Ep. 51 - Hysteria!
Grab your satanic bible, throw on your favorite heavy metal t-shirt, and come join the cult of Hysteria! with Presley and Andrew.All our Links: https://linktr.ee/seasononepodSeason Spoiler Synopsis: Hysteria! is a Peacock Original comedy horror-thriller show set in 1989 Happy Hollow, Michigan--a suburb in Detroit. The show opens with Ryan and Faith getting frisky in Faith's room when masked men break in to Faith's home and kidnap Ryan and Faith. When Ryan, captain and quarterback of the football team is kidnapped and later found dead, the scene of his death has Satanic elements. Faith is seemingly able to escape and stumbles her way home a few days later. Dylan, Jordy, and Spud are best friends, outcasts, and bandmates. Their heavy metal band Dethkrunch is struggling to get interest from people in town, namely their fellow high school students. Capitalizing on the sudden spike of interest in the occult (with Ryan's murder), the band rebrands themselves as a Satanic metal band. Dylan's popularity, alongside the band's, increases and he finally captures the attention of his crush Judith. Dethkrunch hosts a few concerts, while deepening the influence and intensity of their newfound Satanic "cult". The cult group grows as Judith and friends get more passionate about Satanism, and the group's practices and commitment grows beyond the scope of the band. Ryan's murder is being investigated, ending up with Dylan and friends being brought in for questioning. They're cleared from suspicion pretty quickly by the police but Faith's mother Tracy leverages Satanic panic to scare the townsfolk into placing the band and their "cult" into the center of the town's witch hunt, especially as more supernatural activity begins to occur in town. Dylan's mother Linda is attacked by a demon and later becomes possessed, strengthening Tracy's hold on the town. Faith gets suspicious about the group that abducted her and Ryan, finding out that Tracy was the one who called The Reverend to kidnap her and "deprogram" her (making her a good Christian again). It turns out that Ryan wasn't supposed to be there, and the men working for The Reverend had to take him too since he saw their faces. Ryan died of an untreated asthma attack and to draw suspicion away from them, they staged the scene to look like a Satanic ritual. Faith gets coerced into planting Ryan's inhaler in Jordy's room in order to nudge the police in the direction of the band once again. Faith ends up working with Jordy to expose The Reverend as Chief Dandridge uncovers Tracy's kidnapping many years prior, and The Reverend's deprogramming her. Tracy brings Linda, who is fully possessed by the devil at this point, to the church for an exorcism in front of the townspeople, with Dylan and Gene (Dylan's dad) tagging along desperate to save her. Dylan, Jordy, and Spud work to expose Tracy's involvement in Ryan's murder and the panic of the town but are unsuccessful in their effort. Dylan helps Linda break free of her possession, with Tracy succumbing to the devil as the church burns down around her. The Reverend, Beaumont Hicks, is arrested by Chief Dandridge and Tracy is arrested at the scene of the church fire. The townsfolk try to stop Officer Olsen from arresting Tracy, but she stops them and says she'll go with them because the truth will set her free. In the end we see the Satanic cult breaking up after the group stops Judith from ritualistically killing Tonya, Dethkrunch getting back together, Judith getting sent to LA to be with her dad, and Linda appears to still be haunted by the devil.
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