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The southern gothic, rural noir, wat'cha-wanna-call'it. It is the apocalypse placed in the present. The ordered world haven't reached here or isn't valid here anymore. Of the world ending renderings, this is the one that feels most relevant and right to me. Made before the latest large zombie/wasteland/etc media-boom. And not about surviving as much as it is about an absence of meaning or morality.

Only partly about Frankenstein's monster, "the new Prometheus", the series still makes a more encompassing portrait of this trope, than watching several movies/series and tying to read the novel with contemporary eyes has afforded me. Today, the idea/story of Mary Shelley constructing a philosophical, spiritual, political and genre-expanding horror work is more vivid than anything the original work managas to evoke in me. And this is one of the things that the freedom of the meta-perspective of this series manages to do.

By taking something that was a children's story my father used to mention, The treasure island, and making it fit with my own adulthood, complexity and changed visual references, is an important feat on accounts to how vivid childhood memories of stories can seem. But then the memories seem to evaporate when you try to revisit the story. That is what I like with this series. The work put in to make the old story vivid, plausible, complex and gritty again. Still true to the core of its mystic origins. Also the short lived pirate era fits in the toten tanz theme of this list so far.

It is strange when I try to talk with people who tried to follow this series but got turned off, or never started on accounts to that "The Silence of the lambs" is movie that cannot be bettered. For me it is reversed, I can now only watch the original movies as a homage to what came out of them, that is this work. Concepts, probably not invented by the show but fleshed out in detail, like the autismspectrum empath and the memory palace, I keep in my head at all times.