Marathon Mondays: Hulu’s “Into the Dark” Anthology

When I initially saw the trailer above on the commercials featured on the streaming site, Hulu, I thought it looked like kind of a cheap-knock-off of “American Horror Story.” In the past, I’ve partially lost faith in much of Hulu’s original content, as Netflix amps up its game, leaving Hulu seemingly behind to catch up. However, after running out of series to watch, I decided to give this series a try, and was pleasantly surprised to see how different this series was from my expectations. I thought it would be really cheesy and poorly done, since it seemed almost like something that would have been featured as like a “tv” special or something, but actually, it was riddled with genuinely scary concepts and imagery, and I ended up enjoying the first installment far better than I had the last two seasons of “American Horror Story,” which seems to be getting more and more abstract, and although interesting, hasn’t been quite as scary as in the previous seasons, since it seems to be focusing more on gross-out and body-horror than psychological horror, as this series does. Overall, I can’t wait to watch the rest.