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Lately I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of articles about how\u00a0American Horror Story: Hotel<\/em>\u00a0is like the worst thing ever aired. All sorts of flippity-floo about how Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have gone too far in their push-the-envelope style of depictions of sex and gore, use of taboo concepts like homosexuality and transgendered people, how Lady Gaga is more or less portraying what people think Lady Gaga is, which is a weirdo who likes to do things for shock value, and how the franchise is undeniably dead with the fact that Jessica Lange (supposedly) has left.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps I don\u2019t analyze things so much when I\u2019m watching them, or more likely the fact that I\u2019m just not really thinking too hard, but I haven\u2019t had any problems with AHS:Hotel so far, and I\u2019ve found them to be entertaining.\u00a0 For baseline sake, I found\u00a0Freak Show<\/em>\u00a0to be entertaining, in spite of the popular belief that it was the weakest of the four prior seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n In some regard, I think I\u2019m a little desensitized when it comes to shock, gore and sex depicted on television, and I\u2019m more apt to ponder on whether or not someone, be it show creators, or someone at FX is going to get in trouble for pushing the envelope as hard as they\u2019ve been pushing it, but when I\u2019m watching people getting their throats slit and\/or sexually assaulted, I might cringe and go \u201cOhhhh\u201d but it\u2019s nothing that\u2019s going to mentally scar me for eternity, as the rhetoric spouted by Parent Television Council sheep would have you believe it should.\u00a0 If anything at all, just seeing \u201cMurphy\/Falchuk\u201d combined with the fact that it\u2019s on FX, by now, anyone should know that they\u2019re going to see some pretty intense stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sure, I was disappointed when it was announced that Jessica Lange was going to step away from the series, because it\u2019s been undeniable just who had carried the franchise on her back over the last four years.\u00a0 But all things eventually change, and it\u2019s not like she left because of money, or some selfish reasons that created a massive fallout with Ryan Murphy; she simply wanted to step away and get some time back, where she wasn\u2019t obligated to work for a show.\u00a0 The door is open for her to return, and there\u2019s already rumors that she\u2019s going to appear as a cameo this season.<\/span><\/p>\n At the same time, Lange\u2019s departure has opened the door for any one of the other show mainstays to grab the mantle and put the show on their back.\u00a0 Evan Peters or Sarah Paulson, and even possibly Kathy Bates or the ageless Angela Bassett, could very well rise up and absolutely become that character whom commanded attention, and said things with such conviction and venom that maybe we\u2019ll move on from Jessica Lange.<\/span><\/p>\n When Lady Gaga was announced to be in the show, I recall that there was a lot of outcry or pessimistic skepticism towards her participation in the show; or at least a very vocal camp of those who disagreed with her casting.\u00a0 However, I would say that I was in the camp that was optimistic, and thought that if there was anyone who could dampen the loss of Jessica Lange, it would be someone like Lady Gaga whom sure, has never really acted in a large project like AHS, but has presence, charisma and an obvious lack of fear when it comes to doing pretty much anything on screen.\u00a0 So far, I have to say that I haven\u2019t been disappointed with her performance; to no surprise, her dialogue has been minimal, and has let visuals, intense stares and other actions do all the speaking for her.<\/span><\/p>\n Inevitably, the combination of Ryan Murphy\u2019s love of musical numbers, the glam setting of the Hotel Cortez, and the show\u2019s basic cashing in on having Lady Gaga is going to result in some sort of musical performance in the season, and it\u2019s probably going to be really awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, I think people need to mellow out, turn off their brains or something, and just sit back and enjoy the program.\u00a0 Overanalyzing plot and comparing this season to prior seasons results in nothing but a recipe for disappointment.\u00a0 We\u2019re just two episodes in, and it\u2019s vastly way too soon to be casting such definitive judgment on a show that\u2019s still not even close to blossoming yet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of articles about how\u00a0American Horror Story: Hotel\u00a0is like the worst thing ever aired. 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