‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ episode 10 review: Death and all his friends
Imagine “Death and All His Friends” by Coldplay playing instead of Drake’s “Hotline Bling” on tonight’s “American Horror Story: Hotel” episode, the final one of 2015. While the Drake song oddly worked for Donovan’s dance sequence, the other certainly describes better the circumstances of so many people on the show after tonight’s massacre
RIP the kids – Somehow, all it took was Alex becoming undead and John managing to take care of the army of bloodthirsty kids for these two to fall back in love with each other. While John is the Ten Commandments Killer, he didn’t actually do the killing himself in this case; instead, he allowed Ramona the honor while she is off waiting for whatever is going to come next for her. She is in revenge limbo, a place that the series left us in general after the events tonight.
RIP the Countess? – Liz Taylor and Iris are now convinced that rather than dying, their best-case scenario is to run the Cortez and create a new life for themselves. Their way of doing that? Finding a way to gun down the Countess for good. This battle marked the end of the episode, and came after a battle in which Donovan ensured that Valentino is no longer in the picture. Basically, Finn Wittrock has been forced to die this season.
We suppose that we should mention that Will Drake is off somewhere being a ghost, just like we also should mention that this episode brought Liz coming together with her son and realizing that she wants to be a grandmother. The truth is that there were some super-entertaining / super-crazy moments over the course of the hour, but sometimes this sort of stuff only works when it makes sense. We get the motivation for Iris and Liz; we don’t understand the John / Alex relationship at all, why Mr. March continues to just bark at people to do things, and why we had so much madness with the kids only for their story to have a lame ending like this. An inconsistent finale, to say the least, but at least one with a few good moments. Grade: B-.
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