Genre-Curious

[major_clanger]

From this discussion thread on io9 regarding True Detective - a US crime drama that makes references to [spoiler redacted, but it's widely seen as a Lovecraftian piece of literature] - comes a very handy phrase: 'Genre-curious

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[calatrice]

I'd nominate The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Avengers, both of which had a lot of fun with various SF and horror themes. Although they did cross the genre boundary altogether a few times (Cybernauts for example).

Chuck is a more recent show that played at the very edge of SF, without ever really crossing into it. The central idea (man becomes super secret agent by downloading a huge US Intelligence database into his brain) is clearly SF, but the actual episodes are escapist spy dramas.

[pauldormer]

I'd suggest Psych. The main characters are fans of many genre shows and films. One episode was an extended spoof of Twin Peaks, including many of the actors from that. Another seemed to involve a vampire and several of the cast had been in vampire films, including Kristy Swanson, the original Buffy. A recent episode involved hunting bigfoot, by way of The Blair Witch Project.

Actually, the hero has no psychic powers, just very good powers of observation. But the people at Syfy in the UK obviously didn't get this, because they showed a couple of seasons of it a few years back.