The television set has a proud place in horror history as a conduit to various twilight zones... the scariest movies and shows are the ones that somehow seem to be watching us; the ones that hold our gaze only to refract it back with a new intensity.
The characters in I Saw the TV Glow live in the shadows because they like it there, but on some level they're also afraid of being swallowed up in that same darkness... The degree to which popular culture shapes identity is at the heart of I Saw the TV Glow.
It's an earnest answer that suggests a soul still coming into formation, one jagged, tentative piece at a time... where kids already dealing with the dangers of coming of age end up having close encounters with stranger things.
He's infantilized by his parents, who won't let him stay up on Friday nights to watch the long-running young adult serial The Pink Opaque... it's a show for girls-a remark t
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