Television series

Haunted Hotel

Name: Haunted Hotel
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 2025
Cast: Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides, Jimmi Simpson

A single mother inherits a haunted hotel and must keep it running while managing her estranged brother—now a ghost—and his increasingly unhinged supernatural roommates. It's funny, weird, and genuinely odd in the way a show becomes when it commits fully to its premise. For people who like comedy that's not afraid of the grotesque.

TVMaze rating

3.6

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like sitcom bickering layered over spooky set-ups, where the ghosts are as petty and unreliable as the family squabbling beneath them.

Skip it if you want scares that linger, since this is a light, quick-fire comedy where the horror is mostly a backdrop for jokes and family friction.

What it asks of you: Episodes run about twenty-five minutes at a brisk clip, asking you to keep pace with a cluttered cast of living and dead characters rather than settle into dread.

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