TMP Television Edition: Horror

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It's the final spooky Thursday of 2020. Since it is the last Thursday of the month, that means we're talking TV for this week's Thursday Movie Picks. Our host, Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves left it pretty vague and only said "horror." Hmmm. So many ways to go, but to be honest, I'm not as well-versed in TV horror as I am with cinematic scares. That said, I have come up with something.

American Horror Story

2011 - ???

My youngest daughter watches a number of horror TV shows. I've wandered in on a few and watch the odd episode here and there. This is the show this has happened most often with. I've seen at least an episode or two from every season, except the latest. There are even a couple of seasons I've watched most of the episodes. I've always liked what I saw as the writing takes the show in some interesting directions. I might have to give it a more proper watch. 

Evil

2019 - ???

By chance, all of this transpired last weekend. Mrs. Dell has been binging a lot of old sitcoms on Netflix that we used to watch 20 years ago. I watched an episode of this and an episode of that with her, but since I'm not particularly interested in revisiting them I would slink off to another TV and watch something on my own. She wanted to find something we could watch together and start scrolling through Netflix as you do, and came across the series Evil. The draw is that it stars Mike Colter, who played the titular character in Luke Cage, a series we both love. There are some religious aspects for her, and horror for me, so we gave it a go. Colter plays a priest in training who works for the Catholic church investigating supernatural occurrences and deciding on a course of action with his team of would-be ghostbusters. who are both skeptics. This is not a comedy, though. Think of it more like The X-Files meets The Exorcist. Happily, we binged the whole first (only) season and are eagerly awaiting season 2. Damn you, pandemic. 

Lovecraft Country

2020 - ???

This is a first. I'm mentioning something I haven't watched myself. That's because this is not as much a suggestion for you as it is a reminder for me. I don't have any version of HBO, I think this on HBO Max, but I've heard nothing but great things about it. I'm just figuring out a way to watch it, legally, of course. No Your Honor, I would NEVER stoop so low as watching unauthorized copies online (fingers crossed behind my back).

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