Well, I'm a HUGE horror nerd myself and I hear nothing but praise about this show from all the horror communities that I frequent online. Frankly, a little TOO MUCH praise, if I'm honest.
But I'm the type of person that when EVERYONE is raving about something that I'm not already somehow on board with, I tend to get a little leery of the massive hype and throw up a wall. Just how I am, I guess. Hard to explain, but I'm sure everyone's had those feelings before at some point or another about something.
That said, I do intend to check this out eventually. And it doesn't surprise me at all that it pushes the envelope with content and gets away with it. Another low-watched, critic darling show that NBC courted for years, Homicide: Life on the Street, was also a PHENOMENAL series that definitely set a new standard for what could get through traditional standards and practices for its day. As it stands, Homicide remains one of my most favorite television series to date. It was waaaaay ahead of its time.
