After Netflix announced the cancellation The Midnight Club After one season, the show’s creator, Mike Flanagan, expressed his disappointment over the matter.
“I am very disappointed that Netflix has decided not to pursue a second season. The Midnight ClubFlanagan wrote in a blog post published on Tumblr.
“My biggest disappointment is that we left so many story threads open, holding them off for a hypothetical second season, which is always a gamble. So, I’m calling this blog our official second season. Writing, so you can find out what happened, learn about the fate of your favorite characters, and find out the answers to those dangling story threads from the first season.”
The series is based on various works by author Christopher Pike, The Midnight Club. The series starred Iman Benson, Egbe Rigney, Ruth Codd, Anara Simon, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Suryan Sapkota, Matt Beddle, Samantha Sloan, Zach Guilford and Heather Langenkamp.
However, Flanagan also revealed a glimpse of what the story would have been. By the end of Season 2, Amish, Natsuki, Kevin and Alonka will die. Brightcliffe Hospice would also have had a new patient to join, and Spence would have benefited from medical advances in the treatment of HIV so that he would no longer be considered terminal.
What was the inspiration behind Season 2?
Flanagan shared that one of the stories told in the next episode will be that of Christopher Pike. Do you recognize me. The story, which Flanagan called “one of my all-time favorite Pike books”, tells the story of a teenage ghost trying to solve his murder after being pushed off a balcony.
“We were going to use this as a vehicle for Alonka to try to come to terms with the fact that she’s going to die, and start trying to wrap her head around being a ghost,” he wrote. will.” The character would have been played by Anya, who died in season 1, to enforce the idea that “even if a character dies, as long as the club members remember them, they live on in their stories.” are.”
Who were the mirror man and the cataract woman?
They were Stanley Oscar Freelan and his wife, who built Brightcliff (fun trivia, it’s named after the real-life Freelan Oscar Stanley, who built my favorite hotel in America – the Stanley Hotel. Shining!)
How is the doctor? Stanton’s tattoo and bald head?
First, Dr. Stanton is actually the daughter of Esso, the original leader of the Paragon Cult. Nicknamed Athena, she wrote the Paragon journal that Alonka found in S1. She turned on her mother and helped the children escape, but since she was part of the cult as a teenager, she got this tattoo.
These were her initials that Ilonka found carved into the tree in Season 1 (her maiden name was Georgina Ballard, hence the GB that Ilonka found carved into the tree).
What about Living Shadows? It’s death, right?
no. At the end of the season, Kevin will die… followed by Alonka soon after. And as she is dying, two things will happen. First, she’ll find herself talking to the janitor, played by Robert Longstreet… and she’ll make a discovery. That is death.
What was the shadow then?
This is an idea we take directly from the book. Do you recognize me And we’ll see it play out in the final moments of Ilona’s final story. In Pike’s book, Shari is pursued by a dark entity called The Shadow. When it finally catches up to him, though, it turns out that’s not a bad thing.
Shadow is himself. It is unknown. As it takes hold of someone, in their final moments of life, it takes them through a place of understanding and catharsis, preparing them for the next step.
How will this series end?
The series will end with Cherie introducing a whole new table of patients, including our new series leads. Most of our original cast will now exist as stories, a story told to the next “class” of storytellers at the table, all of whom will have met by the end of the season. A story is called. The Midnight Club.