Man up. Watch it. The AV club is like the "tough love" teacher who would never give an A. This episode, solid B to B-. with Schumer's monologue, the first half of the airplane sketch, and the Gun coommercial all A+++

If you watched the end credits, Taran Killam helps Minaj onto stage, and Beck Bennet eye-fives Killam — they both found that really awesome, and I found it one of the funniest things of the night. Plus, the GUN commercial is an instant classic which, sadly, will keep its impact in the years to come as the NRA keeps…

Lynch has a body of work, as does Cronenberg, that at least merits serious study. This show is technicolor gore to help sell products to hipsters who are too young to even know the movies/shows Murphy/Falchuk have stolen from.

It was gratuitous. You know what resonates? A character we care for being killed by his demons. You know what shocks? A character we don't know, and won't learn to care about, who is raped to death by a metaphor that is so weak it has to be learned about in an interview, not from the show itself. (Weeks later I'm…

Go cold turkey off of the Murphy/Falchuk addiction. There are plenty of other great new shows out there, and if you're up for horror/suspense, hundreds of examples of excellent films that M/F shamelessly ripoff and somehow call an homage. Shame, if we had better shows for Kathy Bates (or Jessica Lange!) these fine…

This year I finally took that book that had been on my shelf for years, "Truffaut/Hitchcock." It was like years of film school packed into a few hundred pages. Last night, watching the horrible new AHS premiere, one of Hitchcock's most important and signature theories/truths (because he proved it true by making it…

It's all Grand Guignol - style over substance. Even back in the Nip/Tuck days I felt like I owed myself a shower after each episode.

Hate brought on by years of betrayal to the viewers, who expected storylines that wouldn't quit out of convenience to the writers having painted themselves into dramatic corners. The hate is earned, and many of us stuck with Murphy/Falchuk long enough to appear foolish.

PS: The Hunger has taken on such quaint status, it seems like an old school 40's Universal horror movie by comparison to this horrible ripoff of a show.

Homage is generous. It was a scene by scene ripoff - substituting the cemetery for the dance club. BTW, If you've been to LA, you'll know that they actually show movies in that cemetery, which sounds like fun.

To learn the definition of ripoff, as opposed to homage, see any Murphy/Falchuk miasma, but "Hotel" seems to be their craft honed to its most shorthand style. To analyze this show, let alone recount its stolen beats, takes more time than fast forwarding this dreck, so I'll keep it brief: Stolen: The Shining, The…

Nice point about the Happy Birthday song. Did you see that recently, FINALLY, that piece of music has entered the public domain? It's free now. In a way that's too bad. Not sure if you've noticed, but in the past couple years, in movies and TV, the writers have been inventing their own birthday songs. It was nice…

Guys, let's remember that the military, in an obvious Katrina comparison, LOCKED THE DOORS OF THE ARENA with even the non-zombies inside. Don't be so quick to let the military off the hook. WD has always been about man's inhumanity to his fellow man, and the inevitable question - if this is now life, is it worth…

Nickname for Nick, and let's see if we can make it stick? JUNKIE DEPP.

The fact that I really liked Liza sneaked up on me, as really good fiction can sometimes make happen. Like when Dale got it in Walking Dead — you got a sense of tragic loss, if only from the comfort of the living room couch. This episode had the moments and feelings that the first five had been lacking, and perhaps…

Exactly. Camp for the sake of camp? "Horror" "Comedy?" This show, like so many Murphy/Falchuk shows, fails on a level that confuses me when they get new shows.

I hate this show so much I can't even hate watch it now. The Murphy/Falchuk "brand" has done irreparable damage to itself, and it's about time others began to notice. Its roots can be found as far back as Nip/Tuck — simply, M/F love themselves in the "art" more than the "art." They invent (usually) interesting…

A strong pilot. Lots of potential. Michaela Watkins is a national treasure who excels at batty comedy, sitcom comedy, and now dramedy. Her centeredness as the analyst felt fresh for some reason - maybe it was a woman full of empathy and expertise who isn't portrayed as an ice queen or unattainable in some other way?

Fred Savage adapted amazingly from awkward in the pilot to spot-on in episode two. Turns out he will be a perfect foil to Lowe as the series progresses. And please, more Mary Elizabeth Ellis! Charlie's waitress is funny and very sexy. Hopefully for once one of her shows (other than Sunny) will take off!

"While the meat of the episode lies in the mounting parallels between Trump and Garrison"….PLEASE tell me you had double entendre in mind when discussing an episode that literally had Garrison kill Trump via sodomy!