In this show a group of 5 highschoolers go on an adventure, discovering the secrets of their parents’ past. While trying to survive the haunted soul of Harold Biddle, they start to uncover the truth to what’s going on.
This five episode tv series on Hulu includes: Episode one- “Say Cheese and Die!”, Episode two- “The Haunted Mask”, Episode 3- “The Cuckoo Clock of Doom”, Episode 4- “Go eat Worms”, and Episode 5- “Reader Beware”. But, they plan to make new episodes every friday.
In episode one, there are lots of flashbacks and cliffhangers that get you hooked into the show. This episode takes us back to 1993 when Harold Biddle dies in a house fire. Then brings to present time, 2023, where highschool student Isaiah and his girlfriend Allison use Harold Biddles old house to throw a Halloween party. Isaiah finds a haunted camera in the basement, which when taking a photo of someone it shows how they will die. He ends up saving his friend Margot, after seeing how she was going to die with the picture. He then accidentally takes a picture of himself showing he would break his arm during the next big game. During this game Isaiah hallucinates and sees the field full of burning monsters. Nora, the mom of Lucas, another student, sees the monsters too, and warns Isaiah’s dad. She says Harold is coming back to haunt their kids for what her and the other parents did to him. Bratt, only living relative to Harold, gets the house passed down to him and ends up possessed by Harold.
In episode two, this girl Isabelle feels ignored. At the Halloween party she finds a weird mask. This mask makes her feel more confident, but with time it starts making her do bad things to people. Nora gives a photo of Harold to Isaiah, and asks if he looked familiar, of course Isaiah said he notices him for the “hallucinations” at the field. Isabelle puts the mask on which ends up molding to her face making her the troll. After almost hurting her little brother she realizes what she’s doing and peels the mask off. The parents of the kids end up having a meeting where Nora tells them what she thinks, they all angrily ignore her.
In episode 3, at the halloween party , James hits his head on a cuckoo clock. Everytime he tried to get out of the house, it would knock him back in time to when he hit his head. When he finally gets out, he finds out everytime he tries to leave, it makes a duplicate of himself, creating an army of James’s. These duplicates take over his life, hiding him in a cave, and causing destruction to his life. Isaiah, Isabella and Margo find out what’s going on and find the real James, killing almost all the other James’s along the way. The group realizes everything that’s been happening started at the biddle house. Nora says that Marogos mother has answers, but when they called her she said to not trust the other parents. One of the duplicates brings back something for Bratt but it turns out empty. Bratt then killed the last duplicate of James.
In episode 4, Lucas tries attempting the stunt his father died doing, but got scared and didn’t do it. When he came back he saw his mom and Margo’s dad kissing, so he records and shows Margo. To cheer her up he eats one of his worms from his tank that he found at the Biddle house. That night all the worms crawled into Lucas’s body, making him not able to feel pain. He then goes to attempt his fathers stunt again. Margot figures out that it had something to do with Haorld and her and Nora go to stop Lucas. Nora tells Lucas his dad did that stunt because he knew he would die, suicide. Lucas then throws up the worms, which form into a big monster, the 3 then join together luring the monster into a saw mill and shredding it up. Nora then ends up in a psychiatric ward after telling police about what happened.
In episode 5, Margot’s mom comes home after a several month separation from Margots dad. She then learns that Margots dad and Nora had been seeing each other, she also learns that Nora is being held under Victoria , the mother of Isabella’s watch. Isaiah breaks up with his girlfriend then admits his feelings for Margot, but he is too late because Margot already found strong feelings for Lucas. Possessed-Bratt, gives Margot Harold’s old scrapbook. When she reads one of the pages in the room that it happened in, she can see the vision. Margot learns that her mother was good friends with Harold. Harold’s ghost then takes Margot to the night he died in the house fire, and she learns that her and her friend’s parents, after trying to steal a suitcase from Harold, are the reason for Harold’s death.
So far, the show is off to a great start. With only 5 episodes it leaves a lot of room for either A. Keep making more great episodes with plot twists, or B. ruin the show with episodes that aren’t on the same level as these first 5. I would say if you are someone who likes “scary” movies or shows, but doesnt feel like hiding under the covers the whole episode, this is a show for you. I would give this show 4 out of 5 stars, although they are planning on adding new episodes every Friday, I only have 5 episodes to base my opinion on as of now.