YMMV / Into the Dark

• Aluminium Christmas Trees:
  • The entire premise of My Valentine might seem outlandish to anyone who is not familiar with what happened between Poppy, Mars Argo, and Titanic Sinclair. Sinclair and his then-girlfriend, Brittany Sheets, created the musical duo and web character Mars Argo during the mid-2000s. At the end of the decade, Mars Argo vanished, only to be replaced by Poppy in 2014–which was uncannily similar to Mars Argo, right down to her wearing Argo’s clothes during photoshoots and live performances. During a 2018 copyright lawsuit, Sinclair’s physical and emotional abuse toward Argo came to light, which were first mocked by Poppy during the trial and then echoed when she released a public statement after she ended their romantic and professional relationships in 2019.
  • If you are not familiar with certain kinds of American evangelical Christianity, Pure might seem kind of over the top. In fact, except for the part with the boys being planted to Honey Trap the girls as a "test" and guarding the doors with swords, it's a fairly dead-on depiction of a purity ball and the attendant culture.
• Anvilicious: Treehouse and Pure have very heavy-handed messages about men being abusive and controlling.
• Awesome Music: "The Knife" from My Valentine is an extremely fun and catchy tune.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In Good Boy a ghost is seen in a mirror for a second, but then is never explained or seen again.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Pooka from Pooka! is by far the most distinct and recognizable creature of this series, with a catchy theme song, and the first to get a sequel.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Crawlers, where aliens invade a small town and pull a Body Snatcher on its residents during a pub crawl, is one to The World's End.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Many viewers have accused Blood Moon of ripping off the second half of Good Manners, as that also involves a woman with a dead lover raising her werewolf child and locking him up every full moon. However, the two have their differences. One of these is Luna of Blood Moon being Esme's biological son and having had to kill her husband as he was about to kill her in wolf form, while Clara of Good Manners adopted Joel after her girlfriend died giving birth to him. Another is that Blood Moon has an arguably happier ending, while Good Manners is heavily implied to be more tragic.

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