Every Mike Flanagan TV Show, Ranked

Mike Flanagan understands horror’s most indispensable foundation — the shadows plaguing our sleepless nights and waking nightmares should emerge from life’s bottomless well of relatable anxieties, distressing questions, and ubiquitous truths, not overpower them. His filmography wouldn’t wield its punishingly profound effect without his unfailing interest in every facet of the human experience. Folding intimate character studies into the spine of his storytelling agenda ensures audiences sympathize, to some degree, with the flawed protagonists, the deplorable antagonists, and the ghostly specters who were once as tormented as anyone.