The Living and the Dead
The Living and the Dead Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.2 | 7.3 |
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About
"Rural Victorian gothic that gets under your skin"
A Victorian-era gentleman farmer and his wife return to his family's crumbling estate, hoping to modernize its farming methods, only to find the land haunted by something older and angrier than they can explain. The show blends period drama with slow-building supernatural dread, favoring atmosphere over jump scares. Fields, farmhouses and family secrets become genuinely unsettling. It's moody, patient, and visually gorgeous, more concerned with psychological unease and grief than gore. Pace is deliberate, sometimes to a fault, but the setting and creeping sense of wrongness linger well after episodes end.
the slow-burn dread and beautifully bleak countryside atmosphere that builds real unease.
you want fast-paced horror with clear answers rather than lingering ambiguity.
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All Seasons

| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Episode 1 | 6.9 | 346 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode 2 | 7.0 | 276 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode 3 | 7.1 | 258 | 60 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Episode 4 | 7.0 | 230 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Episode 5 | 7.2 | 226 | 57 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Episode 6 | 7.3 | 210 | 57 min |