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American Horror Story : Hotel | First Teaser | Lady Gaga joins the cast

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RatskyWatsky

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Okay? A hotel? That's...interesting. How does the top hat clue from season four equate a hotel theme though? Another period piece perhaps? Is he trying for, like, a Grand Hotel/Grand Budapest Hotel type thing?

Lady Gaga though? As the lead? I know know about that. I haven't heard anything about her (thus far) very small acting career, so maybe she'll surprise us like at the Oscars?

braves01 said:
With American Horror Story, a new Lady Gaga project is aptly titled for once.
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lol

Kain said:
They still doing this?
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It's one of the biggest shows on cable tv.
 
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Funky Papa said:
So... was Freakshow any good? I still have to finish Coven...
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Dexter season 8
 
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Enco

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Can't imagine it being on the level of Asylum but I'll watch.

Asylum has some of the best TV I have ever seen.
 
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BertramCooper

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Yeah, I'm done with AHS. Got through four eps of Freak Show and was bored to tears.

I've put up with a lot of garbage from AHS, but when the show got boring, that was the last straw.
 
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braves01

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They need to do a hard, hard reset with new writers, directors, actors, etc. I don't want horror anthology to be totally gone though.
 
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3phemeral

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TheJollyCorner said:
how can anyone be sick of Lange?

She's master-class and is a joy to watch perform. :{


I hope Chiklis is back.
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Because she plays the same character whose arc seems to coincide with the decline of the overall story.
Coven and her ghost lover, Freakshow and her useless climb to fame and fortune only for it to ultimately not matter at all.
 
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Fenderputty

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RatskyWatsky said:
It's horrible. Worse than Coven. The main thing was just that it was so uninspired and boring.
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I think overall I enjoyed freakshow more than Coven, but things like excessive musical numbers and characters I didn't care about brought it back to Coven's level in the end. Or at least close to it. I fucking hated Coven. I think both of the last couple of seasons saw a ton of wasted potential.

TheJollyCorner said:
how can anyone be sick of Lange?

She's master-class and is a joy to watch perform. :{


I hope Chiklis is back.
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Not really her exactly, but the show has catered to her desires the last couple of years. Musicals. Love stories. Show could use some freshness to it. Part of that is no more Lange.
 
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Hope it's like the real life hotel in downtown LA where that Canadian Chinese girl was freaking out in the elevator, was later found dead in the water tank that serviced the hotel. Turns out that the hotel has had a past of murders and suicides including serial murderer Richard Ramirez.

Edit: Cecil Hotel is the name, scary shit.
http://youtu.be/oaxzFKPWdf4
 
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Funky Papa

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Ekdrm2d1 said:
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RatskyWatsky said:
It's horrible. Worse than Coven. The main thing was just that it was so uninspired and boring.
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Miles Quaritch said:
At least Dex season 8 was entertaining.

Freakshow couldn't even manage that during its low points.
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That is not good.

NOT GOOD.

I don't know where things went wrong, but there was a time when AHS was never a boring show. Schlocky, yes, stupid, sure at a number of times, but never boring.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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Funky Papa said:
I don't know where things went wrong, but there was a time when AHS was never a boring show. Schlocky, yes, stupid, sure at a number of times, but never boring.
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This is the main thing - Coven, as terrible as it was, still had Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates chewing through every scene like ravenous goats; it had Francis Conroy playing the theremin; Gabourey Sidibe fucked a minotaur offscreen; the phrase "witch bitch" was uttered; there were two Stevie Nicks music videos thrown in there for some inexplicable reason; Coven was hardly boring.

Freakshow, on the other hand, had nothing of worth. Maybe one or two side characters - a scene here or there. But it was largely absent of anything worthwhile. It was a complete waste of air time.
 
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Matt_

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ThatStupidLion

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may catch the first episode or two...but really disinterested in this series after the 3 + 4 stink bombs....

i dont know how you fuck up witches and freakshow themes but they were boring as all shit.

it's like they try not to be scary and just use the concept of horror as the backdrop for the gushy drama

the titles/openings are typically the scariest thing about the most recent seasons
 
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Deified Data

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Funky Papa said:
So... was Freakshow any good? I still have to finish Coven...
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It was better than Coven (just stop now), but not good enough to inspire confidence in the future of the series. I'm done with AHS unless reception to Hotel is 100% raving positivity.

HP_Wuvcraft said:
AHS' main problem is the problem with every Ryan Murphy show post-Nip/Tuck: he just gets bored after the first few episodes.
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Perfect summary, really. He falls in love with a certain time period or aesthetic that plays out over the first 3-4 episodes of every season, and then just coasts to the end from there. AHS exists as a vehicle for imagery that Murphy finds appealing. Once he's had a German Jessica Lange sing Lana Del Rey in a circus tent, he's satisfied. The narrative, especially the conclusion, is secondary.
 
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BokehKing

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Nothing has been as good as season 1 with the haunted house

Hopefully a haunted hotel is a return to its roots

(season 2 was the only other good season)
 
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Matt_

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Reading that article I honestly forgot that freakshow even existed for a moment
 
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Moff

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the first half of season 2 was amazing, but it really overstayed it's welcome.
I might start with season 3 though after finishing daredevil on netflix, but I'm not really sure when everyone think it gets only worse.
 
