30. Helstrom (Hulu: 2020)
Something Marvel has generally been good at, both in the movies and on television, is taking characters and concepts that people might not care about and finding ways to make them feel interesting or relevant. Hulu’s Helstrom is an example of this approach coming up short. In the comics, Daimon Hellstrom and his sister, Satana, are the children of a guy who is (more or less) Marvel’s version of Lucifer. But despite being mainstays of the publisher’s ’70s horror comics, they’re now little more than C-listers who sometimes show up to help/fight famous magic guys like Doctor Strange. The show’s attempt to recalibrate involved stripping any and all connection to the larger Marvel Universe (Helstrom is not technically affiliated with the MCU), and then filling that hole with nothing particularly new or compelling. [Sam Barsanti]
