I just need to speculate wildly about the tv series Slasher for a minute

I can't remember if I've yelled on here about it before, but it's kinda doing what American Horror Story does, but better? It's an anthology horror series with common cast members across each season, but completely different stories. And it's all in a shared world setting, but the sharing aspects are really low-key so far (characters in S1 went to the summer camp that's the focus of S2, one of the characters from S3 has a cameo in S4, the protagonist in S5 has the same surname as the actor's character in S3 to suggest they're related, that sort of thing.) ... Plus there's like 80% less on-screen rape and pregnancy horror than AHS – not none, but I keep my expectations low. I'd like it if it did more with the cast it carries over between seasons, maybe? I want to say it shakes up who gets to be protagonists and antagonists between seasons, but I think the actual split is between "Who gets to be a decent person and who gets to be an unrelenting arsehole" each time around.

(AHS has one basically perfect episode where it does all of the above, which is Roanoke episode 6. Unfortunately, there are 122 other episodes.)

Anyway, ragging on American Horror Story to one side: I don't think anyone else is watching Slasher, so I have no one to send my conspiracy theories to at bollocks o'clock in the morning.

ANYWAY. Yelling my speculation about the first four episodes of Ripper ahoy!

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I have this half-formed thought about how what I actually want from horror media is a mystery being solved, but I haven't followed it to a conclusion yet. But that thought would explain why I'm more obsessed with working out whodunnit than literally any other part of the show.