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Hysteria!

★ 7.0 7K votes 2024–2024 1 season · 8 episodes Canceled Peacock
Small townA tight community where everyone knows everyone.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Emjay AnthonyChiara AureliaKezii CurtisNikki HahnAnna CampJulie Bowen
Written by
Matthew Scott Kane
Starring
Emjay AnthonyChiara AureliaKezii CurtisNikki HahnAnna CampJulie Bowen
Written by
Matthew Scott Kane
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"80s satanic panic turned into teen chaos"

Set in a small Midwest town in 1989, Hysteria! follows a group of teens who exploit the era's satanic-panic hysteria after a local heavy metal band gets scapegoated for a violent crime. As rumors spiral into moral panic, the kids start staging fake evidence for their own reasons, blurring the line between prank and horror. The show mixes teen-drama energy with slasher-adjacent dread, leaning into neon-lit 80s nostalgia while satirizing how quickly a community turns fear into scapegoating. It's brisk, campy in places, and more interested in social panic than jump scares.

Watch it for

the way it skewers moral panic through a scrappy, neon-soaked teen lens.

Maybe skip if

you want straightforward scares rather than satire about mass hysteria.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12024
7.43K87h 1m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Hysteria7.4
47060 min
▶2Die Young7.4
38049 min
▶3Can I Play with Madness7.6
35454 min
▶4Dance Macabre7.4
33048 min
▶5Mother7.5
32854 min
▶6Speaking in Tongues7.5
30855 min
▶7It's Late7.5
29450 min
▶8Heaven's on Fire7.0
31751 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Emjay Anthony Dylan Campbell
Chiara Aurelia Jordy Stanwyck
Kezii Curtis Spud
Nikki Hahn Faith Whitehead
Anna Camp Tracy Whitehead
Julie Bowen Linda Campbell
Jessica Treska Judith Sanders
Elijah Richardson Cliff Nelson
Aline O'Neill Tonya, Tonya Perkins
Bruce Campbell Chief Ben Dandridge

Crew

Matthew Scott Kane

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