Eerie, Indiana is one of the few unique shows you might not have heard about that you should indeed watch. It features a single season that ran 18 episodes and its ratings since the show aired in 1991 have remained impressive. The show is about a boy who moves to a Midwestern town that also happens to be the center of all weirdness in the world. Young Marshall (Omri Katz) together with his friend Simon (Justin Shenkarow) were on a mission to investigate the different supernatural mysteries witnessed around the town.
Filling the void for bizarre
Around 1991, there was a huge audience that demanded bizarre films, but there were never plenty options available save for Eerie, Indiana. When the show debuted in 1991, it was viewed as unusual although it might also have been seen as vaguely familiar. Its creators, Karl Schaefer and Jose Rivera, had in the past prepared shows for family sitcoms including Family Matters, but they lacked a channel to get Eerie, Indiana on the map.
It was through the help of director Joe Dante that the show was put on air. One of the things that must have moved the director to grant the contract for the show is that unlike others that were produced on video, Eerie, Indiana was produced on film. However, this unusual decision made the show a bit expensive to produce, and this is one of the reasons it could not run any longer than one season.
The starting of the show was rather interesting and particularly more inclined to the future. It begins with a small intro in which Marshall explains the weirdness he has discovered about his town. The first episode is surreal and is made more interesting by the nightmarish exaggeration of the ever perfect housewife.
Superior series
The original Eerie, Indiana series was a more adored show although it was not easy to track down the show for some time. But the show is now available on Amazon from where you can stream. The other option you have when you want to access it is getting a DVD box, which goes for about $100. Looking at the show 26 years after it premiered can tell why it was such a hit then. Its ratings are still high and even viewers who recently watched it for the first time agree the show was ahead of its time. Most of them note that it was themed around an interesting and creative idea.
The Eerie, Indiana has been lying in the archives for many years but its influence in film lives on. It even got a perfect series finale. Its impact was so strong that by around mid ‘90s, the horror scene had caught up and more people were starting to realize the immense value hidden in shows themed around mysteries and horror. It basically created a platform that paved way for the creation of other shows with similar scripts. The show was even picked by Disney and other leading entertainment franchises that were fascinated with the idea highlighted in the Eerie, Indiana.
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