After an hour, it remains to be seen how Gaga will handle extended dialogue or emotional volatility, but she's initially just being asked to embody a visual conceit, which she does convincingly. She struts in high fashion with confidence, she does near-nudity without self-consciousness and she has a feral resemblance to Nosferatu star Max Schreck, which might seem accidental except that several characters attend a cemetery screening of the F.W. Murnau classic.
I hope the further on we go into the season, Gaga gets some lines. Or maybe not depending on how good or bad her acting is. By the sounds of things, in the premiere she's just a visual arc.
They seem like positive reviews just trashing Gaga's acting, but he role is meant to be mysterious and dark so who cares if she doesn't have much dialogue.
'American Horror Story: Hotel' review: Lady Gaga a perfect fit in gory, violent, seductive new season
Gaga fits perfectly into Ryan Murphy's tableau of horror-meets-sex-meets-death. Her eroticism may be lethal but also Gagaesque, abetted by a pair of nipple shields that look expensive and painful. How fitting Gaga waited until "AHS" to make her TV series debut.
Counts for Metacritic, it's 67 score, but they seem to have loved Gaga
The haters never win.
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They seem like positive reviews just trashing Gaga's acting, but he role is meant to be mysterious and dark so who cares if she doesn't have much dialogue.
there is literally ONE review that say that Gaga's visual aspect is PERFECT, but when she speaks it's not cute. Literally ONE.
Everything else is praising her HOW are they trashing her ?
Ryan Murphy has become a master of marketing through concept and casting, nowhere more so than in the “American Horror Story” franchise. Yet the latest edition of the FX series, subtitled “Hotel,” outdoes itself on that score by adding Lady Gaga to its high-profile repertory company, where the mantra seems to be, “The scenery’s free; eat all you can chew.” Gaga delivers only a few clipped lines of dialogue, but who cares? She’s gloriously photographed, in a venue where strands-of-hair placement are vital, plot scarcely matters, and sensual pleasures invariably go hand in hand with buckets of blood.
Whatever the shortcomings, the extraordinarily well-timed addition of Gaga to the mix should render any naysaying moot, practically speaking, establishing this as a sort-of event that plenty of people will feel obligated to check out (or in). Viewed that way, Gaga’s primary role is to help bait the hook, at one point describing the hotel to an outsider by purring, “Maybe this place is special.”
In the grand scheme of things — and especially the context of the previous “AHS” editions — it’s really not. But as is so often the case, if your party can assemble the right guest list, it doesn’t really matter how the conversation goes after that.
It seems like they brought Gaga in for the visuals, not for her acting capability, which is sounding quite lackluster at the moment, with hardly any dialogue.
Poor haters, she wins again.
Or maybe not depending on how good or bad her acting is. By the sounds of things, in the premiere she's just a visual arc.
HOW are they trashing her ?