Overview
- The six-episode season premieres Thursday, May 7 on AMC+ and Shudder, with weekly releases and a later AMC broadcast.
- The story follows Pepper, a man wrongfully confined to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, who faces institutional neglect and a possibly demonic threat.
- The adaptation comes from Victor LaValle’s novel, with LaValle and Chris Cantwell as showrunners and Karyn Kusama directing the first two episodes.
- Reviews praise Dan Stevens and Judith Light and applaud the show’s indictment of for-profit, underfunded care, though several call the supernatural blend uneven and the finale compressed by the short run.
- Filming in a decommissioned Staten Island correctional facility gives the ward a cramped, authentic feel that heightens the series’ claustrophobic tone.