Streaming services, primetime television channels and cable TV are competing for as many viewers as possible for their pieces of entertainment. Are you itching to watch a new web show or series? If so, we have got quite the list for you. Here are some of the best-known shows from October 2021, of genres ranging from thriller to horror.
Squid Game On Netflix
It appears that all couch potatoes are watching one episode of Squid Game after another until they complete the show. As with WandaVision and Tiger King before it, Squid Game became a trend-setting show that captured people’s imaginations. It is among the most-viewed Netflix shows ever. This makes us wonder why people want to spend much time watching an odd show with gore and games. As with the celebrated movie Parasite, this is a show regarding the upper class and people who must follow only their own conditions or guidelines.
Squid Game has Lee Jung-jae as its protagonist Seong Gi-hun, a terrible father and gambling addict who is in a deep state of debt. The debt of the protagonist is so deep that he decides to take part in a strange game as a player. The game forces the participants to go through situations that decide whether they die or live for a fortune as their potential prize. Each round develops at the same time as the backstory of each Squid Game player. The players include Jung Ho-yeon’s Korean defector, Anupam Tripathi’s Pakistani father, and Park Hae-soo’s investment banker.
It is a hypnotic show that attracts the audience with a multicolored set design, which seemingly highlights the blood sport. The viciousness and the look of the multiple games within the game, as well as, the well-made characters keep the audience engaged.
People watch the show as it reflects a twisted and dark memorandum about society and its ills, all covered in a bloody situation that develops with a 1980’s Colorforms playset. The show is different from what most people have seen, as its optimistic palette offers a contrast to the desperation of the characters. The game leaves tangible devastation on the players as well as makes the winner experience despair and anguish. On the other hand, as a viewer, you are likely to demand more from the show at the end.
Midnight Mass On Netflix
Midnight Mass from filmmaker Mike Flanagan helps Netflix to defeat its creepy competition available on television and the big screen. Set in an isolated fishing area known as Crockett Island, Midnight Mass offers not just the chills this Halloween season but also a unique approach to horror that revives the genre.
Midnight Mass begins as its insular community becomes excited as a priest comes to the town after its senior Monsignor goes missing in action. Hamish Linklater’s young and fiery Priest Paul Hill charms the locals with his willingness to aid the downtrodden and optimistic sermons. Immediately after his Crockett Island visit, the locals go through changes, including the healing of wounds and the development of a fresh thirst.
The real danger is not the content of the strange box that Hill carried with him to the town. Rather, it is in the locals who pretend not to notice clear warning signs. The locals who follow with no question start to act, behave and think nonsensically, which eventually means all hell breaking loose. It is just fascinating to watch it all unfold.
Flanagan keeps offering homespun horror content generously for Netflix viewers. The regular collaborators of the filmmaker all play a part in the sophisticated tale. Each actor gets their opportunity to show their skill, including Rahul Kohli as Sheriff Hassan and Kate Siegel as Erin Green. The standout performer is Samantha Sloyan in an antagonist role with the kind of turpitude and villainy that can unsettle the audience.
Midnight Mass works as a show with an effect that people usually describe as ‘a punch to the gut’. It targets the audience who religiously trusts the wrong kind of people, making a heightened creature feature that is hard to resist. It is worth a watch for Halloween fans, horror buffs, and others who like great storytelling.
I Know What You Did Last Summer On Amazon Prime
With the reboot of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, Amazon Prime attempts again to take advantage of horror nostalgia. It is an adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer, a 1997 movie, from director Jim Gillespie. Many viewers regard it as a melodramatic movie with more kitsch and less fun as compared to Kevin Williamson’s 1996 classic Scream. Nevertheless, it was a hit in the US box office at the time. The same applies to the web adaption of the movie.
A girl comes back home after her freshman year in college to her affectionate father, a foreboding detail in blood on the mirror, and a goat head. In the flashback, we see an intoxicated teenager taking her friends for a ride before their behavior makes her collide with one of them. The gang chooses to conceal the evidence; a year afterwards, they are made to confront their bad choices as they get hunted down. It may be a familiar plot for anyone who has seen the 1997 movie with the same title.
The stylish show offers some amount of mystery, many shots of characters driving as they text or talk on their cell phones, and some musical interludes. The first episodes have a clear piece of misdirection, giving the story a surprising Freaky Friday movie twist. However, when it is disclosed to the viewer, the show comes back to its unremarkable storytelling and two-dimensional Generation Z characterizations.
The flaw of this show is in the characters who we should care about more. The teenagers in the show are saddled with mass culture references and try-hard lines instead of humor or character development. Therefore, they come across as annoying characters at best. The show has despicable characters, so whether any of them lives or dies is of little importance to the audience. Nevertheless, you might wish to hate-watch each episode of this show.