I’ve heard some mixed reviews, I personally think the concept is interesting but I haven’t actually seen anything besides like, 10 minutes of episode 4. I’m not expecting anything exceptionally deep or even that great, I was just wondering if it was even fun to watch.
It’s a musical, the songs are catchy.
However I disliked how fast paced the writing was, and how even though it’s called “Hazbin Hotel” and the pilot framed it as a sort of slice of life “bunch weirdos” hanging out and getting redemption, instead that weirdly became the B plot?
Somehow they took the whole story and shifted it over to the B plot and pulled this other big high stakes thing out as the A plot.
That’s not really what I was wanting to watch, and it feels a bit like they hit swapped out the story on me, so I kinda got a bit turned off by that.
I don’t give a shit about some high stakes angels vs demons war end game shit.
I wanted to see interpersonal relationships of weirdos learning to co-exist.
Tl;dr: I was expecting something closer to The Good Place, but instead that got side lined by some huge MCU style plot no one asked for.
What is it with media blowing their load early these days? There’s no preventing them from slowly becoming some huge MCU style plot no one asked for slowly over time naturally. The X Files is a great example of evolving from Monster-of-the-Week to an overarching big story. Adventure Time had a big overarching story, but it took time for that story to warm up… like a lot of time. In the meantime there were a bunch of standalone stories.
Anyway, really good and unique take that I haven’t seen a lot but rings true. It absolutely feels like a bait-and-switch from the original proposition, which was definitely more slice-of-life-of-freaks-seeking-redemption.
The fact that they prioritized Helluva Boss (which does follow that type of storyline), on their own YouTube (which they have control over), whereas Hazbin was put onto Amazon Prime with only 8 episodes honestly is what I think caused it.
My gut instinct was to assume they had to agree to certain conditions to get onto Amazon Prime and the money from that is what got us Helluva Boss (which if you haven’t watched that, it’s so fuckin good)
Helluva Boss had a stronger start, but it also quickly devolved into the same tedious “I just learned to cuss” type humor.