The Club
"The Fall of the House of Usher," Doctor Sleep, and more hauntingly beautiful images from the mind of Mike Flanagan.,Ruth Codd who played Anya, a wheelchair-bound character who had her right leg amputated due to her illness, is also an amputee in real life. At age 23, Codd decided to have her right leg amputated below the knee due to complications from breaking her foot at age 15. She has since used her platform to raise awareness about the disabled, especially amputees.,Featured in Half in the Bag: 2022 Catch-up Part 2 (2023),Starting with the positives. The main actors, although young, are very good. The dialogue remains mainly intelligent. And as the story takes place in the 90s, there are good moments of nostalgia, especially with the use of music among other easter eggs. Like all of Flanaghan's shows, the horror is in the subtext rather than the focus of the story itself.

A group of terminally ill young people, who are guests in a place where they can be themselves while they wait to die, gather at night to tell horror stories. And while the idea is good, the execution loses some coherence as the season progresses.

Midnight Club tries to do many things at once, it's a drama about terminal teenagers dealing with death in a seemingly haunted place and it's also an anthology series with stories ranging from horror to science fiction. And until the last 3 episodes, it's easy for the viewer to get lost in this amalgamation of themes. Unlike Midnight Mass, this series lacks a clear narrative thread. And the experience can be "challenging" at times.

Overall, I would say I liked the series, but I didn't love it. And I have no doubt that many other people will love this series because it has much to enjoy. But personally, I found some episodes a difficult task to overcome. The positive aspects outweigh the negatives. But this isn't my favorite Flanaghan series by far.

I give it 7 stars out of 10.,