7 TV Villains Secretly Introduced Way Earlier Than You Realise
The Atlanta Child Murderer showed up sooner than you thought.
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The great benefit of TV over film is the ability to tell a wider and more expansive story, where audiences are able to spend considerably longer with the heroes and villains of the piece.
But even then, some TV shows have decided to take things a little further by introducing villainous characters earlier than anyone actually realised.
These seven TV villains, from brutal serial killers, to tragically doomed ghosts, and even a pesky thief, all showed up a good while before they were actually introduced to the audience in earnest.
9 Shows Like The X-Files to Watch If You Like The X-Files
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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson,
The X-Files Fox
The X-Files are so rewatchable it s almost paranormal, but if you ve been spending a lot of time with Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) in their basement office lately, you might be ready to shake up your watchlist. If you re looking to branch out and add some new shows to your lineup while staying true to the spirit of the 90s hottest drama about aliens TV Guide is here to help.
Whether you watch
The X-Files for the horror, the romance, the government conspiracies, or the reminder that the world is fundamentally chaotic and unknowable, this list has something for every kind of fan. Here are nine shows you should check out next.
8 Shows Like Criminal Minds to Watch if You Miss Criminal Minds
Grab your murder boards
Criminal Minds Cliff Lipson/CBS
For 15 creepy seasons,
Criminal Minds succeeded at terrifying viewers by taking them deep inside the disturbed minds of depraved serial killers and sending in the BAU to prevent their next kill and put them behind bars. But real fans know that
Criminal Minds was more than just a CBS procedural, and the show was so popular that a revival is currently being developed at Paramount+.
If you ve finished watching
Criminal Minds (and finished your inevitable rewatch) and you re now in need of something new to scratch that killer-catching itch, TV Guide has compiled a list of shows some featuring good guys catching bad guys, some featuring maybe-not-so-good guys catching bad guys, and one that features a good woman and bad woman infatuated with catching each other that might help satisfy that urge.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Amazon Prime Video) Disappointed with the fun, but forgettable Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry-starring black comedy horror that finally emerged in cinemas in 1992, writer Joss Whedon took a second, much darker stab five years later. The supernatural adventures of Sunnydale’s “Scooby Gang” struck a chord with a generation, while making stars out of the actors Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan and David Boreanaz. Cobra Kai (Netflix) Originally a hit for YouTube Premium, this picks up
The Karate Kid saga more than 30 years after the 1984 All Valley Under-18 Karate Tournament. While the victorious Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) now owns a successful series of car yards, his vanquished opponent Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) is stuck in a time warp. By focusing on one of the original movies bad guys and the fallout from the franchise s climactic moment, this smartly written and poignant drama is a surprisingly compelling watch.