How horror took over television
Ghosties and ghoulies and Stephen King beasties: TV has become a hellscape of our literal and metaphorical fears. - Television has been described in many ways over the past 15 years, ranging from the complimentary - golden, peak, prestige, renaissance - to the worrisome - splintered, fragmented, overwhelming.
A florid list to which we must now add "horrified." Television in 2019 is horrified.
No, not the news cycle. (Well, yes, the news cycle, but that's another story.) Horrified as in an industry-wide embrace of supernatural beings that are not essentially lovable metaphors for high school angst or star-crossed love, but actual creepy, scary, don't-look-now monsters.
Demons, witches, zombies and assorted vengeful spirits who
