Review of The Midnight Club

Man I was really looking forward to this show. Mike Flanagan has given us such amazing, scary and emotional shows over the past years. So I thought this was going to add to that. But it didn't for me. Hill House and Bly Manor I loved. Midnight Mass was good until the last episode. It felt anticlimactic. At least emotionally. Not like Hill House and Bly Manor. Those were an emotional gut punch. Midnight Club didn't do it either. It could've been so much better. Even if based on a certain property or story Flanagan usually delivers. Not here. The individual stories were great for the most part. Especially Kevin's and Natsukis stories. Anya's story was great too especially because I'm a former addict. The noir story sucked. Ameshs story was decent. However I wanted them to really expand on Brightcliffes history and the ghosts there. They didn't. Just introduced them and left them alone. If you're going into this thinking it's going to be like Hill House or Bly Manor think again. I know it should be different but I'm talking about general tones and emotions. For instance Hill House had the Bent neck lady and Red room reveal which was great. Bly Manor had the Hannah twist, backstory to lady in the Lake and Dani taking her in plus the wedding at the end. There have only been a few shows and films that I've almost teared up for. Bly Manor, 11.22.63, Hill House, and Six Feet Under. I was expecting so much more from this.