This story contains major spoilers from season one of Peacock's Hysteria!] Hysteria! creator Matthew Scott wrote the first script for the series in 2019. He had something to say about "the idea that facts and reality were up for debate,

The Peacock horror comedy finds timeliness in a dark chapter of American history. “Satan was always an existential threat,” the actor said.

Hysteria!' forges its own wild and wicked path. The result is a series that’s surprisingly singular and pretty damn entertaining.

Perhaps the most famous example of mass hysteria in recent memory is the Satanic Panic of the 1980s (the setting for Hysteria!, Peacock’s new horror series starring Bruce Campbell, Julie Bowen, and Anna Camp), but it’s far from the only one. Mass hysterias of all kinds crop up rapidly and disappear just as quickly inside isolated groups of people.

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an affront to the musical genre it purports to love.

A high school heavy metal band attempts to capitalize on '80s occult paranoia in an eight-part series that's half supernatural saga and half supernatural satire.

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Julie Bowen and Bruce Campbell star as, respectively, a suburban mom and a seen-it-all cop in Peacock's "Hysteria!," which turns the very real Satanic Panic of the '80s into a rollicking, heavy-metal flavored comedy about demons.