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It's in that violence and rot that this show truly shines as a no-joke horror story, not a surprise given Wan's involvement and a pilot script co-written by Gary Dauberman ( IT, The Nun) and Mark Verheiden ( Ash vs. But the deeper Arcane and Holland dig, the more it smells like a rotten conspiracy, a conspiracy the swamp itself seems intent on violently stopping. (Think the gory artwork of Hannibal meets, like, a fucked-up Ent.) Butting into her investigation is disgraced scientist Holland, who discovered abnormal mutagens in the swamp that may just be the key to finding a cure.

It's 2019, man, and it looks like it's officially time to go green.Īrcane has been called back to her hometown of Marais, Louisiana to investigate a strange disease that's seemingly emanating from the nearby swamp, causing locals to collapse, cough up gooey leaves into their hospital beds, and-in much more extreme cases-devolve into mossy, decaying statues straight out of a biologist's worst fever dreams. Well, I'm here to report that Swamp Thing, at least in its first two episodes, not only ups the ante, it's also a triumph on pretty much every level, a nasty, gleefully disturbing bit of body horror on the Louisiana bayou that evokes everything from John Carpenter's The Thing to executive-producer James Wan's work with the Trench in Aquaman.

VIBE DC ORIGINAL SERIES

That put a lot of pressure on the big mossy shoulders of original series #3, Swamp Thing , to keep up the quality, especially in the wake of the backstage wonkiness that cut its originally-ordered 13 episodes to 10. Then came Doom Patrol, which started out solid as Brendan Fraser's bare backside and gradually became one of the most wonderfully absurd delights on all of television. That first series had its fans and certainly improved as it went along, but suffice it to say, it wasn't my cup of tea. Say what you will about DC Universe, but original series-wise the still-young streaming service is on the same trajectory as Superman himself: Up, up, and a-way better than Titans.

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