![]() The Midnight Club begins with tragedy: the 1994 terminal thyroid cancer diagnosis of Ilonka (Iman Benson), which catastrophically derails her plans for college and beyond. 7) proves a collection of tired platitudes dressed up in faux-horror garb. ![]() 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 (Oct. ![]() Yet in this case, such familiarity breeds, if not contempt, then certainly frustration. He returns to that arena, albeit with a teen twist, with The Midnight Club, a 10-episode adaptation of author Christopher Pike’s YA novel that, formally and thematically, slots in comfortably with his prior work. Fractured haunted-house ensemble stories about mortality, family, trauma, and shadowy apparitions hiding in the dark have become writer/director Mike Flanagan’s Netflix niche, as evidenced by The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. ![]()
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