When the Street Lights Go On (Premieres TBA)

When the Street Lights Go On (Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Stranger Things fans, here’s your next ’80s throwback obsession, albeit one that channels David Lynch rather than John Carpenter. Set in a small town in Illinois in 1983, the pilot for this proposed series — a Paramount Television and Anonymous Content co-production that is currently looking for a home — opens with the brutal murder of the high school’s most popular cheerleader and her older lover. The tendrils of that incident spread outward from there, touching everyone from an aspiring journalist to the town bad boy. Director Brett Morgen effectively weaves touches of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet into an investigation-driven narrative that’s strongly Serial-ized. The best thing you can say about Street Lights is that when the first episode ends, you’ll immediately want to binge the next two, three, or 10 chapters.