We’ve learned tonight that Hulu is in development on a series titled “Demons,” set against the backdrop of the hysteria known as “Satanic Panic” in the ’80s/90s.
As outlined by Wikipedia, “Satanic ritual abuse was the subject of a moral panic that originated in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s. Allegations of SRA involved reports of physical and sexual abuse of people in the context of occult or Satanic rituals.”
The series is written by Juliet Lashinsky-Revene, and it revolves around Marilyn Jones, the seductive “patient zero” in the frenzy surrounding Satanic Ritual Abuse, and her husband, Bennett Lewis, a brilliant but manipulative psychiatrist.
“In success,” THR notes, “each season of Demons would explore a twisted crime affected by the couple’s dark exploration into the fragile nature of memory and guilt.”
Revene will exec produce alongside Karyn Usher and Lisa Zwerling via their Carpoon Entertainment. Lionsgate is the studio on the drama. Amanda Tudesco will produce.
