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Monsterland

★ 5.7 4K votes 2020–2020 1 season · 8 episodes Ended Hulu
AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 9/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 8/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 7/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 7/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 7/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kaitlyn DeverCharlotte CabellVivian CabellD. Dumebi EgbuforKayleigh ShulerErinn Anova
Written by
Mary Laws
Starring
Kaitlyn DeverCharlotte CabellVivian CabellD. Dumebi EgbuforKayleigh ShulerErinn Anova
Written by
Mary Laws
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
02505007501k

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About

"Human sadness dressed up as monster stories"

An anthology of eight self-contained stories, each set in a different town and titled after that location, where ordinary people confront something monstrous, sometimes literal, more often the cruelty and despair hiding in their own lives. It's slow, moody, and unrelentingly bleak, favoring quiet dread and character tragedy over jump scares or creature effects. The pace is deliberate and the tone rarely lifts, so it rewards patience more than thrills. What carries it are strong individual performances and a handful of genuinely haunting, sad vignettes, even though the anthology format means the quality swings episode to episode.

Watch it for

the standout performances that turn quiet, small-scale sadness into something genuinely haunting.

Maybe skip if

you want traditional horror scares or a satisfying, connected overarching story.

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

All Seasons

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Season 12020
6.14K86h 41m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Port Fourchon, Louisiana7.0
89753 min
▶2New Orleans, Louisiana6.2
56549 min
▶3Palacios, Texas6.1
38043 min
▶4Plainfield, Illinois6.4
46552 min
▶5Eugene, Oregon5.4
69051 min
▶6Iron River, Michigan5.8
32247 min
▶7New York, New York5.3
40752 min
▶8Newark, New Jersey5.7
29154 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kaitlyn Dever Toni, Jennifer
Charlotte Cabell Jack
Vivian Cabell Jack
D. Dumebi Egbufor News Anchor
Kayleigh Shuler Assistant, Shawn's Assistant
Erinn Anova Law Professor, Professor
Mike Colter Brian Cooke
Adria Arjona Mermaid
Bill Camp Stanley Price
Nicole Beharie Annie Keller
Charlie Tahan Wolf

Crew

Mary Laws

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