Apropos of nothing, here’s my guide to the biggest horror TV shows. Oh, I’ve just learned it’s Halloween.
Stranger Things
Netflix
Loveable, floppy-haired scamps battle gruesomely violent monsters while John Carpenter-style synths play. Exciting! Of course, the true horror is less in all extra-dimensional beasties as the fact its characters are locked forever in a retromaniacal referential version of the 1980s. This is clearly designed to ensure that the audience isn’t just young people but also includes solipsistic, nostalgia-drunk Gen Xers. Kids aren’t even allowed have their own youth culture any more, they can only have a remix of ours. Also, due to the long gaps between series, the once teenage stars are in their thirties and forties now, which is also scary for those of us terrified by the ageing process.
The X Files
Disney+
In the mid-1990s, conspiracy theories were the domain of burnt-out stoners or they were the subject of science fiction. Now, most days you can find someone reciting the plot of X-Files episodes online absolutely convinced that it has literally ju
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