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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary A group terminally ill teenagers (Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard and Sauriyan Sapkota) at a hospice meet at midnight to tell each other scary tales in this series adaptation of on Christopher Pike's novel of the same name from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong.
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
The Midnight Club
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 7, 2022
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6.2
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Summary A group terminally ill teenagers (Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard and Sauriyan Sapkota) at a hospice meet at midnight to tell each other scary tales in this series adaptation of on Christopher Pike's novel of the same name from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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38% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
65
62% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
38% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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The Midnight Club is yet another powerful and excellent series from Mike Flanagan and Netflix that has the auteur exploring territory both familiar and new, and longtime fans will surely be pleased with the end result.
That, here, the grief and loss is for the characters’ own futures demands a delicacy that Flanagan and Fong possess; it also demands to be matched by a horror appropriately outsized and scary, and they deliver that, too.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
6.2
49% Positive
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
38% Mixed
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12% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
6.2
49% Positive
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
38% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
12% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
The actors are really great and the story is quite engaging. Stream so we get a season two.
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The show only has a period setting because that's when the book The Midnight Club came out, not because it's integral to the story. And the dialogue actively works to undermine the setting. ... But that's a relatively minor complaint on a show that does the big things right. Flanagan and his collaborators have once again delivered an emotionally potent horror drama, this time adding in a YA element to keep things fresh.
An engaging, if uneven, YA series that rests its premise on the palliative power of storytelling. ... Overall, though, and especially as an October Netflix offering for those famished for some Flanagan horror fare, The Midnight Club is a worthy binge-watch.
Occasional missteps aside, Flanagan’s reverence for the literature from which his work derives keeps this Pike tribute intriguing throughout. The performances are uniformly excellent. ... No amount of screen presence can detract from the narrative being an overstuffed mess in need of a purge. ... While The Midnight Club isn’t lazy, simply acknowledging a reliance on well-worn tropes isn’t the same as subverting them.
It’s creepy, to a point, but moves at a crawl, while focusing on the provocative if unappealing premise of eight kids with terminal illnesses.
Here, we have 10 hour-long episodes, each of which meander along to an exciting, often scary, cliffhanger only for the momentum to drop by the next instalment.
The production quality is excellent here. The format allows for some jarring changes in genre ranging from sci fi to horror, thriller and back again to horror. The casting is OK and the concept while interesting never seems to pay off in any meaningful way.
The quality of each episode is extremely variable. At its best it felt thought provoking and spooky at its worst average slow paced with predictable cheap ghost train thrills.
The overuse of jump scares reaches the point of abuse on your sound system. The use of an in universe storytelling format really started to become a detriment to the mystery of the 'real world' mystery. An interesting 'compendium of tales' horror experience.
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I don't consider this a Flanagan show. Something felt forced. It was trying to be both an anthology series and a singular story all at once and none of it worked. There were some scares but nothing memorable. The only really good characters were Anya and Spencer. Amesh and Ilonka had moments. Sandra was nothing but cringe. Everyone else was forgettable. On that note, the best midnight club story goes to Natsuki - who would have been completely forgettable without that story.
The thing about Flanagan that I love is his ability to take themes such as grief, addiction, faith, extremism, mental health, etc. and blend it with horror to a point where the horror stands out and once you realize the theme that's being explored, you realize the genius in the story telling. On the flip side, this show explores the inevitability of our own mortality. It's not ineffective, in face it's an emotionally devastating show to watch at times. However, rather than masking this theme in horror, horror seems to have been needlessly forced into the show. It distracts from the story.
Not upset I watched it. However, at 10 hours, I wouldn't recommend this show to anyone.
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The writing is bland. The characters are cliché and dull. The “mystery” is not compelling. The acting is adequate but not inspiring. There is nothing here that persuades me to expend any of my limited entertainment time on this show. Maybe, if I was bored and had nothing else to do, I might run this in the background while I played a game or cleaned the bathroom, but this show did not capture my attention or interest. There is an entire generation of “writers” in entertainment who lack originality and creativity. Almost every show has the same boring exposition, meandering dialogue and pointless plots. It’s all bland porridge.
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Production Company:
- Intrepid Pictures
- Téléfilm Canada
Initial Release Date: Oct 7, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Leo Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination