The Best Spooky Season TV Shows You can Stream Right Now

Andrea Marks Joseph READ TIME: 11 MIN.

"Wreck" Seasons 1 and 2

When Jamie Walsh (Oscar Kennedy) boards a mega cruise ship to look for his missing sister, who worked there but disappeared without explanation, he uncovers a conspiracy much more terrifying and dark than he (or we) could ever imagine. Jamie ends up working with Vivian (Thaddea Graham), both queer teens who left home with a mission, but their sleuthing threatens to expose an entire corporation's secrets, putting their lives at risk.

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After a bloody season surviving campy serial killers and a killer conspiracy aboard the ship, only a handful of their crew survives. In season 2, the survivors of the cruise ship horrors are traumatized and grieving, but committed to finding the heads of the organization that tortured them and ending them for good. This takes the queer crew to a wellness retreat that is not as peaceful or relaxing as it pretends to be – in fact, it's a modern, twisted take on wellness capitalism and escapism for the rich.

"Wreck" Seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Hulu.

"Interview with the Vampire" Season 2

Season 2 of this lush vampire thriller sees Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) recounting the years spent with his daughter/sister Claudia (now played by Delainey Hayles) when they escaped from New Orleans to Paris, eventually joining a coven of vampire-actors who perform supernatural plays for their enthralled human audience. Both this theatrical storyline and the confessions Louis shares with his interviewer Daniel Molloy (played by Eric Bogosian; and Luke Brandon Field in the flashbacks) dive deeper into the truth of their shared memories, revealing a much darker, fiercely protected truth. The show's thrilling narrative continues to bounce between flashbacks of their escapades in France, interview flashbacks to when Louis and Daniel first met, and both Louis and Daniel obeying the specific instructions of Louis' lover (...or keeper?) Armand (Assad Zaman).

"Interview with the Vampire" Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on AMC+.

"The Traitors" Seasons 1 and 2

Out actor and queer icon Alan Cumming hosts the US version of this global sensation. "The Traitors" is a reality competition that asks its contestants to lie to each other while living together in a Scottish castle and earning a collective cash prize, which they will share – if they can vote out the Traitors hidden among them, and avoid being secretly murdered (eliminated from the game) at night. The show rewards those who can play mind games and betray their friends without blinking, the stakes getting higher each week and with each murder and elimination. The upcoming Season 3 cast includes Tom Sandoval, Chrishell Stause, Gabby Windey, Sam Asghari, and Bob the Drag Queen, so now is the perfect time to catch up on the lore before they inevitably get more complex and creative with the gameplay.

"The Traitors" Seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Peacock.

"Welcome to Eden" Seasons 1 and 2

In this Spanish thriller, a group of young adults are invited to an exclusive party on a remote island, finding themselves stranded on the beach in the morning and forced to join a wellness cult. Life on the island comes with matching uniforms, strange bonding rituals, a mysterious leadership structure, and many hot, queer, and trans members they can't help but get involved with. The tempting paradise holds dangerous, deadly secrets, and the very real risk of being murdered for asking the wrong questions. While being recruited to the undercover resistance and falling in love with powerful cult members, these newcomers, who were handpicked because they don't have people waiting for them back home, risk everything to stay alive and make a plan to escape the island.

"Welcome to Eden" Seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming on Netflix.

"Bad Sisters" Season 1

This Irish dark comedy is about the Garvey sisters, who have been very close and protective of each other since losing their parents when they were very young. Their relationship shifts dramatically after one of them marries an abusive man, making their sister retreat into herself and avoid them. The series opens with his funeral, and each episode recounts the sisters' various attempts on his life, while being investigated by an insurance company who can't afford to pay out the husband's policy. With every episode, you'll feel more urgency to kill the man yourself. One of the sisters is a queer woman, and we see her home life with her wife play into the tension of the show. Handsome Irishman Daryl McCormack ("Good Luck to You, Leo Grande") plays a supporting role as an investigator and love interest for one of the sisters. Season 2 will release weekly in November, so if you haven't caught up with this extremely tense and satisfying show, now is the perfect time.

"Bad Sisters" Season 1 is now streaming on AppleTV+.

If you're looking for more creepy, campy, chilling Halloween vibes available to watch on streaming platforms, have a look at our Halloween streaming recommendations list from last year, and this month's Streaming Queer edition, which includes the new Huluween selection, Ariana DeBose's creepy farm-to-table chef horror film "House of Spoils," and "Season 666" of "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula."


by Andrea Marks Joseph

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