A high school heavy metal band attempts to capitalize on '80s occult paranoia in an eight-part series that's half supernatural saga and half supernatural satire.

The Peacock horror comedy finds timeliness in a dark chapter of American history. “Satan was always an existential threat,” the actor said.

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an affront to the musical genre it purports to love.

Julie Bowen and Bruce Campbell star as, respectively, a suburban mom and a seen-it-all cop in Peacock's "Hysteria!," which turns the very real Satanic Panic of the '80s into a rollicking, heavy-metal flavored comedy about demons.