Day #20 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #20 of The 30 Days of Halloween Meme

The prompt is A paranormal or supernatural fantasy film, book or television series you enjoy or are currently obsessed with

I drew a blank and then I remembered..

His Dark Materials

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Comments

[cjlasky7]

...you're back to the obscure 1940s, 1950s and 60s classics.

Yep.

You asked, what are you currently obsessed with? Dead of Night is what I really latched onto recently; rewatching made me appreciate its far-reaching influence in the horror genre.

Look, it's not like I don't have an obsessive interest in a current horror TV series. You know I do! But I've talked What We Do In the Shadows to undeath around here, and I wanted to go somewhere else.

I like to go spelunking in pop culture. I do it with music, TV, and film. In this Halloween challenge, I've included everything from the early 1920s up to right now. It's all good. This is how my brain works.

It's also how my wife and I are dealing with the stress in our lives. We don't have Netflix or Disney+ or CBS All Access (we watch too much TV as it is), so we root around in the archives: yesterday, we watched Peter Cushing in Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and Abel Ferrara's remake of Body Snatchers (1993). (Good-to-OK on both.)

So I'm not trying to aggravate you! Really!

(Hm. I say that to my wife a lot, too...)

[shadowkat]

If it was just you, it wouldn't be an issue. The problem is that EVERYONE responding to all the memes appears to be either over the age of 60 and/or reluctant to recommend anything that aired in the 21st Century or within twenty years of it, for every single meme or question - unless I demand it.

I mean one or two, not a problem. But everything?? Stuff aired in the 21st. There's a lot of good things airing now - better things actually. Far better.

Otherwise I wouldn't have said anything. But after a while - it was like, okay, am I the only one watching television, films, and listening to music that actually aired in the 21st Century or within twenty years of it? Ugh.

[shadowkat]

You appear to have Hulu...because you have access to various things that I didn't.