Abstract
This paper briefly discusses the psychological and philosophical issue of anxiety and fear in a non-canonical piece of pop culture – detective series “Lucifer”. On the stated topic, this show attracts attention, firstly, because it contains the problematization of various spiritual experiences, and secondly, it raises deep questions related to the search for the meaning of existence and being in terms of rethinking biblical allusions and images. In addition, the series can be analyzed from the point of view of the “psychology of art” (Lev Vygotsky), both because of the feeling of catharsis caused and the “affects of expectation” (see Ernst Bloch), especially in the season 5. Therefore, in it is possible to study the manifestation forms of anxiety and fear. These direct and indirect signs of the expression of open and hidden human experiences are verbalized and visualized by cinema in various ways: words, gestures, actions, behavior of heroes, etc. The author of the paper refers to them not on the example of thrillers (anxiety) and horror films (fear), but a series consisting of many series, because this can reveal a longer anxiety state and show the difference between fear and anxiety at the levels of thematization and realization.
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