However,The Terroris hardly the first series to use these themes to its advantage.
InThe North Water,the show directly addresses the darkness of humanity instead of using fantasy as a metaphor.
InThe North Water,the show directly addresses the darkness of humanity instead of using fantasy as a metaphor.
WhileYellowjacketswould be scary enough without the fantastical elements, mysterious circumstances continue to plague the team in the woods.
Riding on the steamship Kerebos, the multilingual passengers contemplate how their lives will differ in this new era.
There’s something particularly chilling about being trapped at sea with nowhere to turn.
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Starring Eva Green as Vanessa Ives, the series raises the stakes every season for thrilling results.
This is reminiscent of howThe Terrorimbues historical elements into its monstrous narrative and presents a new tale every season.
However, this social issue rooted in realism is only the beginning of the town’s supernatural problems.
Yellowjackets is a television series exploring the survival ordeal of a high school girls' soccer team stranded in the remote wilderness after a plane crash. It interweaves psychological horror and coming-of-age themes, simultaneously depicting their harrowing transformation and its lasting impact on their lives 25 years later.
However, Roman Godfrey (Bill Skarsgard) offers to help Peter solve the murders despite his secret.
ThoughThe Terroris slightly more violent and frightening thanSleepy Hollow, it focuses just as much on its characters.
Thebest part ofThe Magiciansis how character-driven the story is, even in the show’s most fantastical moments.
However, the most important parts of the show are the supernatural.
Though it’s set in the present,Castle Rockfeels like a story out of time.
1899 is a period piece drama that centers around a ship full of immigrants headed to the new land and entering the new century. Riding on the steamship Kerebos, the multilingual passengers contemplate how their lives will differ in this new era. However, when the ship comes across a missing vessel known as the Prometheus, the passengers will be taken through several mysterious experiences and drag them through their worst nightmares.
The new story centers on LAPD Homicide Detective Dawn Reeve, who is assigned to a new case: the gruesome murder of a foster home mother that has left even the most hardened detectives shaken. Navigating a tumultuous time in Los Angeles, with a city on the razor’s edge of chaos, Dawn is determined to stop the killer. But as she draws closer to the truth, something ominous and malevolent grips her and her family…
Penny Dreadful is a gothic horror thriller series that follows characters forced to brave historic British literature creations in Victorian London. Centering on Vanessa Ives across the series, the show has Vanessa and her allies face-to-face with supernatural entities that will challenge their reality while dealing with their own personal demons.
Set in small-town Pennsylvania, Hemlock Grove explores the lives of the titular town’s residents as they deal with a series of strange, brutal murders. Two young men, Roman Godfrey and Peter Rumancek, set out to uncover what is actually going on while dealing with their respective supernatural secrets. The series stars Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Famke Janssen, Penelope Mitchell, Lili Taylor, and Dougray Scott.
Sleepy Hollow is a supernatural drama series that centers around the tale of the same name. Bound by blood to a man only known as the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane, an American Revolutionary War soldier who has been dead for two and a half centuries, is pulled from the grave by an unknown force and finds himself in modern times, alone and alive, and must team with the local deputy, Abbie Mills, to track down who - or what - is behind the supernatural events that threaten to destroy the world.
The Magicians follows a group of young adults who enroll at Brakebills University, a secretive institution devoted to teaching magic. As they engage in an unconventional education in spellcasting, they realize that a childhood fantasy world is indeed real and presents a significant threat to humanity.
Castle Rock is a supernatural/horror television series based on the works of Stephen King. Set in the titular town in Maine, the show covers an anthology of supernatural stories surrounding various characters that work, live, and visit Castle Rock, all of which sharply turn the mundane lives of northeasterners into compelling tales of the extraordinary - both good and bad.
