Matthew Scott Kane has crafted 'Hysteria!', a series reflecting on the cultural phenomena of the 1980s satanic panic, highlighting the dangerous spread of misinformation.
'The impulse to displace social anxieties onto perceived groups of outsiders is as American as apple pie,' observes Kane about the ongoing relevance of past fears.
Kane worries about the show's timeliness, fearing that the parallels between the satanic panic era and today's conspiracy theories, like QAnon, might feel outdated.
'The aesthetics of Hysteria! the wallpaper, the jeans, the popular music are distinctly '80s.' Yet the themes resonate deeply with contemporary issues of misinformation and scapegoating.
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