‘School Spirits’ Music Supervisor on the Sufjan Stevens Dance Number, Lizzy McAlpine’s Return and Building the Show’s ‘Hauntingly’ Perfect Soundtrack

There’s a reason Lizzy McAlpine’s “Doomsday” now lives in the minds of “School Spirits” fans the way ghosts haunt the hallways of Split River High. For Whitney Pilzer, the music supervisor behind Paramount+’s supernatural mystery series since its first season, moments like that one aren’t engineered.

“It’s so impossible to predict,” Pilzer says of the song’s viral resonance after it scored one of Season 1’s most memorable sequences — Maddie being pushed into purgatory by ghost Janet. “But we all knew ‘Doomsday’ was just special. Especially the way our music editor Todd cut it in.