A high school heavy metal band attempts to capitalize on '80s occult paranoia in an eight-part series that's half supernatural saga and half supernatural satire.

Matthew Scott Kane and David A. Goodman's Peacock series follows a metal band, and a town terrified of Satan. TV Review

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The Peacock horror comedy finds timeliness in a dark chapter of American history. “Satan was always an existential threat,” the actor said.

Perhaps the most famous example of mass hysteria in recent memory is the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (the setting for Hysteria!, Peacock’s new horror series starring Bruce Campbell, Julie Bowen, and Anna Camp), but it’s far from the only one. Mass hysterias of all kinds crop up rapidly and disappear just as quickly inside isolated groups of people.

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an affront to the musical genre it purports to love.

Spooky season is almost here, and what better way to celebrate than with Peacock's upcoming TV series Hysteria! Set in the 1980s, Hysteria! revolves around the Satanic Panic of the era as a high-school heavy metal band gets more than they bargained for.