There are few shows out there as synonymous with Halloween as “The Walking Dead.” After all, this is a series that originally premiered on October 31 on AMC, and leveraged it to score some fantastic numbers for the time. Since then, the show has become the biggest scripted show on TV, started an aftershow movement […]
For all of you out there who love “Sleepy Hollow,” we imagine that you probably associate the show with Halloween very much. After all, why wouldn’t you? This TV show is based on a story so associated with Halloween that for many, watching it was a tradition growing up. This was before the feature film […]
If you think about “Doctor Who” and holiday specials, there is almost one that almost always comes to mind: Christmas. There are few Christmas Specials that are anywhere near as famous as what this show tends to do every December 25. These combine holiday spirit and major plot points (regeneration, death, romance, and time travel) […]
We at CarterMatt have made it very clear that we love our Halloween specials, and for a variety of reasons: They’re sometimes-spooky, sometimes-freaky, and above all fun. They are the appetizer to prepare you for the holiday, and they get you in the right sort of spirit. That’s why we are glad that many shows […]
Let’s start with getting the bad news out of the way for this particular edition of Scare-O-Ween, our daily feature looking at the great creation that is the Halloween special: “Scream Queens” is not delivering the commercial success that we and so many others thought it would. While we never thought it would draw “Empire” […]
The majority of the shows that we are looking at in our Scare-O-Ween series are horror / supernatural shows. Why? It’s all because they satisfy the purpose of these articles more than any other: Analyzing what shows are doing in celebration of October 31, and what they could be doing differently. There are simply a […]
If there is a show that is tailor-made for all things Halloween, we certainly think that it is “Supernatural.” This is a show that introduces monsters, demons, werewolves, something called the Darkness, and a variety of other elements that make it perfect for the holiday. When you think about this, it’s somewhat crazy to think […]
If there is ever a show that was meant to celebrate Halloween like no other, it is “Teen Wolf.” It is catered to a young enough audience that cares about the holiday, its content is certainly spooky and supernatural, and it airs on a network in MTV who could promote the heck out of the […]
For those of you who are massive “Penny Dreadful” fans, the wait for season 3 is a long one. While there is no official premiere date just yet as confirmed by Showtime, our guess is that you will see Josh Hartnett, Eva Green, and the rest of the cast in either April or May. For the sake […]
Welcome to our first edition of CarterMatt’s Scare-O-Ween series! This is going to be a recurring article series over the next two weeks leading up to Halloween, where we take a closer look at some particularly spooky shows and what they can do to better represent one of our favorite holidays on October 31. “The Vampire […]
