American Horror Story: Hotel Season 5 [Blu-ray]
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
Normally I watch AHS in 24 hours. I have stayed up overnight watching the series because it’s so good and engaging. This time, either it changed or I did, and I wasn’t hooked by this series as I normally am.
I had a lot of expectations for this because Lady Gaga was in it, and she won and Emmy for her role, and I suppose I expected a lot. I hadn’t seen it by the time she won. Now I’ve seen it and I say with 100% confidence: she didn’t deserve it. Lady Gaga is a terrible actress, and it’s made even more obvious when she’s in a show with great actors like Chloe Sevigny, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson, and Kathy Bates. I felt like all she did was pose while playing herself and wearing fancy costumes. It’s not a stretch. Sadly, almost all of these actors didn’t have great roles in this season. The story just wasn’t as strong, I guess, or the characters were too 1-dimensional. As a horror story, this time the season felt more along the lines of “Saw” than previous versions of AHS.
The one saving grace of this season was Evan Peters as Mr. March. For him alone, I’d give this 5-stars. His portrayal was amazing and I watch clips of him as Mr March on YouTube all the time.- A. Walker
All of the American Horror Story seasons are a guilty pleasure, including this one. This season isn’t as good as the other seasons, but it’s still watchable. I found that it had some interesting moments that held my interest, but then it had moments where it dragged into dullness. Half the actors are great and breathed quite a bit of life into their characters, while the rest were too bland. The good ones were Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Dennis O’Hare, Chloe Sevigny, and Mare Winningham. The rest sucked the life out of the writing, which wasn’t top notch this season to begin with. Lily Rabe had a small role in this one, but she should have been cast as the Countess. That was too large of a role for Lady Gaga to tackle. Gaga had a cameo in the season after this and she was good in that because it was small enough to handle, but this season was too meaty of a role to give her. She held back instead of going to town with it. You could tell she was almost trying to hold her breath in scenes to look hard and tough, but it just came off cheesy and on the level of those bad B movie soft core pieces with the poor acting. While this season was good for the most part, there were too many lulls to keep it exciting. This felt like it was all over the place, disjointed, and pointless in so many areas even though it mildly held my interest, yet it left me mumbling in the end, “What a boring mess.” The maker of AHS said after Jessica Lange left this show that his dream cast would be Michelle Pfeiffer and Reese Witherspoon. They would be killer in AHS without a doubt, but can’t imagine they would’ve said yes to this season. Hotel could have been so much better and more exciting than it was especially with more accomplished versatile actors in the main lead roles.- K Dude
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Dylan McDermott, Evan Peters
Format: AC-3, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English (DTS 5.1), French (DTS 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Dubbed: French
Region: Region A/1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: October 4, 2016
Run Time: 78 minutes
ASIN: B01D3RP3K8
