I extremely appreciate the way Del Toro specifically calls out the director of each episode. It sets the stage for taking it as a short film in its own right, and draws attention to the materiality of its creation in a way that is extremely lost in an era when half of all television is made by Studio System 2: Electric Boogaloo and the other half is dead set on making "prestige TV" as stylistically homogeneous as possible.

I strongly recommend it if you have the ability to pirate media. I'm told there are also other worse ways to watch it but I wouldn't know anything about that


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It's sitting in my Videos folder as we speak. I've seen work by most of these directors, and like you said, that's the thing that's exciting me the most: I care about who these people are, and what they're creating. I want idiosyncrasies and weirdness!

Hopefully it has a long, long tail. I suspect it will.

I've found the episodes are a bit hit or miss but the goods ones are so good that it makes up for the duds. There's something very cool about the one hour format where you can do an episode about a singular idea that's really interesting but wouldn't make for an entire feature-length film.

Yeah, I particularly found the Lovecraft ones (5 and 6 I think?) to be pretty lackluster. But if that's the price of showcasing such a variety of work from so many different directors, I'm more than willing to pay it!

I haven't watched episode six yet but, yeah, the first Lovecraft one was just meh. It's really hard to translate indescribable cosmic horror to a visual medium.

The Autopsy is my favorite so far. Really unpleasant to watch, but I loved how the body horror was integral to the mechanics of the plot.