{"id":2298,"date":"2016-06-26T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2016-06-26T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T15:49:33","slug":"the-five-top-comedy-horror-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/the-five-top-comedy-horror-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five Top Comedy Horror Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, dear listener, we share with you the very best comedy horror<\/strong> made for television. To achieve this, we employed a dedicated team of statisticians and social media experts, we spoke to all the people who have ever owned a TV set and we cross-referenced the results with every Internet poll since 1927. But we didn’t like the results, so we picked the five that we most enjoyed. That’s proper science for you.<\/p>\n

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the psychoville cast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comedy and horror often go together like eggs and bayonets, or maple syrup and spiders. When people get the idea wrong, it’s really annoying. Dark comedy sometimes means ‘not actually funny’, and comedy-horror at its worst means stupid, lazy rip-offs of other people’s earlier ideas. And there’s only so much self-referential ‘I’m in a film’ and ‘we’ve all watched horror films’, break the fourth wall etc. that we can take, frankly.<\/p>\n

Missing from this post are the older, classic series \u2013 The Addams Family<\/strong>, the wry bits in some TV horror series and so on. And we left out the existential horror of Mr Ed<\/strong>, where a man’s life is repeatedly questioned by a talking horse. There are limits to our daring.<\/p>\n

We judged our selection against three extremely precise criteria:<\/p>\n

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  1. Did we actually laugh, even if it was that squirmy laughter which meant it was a bit close to actually scary or insane?<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Did the series draw on, expand on, or effectively parody horror tropes and themes?<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Were the programmes we selected really series, or had we watched TV while drunk again and got confused when flicking channels? (Quincy ME, for example, is not a sequel to Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, apparently.)<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And the five winners are, in negative reverse order of escalating least unimportant irrelevance:<\/p>\n

    Psychoville (2009-2011)<\/h1>\n

    Both disturbing and funny, this is perhaps dark comedy at its finest, where the description actually delivers. We would include this series merely for the presence of Dawn French<\/strong>, whose performance as a midwife obsessed by a stuffed birthing doll called Freddy is one of her best. Written by Steve Pemberton<\/strong> and Reece Shearsmith<\/strong> of League of Gentlemen fame<\/em> (see below), Psychoville concerns a group of apparent strangers who receive a note which ties all of them to a dark past.<\/p>\n