The original post: /r/television by /u/CDC_ on 2025-02-24 21:47:20.

If you haven’t seen the movie this series is based on, you’ll want to do that. Both Creep and Creep 2 are on Netflix. Suffice it to say it’s found footage horror done better than 99.9% of found footage horror movies in existence. It’s funny, it’s scary, it’s awkward, it’s artful, it’s weird as hell, the acting is absolutely compelling, the story is simple but engrossing… it just ticks so many boxes.

Which brings me to the recent series.

First off, it’s incredibly lean. You can watch all of season one in about two and a half hours. I watched it in an afternoon.

I believe it started up in November 2024 and wrapped up fairly recently. It’s currently on AMC+ and Shudder and is a Shudder original.

It’s everything the movies are and perhaps a little more. You get (mild spoilers that I don’t THINK will ruin it for most people but if you want to go in completely blind, here’s your shield) more character development, more victims and their stories, more zany antics from Mark Duplass (who I have decided is Horror’s Jim Carrey) and you even get to meet some of The Creep’s family. Just when you’re thinking “ok this is getting a bit repetitive, it changes course entirely, and takes you even further into bizarro territory

It’s unquestionably quality television that was somehow eked out of what I can only assume is a micro budget. You watch this and think “jeez most of this could be achieved with almost zero dollars, save a few special scenes.”

But the thing is… they didn’t need a huge budget and if they keep it going after this season I don’t think they ever will. Mark Duplass carries everything on his shoulders. He’s proved that putting a camera in front of himself and acting like an absolute nut is more than enough. I think a lot of people (particularly horror fans and/or people just enjoy weird shit) are gonna love just watching this dude run around playing this batshit insane character over six episodes… and like me, be left begging for more.

And oh that ending (heavy spoilers) Duplass went full Takashi Miike (if you’ve ever seen Gozu or Visitor Q) with that final shot of himself breastfeeding on his elderly mother.

My girlfriend and I were left speechless. We just kinda sat there with our jaws on the floor like… “what the hell are we gonna do with the rest of our evening?”

I promise I’m not shilling, I just posted this because I need more people to discuss this with. Everyone on Reddit seems to have seen the first episode or two (I believe the put the first two out a week or two before the actual premiere which I always think is a bad idea because it makes you forget about the show no matter how good it is) and responses are largely positive to those episodes, but the rest of the series seems largely undiscussed.

Hope some of you peep this out. Thanks for reading and making it all the way to the end…. I mean, if you did. If you didn’t, that’s cool. I mean it hurts my feelings a little but it’s cool.