I haven't watched Community, despite having heard for years and years how I absolutely *need* to. I have a feeling I kind of missed the boat on loving it - if I HAD watched it back when it was first being recced to me, I probably would have really liked it, but probably less now.

But yeah, metalheads tend to either be played straight as "edgy, scary, violent" or as a "tee hee, actual fluffball." And whatever, but those characterizations feel flat either way.

It's actually a bit surprising to me that there hasn't been a lot of Satanic Panic stuff explored in media. There've been documentaries and such about all the harm it caused, but there haven't been many good explorations of it, it's true.

I do remember that X-Files episode, ha.