No clue if it's up your alley but the manga and Crybaby are radically different from the 70's version, it follows the monster of the week formula for about 2-3 chapters and then massively shifts gears. Crybaby also retools several plot beats as well as updating for "modern sensibilities" but if...
The forum is cool but until I hit another lucid dream (dryspell of 4 months) it feels like any posts I could make would largely just be parroting some other tweet/post from ages past instead of popping off my own insights.