I have been a horror fan all my life, stretching back into my earliest childhood memories of being scared, and I think this show is made for other people who have the same "bug."
Everything in this show is created by artists and from a surreal, artistic perspective. Nothing follows Hollywood norms. From the stilted dialogue -- full of awkward pauses, but somehow enhanced as a result -- to the regularly bizarre imagery, to the personality of the hero (antihero?), to the plot itself, which hardly leads to a fairytale ending, nothing in this show takes the easy way out, and all of it is designed to be appreciated by people who love this kind of creepy stuff. For lack of a better analogy, I think this show does to horror TV what "Aeon Flux" on MTV did to animated sci-fi series, what "True Detective" (Season 1) did to noir, or what "Twin Peaks" did to mysteries with a coming-of-age backdrop. In other words, it doesn't just discard the tropes of the genre, it pulls out all the stops at once, and is designed to explore what makes the horror genre truly unique unto itself.
In other words, finally we have a horror show created by people who not only don't feel that a bizarre, eerie sequence needs an explanation, but actually understand that it doesn't really want one. The fact that this is inspired by real online creepy pasta makes the whole project that much more appreciable. Can't wait for season two.
Everything in this show is created by artists and from a surreal, artistic perspective. Nothing follows Hollywood norms. From the stilted dialogue -- full of awkward pauses, but somehow enhanced as a result -- to the regularly bizarre imagery, to the personality of the hero (antihero?), to the plot itself, which hardly leads to a fairytale ending, nothing in this show takes the easy way out, and all of it is designed to be appreciated by people who love this kind of creepy stuff. For lack of a better analogy, I think this show does to horror TV what "Aeon Flux" on MTV did to animated sci-fi series, what "True Detective" (Season 1) did to noir, or what "Twin Peaks" did to mysteries with a coming-of-age backdrop. In other words, it doesn't just discard the tropes of the genre, it pulls out all the stops at once, and is designed to explore what makes the horror genre truly unique unto itself.
In other words, finally we have a horror show created by people who not only don't feel that a bizarre, eerie sequence needs an explanation, but actually understand that it doesn't really want one. The fact that this is inspired by real online creepy pasta makes the whole project that much more appreciable. Can't wait for season two.
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