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[TV] Netflix Developing More “Hemlock Grove”
I wasn’t a huge fan of Netflix’s “Hemlock Grove,” in fact, I never finished the first season. As an obsessive completist, this is very telling. Still, the high-priced Netflix only series must have performed well enough to warrant a second season, so says THR.
The online mag conducted a lengthy interview with Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, who speaks of potential plans for a second offering of “Hemlock Grove.”
“We’re hearing the pitches for the second season with plotlines and storylines now,” he revealed.
He also speaks on the negative reactions, especially from the genre crowd: ““Hemlock” is much more polarizing; you either love it or hate it. The crossover for the people who love the show was “American Horror Story,” not T”he Vampire Diaries.” It was incredibly popular in the Nordics because of the popularity of the Skarsgards [Bill Skarsgard stars] and in Latin America, where the horror genre is very big.
“The other thing I look at is the tween segment,” he adds. ““Hemlock Grove is horror, but it’s not really CW horror; it’s much more adult than that. So I think that we’d like to look at some series in that category.”
He nails my exact problem with the series: it’s confused. It clearly doesn’t want to be CW horror, but it also dabbles in it. And it also wants to be “adult,” but it’s not sexy nor violent enough. I’d make a plea with him that the second season needs to clearly define what it is…
Did you guys finish the first season? Thoughts?
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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge
Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.
The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.
Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.
Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.
A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”
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