The Midnight Club

I will disagree with your mum, though, on one thing.

This is the very first time I'll disagree with Yvonne, is I did not like The Midnight Club.

I thought that was so badly written, and it was just-

Sure

Straight away I'm just like looking at the TV being like, "No, please don't.

No, no, no." Mm.

I don't want this to be this entirely separate thing where it's like, again, the Midnight Club all over again.

So I'm like, "No, please no.

Yeah

... like Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunting series, even The Midnight Club.

Yeah.

Um, whereas your Stephen King adaptations tend to be pretty faithful, more or less.

Mm.

Um, so I, I will always love it.

Uh, and then I think The Midnight Club, uh, is trying to do a bunch of, of interesting things and I think got kind of, kind of whipsawed by some changing winds at Netflix at the time.

Oh.

[laughs] You know, a little, little jab at Netflix.

Oh, like, "Oh, the Netflix documentary, they're just micing up, you know, first five minutes." It, that's very cheeky of Mike Flanagan, because I'm sure he holds some kind of grudge against Netflix for fucking canceling The Midnight Club, but I'm not gonna get there.

I'm not gonna go there.

Um-

And, and hope that it goes well.

Is there anything like it, like was there another chance in you to kind of do more of what you couldn't with The Midnight Club with this?

Oh, that's interesting.

You know, I hadn't thought about that.

Uh, I think in some ways, sure, yeah.

Um, you know, The Midnight Club, uh, I really, I, I was so excited about that one.

I, I wish it would've kept going.

Mm-hmm.

For horror fans, she has become one of the genre's most electrifying performers.

She's been a part of The Haunting of Hill House, The Midnight Club, The Fall of the House of Usher, Hush, and of course, her absolutely unforgettable performance as Bev Keene in Midnight Mass, earning Critics' Choice Super Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Villain.

There's an incredible precision to her work, a command of language, rhythm, and silence, and an honesty... that makes even the smallest moments completely magnetic.

She doesn't simply inhabit a character.

Because especially through the early and middle portions of the season, this didn't feel like a horror series that I expected from Mike Flanagan.

There were times where I felt like I was watching their version of 13 Reasons Why, the light edition of that show, meets The Midnight Club, but with Carrie at the center of the story.

Now, as I said earlier, I've watched pretty much all of Mike Flanagan's work, and I actually reviewed The Midnight Club when it came out however many years ago that was.

For me, that's one of the rare Mike Flanagan projects that I didn't necessarily connect with.

And honestly, some of the issues I had with that show were issues that I found myself having with Carrie as well.

Was he in Lock and Key? No, he was in

The Midnight Club.

Oh, okay.

And I liked him.