Monsterland

Parents need to know that Monsterland is an eight-part drama anthology series that uses horror tropes and set-ups to explore human struggles and topical issues. It's framed as a "monster-of-the-week" type of show, but monsters actually play a smaller role than expected. Episodes instead focus on people who are struggling with issues like grief, trauma, illness, and poverty. The show features a wide variety of violence and sexual content. A teenage girl is forcefully drowned, a man cuts someone's face off with a knife, a man assaults a small child, teens attempt a home abortion, a woman appears in her underwear, a man and woman shower together, and more. Profanity is frequently used, including the "F" word and misogynisitic uses of "bitch" and "p---y." Episodes often end abruptly, so that consequences of the character's violent or amoral actions are not seen. Monsterland is being promoted as part of Hulu's Halloween programming, but it has very little in common with the horror genre or monster movies. Instead, it's an extremely bleak drama with some mild sci-fi elements.