American
Horror Story: Hotel, aka the fourth season of the show, dropped last
night. We got to meet the detective on the hunt for a serial killer,
the two foreign girls who checked in and never checked out, and of
course, the bad acting of Lady Gaga. Having watched the season
premier, I think I can finally list the top five best, worst, and
most shocking/disturbing moments from the episode.
There's
something in the bed!
Two
Swedish girls arrive at the hotel and quickly find out that it looks
nothing like they expected. After learning from the less than happy
Kathy Bates that there are no refunds, they decide to go ahead and
stick it out. Cut to one of the girls seeing something weird with the
bed and the other ripping off the sheets to reveal a set of jagged
stitches across the middle of the mattress. Since the Swedes have
more balls than us, one of the gals attacks the stitches with a
knife, which just makes the situation worse as one of the creepiest
and most disturbing men of all time literally crawls right out of the
mattress.
The
longest sex and murder scene ever.
Matt
Bomer and Lady Gaga are a couple who are either vampires or serial
killers or some type of vampire/serial killer hybrid. They get all
gussied up and head out for a night at the outdoor movies, where Matt
promptly begins making eyes at another woman and Gaga makes eyes at
the woman's boyfriend. Cut to the four of them coming back to the
hotel for what could pass for an orgy. After what seems like forever,
Gaga finally slices open the man's throat with the sharp metal nail
at the end of one finger. The whole scene just left me wishing it
would end and that we could just get to the good stuff. I really
think it went on a little too long.
Don't
do drugs kids.
Later
on, we finally get some back story on some of the characters we
already met. Hypodermic Sally spends much of the episode roaming
around the hotel and doing very little, other than get in the way of
Kathy Bates' Iris, the front desk manager. Towards the end of the
episode, we find out that she was a junkie who brought Donovan (aka
Bomer) back to the hotel, gave him drugs, and pretty much laughed
when he died. Iris showed up to save her son from the evil woman and
already found him dead. As Hypodermic Sally goes wandering through
the hotel, she pauses to look out the window, giving Iris just enough
time to shove her out the window. It was a completely unexpected
moment made even better by the look on her face as she landed on the
ground below.
Metal
dildos are way bad.
Gabriel
checks into the hotel for a little drug action of his own, only to
see something truly gruesome when he shoots himself up. A figure
comes out of the shadows wearing little more than a large metal dildo
attached to a pair of underwear. That figure proceeds to attack,
knock him to the bed, flip him over, and have his way with him, much
to the shock and wanting to scream of my boyfriend and myself.
I'm
so far not a big fan of Lady Gaga and that was before I learned that
she plays one of my favorite horror icons of all time. I know she'll
get tons of recognition for the role and that people probably already
love her, but she doesn't do it for me...yet. I do, however, look
forward to learning more about John Lowe and what happened to his son
as well as what will happen with his serial killer, though I hope it
doesn't turn into too much going on like with the second season. And
I want to give a shout out to Denis O'Hare. Just when I thought I
couldn't like him anymore, he turns up here as Liz Taylor with
perfect accessories and a bored look on his face. How can you not
love him?
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