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User 479360

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This is the first time I've heard about Hotel. It could be interesting, but I have my doubts and don't have much interest in seeing Gaga on the small screen. Perhaps she'll end up being good in it, though.

Freak Show was crap, and was hard to watch at times. It went next to nowhere, wasn't scary and made me wish I was watching something else. I've yet to see Coven, though, and am currently four episodes away from finishing Asylum.

The first season, Murder House, is leaps and bounds ahead of Freak Show and quite a bit better than Asylum in my opinion. Asylum is too silly at times, doesn't have much of a hook and just isn't all that interesting. Apparently Coven is worse. Murder House was great, then things went south.

They shouldn't have included aliens in Asylum, and should've focused it more. Granted, I'm not done it yet, but it's a bit of a slog.

I kind of wish they'd change the cast up and not use Lange so much. She's good, and I respect her, but I'm just not all that interested in this actors changing roles thing anymore.
 
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Aliens are in Asylum for the same reason Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull uses them - they're a hallmark of '50s pop culture.
 
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I don't know if I want to put myself through watching Coven. I haven't heard good things, and its TV spots looked stupid.

The completionist inside of me wants to watch it all, though.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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FrsDvl said:
http://m.ibtimes.co.in/american-hor...aled-who-are-you-most-excited-see-poll-630237

The whole cast was revealed a couple days ago apparently.
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Interesting.

Evan Peters as The Prowler
Peters will be seen as a mysterious young man that hangs around the hotel and dark alley ways.

Sara Paulson as Janis Joplin
In "Hotel" she will portray a rock-star who checks into the hotel, unaware of the terrifying events that await her.

Kathy Bates as Claudia DeVeau
Bates plays a devoted agent of Janis who will do absolutely anything in her power to keep Janis' name untainted.

Finn Wittrock as Chap Newton
Newton is a happily engaged man, who out of some bad luck, decides to spend a night at the Hotel.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Martina McBride
The acclaimed actress will play the role of the Hotel's previous owner Martina McBride.

Lily Rabe as Annabelle Evergreen
Rabe will play the current owner of the "Hotel", who is slowly losing her sanity, thanks to the supernatural events that occur there.

Alexander Skarsgård as Joshua Evergreen
Joshua Evergreen is the supportive and loving husband of the young Hotel-owner Annabelle.

Angela Bassett as Lolita Jones
Bassett plays a jazz singer who regularly performs at the bar of the "Hotel".

Denis O'Hare as Leo Maxwell
O'Hare will play the role of a bartender at the Hotel, who is a very close friend of Lolita.

Lady Gaga as Elisa Starr
Gaga plays the role of a popular lounge singer, who is pitted against Lolita and is always competing with her for popularity.

Matt Bomer as Terry Castro
Bomer plays a tedious bellboy who is always on the look-out for trouble and keeps an eye out for everyone.

Tammy Blanchard as Theresa Faulkner
Theresa Faulkner is the strict and bitter head maid of the Hotel who secretly has the habit of peeping in on the guests.

Frances Conroy as Maude Madelyn
Conroy's Maude Madelyn is an imitator of Marilyn Monroe. She has an affinity for younger men and murder.

Cheyenne Jackson as Thimas Seabras
Seabras is a bellboy of the Hotel who loves to gossip and is seen engaging in strange and suspicious behaviour.

Grace Gummer as Emma Lam
Emma Lam is a maid at the hotel who is seen engaging in strange activities.

Wes Bentley as Father Dominic Deon
Father Deon is a happy-go-lucky leader of a group who is as curious as they are religious.

Donald Sutherland as father Abner Gates
Father Gates is a priest that tries to cleanse the Hotel of its impurities and bad spirits. However, his efforts end very badly.

Steven Weber as Ray Ottoman
Weber's Ottoman is a Hotel inspector, who is despised by the Hotel staff.

Chloë Sevigny as Lois Deon
A woman with a dark past, who is now living seemingly happy as a homemaker.

Michael Chiklis as Dr Nelson Brackett
Dr Drackett is an intelligent scientist who is out of work and is desperate to find a job soon.

Christine Estabrook as Abigail White
White is a Realtor of the Hotel.
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Those character names...
 
Astral Dog

Astral Dog

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I watched American Horror for the first time a few weeks ago, started with season 4, loved the intro, music, theme, etc.and the first few episodes had genuinely creepy moments, specially the clown, such a shame
he dies after the third.

But then you go to the plot and characters wich were a big dissapointment, like the writters know how to do horror but instead want to make a campy, character driven, comedic series, and its just not good, plot points get behind after one episode, characters can be entertaining but also just a joke, silly, boring drama, etc.

Tried season 1 and 3 but didnt liked them, season 2 is the best, but still has a lot of flaws, overall the show shines on how it looks imo.
 
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Matt_

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Just jesus that fucking cast, so much prestige
Also when did Alexander skasgard get cast?
 
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