The script is so blunderingly crude, so sluggish in its attempts at emotional depth, and so mean-spirited in its approach that it leaves viewers feeling deflated.
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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.