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A24 Comedy ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Falters in Jump From YouTube Pilot to Full-Fledged Series: TV Review
Vivienne Medrano's hit crowdfunded pilot about the princess of Hell can't sustain its tone or build a convincing world as a proper series.
The animated comedy “ Hazbin Hotel ” has a feel-good backstory belied by its grim premise: a horde of demons suffer eternal damnation in Hell, their ranks periodically culled in mass exterminations led by armies from Heaven. But 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. As a prologue, protagonist Charlotte Morningstar (Erika Henningsen) gets us situated: she’s the Princess of Hell, the realm her parents Lilith and Lucifer (Jeremy Jordan) accidentally unleashed when they introduced free will to mankind via the tree of knowledge.
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