Why Peacock's Hysteria Got Cancelled (Reviewed by People Who Lived the Satanic Panic)

Peacock's Hysteria! got one season before it was cancelled. On episode 5 of 'Til Plot Do Us Part, two Gen-Xers who grew up in the satanic panic of the 80s break down what the show got right, where it fell apart, and why that finale didn't work for us. Spoilers throughout.

Chapters:

0:00 Cold open: "I hated the entire last episode"

0:13 Welcome to the show

1:25 Growing up in the satanic panic

4:04 What worked: the 80s feel and Bruce Campbell

5:55 The premise

10:15 Did it match what we lived through?

12:24 Satanic panic comic books from the church gift shop

14:14 Where the show lost us

20:08 That finale and the "parable"

22:33 The deer in the tree25:14 Unexplained demons and rashes

30:45 Beaumont Hicks and the missing motivations

33:11 Judith, and a show with an identity crisis

39:54 The exorcism

44:23 How fear spreads

47:31 "I just want to be seen"

52:01 Would we recommend it?

55:10 Where to find us

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