The world has been hit by an epidemic.
An epidemic of ghosts.
Society has changed completely.
Technology has not evolved in the way that we experience it today, showrunnerJoe CornishtellsDen of Geekmagazine.
And hes built this brilliant pseudoscience around that idea.
WatchingLockwood & Co, the subtle worldbuilding stands out.
That was one of the things that attracted me as somebody who was a teenager in the 80s.
We explore this world through the eyes of agents Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, and George Karim.
Its weird, isnt it?
He also has childhood memories awash with 80s VHS horror, which clearly informs his work.
I could go down the road and rentZombie Flesh EatersandThe ExorcistandTexas Chainsaw Massacreaged 11, Cornish points out.
We were exposed to all this shit incredibly young.
They felt really visceral and impressive as a young person.
You felt like you were watching spectacular, grown-up, freaky shit, he recalls.
Theres a lot of that in everything I do, I think.
Lockwood & Cois out on Netflix on Jan. 27.
