Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
And so that was Hotel. Oddly ushered off into AHS oblivion by an overly-sentimental epilogue-y finale. As this series is wont to do. Every season so far has wrapped things up with a mostly feel-good, time-jump filled, faint finish that works to close off every avenue previously explored. Whether the arc was worth revisiting or not.
I will say though, Denis O'Hare's Liz was always great this year. And so her being the cornerstone for most of this episode was a good idea. Because if anyone could get me to care about the Cortez, as a "fresh start/rebirth" opportunity, it's her. It's too bad that she still had to pine for Tristan when that relationship was never an investable thing, story-wise, but overall it was a good run for her. Right to the suicide by "room full of phantom friends" end (complete with Marianne Faithfull's "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan").
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And so that was Hotel. Oddly ushered off into AHS oblivion by an overly-sentimental epilogue-y finale. As this series is wont to do. Every season so far has wrapped things up with a mostly feel-good, time-jump filled, faint finish that works to close off every avenue previously explored. Whether the arc was worth revisiting or not.
I will say though, Denis O'Hare's Liz was always great this year. And so her being the cornerstone for most of this episode was a good idea. Because if anyone could get me to care about the Cortez, as a "fresh start/rebirth" opportunity, it's her. It's too bad that she still had to pine for Tristan when that relationship was never an investable thing, story-wise, but overall it was a good run for her. Right to the suicide by "room full of phantom friends" end (complete with Marianne Faithfull's "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan").
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