Monsterland
Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters”.
- Metascore62
- 2020-2020
- 1 season
- Hulu
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense
- TV-MA
Encounters with mermaids, fallen angels, and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in Monsterland, an anthology series based on the collection of stories from Nathan Ballingrud’s “North American Lake Monsters”.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
Port Fourchon, Louisiana
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 53 mins
A waitress, Toni, has a dead-end job in her dead-end life, in a dead-end town. But an encounter with a mysterious stranger, Alex, shows Toni a way to escape her dead-end life and start a new one. All she has to do is sacrifice the one person she holds dear.
Episode 2
New Orleans, Louisiana
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 49 mins
A woman, Annie, marries a rich doctor. Fourteen years after an incident at a parade in the French Quarter, Annie discovers that her husband Joe isn't who she thought - and that something terrible happened to her son George that she has avoided confronting. But the past won't let some people avoid what happened.
Episode 3
Palacios, Texas
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 43 mins
An immigrant fisherman, Sharko Pierce, is damaged in an oil-cleanup accident. One day he finds an oil-covered mermaid on the beach, and takes her home to make her his own. However, Sharko is forced to defend the mermaid against fisherman who see her as a way to make some money to feed their families.
Episode 4
Plainfield, Illinois
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 52 mins
A woman, Shawn, can't bear to let go of her wife Kate. When Kate apparently kills herself because of her bipolar mental condition, she soon comes back. Shawn keeps Kate around despite the fact that Kate is slowly decaying and discovers that their relationship is more trying than ever.
Episode 5
Eugene, Oregon
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 51 mins
Lonely student Nick has had a life filled with endless bad luck. When he encounters a disembodied, sentient shadow in his home, curiosity turns to animosity under the influence of an online group of "shadow hunters", who convince him that his paranormal visitor is responsible for the negativity surrounding him.
Episode 6
Iron River, Michigan
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 47 mins
As a teenager, Lauren loses her friend Elena, in the White Woods. Ten years later, Lauren has taken on Elena's life and is going to marry the boy Elena was in love with. But the truth about what happened to Elena starts to come out, tearing Lauren's life apart.
Episode 7
New York, New York
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 52 mins
An oil company CEO, Stanley Price, tries to run from his culpability in a company oil spill. However, he discovers that a higher power has driven him to cause the spill, and that the spill is just one sign of the impending Apocalypse and he's just a pawn.
Episode 8
Newark, New Jersey
Fri, Oct 2, 2020 54 mins
Brian and Amy try to cope with the abduction and disappearance of their daughter Tabitha. It seems impossible for either of them to move on, until Brian finds a mysterious being fallen from the sky and left in a dumpster. The couple tend to it and get a rare gift in return.