Take a trip back to the 1980’s with Peacock’s new show called “Hysteria,” a satirical story about a teenager that gets caught up in a satanic panic circa the mid-80s.

As it turns out, Americans are still panicking. We may always be panicking. “Hysteria!,” a new Peacock show set during the satanic panic, features an attempted exorcism. Mark Hill/Peacock ...

Hysteria! takes place in the 1980s, when a real-life Satanic Panic gripped the nation, convincing the superstitiously inclined that teens who liked rock music or Dungeons & Dragons were one bad ...

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an ...

A TV series about 1980s thrash metal and the Satanic-panic insanity it begat should, by definition, be a fast, furious, and funny affair. Yet Hysteria! is so slow and distended that it proves an ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Dungeons & Dragons is everywhere, from blockbuster movies to popular TV shows and even Lego sets. It's cool now. But that wasn't ...

Jess Lanzillo, vice president of product and franchise for Dungeons & Dragons, says that era of Dungeons & Dragons in the '80s doesn't drive the company's decision making today.

When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the "Satanic Panic" of the late 1980s, all of the townspeople get caught up in the hysteria and go after the wrong kids.

How the 'Satanic Panic' made D&D cool When Dungeons & Dragons first appeared on the market in 1974, it caught on among gamers who had been used to playing war games, where they re-created military ...