Any review of Hulu's The Great should start off with this very important note: Are you an animal lover? Do you find it physically upsetting to watch any harm come to a furry creature, in real life or on-screen? Then The Great is definitely a hard pass for you. This isn't even like watching that scene in John Wick with your eyes closed. The violence against animals is graphic, brutal, and pervasive across multiple episodes. However, it's also somehow essential to the very peculiar cocktail of a TV show that The Favourite screenwriter Tony McNamara has …

Riverdale took the world of Archie comics and made it a spooky teen drama. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina took the world of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comics (and, of course, the Melissa Joan Hart sitcom) and leaned even harder into being a spooky teen drama. Now, with two new projects coming down the pike, creator/developer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is ready to show us more spooky teen drama worlds: The Shelley Society and The Brides. According to Deadline, The Shelley Society has a pilot order set up at HBO Max. It follows a young Mary Shelley -- you know, the …