BBC Three, 2022
BBC Three, the “youth” channel, was home to the original Being Human so after a few years online-only it came back to broadcast with a couple of horror shows in its 2022 schedule. Red Rose was about a group of school leavers under attack on and offline from a lifestyle app that knew far too much, and Wreck, running now for spooky month and all online here, is a comedy slasher set around the young staff of a cruise ship. Our hero is the brother of the girl we see jump rather than be killed by the slasher disguised in the ship’s mascot costume, who signs on to find out what happened to her. On the way we get mysteries, conspiracies, romances, and danger in unexpected places. (It’s not the only genre-adjacent series where I’ve seen a fight in a ball pit due to Psychoville, but it’s still unusual.) It’s tonally very swingy but the setting adds a lot.
(And of course I’m thinking how it could work as a game setting.)
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