So, on a whim (and because it's available on Hulu) I started re-watching an old show that I enjoyed from time to time when I was younger. Poltergeist: The Legacy. According to Hulu, it originally aired in 1996, though that seems wrong to me somehow... I could have sworn it was a contemporary of Friday the Thirteenth the TV series which began its run roughly a decade earlier. At any rate, I've been very pleasantly surprised to find a fairly high level of magic realism in this series. There are some elements that are original, pulled in to flesh out their fictional world, but the elements taken from existing myth are very well researched. It's also far more of a drama than most other supernatural series... while there are some combat scenes, things are rarely resolved at the end of one's fists in the series. I'm really enjoying watching it again, and I'm surprised by how much substance there was that I've forgotten over the years.
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