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- Jul 8, 2022
Or so one would think. Haunting of Hill House was amazing, Bly Manor was mostly ok with some really annoying parts, and Midnight Mass is like a sliver underneath Hill House, but sweet Jesus is Midnight Club bad. Most of the time it's just young teen drama... badly done young teen drama, and when the show remembers that it's supposed to be spooky, it crams a ton of jumpscares in your face and calls it a day. No atmosphere, no sense of dread, just scream into the audience's face and that's your horror for this episode, buh-byeee.
Mike Flanagan does characters really well, but for some reason in this run the shorter list is the characters I don't want to lobotomize with a rusty spoon. The main character is an insufferable know-it-all who is surprisingly stupid despite how intelligent we are told she is by everyone else in the show. At one point she gets into a deep-quote battle with a janitor and I couldn't stop laughing because the writing keeps her from solving very simple mysteries constantly. There's a cripple who is constantly shitting on everyone and yet everyone says she cares a lot about everyone else, despite the only nice moments with other characters is her apologizing for being a massive bitch. Most of the characters are one-note. One of them is an asian whose entire character is she tried to kill herself and found out she had a terminal illness.
I would use this show as a case study for pacing issues. The show's central conceit is telling ghost stories, but most of the stories are incredibly boring and do nothing to further the main plot, and that's when they're not taking for fucking ever to wrap up. In spite of the handicap of having to dedicate at least half of your hourly show's runtime to a story that adds nothing to the plot, they managed to lay a lot of plot point setup that gets no pay off through the series, all because it was intended to be a multi-season series. Mike's been doing everything in self-contained one-shots so far, so it was really jarring to see that this garbage is coming in installments (assuming it gets a renewal).
I won't be watching the next season considering this first one's habit of being a goddamn time vampire. Was anyone else shocked by how bad this was?
Mike Flanagan does characters really well, but for some reason in this run the shorter list is the characters I don't want to lobotomize with a rusty spoon. The main character is an insufferable know-it-all who is surprisingly stupid despite how intelligent we are told she is by everyone else in the show. At one point she gets into a deep-quote battle with a janitor and I couldn't stop laughing because the writing keeps her from solving very simple mysteries constantly. There's a cripple who is constantly shitting on everyone and yet everyone says she cares a lot about everyone else, despite the only nice moments with other characters is her apologizing for being a massive bitch. Most of the characters are one-note. One of them is an asian whose entire character is she tried to kill herself and found out she had a terminal illness.
I would use this show as a case study for pacing issues. The show's central conceit is telling ghost stories, but most of the stories are incredibly boring and do nothing to further the main plot, and that's when they're not taking for fucking ever to wrap up. In spite of the handicap of having to dedicate at least half of your hourly show's runtime to a story that adds nothing to the plot, they managed to lay a lot of plot point setup that gets no pay off through the series, all because it was intended to be a multi-season series. Mike's been doing everything in self-contained one-shots so far, so it was really jarring to see that this garbage is coming in installments (assuming it gets a renewal).
I won't be watching the next season considering this first one's habit of being a goddamn time vampire. Was anyone else shocked by how bad this was?
