American Horror Story: Hotel Is Tedious, Insufferable, and Occasionally Exhilarating
If nothing else, American Horror Story: Hotel represents a brazen doubling-down. The premiere plays as if the anthologys creators listed every element that detractors have bitched about under the heading Stuff Well Do More Of. The Shining, Village of the Damned, Dont Look Now, Barton Fink (partly a horror film, especially the last act), Se7en,