Swamp Thing 2019: Glorious Hokum

"I found Season 2...!"

The Man Thing Swamp Thing franchise has never had much luck. A TV series in the 90s got cancelled in its prime. A crappy cartoon spin-off vanished without a trace. 

The only two successes of sorts were B-movies, the first being directed by Wes Craven in 1982. The other, 1990’s “Return of the Swamp Thing”, was a gloriously camped up cheese fest, much removed from the comic book’s more avant garde, high brow tone.

So it is that the latest attempt to bring ol’ Swampy to a bigger audience has carried on the tradition. As in, it got cancelled right after the first episode's premiere. But did it deserve such a fate? No.