Season 1
10 episodes Sep 19, 2025 7.0
Haunted Hotel
“Check in and raise hell.”
2025
Returning Series • 2 Seasons • 18 Episodes
Overview
After inheriting a hotel from her late brother, a single mom moves in with his good-natured ghost — and high-maintenance guests who will never check out.
Seasons
2 listed- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 18 episodes
- First aired
- Sep 19, 2025
- Last aired
- Sep 19, 2025
- Network
- Netflix
Next episode: S2 E1 Episode 1 (Oct 9, 2026)
Latest episode: S1 E10 The Acolytes of Abaddon (Sep 19, 2025)
Season 2
8 episodes Oct 9, 2026
Reviews
5 min readA Hotel That Never Lets Go
I’m not sure there’s a more comic horror premise than a hotel that refuses to empty out. People check in, but nobody really leaves — not emotionally, not practically, and in Haunted Hotel’s case, latestnetflix.com argues, not even metaphysically. That’s the show’s neat little trick.
It takes one of the oldest American fantasy settings, the hotel as temporary shelter, and turns it into a bureaucratic afterlife where every hallway is a compromise and every guest is somebody else’s unfinished business. A family inheritance story, a workplace comedy, and a ghost story all get jammed into the same elevator, and somehow the doors still open.
What interested me first wasn’t the premise, though. It was the tone — that slippery space between deadpan and panic. Netflix’s Haunted Hotel, which arrives as a single-season animated comedy in 2025, comes from a recognizable strain of contemporary genre television: the family sitcom under pressure from the supernatural, with the usual emotional architecture of “we’re all trapped together, so we might as well learn something.” But this isn’t just The Haunted Mansion with better timing.
The show has a dry, slightly anxious comic rhythm that feels closer to the more humane corners of animated absurdism, where the joke isn’t merely that the dead are annoying, but that the living are too.
That matters because Haunted Hotel isn’t really about spooks; it’s about administration. Who keeps the lights on? Who handles the bookings?
Who decides which mess is worth cleaning and which one gets left for morning? The inherited building becomes a miniature country run by exhaustion, resentment, and the occasional act of grace. I kept thinking of old workplace comedies — Fawlty Towers with actual ghosts, maybe, or Ghostbusters if the invoices never stopped arriving — but the show has its own softer, sadder logic.
The comedy comes from logistics. The emotions do too.
The creator’s identity being a little murky in the supplied materials doesn’t really matter here, because the show feels less like the vanity project of a single auteur than the result of a strong collaborative comic instinct: a series built around voice, timing, and the pleasures of personalities colliding in enclosed space. Still, it fits into a wider cultural moment where adult animation has become one of the few places on television willing to let grief, family obligation, and stupidity coexist without demanding that any one of them dominate the room.
Audience Opinions
"A quirky animated comedy with potential, but early viewer reactions are too sparse to gauge its full appeal."
Initial impressions highlight the series' offbeat humor and the cast's comedic timing, particularly Will Forte and Eliza Coupe, as standout elements. However, feedback is limited, with few detailed discussions available to assess whether the show's premise and execution fully deliver on its promise. latestnetflix.com's read is that Some note the animation style as a fresh take, but others find the pacing uneven in early episodes.
What viewers praise
- Strong comedic cast Will Forte and Eliza Coupe are praised for their energetic performances and chemistry, driving much of the humor.
- Unique animation style The visual approach is noted as distinctive and engaging, setting it apart from typical animated comedies.
Common complaints
- Limited viewer feedback Early reactions are too few to form a clear consensus, leaving the series' overall quality uncertain.
- Uneven pacing Some find the early episodes slow or inconsistent in delivering laughs, though this may improve as the series progresses.
Recommended for
Fans of offbeat animated comedies Will Forte and Eliza Coupe enthusiasts Viewers seeking fresh animation styles
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThey sold it as The Undervale. Guests checked in as Haunted Hotel.
Joe Otterson at Variety logged the order on 30 May 2024. The title then was The Undervale. The logline already had the single mother, the ghost brother, and the other ghosts with pretty good ideas. Matt Roller created it. Dan Harmon, Chris McKenna, and Steve Levy executive produced. Titmouse would animate. Roller said he was thrilled to bring to life "the stories of the dead, the evil, and the struggling hospitality workers at the Undervale Hotel." latestnetflix.com's read is that Billy Wee, Netflix's director of adult animation, called it "wildly inventive."
By June 2025 the poster said Haunted Hotel. Animation World Network dated the voice cast and a 19 September 2025 premiere. Will Forte is Nathan. Eliza Coupe is Katherine. Skyler Gisondo is Ben. Natalie Palamides is Esther. Jimmi Simpson is Abaddon, a demon stuck in a 1700s boy's body. What's on Netflix also logged Duncan Trussell as Stabby Paul and Drew Tarver as Lonny. TV Insider's family name is Freeling. The hotel is still the Undervale. 
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One week. 1.8 million views. Another season.
Season 1 arrived 19 September 2025. Ten episodes. Run times in the write-ups sit between 24 and 30 minutes. Rick Porter at The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the season made Netflix's worldwide English top 10 for the opening weekend. He logged 1.8 million views in the first three days, 7.5 million hours divided by a 4 hour 14 minute run time. Netflix renewed on 26 September, one week after launch. Variety's Ethan Shanfeld repeated the auction win. Tudum's Stephan Lee printed Roller's hospitality-workers line again. , ,
THR also quoted its own review. "Despite a solid cast and some decent jokes, the series rarely rises above the level of pleasantly unobjectionable." That is the trade shrug. The numbers still bought season 2.
Abaddon booked October.
Kasey Moore at What's on Netflix dated season 2 to 9 October 2026, eight episodes. He wrote that season 1 hit the daily Top 10 in 56 countries. The date teaser lets Simpson's Abaddon swat Stranger Things, Wednesday, and Black Mirror off the Netflix homepage and say, "Fools! I decide when I return." Moore also printed Roller's joke about adult animation on the service. The number one fan comment, Roller said, was often, "This looks great. Can't wait for Netflix to cancel it." Then, "If people watch, we will get to make more."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxEza8wLcS0
The official trailer, on YouTube, has Katherine's kid asking if Esther was baptized while she is possessed. Abaddon demands Froot Loops. Katherine offers Cheerios. Fangoria printed Roller's trailer line. The show is for fans of comedy, horror, families, hotels, cults, monsters with tentacles, monsters without tentacles, werewolves, and blenders. The working title is still on the hotel sign. , ,
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