Alison Herman TV Critic The animated comedy “Hazbin Hotel” has a feel-good backstory belied by its grim premise: a horde of demons suffer eternal damnation in Hell, their ranks periodically culled in mass exterminations led by armies from Heaven.
Creator Vivienne Medrano, founder of YouTube channel VivziePop, independently produced the pilot with money from her Patreon, and posted it to the streaming site in 2019.
Over 90 million views later, the concept has been picked up by the ultra-prestigious studio A24, built out into an eight-episode season, and is now set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video.
The musical series is the kind of original idea and grassroots success it’s easy to root for, especially when both are in ever-shorter supply on TV these days.
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