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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 85% approval rating with an average rating of 7.1/10, based on 34 critic reviews. The website's critics' consensus reads, "An intriguing blend of horror and noir, Archive 81 offers addictive supernatural thrills that are haunting in the best way." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 73 out of 100 based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". When the show debuted, it broke into the Nielsen streaming rankings at number seven, and it reached as high as number two in its second week.
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60 of 201 · most liked firstThere was this really creepy show on Netflix called Archive 81 that was about haunted media… I loved it, but I feel like no one watched it (which is why it got cancelled ☹️)
positive · AI labelView post →What series do you wish they would’ve renewed? It’s Archive 81 for me
positive · AI labelView post →That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about? Another Netflix injustice. Archive 81 was so well done and incomplete.
positive · AI labelView post →Join #FrightClub and post along Thursday's two-episode feature of Archive 81. Starting at 10:00 PM ET with S1/E1, “Mystery Signals.” Then join us at 10:58 PM ET for Archive 81 S1/E2, “Wellspring.” Available on Netflix. What will you find in the archive?
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Cancelled Netflix Shows That Are Still Worth Watching -By Liz Wyatt Lockwood and Co. Warrior Nun Archive 81 Fate: The Winx Saga Santa Clarita Diet First Kill Shadow and Bone Inside Job Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Altered Carbon comicbook.com/tv-shows/new...
neutral · AI labelView post →Archive 81 Such a shame because it was such an interesting show.
positive · AI labelView post →If you haven’t, watch “Archive 81” cool series on that other streaming service. You can’t tell me that VHS cassette can’t be cursed!! Annie/ @badgrgrl21.bsky.social #thelastdrivein #themutantfam
positive · AI labelView post →Where to start #Archive81 tonight with #FrightClub ⬇️ Thanks to @badgrgrl21.bsky.social for suggesting this as our next series watch!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey all! I'm from twitter and would love to meet new people !! My name is Light (one/ones) and I am very interested in... - Wolf 359 (DANIEL JACOBI!) - Station Blue - Archive 81 - Audio Dramas in general - Minecraft - Life series - H2G2 - Los Campesinos!
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Cancelled Netflix Shows That Had So Much Potential: 1899 Julie and the Phantoms Archive 81 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance The Residence The OA Kaos Shadow and Bone The Brothers Sun Mindhunter By Jessica Nobleza for Collider collider.com/cancelled-ne...
neutral · AI labelView post →New spooky season #audiodrama from Dead Signals (Archive 81)! Conversations with Ghosts is about a cemetery attendant convincing spirits to pass on... aaaaand you'll hear my voice in it (eventually). I love Dead Signals' work and am so hyped to be a part of this show! www.conversationswithghosts.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Depois de cancelarem The OA, Mindhunter, Chambers, Dirk Gently's, Archive 81, Lockwood & Co. e Shadow and Bone eu não assisto mais nada da Netflix. Dito isso, as séries da Apple TV+ tem estado mais longevas. Severance é muito bom e eu até que curti Servant (já acabou, acabou mesmo, não cancelaram).
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinkin' about the short-lived Netflix series ARCHIVE 81 this morning - really wish they would've got an opportunity to continue the story... pop-n-pizza.ghost.io/archive-81-/
positive · AI labelView post →Hearing about Hollywood digging through Reddit for ideas when the fiction audio podcast industry has been pumping out great stories for a long time now, often sharing the limited revenue from them. I know a few already have been turned into shows like Archive 81 and a show with Julia Roberts.
neutral · AI labelView post →I would say that Something in the Dirt definitely fits in the Urban Wyrd mode, which makes sense with their involvement with the Archive 81 series (which ended way too soon!).
neutral · AI labelView post →Archive 81. Deserved so much more than one season!
positive · AI labelView post →Lockwood & Co, I Am Not Okay With This, Archive 81, Cowboy Bebop, The Devil Himself… And now Kaos is canceled. What is Netflix’s obsession with teasing genre fans? Oh, here’s a show you’ll just lo… nope, it’s gone!
neutral · AI labelView post →don't forget netflix. if a show isn't a massive hit immediately, they ax it. I still miss Archive 81
positive · AI labelView post →Still thinking on this I have to add Attack the Block! And if you’re open to a short series, Archive 81 was a really interesting story. It was cancelled though, so brace yourself for a cliffhanger :/
positive · AI labelView post →Fans of #scifi, the #supernatural, #GhostStories, and the just plain #weird: don't sleep on Netflix series #Archive81. I am halfway through and absolutely riveted. Mamoudou Athie is just brilliant.
