'American Horror Story: Hotel' Review: Sex, Drugs And Gaga, It’s gotten to the point in Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story authorization area we acceptable accustomed faces, apprehensive how they’ll be costumed and accessorized: Oooh, look, Sarah Paulson is cutting a albino alarm wig and the asleep beam of a junkie! Denis O’Hare is bathrobe as a woman called Liz Taylor and account James Joyce’s Ulysses! Kathy Bates is cutting big, Swifty Lazar-style glasses and manning the foreground board of the Hotel Cortez!That Los Angeles architecture is a beautifully designed, Art Deco appearance pile, and Murphy, who directed the aboriginal episode, makes his camera coast forth the attic of the hallways, the bigger to accent the Hotel Cortez’s all-inclusive gloom, and admonish you of Stanley Kubrick’s agnate shots in The Shining. In the premiere, there are lots of new yet accustomed faces, a lot of noticeably Lady Arbitrary as a arbitrary adaptation of a 1940s boxy ample who looks at a attractive guy and delivers a band with hardboiled-novel imagery: “Your boy has a jaw-line for days.”
he new AHS is, alas, mostly an exercise in style. Its chiffon plot, at atomic this aboriginal in its game, is something larboard over from a bad Ross Macdonald novel: dejected detective (Wes Bentley) analytic for clues to murders while aswell apparitional by a son who abolished years ago. The adventure culminates with a abominable arena set to the alarming music of the Eagles’ “Hotel California.” That best is a little too on-the-nose; Ryan Murphy could use a new music director: Wouldn’t Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” accept been added apposite?
“Maybe this abode is special,” says Arbitrary at one point. The jury’s still out on that one, Lady.
American Horror Story: Hotel affectedness Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX.
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