It’s poetic that the anthology rebooted by the 2010s’ most prominent new horror auteur was wrapped up by his 2020s inheritor. Two years before casting him in Nope, Jordan Peele entrusted the final episode of The Twilight Zone to Osgood Perkins, then still better known for his famous father than his filmmaking credentials. It was a passing of the mantle that ensured, unlike the original’s baffling denouement, the show ended in style.
Perkins had put himself on the map with the haunted house tale I Am The Pretty Thing and the supernatural thriller The Blackcoat’s Daughter. But while “You Might Also Like” retains their minimalist aesthetics — most of the action takes place within a pristine suburban home almost entirely devoid of color — and themes of alienation and paranoia, it also foreshadows the off-kilter humor that would help Longlegs and The Monkey become instant cult classics.
