A lot of people love Halloween because it's an escape from reality, a chance to be someone else for a night and eat candy for dinner. A lot of people love TV because it's an escape from reality, a chance to hang out with fictional characters for whom we've formed an attachment that feels all too real. So there's something inherently meta and insanely fun about the Halloween episodes of our favorite shows. To watch our escape from reality experience its own escape from reality ... it's mind-blowing.
From costume choices to classic scary movie tropes, these episodes reveal so much about the shows' characters, while often enjoying creative freedom when it comes to plot or genre, in ways that you might not see anywhere else in the season.
So, grab a bag of chocolate-peanut butter cups shaped like pumpkins or ghosts and enjoy this roundup of our favorite Halloween episodes available to stream
From the haunting to the hilarious, these shows are here to get you in a silly-spooky mood.
