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- Netflix
- Oct 7, 2022
- Netflix
- Oct 7, 2022
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.
- Netflix
- Oct 7, 2022
- Netflix
- Oct 7, 2022
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
65
62% Positive
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13 Reviews
38% Mixed
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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.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 User Ratings
6.2
58% Positive
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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.
