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Supernatural/occult themed tv shows.
Movotti
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Everyone is all Winx-blahblahblah at the moment.
But I found something different.
Nowhere Boys
It came up on Netflix, and I clicked it without even looking at what it was about, nor the rating.
For some reason I thought it was Kiwi, until I heard the accents.
It's a PG, Aussie show, aimed at teens, from 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxPc2eJE_4k
Oh, and the main character is a goth kid, who happens to be a witch.
The show isn't bogged down in boring romance... The few romantic interactions are appropriately awkward.
Instead, it's more about family, belonging, and acceptance, all while magical forces are at play.
Teenaged me would have loved it, like a dirty secret, adult me is amused by it, and left wondering if there are more lesser known shows of this nature.
So, what lesser known supernatural/occult shows have you seen?
But I found something different.
Nowhere Boys
It came up on Netflix, and I clicked it without even looking at what it was about, nor the rating.
For some reason I thought it was Kiwi, until I heard the accents.
It's a PG, Aussie show, aimed at teens, from 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxPc2eJE_4kOh, and the main character is a goth kid, who happens to be a witch.
The show isn't bogged down in boring romance... The few romantic interactions are appropriately awkward.
Instead, it's more about family, belonging, and acceptance, all while magical forces are at play.
Teenaged me would have loved it, like a dirty secret, adult me is amused by it, and left wondering if there are more lesser known shows of this nature.
So, what lesser known supernatural/occult shows have you seen?
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For anyone who hasn't seen it, it tells the story of an astronaut who accidentally travels through a wormhole and ends up on a living ship with a mis-matched crew of aliens. It's a very trippy series; there are quite a few episodes where either most of the action takes place in the main character's imagination (his dreams are hilariously weird), or he and the other characters wind up in just randomly bizarre situations. I found it fun.
What I also liked about the show were the creature creations. It uses Jim Henson puppetry, and the attention to detail and movement (think more Dark Crystal than Muppets) in some of the characters is amazing.
I've seen Winx advertised but haven't watched it. Didn't it used to be a children's cartoon (or were they toys?) years ago?
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More recently I watched the second series of A Discovery of Witches, which is a romance story between a vampire and a witch. I thought it was okay, although not as good or interesting as the first series. It felt quite slow to me and not a lot seemed to happen. It was nice to finally have something new to watch though and I enjoyed the historical setting.
Hopefully Netflix is picking up the rest of it.
Oh, gosh. It's been a while since I watched that.
It's like a grown up version of a lot of Aussie kids tv shows. Trippy, wild adventures, full of weird comedy, are pretty standard for our kids shows.
Apparently.
And apparently this new show is based on the kids one, but is full of sex and substance use.
It's meant to be aimed at teens, but it seems more like it's aimed at young adults.
It inspired the sim in my profile pic.
The original concept for the characters was Mitchell was a sex addict, George had anger management issues, and Annie was an agoraphobe. But I'm glad they changed them to supernatural characters.
If you liked them, then you might also like Residue. Unfortunately, it's only a 3 episode pilot. It would have been really interesting to see where the might have taken the story.
It's a bit more cerebral than the average supernatural themed show.
And Wellington Paranormal. It's got 2 seasons (a third is coming out soon), a xmas special, and they teamed up with the NZ police for a bunch of covid-safe messages.
I haven't seen that one.
I can sympathise, I used to binge read scifi, fantasy, and supernatural themed books, now I binge watch far too many shows.
Dark was good.
And on the topic of non-English speaking shows, Netflix has several from Turkey that are pretty good. They also have many from Korea, I really enjoyed Kingdom (Zombies in a historical setting).
The Rain (Danish) is more of a post apocalyptic fantasy, than supernatural.
I tried watching that, but couldn't get into it. It was definitely too slow. I prefer faster paced, complex stories.
I haven't seen Residue or Wellington Paranormal yet, so I will have to give them a look along with Kingdom and The Rain. Thanks for the suggestions! I have remembered a few more, although you've probably already seen them - Apparitions, The Exorcist, Jekyll, Afterlife, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Midnight Texas, Lucifer, Good Omens, and American Horror Story. War of the Worlds (Fox/Canal+ adaptation) frustrated me because of the misleading title, but I am willing to give the second series a chance. I just want to see some tripods! I plan on trying Damien soon, but I have no idea if it is any good.
It's hard to remember much about Hex, except my teen crush on Michael Fassbender as Azazeal. Before that, I used to watch Sabrina, Buffy and Charmed. I have just always loved supernatural stories. I blame my older brothers as they were always showing me supernatural horror films/shows and books when I was little.
Actually Winx was a cartoon aimed at teens, the live action series is aimed at young adults I believe (around their 20-ish). I find the original cartoon to be far more interesting than this boring live action. At least the cartoon explored some dark topics at the time and had a rich lore of magical creatures. I remember the main topic of one season was wizards hunting down fairies and forcefully ripping out their wings to keep them captive, I find that far more "dark" than whatever the live action is trying to do.