EntertainmentStreamingNetflix’s new horror show The Midnight Club isn’t what you think it isNetflix brings Mike Flannigan’s new 10-part thriller to our screens. It’s big, bold, not what you expect and for those reasons, The Midnight Club works in its own unique wayWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
EntertainmentStreamingNetflix’s new horror show The Midnight Club isn’t what you think it isNetflix brings Mike Flannigan’s new 10-part thriller to our screens. It’s big, bold, not what you expect and for those reasons, The Midnight Club works in its own unique wayWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Netflix brings Mike Flannigan’s new 10-part thriller to our screens. It’s big, bold, not what you expect and for those reasons, The Midnight Club works in its own unique way
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The Midnight Club is Mike Flannigan’s new horror series onNetflixand despite comparisions with The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, this is something altogether different. Since exploding onto the horror scene in 2011 with Absentia, Flannigan has proved to be one of the all-time greats in his field. Strong direction, a visual flair and a real understanding of what makes good horror became a key component of Flannigan movies and a fan base that was becoming disillusioned found its new rising star.
When he released The Haunting Of Hill House in 2018 as a 10-part mini-series through Netflix it proved to audiences that horror could be a TV-based affair, didn’t have to be on a cinema screen and that a good director with a solid script and passion could maintain a level of unease and fear across 10 hours of content.
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What is The Midnight Club about?
The setting is perfectly designed with long winding corridors, abandoned basements, locked rooms, a morgue and the story opens to to include secret cult like organisations, a hidden history, miraculous recoveries and in typical Flannigan fashion a variety of ghosts that creep, jump and scare. Everything is laid out ready for the cast to play their part, to tell their stories against this almost stage like backdrop.
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(Image credit: Netflix)
Who is in The Midnight Club?
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Is the Midnight Club any good?
This is the thing that I think people have not understood and reviews calling it ‘weak’, ‘understated’ and ‘not scary’ have fully missed the point. Its written as a kind of eulogy to those in the situation. A tribute to a shared strength. The ‘ghosts’ are nothing more than the internal fears of our characters, the stories meant to entertain, to distract and to give those facing death a way to verbalise their emotions. It is not a horror show, It is a coping mechanism that I believe really does work well when seen as such.
The cast all give solid performances, with Ruth Cobb (Anya) being a huge stand out. Despite it being her first TV role, she owns every scene and reminds me of a young Robert Sheehan when Misfits and Umbrella Academy first came out. She is fantastic and one to watch for the future (watch out for her in Mike Flannigans next full project, The Fall Of The House Of Usher in 2023).
Can we also give a huge heap of praise on the decision to keep the show based in the mid 1990’s rather than a modernisation? This allows the show to have probably the best soundtrack of the year. Any TV show that opens with Stone Temple Pilots and ends with Soundgarden really does get extra points!
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(Image credit: Netflix)
Should I watch it?
The Midnight Club is not Haunting Of Hill House. Its doesnt try to be and was never intended to be. Critical and public comparisons have missed the point. It is a solid, well crafted, beautifully shot and very well written exploration of fear, grief, loss and the nature of friendship against impossible odds. I really enjoyed the show and would fully recommend it. Horror purists will disagree but honestly it was never meant for them.
The Midnight Club is available in full now on Netflix.
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