Hazbin Hotel (Season 1) Review.

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I just enjoy gay things sometimes. Sometimes its queer and its unabashed in being so. And that makes me happy and it's enough. And with the late feeling that its currently hard to be without it being a bad thing, sometimes that’s what it takes to value something existing.

 

Hazbin Hotel's about redeeming the most lost, the traditional 'Sinners' of the ideas of classic Christian faith. But it's also about the Princess of Hell, the daughter of the fallen angel Lucifer, Charlie Morningstar. She's optimistic and awkward and loves her girlfriend Vaggie and is made fun of by nearly everyone she's trying to help and it’s a mood. I'm tired writing this but Hazbin itself can be weary sometimes; it’s a product of a story that whether for good or bad represents 'Sin' and 'Sinners' as its most decedant and the issues facing the judgement of what constitutes that. Sure, cannibalism, absolute check. TV? Potentially as a euphemism for the nature of hypnotising the masses. BDSM and open sex? Uhhh. It's a flawed narrative of sin, just as much as it is of the divine, what constitutes that and goodness. A billboard pops up in heaven that says 'science' and yet the nature of what helps someone get to heaven is unclear. Adam, the first man in the opening, demanded subservience of the first woman created and yet is some sort of figure of divine authority and goodness but is also clearly a total prick.

 

It's a story about love and faith but what that might actually look like; the idea of not thoughtless belief without question in others but an understanding, a communication of another's circumstance and trying to understand them, be they wanting to understand you or you them. It's not asking to accept ideology or belief that's hateful; it firmly rejects the idea you must peaceably accept the word of abusers, of demagogues and authority but reject why a system must be the way it is if it perpetuates harm.

 

But it's also about trusting someone you love and understanding their struggles. Asking yourself if you can work on understanding someone's troubles and however flawed we are, believe in those worthy of that love to be given.

 

Could've been gayer though.



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