SummaryCharlie (voiced by Erika Henningsen), the princess of Hell opens a hotel where demons can rehabilitate and find a way into Heaven in the adult animated musical comedy created by Vivienne Medrano.
SummaryCharlie (voiced by Erika Henningsen), the princess of Hell opens a hotel where demons can rehabilitate and find a way into Heaven in the adult animated musical comedy created by Vivienne Medrano.
Season 2 looks to be another successful season of original, entertaining, thought-provoking animation and toe-tapping tunes from the brilliant brain of Vivienne Medrano.
Hazbin Hotel outperformed every expectation I had for the series. It builds wonderfully on the groundwork of the pilot and Helluva Boss, driving a truly unique story about redemption while laying out interwoven mysteries. The cast shines, bringing to life creator Vivienne Medrano’s world in something so special.
The results are not always perfect, but the songs are uniformly magnificent, and they smooth over some of the show's edges. In addition, everyone in the "Hazbin Hotel" voice cast is exceptional, and the animation of all these strange places and people is inventive, odd, and often endearing.
Each outlandish episode is filled with wicked wit and even busts out with a bit of song and dance. A revolving team of guest voices descend to these fiery pits of what will likely turn into a cult sensation.
In more than one way, Hazbin Hotel is teetering between something great and completely mishandling its core themes, depending on how several prominent storylines end. How the show follows up now will either make or break it.
The ambition and inventiveness Medrano brings to the series is commendable. Perhaps in the already greenlit second season, Hazbin will slow down and find its groove—that is, if viewers aren’t too put off by the firehose exposition of the first few episodes.
While “Hazbin Hotel” has the aesthetic accomplishment one would expect of a longtime animator given the chance to realize her vision, it’s less successful in translating the pilot’s big, abstract ideas into a legible world with a cogent tone.
Hazbin Hotel's art style is a top notch blend of Disney and 30s animation, with a touch of genndy tartakovsky - a true joy to watch, with some of the strongest character design I've seen recently as well. The overall mix made me think of a Nightmare before Christmas in some sort of hellish Moulin Rouge setting, very peculiar. The voice acting is also brilliant, dialogues are well written and some of the themes hinted at are actually mature. It's a shame that the narrative itself isn't particularly mature, every character is hyper pretty much all the time and they swear constantly, making the show feel like a restless adolescent. If Hazbin Hotel took its time to explore more deeply its main theme - I'd say power play, since most characters here struck a deal with one devil or another - it would have been a true gem. Also the main idea of the screenplay isn't really developed (minor spoilers ahead): Charlie runs a hotel where damned souls can redeem themselves and avoid heavenly exterminations, but she just fails, and they end up fighting the legions of heaven in a good ol' final battle, making the show premise a bit pointless. Anyway. Amazing animation style (and Alastor is exactly as charismatic as it's meant to be) and some great music numbers (could maybe tone that down to one per episode). Curious about season 2!
horrible series, boring and uninteresting characters, bland music, angel dust is undoubtedly the worst character I've ever encountered, the worst series I've watched in my life