Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
I suppose there's always some sort of satisfaction to be found with American Horror Story on a purely puzzle piece level. You know, the same way people watch empty procedurals for the all the twists and turns that come with solving a murder case. Here, it's all about the separate histories connected to each of the weird, wild happenings within The Cortez. So when things start falling into place - when answers start flooding in - business picks up.
No, I'm not saying that Hotel has created any real reason to care about any of the characters, just that when backstory gets filled in, especially one as fun as Evan Peters playing sadistic hotel builder James March (a character based, in part, on Chiacgo torture hotel builder H.H. Holmes), one can easily find themselves drawn into a ghoulishly fun side story. I mentioned at the end of my review last week that the hotel setting would, in the very least, allow for many historic one-off horror moments.
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I suppose there's always some sort of satisfaction to be found with American Horror Story on a purely puzzle piece level. You know, the same way people watch empty procedurals for the all the twists and turns that come with solving a murder case. Here, it's all about the separate histories connected to each of the weird, wild happenings within The Cortez. So when things start falling into place - when answers start flooding in - business picks up.
No, I'm not saying that Hotel has created any real reason to care about any of the characters, just that when backstory gets filled in, especially one as fun as Evan Peters playing sadistic hotel builder James March (a character based, in part, on Chiacgo torture hotel builder H.H. Holmes), one can easily find themselves drawn into a ghoulishly fun side story. I mentioned at the end of my review last week that the hotel setting would, in the very least, allow for many historic one-off horror moments.
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