Hysteria (Peacock series)

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Just in time for Spooky Season.

When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported “supernatural activity” triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.

Premieres Oct. 18th.

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I’m so hyped for this!

 

[Anwar]

So did anyone watch this? I found the first episode on an Airline flight last Tuesday and binged my way through it. It's a shame it got canceled but it works as a one-off miniseries

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I enjoyed it, but I could kind of tell it wouldn't get a second season. Fortunately, it was resolved enough to work as a limited series.

The main downside is that it spent the whole season implying that there really was something supernatural happening, and now that won't be fleshed out at all. I almost wish they'd left it out and let it just be about, well, hysteria.

It was also an example of how to do '80s horror references. It had Bruce Campbell, but it resisted giving him lines like, "What, like a possessed hand?" or whatever. No exaggerated winking. Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton cameos, but not dropping lines from Stuart Gordon movies. We got to delight without groaning.

 

[Anwar]

I enjoyed it, but I could kind of tell it wouldn't get a second season. Fortunately, it was resolved enough to work as a limited series.

The main downside is that it spent the whole season implying that there really was something supernatural happening, and now that won't be fleshed out at all. I almost wish they'd left it out and let it just be about, well, hysteria.

It was also an example of how to do '80s horror references. It had Bruce Campbell, but it resisted giving him lines like, "What, like a possessed hand?" or whatever. No exaggerated winking. Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton cameos, but not dropping lines from Stuart Gordon movies. We got to delight without groaning.

Admittedly, there WAS that one line from the Goth Girl about "A book bound in human flesh" but...since the show was in 1988 or 1989 it's entirely possible she'd seen Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Admittedly, there WAS that one line from the Goth Girl about "A book bound in human flesh" but...since the show was in 1988 or 1989 it's entirely possible she'd seen Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2

I forgot about that one! But yep, it didn’t bother me, for the reason you stated, plus they didn’t give the line to Bruce or get heavy-handed with it.

I like the “if you know, you know” references better than the ones that look straight down the camera and go, “GET it?”