American Horror Story: Hotel is just so hard to physically watch

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http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/ame...vom-1735455894

"There’s so much rape, so much f*cking, and so much blood that even normal things in the show begin to look disgusting,” says Puja Patel. "You squirm at the sight of a perfectly regular plate of sushi, and cringe at the sight of a drug addict slathering lipstick all over her face. Some might say that’s a success of the show—that it’s so viscerally gross that even fans can only prepare themselves for the worst—but it mostly plays like the sort of torture porn that fit better when it showed up in Coven (via a racist women torturing her slaves) or Asylum (via the cruel experiments carried out on the mentally unsound). Here, without context, watching someone get raped while being forced to declare his love to the person allowing it is a less logical and even cruder display.” PLUS: Ryan Murphy needs to stop with his unpleasant shock-and-awe storytelling of attrition, and Hotel has a huge debut with 5.8 million viewers.