positive · AI labelView post →It occurs to me several episodes in that I’ve watched this show (Archive 81) before but my brain retains nothing so it’s like a whole new series
neutral · AI labelView post →Yup, after Inside Job, Glitch Techs, Archive 81 and other stuff I began to actively avoid Netflix series. You have all the money in the world, make something that can be enjoyed "for ever". Related: it's amazing how much Star Trek has endured despite 9 out of 13 of its series got canceled.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sort of reminds me of Archive 81, which I dearly miss and wish they had made more series of on Netflix #frightclub
positive · AI labelView post →Step #ThroughTheLookingGlass and spin around in #TheCircle with #FrightClub here ⬇️ tonight, as we continue our series watch of #Archive81 at 10ET/9C/8M/7P:
neutral · AI labelView post →We're probably best known for Archive 81 (since, you know, it was developed into a show on Netflix), a podcast about... well, it's about a lot of things. It starts off as a found-footage show centered on an archivist with creepy tapes, transforms into a dream journey...
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s a canceled TV series that you wish would come back? Words cannot express just how much my jam ARCHIVE 81 was.
positive · AI labelView post →With varying success(oh well), but I'm filling out my third sketchbook.I probably just want to finish the ones I started a couple of years ago. I'm reading Lovecraft collections and watching the TV series Archive 81. There is nothing more terrible and worse than reality.
neutral · AI labelView post →The quick pitch: Convergence is like White Lotus meets Kill List. Mix in some of the Netflix series Chambers and Archive 81, and you’ve got a good sense of what the mystery is playing at. What if that horror tension of White Lotus manifested in actual horror? Here you go.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Conversations With Ghosts," the new show from the Archive 81 folks, is both extremely good and a very specific kind of self harm if I listen to it. I still recommend you go listen to it, but if you're someone who gets stuck contemplating your own existence it is a certain kind of doozy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, that show definitely falls into “I can’t believe there was only one season!” (Freaks & Geeks, Archive 81, My So Called Life…)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just started watching Archive 81. On a scale of one to "The River" or "Siberia" how MAD will I be that this paranoid found footage show died after one season?
neutral · AI labelView post →More recently, "Archive 81" was a moody, dark conspiracy show about a death cult that reaches through time and "infects" old recorded tapes that the main character is hired to restore. Sound weird? It was. And it was VERY spooky. Deliberately paced, the horror built slowly, episode to episode.
neutral · AI labelView post →Archive 81 - promising supernatural thriller featuring a cult, ghostly apparitions and time travel. Despite being in Netflix's Top 10 Most Watched shows for 2022, it was cancelled after just one series, which was totally baffling.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lately I've been enjoying a lot of fiction based around the idea of secret histories (Archive 81, @seananmcguire.bsky.social's Alchemical Journeys series), and I think I'm finding it appealing for a reason that's similar, but by no means identical, to why some find conspiracy theories appealing
positive · AI labelView post →If you also loved Archive 81 on Netflix, the best recommendation I can give you is the podcast Video Palace. Would have loved more than one season but it's perfect as is. Still scares the hell out of me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
positive · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: A Crown for Cold Silver One film: Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai One album: Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing One TV show: Archive 81
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting the day with a show new to me, Archive 81. Not entirely sure what it's about, some kind of found footage mystery, a museum worker finds some old cult? And Netflix cancelled it after one season, of course. Looks interesting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not sure if it counts as obscure bc it got adapted into a netflix series but Archive 81 IS FUCKING GREAT. Also, Tanis. Finally, one of my bffs has been recommending The Silt Verses (folk horror) to me and I haven’t listened yet but trust their recommendation implicitly.
positive · AI labelView post →Archive 81 really deserved so much better, given that I really loved that TV Show, especially for how it brilliantly uses it's supernatural horror elements to give you that uncertain feeling of dread and terror with Found-Footage and Analog Horror, but it's also about how nostalgia can deceive us.
