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The Midnight Club is an American horror mystery-thriller television series created by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, with Flanagan serving as showrunner, lead writer and executive producer. The series is set in a hospice and follows eight terminally ill young adults who form "the Midnight Club", meeting up each night to tell each other scary tales; it features an overarching story while also frequently depicting those tales on-screen.[1] Although mostly based on the 1994 novel The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike, the series also adapts short stories from 27 other Pike books, featured in the "Midnight Club" tales themselves.[2]
The series stars Iman Benson, Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, and Sauriyan Sapkota as the eight Midnight Club members, alongside Heather Langenkamp, Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel, and Samantha Sloyan as older adults working at or living near the hospice;[3][4][5] in addition to their main characters, cast members also portray the ones featured in the "Midnight Club" tales.
The Midnight Club premiered on Netflix on October 7, 2022.[6] Unlike all three of Flanagan's previous series, it is not a miniseries, and was intended as a limited-run series meant to run for two seasons.[2] However, in December 2022, the series was canceled after one season.[7]
A group of eight close terminally ill young adults resides in the Brightcliffe Home hospice outside of Seattle run by an enigmatic doctor. They meet at midnight every night to tell each other scary stories. They have a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with the others from beyond the grave.[8]
Flanagan confirmed the cast in a series of tweets on Twitter: Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota as the titular cast, and Heather Langenkamp as the doctor presiding over the hospice of the terminally ill. Zach Gilford and Matt Biedel, and recurring Flanagan collaborators Samantha Sloyan and Robert Longstreet appear in recurring roles.[14][15] In April 2021, Iman Benson, Larsen Thompson, William B. Davis, Crystal Balint, and Patricia Drak joined the cast.[16]
The project began production on March 15, 2021, in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was planned to conclude on September 8, 2021, but actually finished production on September 10.[17][18][19] The first two episodes of the series are directed by Flanagan, and other episodes in the season were helmed by directors Axelle Carolyn, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Michael Fimognari, Morgan Beggs, and Viet Nguyen.[20]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 87% approval rating with an average rating of 7.4/10, based on 54 critic reviews. The website's critics' consensus reads, "Mike Flanagan's hot streak of heartfelt horror stories continues strong in The Midnight Club, a tale of terminal teenagers told with jolts and joie de vivre."[21] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 64 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[22]
Midnight Club is a series of arcade-style racing video games developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. Midnight Club is similar to the Midtown Madness series (previously developed by Angel Studios), with a focus on competitive street racing in open world urban environments. Throughout the series, players race through condensed depictions of New York City, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit.
In each game, the player begins with a relatively unmodified and slow vehicle. Higher-performance vehicles can be won or purchased by the player after competing in races against other club members. The goal is to defeat each of the other opponents (which include "city champion" and "world champion" racers) en route to becoming the new champion of the Midnight Club. Later installments of the series include real vehicle brands with sophisticated customization options for each, and "club" races, which consist of racers using vehicles of the same class.
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games, is the third game in the Midnight Club series. It is also the first game in the series to feature licensed vehicles and allow players to customize their cars and bikes with performance and visual upgrades. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox on April 11, 2005, and later ported to the PlayStation Portable in June of that same year. The three cities featured are San Diego, Atlanta, and Detroit. The name derived from a partnership between Rockstar and DUB Magazine, which features heavily in the game in the form of DUB-sponsored races and DUB-customized vehicles. The PlayStation Portable port was developed by Rockstar Leeds.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles is the fourth addition to the Midnight Club lineup. It was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2008 on October 20 for North America and October 24 for Europe. As the name suggests, the game is based in Los Angeles, featuring Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, San Fernando Valley, Downtown L.A., and most recently South Central. The designers used real street maps in developing the game. The game features online play and downloadable content. Licensed cars and bikes return, including new models and brands such as Ford and Mazda, which were not seen in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition.
Midnight Club: L.A. Remix is the portable adaption of Midnight Club: Los Angeles for the PlayStation Portable. The port is developed by Rockstar London with Rockstar San Diego. The game features the map of Los Angeles used in Midnight Club II rather than the map used in the console versions of Los Angeles. The game also features the city of Tokyo, using the map from Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix.
In January 2010, Rockstar had stalled plans for a future Midnight Club installment, and the development team was slowly dismantled.[15] Take-Two Interactive re-registered the Midnight Club trademark in 2012.[16] Although Take-Two has acknowledged the series in its quarterly financial reports while CEO Strauss Zelnick mentioned it while discussing newly acquired developer Zynga in a January 2022 conference call, no plans have been made to reboot the franchise as of September 2022.[17][18]
The Midnight Club tells the story of a group of teenagers that share a house being used as a hospice. All are terminally ill, most have some form of cancer, one has AIDS, and they try to live out their last days without being buried in medical treatments, keeping each other company.
One of their main pastimes is telling each other scary stories over a bottle of wine at midnight, hence the name of the club, ones they invent that are sometimes wholly fiction, other times an insight into their lives. I was getting Adult Goosebumps vibes from many of the tales.
All this is happening while there are present-day mysteries to be solved, like a cult that believes the hospice to be located on an ancient healing site, and ghosts that roam the halls and stalk some of the kids.
The show feels a bit at odds with itself, trying to offer a lot of commentary on the concept of death and dying and making peace, but the central purpose is trying to find a way out of death and be healed from this diseases, which kind of undercuts its main theme.
The Midnight Club episode 9 opens by answering the hot question of the last few episodes: which of the gang is in recovery? It's not, in fact, Ilonka - in itself not that surprising, her absolute certainty last episode was a big giveaway that she was about to fall flat on her face. Instead, it turns out to be Sandra, the member of the club who wanted the least to do with the Five Sisters ritual. Either by magic or - as she suspects, simple human error - it turns out that she no longer has terminal lymphoma.
This is good news, of course, but it hits the group like a bomb. Ilonka is personally devastated having convinced herself that she'd been magically cured. Sandra feels overwhelming guilt that her friends are still ill and that's compounded when she comes clean that the spooky voice that Spence heard on the intercom was actually her. She faked supernatural events around the hospice in the hope that it would help bring some of the club to faith. Obviously, this does not go down well.
'The Eternal Enemy' is an amusing mix of The Terminator and the long-forgotten late '90s show Early Edition. Spence's character Chris discovers that his VCR can predict the future. At first, he and his boyfriend Rel use it to make a few bets and earn some easy money. When it predicts that a girl will be accidentally killed, however, Chris feels like he has to intervene. He succeeds in saving her life, but in doing so draws the attention of a mysterious hooded figure who turns out to be Rel from the future.
The previous episode ended with Ilonka finding Kevin confused and alone in the secret chamber. He admits to her that he sleepwalks and often finds himself waking up in the room and sometimes in the bed that's down there.
Kevin and Spence share a heart-to-heart here about Ilonka and Katherine, with Spence gently pointing out that Kevin's attempts to keep everyone happy are simply making things more muddled and confusing for everyone. It's clear that Kevin and Ilonka have feelings for each other. They don't have much time left, so shouldn't they be spending it together, rather than dragging out the end of his relationship with Katherine?
It's hard enough for a group of students from different walks of life to get along in detention under the best of circumstances. Try midnight detention at a supernatural school where one kid spiked the punch with holy water and another is trying to slow down his transformation into a zombie. A reminder that in a way, each of us is a brain and an athlete . . . and a ghost . . . and a werewolf. Read More
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