Horror TV
Review: Twin Peaks: The Return Scores a Perfect 10!
Twin Peaks is back. There has never been a show before or since quite like David Lynch’s foray into television. Co-created with Mark Frost in 1990, Twin Peaks hit a nerve with audiences and gav...
Why It’s a Mistake to Reboot Scream: The Series (At Least Right Now)
Like many people, I was skeptical of Scream: The Series when it was first announced. I was excited to see the franchise continue, but the notion of a series on MTV had its risks. It could be watered d...
Dream a Little Dream of Me: Farewell, Bates Motel
I never thought Bates Motel was going to work. Back in 2013, I just saw it as one of the first in a lineup of several TV shows based on horror movies. Hannibal came out around the same time and I coul...
Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Tells Us to Wake Up
Gilead. A place where if a girl was gang-raped, she is told it was her fault. A place where it is against the law for a woman to own property. A patriarchal society where you are considered a gender-t...
Cry Little Sister: A Defense of Dawn Summers
Last March, I wrote a piece on Buffy characters who were unfairly despised. While I expected some degree of backlash against a few of the picks, there was a surprising amount of people who apparently ...
Why Black Mirror is the Modern Twilight Zone
As much as we all love escapism and cheesy good fun, the best horror/sci-fi is always culturally relevant and politically charged. It has its finger on the pulse. The Twilight Zone might be the best a...
TV Terror: Scariest Episodes of Horror Anthology Shows
Horror has a long tradition in of success in television. Some of the earliest shows on TV when it was first introduced were horror-themed and it had a history in radio before that. Horror stories alwa...
Advance Review: Stan Against Evil Season 1
IFC’s latest horror comedy, Stan Against Evil is the latest in a barrage of horror comedy shows released in the last year. With the success of Ash vs The Evil Dead and horror televisio...
Horror on TV: Is the Bubble About to Burst?
I’ve written a lot about horror on television and the boom we’ve been seeing over the past six years. Most of what I’ve had to say is pretty optimistic. I think the age of the TV ...