positive · AI labelView post →The Creep Tapes, Widow's Bay, all the Mike Flanagan shows ofc, Archive 81, Interview with a Vampire (I'm a huge fan of the book and was skeptical but it's so good), Marriane, The Outsider, Dark, the Masters of Horror series
neutral · AI labelView post →In need of a new series to watch watch. Preferably something occult oriented or creepy and relatively smart. I just finished 30 Coins. I love Midnight Mass, Archive 81, Castle Rock, Welcome to Derry, & Fall of the House of Usher. Any suggestions?
neutral · AI labelView post →Wondering what my next TV show rewatch will be. These have all been awesome: Stranger Things Game of Thrones Lost Severance Archive 81
neutral · AI labelView post →Audiobook of the week: No audiobooks, just podcasts. Blowback and Archive 81. Ebook of the week: Also no-ebooks but I'm re-reading IT for the umpteenth time. Album of the week: Last week my brain said, "hey remember how much you liked Jeff Buckley's 'Grace?'", so...that TV show of the week: From
neutral · AI labelView post →The OA Mindhunter Sense8 Dead Boy Detectives Archive 81 These "canceled early [series] are actually some of the best options on [Netflix] , even if they never became blockbuster successes in terms of viewership..." entertainmentnow.com/netflix-tv-s...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ep. 427 - Rebecca Sonnenshine - Little House on the Prairie In our latest episode, Josephine Green Zhang talks with showrunner and screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Housemaid, Archive 81) about crafting the new Little House on the Prairie series, staying true to Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't get me started on Archive 81 and Dark. Probably the two best series netflix has ever made but they never advertise them
positive · AI labelView post →Share a canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about. I haven't watched a lot of shows that were cancelled before they should have been but I thought Archive 81 was excellent and it only had one season. (screw you netflix)
positive · AI labelView post →The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself. and I loved the Archive 81 show??? they both came out and were killed in the same year. why did netflix even bother picking them up if they didn’t appreciate what they were doing there
positive · AI labelView post →📽️Just finished watching Archive 81 and I was really surprised by it I liked how the story gradually develops through the tapes and how it blends mystery, spiritism and shifts in time into a strong psychological horror #filmsky #series #Netflix #letterboxd
positive · AI labelView post →I never heard about this show, but it sounds up my alley! Anyone here watched Archive 81? Netflix's Archive 81: A Lovecraftian 87% Rotten Tomatoes Masterpiece share.google/wgEqx3Apd37J...
neutral · AI labelView post →Idk what podcasts you like but if you like fictional horror type podcasts there’s always the Magnus archives. Also Archive 81 which has a Netflix show but it only got one season which is a real shame bc season two of the podcast goes off the rails in the best way possible.
positive · AI labelView post →Did anyone else watch the Netflix show Archive 81? It got one season and then got canceled due to low viewership. I still rewatch it because it basically has all of my favorite things in horror and then I get bummed that there won’t be more.
positive · AI labelView post →Fiction (Horror): Archive 81 (Do NOT watch the Netflix show it's a terrible adaptation); The Magnus Archives (finished); The Magnus Protocol (Ongoing); Old Gods of Appalachia (the narrator has a WONDERFUL storytelling voice).
negative · AI labelView post →Netflix sure loves to cancel good series: 1 season only • Archive 81 • Dead Boy Detectives • Lockwood & Co. • 1899 • The Irregulars Got 2 seasons but needed more • The OA • Mindhunter • Shadow & Bone At least make a wrap-up movie like Serenity did for Firefly. Sheesh.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just finished yet another show that got its hooks in me but was apparently canceled after Season 1. I don't have closure for Archive 81 now, yet another show in a long list of shows I don't have closure for because Netflix said fuck you to me in particular
positive · AI labelView post →"Teacup" was a good little horror show I was looking forward to more of. I'll put it on the heap of cancelled too soon shows I'll miss, alongside (the legit GREAT)"Archive 81", "Terriers" and "Hap & Leonard."
positive · AI labelView post →Wait, y'all are rewatching Archive 81?! I loved that show! #FrightClub
positive · AI labelView post →A cancelled show you’ll never stop thinking about: Archive 81 This show had so much potential and left off with a crazy cliffhanger and I will never forgive Netflix for ending it after a successful ONE season. Many such cases unfortunately.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s not new, but have we ever watched Archive 81 on Netflix for a series?
neutral · AI labelView post →It's horrible getting to the end of season one of a show only to discover it got cancelled before season two + Away and Archive 81 are two recent ones this happened with 😭 Screw 'mild language' disclaimers, warn me when I'll get invested in characters & story and be left hanging forever!
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