"Animated comedy for adults should be a limitless playground for the world's brightest comic imaginations and sometimes it is, but it is also a genre that has been bloated by bland, empty calories inessential shows that viewers leave running in the background while they potter or doomscroll. To the teetering pile of landfill entertainment can be added Haunted Hotel, Netflix's new comedy about, unsurprisingly, a haunted hotel."
"As you ponder whether or not to put it on your watchlist, push the giants of cartoon sitcom out of your mind: showrunner Matt Roller has episodes of Rick and Morty on his CV, but Haunted Hotel doesn't have the fizzing imaginative leaps of that series, nor does it deliver the finely honed, classic comedy of The Simpsons, the lewd snark of Family Guy or the black profundity of BoJack Horseman."
"Instead, it is, at best, quite funny. It has lines that conform to the familiar shape of jokes. Some of the synapses you associate with laughter will experience mild stimulus. If you don't like this gag, another will be along in a minute, and although you probably also won't like that one, you won't strongly dislike it either. This show is relentlessly, endlessly OK."
"Our setting is the Undervale hotel, which suffers from a poor location, terrible decor and a lack of professional staff, but that's not why it has very few guests. It's haunted! It is crawling with ghosts, ghouls, demons and spooky supernatural phenomena. At first, it seems we are in a Ghosts rip-off, as the resident spirits offer an unpredictable blend of assistance and hindrance."
Haunted Hotel is an adult animated sitcom set in the run-down Undervale hotel, which has few guests because it is crawling with ghosts, ghouls, demons and supernatural phenomena. The showrunner Matt Roller brings experience from Rick and Morty, but the series lacks the same imaginative leaps and does not match the classic comedy, lewd snark or dark profundity of established cartoon sitcoms. Humor lands in short, familiar joke shapes that produce mild amusement rather than strong laughter. The resident spirits alternate between help and hindrance and fixate on small perks, producing a tone that is persistently average.
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