, writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. Alternately, they can offer up recommendations inspired by a theme. In this installment: For our annual Love Week, The A.V. Club is courting supernatural TV romances.
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Call it a Horrors Week hangover, but as Valentine’s Day approaches, the TV romances we want to watch or revisit all have a supernatural (if not downright terrifying) bent. Give us star-crossed lovers facing obstacles like a council of demons, witches, and vampires who all oppose their relationship, or the tortured paramours of John Logan’s pulpy take on Victorian London. Or, if there has to be a meet-cute, pull the rug out from under us by revealing that one of these sweethearts is traveling across planes of existence to flirt. In that spirit, here are five TV shows that cast a spell with relationships ranging from heartwarming to torrid.
The TV Episodes That Helped Us Escape 2020
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In a year when the outside world became a literal threat, television provided more of an escape or, perhaps, an essential outlet for emotional release than ever before.
Even as everything from church services to first dates moved online, we still couldn’t escape our screens, because binging one more episode of
Schitt’s Creek was all that was keeping us from doomscrolling through social media, and exploring the dark future of
Raised by Wolves meant we could ignore the one unfolding across our thresholds.
These are the singular episodes of television that helped us ignore the off-kilter reality of life amid a pandemic for a few more precious moments.
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The Haunting of Bly Manor creator gives disappointing update on more seasons Never say never, of course. 24/12/2020
The Haunting of Bly Manorcreator Mike Flanagan has weighed in on whether or not he s planning a third season of the horror anthology series.
The popular show, which began with
The Haunting of Hill House in 2018, continued this year with an outing that found inspiration in a bunch of classic Henry James books – most notably,
The Turn of the Screw – as its predecessor did with Shirley Jackson s novel.
When asked whether any future instalments were in the works by a fan recently, Flanagan admitted that, at the moment, there are no plans for more chapters .