In No-End House, the second season of Nick Antosca’s horror anthology series Channel Zero, memories feed on each other. Visitors to the titular house are preyed upon by parasites in the likenesses of their lost loved ones, idealized selves, and other, more mysterious incarnations of their inner lives. These “cannibals,” as the show refers to them, extract their hosts’ other memories in the form of motionless simulacra filled with pomegranate seeds, the same fruit that bound Persephone forever to the underworld in Ancient Greek mythology. The metaphor that emerges is one for the intoxicating comfort of depression. Centered on Margot Sleator’s (Amy Forsyth) relationship with the house’s reproduction of her … Continue reading Eating Grief in Channel Zero’s No-End House