![]() Typical stuff.įlanagan is already hard at work on his next series, titled The Midnight Club and due to hit Netflix in 2022. ![]() Riley had died a few episodes earlier, Sarah was shot and killed by Sturge, and Erin got mauled to death by the angel. Bev burns to death clawing for shelter in the sand (in what's a very cathartic moment, we must admit). Sheriff Hassan-who didn't drink the poison-succumbs to his gunshot wound praying next to his son, Ali, who also burns to death. Let's remember that basically everyone burnt to death once the sun came up-Father Paul/Monsignor Pruitt and Mildred Gunning together, at peace, most of the other Crockett Island residents together, singing, at peace. By the end of the show, too, there also, well, not a ton of characters still left alive. We see what's happened, and we see the aftermath. From Father Paul, to Erin, to Riley, to Bev Keene, to Sheriff Hassan, to basically everyone else on Crockett Island, we really feel like we know these people.Īnd, by proxy then, we also kind of get the full story by the end of the series. That also includes some of the best and most complex characters in any horror series in recent memory. Part of what makes Midnight Mass such an enriching, engulfing, and engrossing project is the fact that we really get so much dense story, from start to finish in just seven hour-long episodes. Where would the Midnight Mass Season 2 story go? Same with Gerald's Game, and the same with most of his other projects. There are some slight changes, sure, but it tells its story in its entirety over the course of the film. You can also tell from Flanagan's film choices that he likes to just tell his stories in one fell swoop- Doctor Sleep, for instance, is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel of the same name. ![]() The Haunting of Hill House was its own story (based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel of the same name), The Haunting of Bly Manorwas its own story (based on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James), and now Midnight Mass is telling its own story (with Flanagan serving as chief writer). Midnight Mass marks Mike Flanagan's third Netflix series, but you may have noticed that each of them tells a contained story. ![]() Midnight Mass is not likely to have a Season 2. ![]() So while we may never see Hamish Linklater as Father Paul, or Kate Siegel as Erin again, or Rahul Kohli as Sheriff Hassan again, there's a pretty strong chance we see these performers show up again in a similarly-scary project by the guy who thought all of this up in the first place. The good news, though, is that writer/director/showrunner Mike Flanagan tends to re-use many of the same actors in different projects. But for a number of different reasons, we feel pretty confident that our trip to Crockett Island for Midnight Mass is going to be a one-and-done on Netflix. HBO's Mare of Easttown was also planned as a limited series, but lately star Kate Winslet has been teasing that her murder mystery could also be returning for a second go-around. Big Little Lies, for one example, was always planned as a limited series, and eventually returned for a second season. And you may find yourself wondering, as the final credits start to roll: what happens next? And most likely, you'll be thinking that for a long, long, time, because we don't expect Midnight Mass-dubbed a limited series-to have anything more than this initial run of seven episodes. Midnight Mass, with all of its intense Catholic imagery, chaotic sermons, and blood-sucking, poison-drinking, death-questioning and death-defying horror, goes out not quite with a bang, but with a giant blaze of fire at the end of its seventh episode. The following story contains spoilers for the ending of Netflix's Midnight Mass. ![]()
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