I believe this one is set to take place literally right after his character died, so its deliberately set up to shit on him and them excluding him. Which he is a pedo and a homo which would be warranted but again, its Hollywood, so it feels hugely hypocritical and more of a virtue signal over moral.

Also I'd rather keep the human characters, sans the mom, as they keep it on the line between horror and comedy. Once they are gone you end up with the TV show which is pure wacky nonsense.