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The Midnight Club (2022)
Eh...
While I thoroughly enjoyed Hill House, Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass I found this series to be uninspired and dull. I wasn't engaged and found myself doing other things while watching to keep myself entertained. The characters lack depth and personality outside of Anya, and the storied they told weren't interesting or seemingly all that relevant. For a show about dying, it's predecessors did a far better job.
Hill House is about family, grief, shared trauma, and there are ghosts. The characters are interesting and nuanced. It is the scariest and the most horror.
Bly Manor is about love, memory, regret and there are ghosts. The characters are all very likable. The most Gothic.
Midnight Mass explores faith, community, forgiveness and there are vampires. The priest is the standout character for me.
The Midnight Club is about hope and dying and there are cultist, sort of. It isnt scary, or Gothic, or surprising. It doesn't really have anything to say. I kept waiting for it to get interesting or deliver the unexpected and it just...didn't. I did appreciate the diverse cast, but outside of that feel it had so much wasted potential.
The Mist (2017)
Not scary
Starts strong but quickly loses momentum. My biggest issue with this series, however, is the damaging trope of the queer goth outcast kid being the bad guy/sexual predator. Like way to continue the ostracism of people who don't fit neatly into a normal box. And in 2017? On Netflix? We truely have a long way to go for more positive pansexual and bisexual representation.
Outside of that it's just all a bit boring, which is the most offensive thing horror can be. Not enough monsters, too much petty drama and decisions that make no sense. Just bad writing. Watch the film, or the book but don't bother with this.
One Lane Bridge (2020)
Gripping, beautiful and intriguing.
Set in Queenstown, the show does a fantastic job at portraying the dark underbelly of small town Aotearoa. The characters are well written and interesting, the scenery and camera work is gorgeous, and the story is a well written mystery that had me guessing all the way through. I love how it approaches a character with matakite and the addition of ghosts add for a haunting murder mystery. It touches on the insidiousness of racism and homophobia and my only complaint is that it falls into the trap of 'the gay lover did it' which had me sigh with disappointment. Other than this one gripe, it's an absolutely fantastic series well worth the watch.