A CDC researcher uncovers chilling, mystical secrets in a Louisiana swamp, where dark horrors emerge.
Suspenseful and darkly comic. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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No surprises for a TV-MA: real scares and several jump scares.
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CDC researcher Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but she soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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