we'd finally get Angela Basset and then there she was! God, she looks great.

Gaga continues to say lines, so good for her, I guess.

Phyllis Rogers Stone said: "So, it's not Gaga who has the Lange role. It's Sarah Paulson.

I was wondering when we'd finally get Angela Basset and then there she was! God, she looks great.

Gaga continues to say lines, so good for her, I guess.

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For someone so obsessed with the look of his show, Ryan Murphy really doesn't understand "Show don't tell," does he? Angela Bassett was particularly bizarre--she randomly tracks down Donovon, cleanses his blood for some reason, instantly goes into a big "Here's my backstory" flashback sequence, finds out he was dumped, and kicks him out. Umm ok...

I did laugh when Angela Bassett immediately told Matt Bomer he could go when he said Gaga dumped him.

I also admire how Chloe Sevingy make make any line sound like she's in a 1900s farmstead drama.

Updated On: 10/22/15 at 09:37 AM

I'm still watching and appreciating some individual components. Some performances. Some design. But it's all really just Mr. Karp's funeral at this point. Then again, I'm not sure the viewer is supposed to feel anything.

Lily Rabe was quite good as Charlize Theron as Aileen Wournos, I thought. But yeah, matters like thinking of relatives of those serial killer victims who are alive to view this (but they probably have more sense than me) seem to be not something considered. That episode was written by Jennifer Salt. I DID like Twisty being cast as Gacy.

Well I won't. The only good thing has been are so many throw away references to other fantasy/horror et all that counting them has kept me going but now even that's become too BOO-ring. Now these are fun lyrics for horror/fantasy

The Borgias are having an orgy;
There’s a Borgia orgy tonight,
And isn’t it sickening
We’ve run out of Strychnine;
The gravy will have to have ground glass for thickening.

The poison Chianti is terribly scanty
But everything else is all right.
There’s ars’nic mixed in the mock turtle soup.
I’ve hidden an asp in the iced cantaloupe,
And straight Benzedrine in the apricot coupe
At the Borgia orgy tonight.

Our guests are exclusively chosen
From people who give us a pain.
The crème of the joke is the knowledge
That they won’t come here again.

We’ll all be most frightfully hearty
At the Borgia orgy tonight.
For the Duke’s eldest son
There’s a monstrous cream bun
Soaked in hot prussic acid;
It’s all good clean fun.

The tank in the ladies will blow them to Hades
If anyone turns on the light.
The bodies will fall through a trap door below
To the Tiber and drift out to sea on the flow.
We think we can promise a jolly good show
At the Borgia orgy tonight.

We revel in giving a party,
A fete or a fancy dress ball.
There’s always a nice game of bingo
And a good time had by all.

The Borgias are giving an orgy;
There’s a Borgia orgy tonight.
I’ve poison ptomaine that will wrack them with pain.
We’ve nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain.

We’re pushing some people
We know off a steeple;
It should be a wonderful sight.
We’ve bricked up some cousins of ours in a wall;
Their agonized cries won’t disturb us at all
As we sit here sipping our wormwood and gall—
(It’s delicious!)
At the Borgia Orgy tonight.

We’ve got all the nobles of Naples
For the Borgia orgy tonight.
The soup minestrone is frightfully phony,
And laudanum reeks in the stewed macaroni.
We’re feeling no pain when they eat the henbane
In the third tangerine from the right.

When the butler flings open the dining room door
There’s a cunning contraption concealed in the floor;
We wonder who’ll sit on the circular saw
At the Borgia orgy tonight.