Justice for Netflix’s ‘The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell,’ the Best Halloween Show Ever

Halloween is a time for spooky, scary fun, which means it’s also a time for me to lament the greatest Halloween show of all time: The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell. Lament, you ask? Yes, because the quirky craft show was unduly canceled after just one short season on Netflix. The series blended dark humor with gorgeous baking segments, a rom-com featuring an axe murderer, and the best use of puppets on TV since Fraggle Rock. The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell was a bizarre treat and it remains the most perfect show for celebrating Halloween on all of Netflix.

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell premiered in 2018 as part of Netflix’s first major seasonal push into Halloween programming. The series starred Christine McConnell, a photographer, stylist, cookbook author, and Instagram influencer best-known for her magical baked creations. McConnell specialized in creating edible treats that looked like creepy creatures, haunted victorian mansions, and more. The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell tapped into her talents by putting her front and center in a meta world where her unique spin on the domestic goddess reigned supreme.

However, the show was more than a Halloween baking adventure. It was a stealth reboot of the darkly comic and ghoulishly fun fare that the Jim Henson Company became known for in the 1980s. I’m not talking about the Muppets or Sesame Street, but The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and the aforementioned Fraggle Rock. Christine McConnell’s world was populated with mummified pets, roadkill puppets, and a charming monster named Edgar. These characters, her housemates, drove the story of each episode of The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell. Her recipes and decorating tips were just the icing on the spooky ooky cake.

I can’t stress enough how fast and hard I fell for The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell. It combined my love of outcasts, macabre humor, and sensational food tutorials into one lovely dream of a show. But it was also a weird show. There are jokes about sexual torture, Dita Von Teese is a ghost who lives in Christine’s mirror, and there’s no way average folks could possibly recreate those titular curious creations at home. It was, undoubtedly, made for a niche audience. An audience of me. And so Netflix canceled it after its one golden season.

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell deserved another season. Heck, it deserved four more seasons, holiday specials, and crossovers on Sugar Rush and Nailed It!. However fate decreed that it would die a quick, untimely death. With that in mind, I can only beg folks to watch its one singular season as it’s still on Netflix — and it’s still the best thing you could watch this or any Halloween season. The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell deserves the same cult cache as other Netflix shows like Tuca & Bertie and I Think You Should Leave. 

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is hilarious, singular, and a bizarre little gem that speaks to the reanimated horny roadkill pet in all of us.

Watch The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell on Netflix