Hazbin Hotel (series)/Season 1

Season 1 is the first season of Hazbin Hotel. On August 7, 2020 the series was announced to have been picked up by with production ending by March 23, 2023, when Medrano attended the end of production wrap-up party in Australia.

The season was originally announced to premiere in the summer of 2023, however due to not having a distribution partner at the time the season was unable to air by then and instead premiered on January 19, 2024, with the final episode releasing on February 2, 2024.

The first season has eight episodes, with the first two releasing a week early on the A24 app as part of pre-ordered packages.

Summary

 * "Overture": The angels attend a meeting and listen to Charlie's proposal while the gang make a commercial for the hotel.
 * "Radio Killed the Video Star": The Vees are made aware of Alastor's return after his seven year absence while an old foe seeks him out for revenge.
 * "Scrambled Eggs": Vaggie is put in charge of teaching the hotel guests and employees about trust while Alastor attends an important meeting with the Overlords.
 * "Masquerade": Angel Dust gets accused by Husk of being fake as he's overwhelmed both physically and mentally during his work.
 * "Dad Beat Dad": Charlie invites her father to the hotel to ask him for a favor.
 * "Welcome to Heaven": Charlie and Vaggie pay a visit to Heaven while a friend of Angel Dust makes an explosive entrance.
 * "Hello Rosie!": Alastor brings Charlie to see Rosie while Vaggie goes to Carmilla Carmine in order to protect the hotel for the upcoming extermination.
 * "The Show Must Go On": The day of the extermination finally arrives, and Charlie and the gang must do their best to protect the hotel and their friends.

Trivia

 * In an interview on October 17, 2023, Vivziepop mentioned that season two focuses on a very fun villain and it's a villain that we meet in season one.
 * According to Vivziepop, Charlie's biggest challenge in season one is that, right in the first episode, we find out that there's a new challenge to the Hazbin Hotel that creates a "ticking clock", a kind of time element, for her to just prove it's possible in the first place.
 * Vivziepop explained that every episode has more than one song in it, saying it is "super musical" and "saturated with songs". She further explains that the songs completely vary in the kind of genre, the kind of sound, and who performs them, and that they are based on what character is performing.
 * In an interview that released on December 10, 2023, Sam Haft stated that Keith David and Blake Roman share a lot of screen time, but later in a tweet said to not read into it because he didn't say anything that wasn't publicly apparent from the marketing materials.
 * According to a video posted by the Hazbin Hotel Twitter, there are a total of 302 swears across all episodes of season 1.
 * Of this, there are 130 swears across the first four episodes, 89 swears across episodes five and six, and 83 swears across episodes seven and eight.
 * The following episodes have shown the characters in their respective poses based on their official redesign reveal on the Hazbin Hotel Twitter.
 * Vaggie on the crow's nest during the sequences of Happy Day in Hell from "Overture" and Whatever It Takes from "Scrambled Eggs.
 * Alastor in his radio tower as well as the Vees on a poster during the Stayed Gone sequence in "Radio Killed the Video Star".
 * Angel Dust on a prop bed with fairy lights during the Poison sequence in "Masquerade".
 * Lucifer sitting on a throne surrounded by his rubber duck collection during the Hell's Greatest Dad sequence in "Dad Beat Dad".
 * In an interview Vivziepop mentioned that the production of season one took about one-and-a-half to two years, and said that she thinks the production time for season two may be similar.
 * In a Q&A on January 31, 2024, Vivziepop stated that someone will die but did not say who, only that it will be obvious. She also confirmed that it will not be Angel Dust. This was shown in the finale to be Adam, who was killed by Niffty. Dazzle also died in the episode, and Sir Pentious was assumed to have died as well until being shown alive at the end of the episode.
 * In an interview, Vivziepop mentioned that "Overture" and "Masquerade" were the two episodes that she had planned before A24 that made it into the final series.
 * According to Vivziepop, she originally wanted to name each of the episodes after songs from various Broadway shows. This idea however did not make it to the finalized titles.