AHS: Hotel returns tonight with episode 11, “Battle Royale,” the first of the final three episodes. Here’s what you need to remember from 2015.
Welcome back to the Hotel Cortez! Though the audience may be in a New Year, AHS: Hotel cannot step into a fresh start quite as easily. As we gear up for the final stretch of AHS: Hotel here is a quick run down of who is dead, who is alive, and who still needs to make their grand entrance.
Vampires? Vampires
Going directly against Ryan Murphy’s insistence that the undead, blood-lusting, non-photogenic are vampires, let’s just say they are very close descendants. There are quite a few of the blood virus afflicted trapped inside the halls of the Hotel Cortez, though their number have rapidly diminished since the conclusion of episode 10. Tristan, Tristan’s look-alike Valentino, Natacha, Wren, and presumably all of the infected children are gone.
Both the Countess and Donovan ended their screen time as the victims of poor music placement and gun-wielding women. Liz Taylor and Iris took matters into their own hands as they eliminated their vices, but can vampir blood virus carriers return as ghosts in this world?
Making a murderer
No, not the hit Netflix series that everyone binged this holiday season. The other one. The one that exists inside the AHS: Hotel universe and involves Evan Peters’ Mr. March controlling Sally like a puppet, who in turn sends John Lowe on murderous endeavors. Somnambulism is John’s vice and the perfect alibi for his turn as the Ten Commandments Killer. But March sees a future beyond 10 killings. John, however, rejects his newly awakened identity and walks away from Hotel leaving Sally to the wrath of her addiction demon, one that March kept at bay as long as she cooperated.
Parenting 101
In the running for worst television parents in the history of the small screen, Detective John Lowe and his estranged blood virus wife, Alexis, are back together. Reunited at last with his son Holden, John and Alexis teamed up to stop a group of killer children that Alexis accidentally set on the loose in the greater Los Angeles area. (And yet somehow the Countess thought she was the best choice for a nanny of her hoard of lost children.)
Trapping them inside the steel halls of the Cortez with an extremely hungry Ramona, the children are most likely rotting away after proving to be a delicious appetizer for the blood thirsty superstar. Now that the duo have their son, they are off to live a life of peace and comfort. Does that includes their abandoned daughter? Probably not.
Where does this leave us?
A few final questions hang in the air as we await the return of AHS: Hotel.
- When will Emma Roberts make her debut?
- Did Iris and Liz Taylor succeed in killing Donovan and the Countess?
- Will the rest of the season be all about Liz Taylor telling stories at the Blue Parrot? No objection here.
- Is everyone doomed to haunt the Cortez forever? Iris may need to call Melissa McCarthy and her ghostbuster team.
- Can we finally get some more insight to the terms of Sally and Mr. March’s agreement?
Answers to all of this, and hopefully more, will arrive in the final three weeks of AHS: Hotel.
Watch AHS: Hotel episode 11, “Battle Royale,” tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.