- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 7, 2022
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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.
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It’s easy to imagine some viewers taking to how much time it gives to the whimsy of these characters, and without the series abusing the heartstrings usually laid bare when presenting warming, curious fictional beings who are terminally ill. But as it unfolds so erratically, the series leaves more to be desired, despite giving so much—at the least, it needs some special organization.
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The darkness in “The Midnight Club” encroaches reluctantly, as if it were crashing a party. Optimism and fear can make for strange bedfellows, and “The Midnight Club “ feels caught in between these two poles, not quite sure what tone to take.
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“The Midnight Club” feels so focused on overthrowing conventions that Flanagan neglected to center the series around a story as clear and commanding as its message.
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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.
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Flanagan leans so heavily on gooey and preachy melodrama—while going unreasonably light on scares or resolutions to his central mysteries—that his latest streaming series proves a collection of tired platitudes dressed up in faux-horror garb.
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Bland and unfocused. ... Lovable as they are, and despite solid performances from the young cast, these characters are mostly one-dimensional. ... This premise could have played to his strengths, if only he hadn’t been too distracted by gimmicky plot elements to refine his story lines and too reverent of his ailing characters to plumb their darkest depths.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 25
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Mixed: 7 out of 25
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Negative: 3 out of 25
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Oct 9, 2022Flanagan has done it again! Every characters are lovable. Hoping for season 2
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Nov 2, 2022Really well written and well acted show. I'm surprised how much I liked it. A must watch.
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Oct 30, 2022