PopHorror Let's Get Scared
Lately, I find myself gravitating more towards great television than movies. Maybe it’s a time commitment thing, or a short attention span on my part. Either way, I’ve been pretty impressed at how the wave of genre television has spun back around, and how well done everything is. We’re gonna look back on all this and elaborate to our posterity about how awesome a time this really was. With the success of the John Wick film series, violent assassin noir is back. Well, it never really left. People are just remembering how much they loved it.
The Syfy channel has a really slick take on contract killers. Hitmen (and women) have to learn somewhere how to kill people, and an elite private school is just the place in the new series, Deadly Class. When a homeless teen gets a scholarship of sorts to an academy for future John Wicks and Ms. Perkins, culture shock is the least of his problems. Deadly Class has its roots in the graphic novel that inspired it and is produced by the Russo Brothers, the same talented guys behind Community and three Marvel films, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, and Avengers: Infinity War. They’ve got a knack for moving seamlessly from comedy to over-the-top action, and should be the perfect choice to bring such a great piece of counterculture into the subversive mainstream. Set in the late 1980s, this show is dripping with nouveau nostalgia and includes icons of nonconformity like Black Flag’s Henry Rollins in its eclectic cast of characters. Deadly Class premieres on Syfy in early 2019.
