The first, brief look at the horror series was revealed at SDCC 2024.
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It looks like Peacock is getting a solid dose of horror very soon. At San Diego Comic-Con, the streamer showed off a very brief teaser for its upcoming thriller series Teacup, while also confirming that it will start streaming in October.
According to Peacock, the show “follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive.” It’s helmed by showrunner Ian McCulloch — best known as a producer on the Western hit Yellowstone — and based on the novel Stinger by Robert McCammon. In a statement about the adaptation, McCulloch had this to say:
During production the series changed and evolved. Just as it should. Even the title’s different. Stinger is now Teacup. The reasons for this are too spoilery to share but watch the first few episodes and all will be revealed. Point being, the series is now very much its own thing: a puzzle-box mystery, an edge-of-your-seat thriller, a can’t-but-must look horror story, a family drama, a science fiction epic — of the keyhole variety, of course.
But as singular, strange, and surprising as I hope Teacup is, all you need to do is peel away the layers, characters, situations, and mythology and look behind the thrills, chills, hairpin turns and make-you gasp reveals. Do all that and you’ll see, at its heart, Teacup is still very much standing on the shoulders of Stinger. Just as it should.
The streamer currently has a pretty slim lineup when it comes to original horror series, but it appears to be steadily growing; in addition to Teacup, a Friday the 13th prequel is also in the works.
Teacup will span eight 30-minute-long episodes, and it starts streaming on October 10th.
