Netflix has opted not to renew “The Midnight Club” for a second season, TheWrap has learned exclusively. The YA horror-thriller series was co-created and executive created by Mike Flanagan with producer Leah Fong, based on the creative works of Christopher Pike.
“The Midnight Club” premiered on Netflix on October 7 to both positive critical and audience reviews; However, it only remained in the Netflix Top 10 for three weeks, which factored into the decision for its cancellation. At the end of the day, viewership increased unfavorably with series costs. above it First entry On the chart, it was placed at No. 4 with 18.8 million hours watched. It gained traction in the second week with 49.9 million viewing hours, peaking at No. 3. After falling back to No. 5 in its third week, the series dropped out of the list entirely in week four, facing heavy competition from “The Watcher”. “Dahmer,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” “From Scratch” and “Big Mouth,” among other titles.
The news follows the announcement that Flanagan and longtime creative partner Mike Tracy’s Intrepid Pictures will be making the jump from the streamer to Amazon Studios, where they just inked an exclusive multiyear series production deal. The horror-producing duo was behind popular horror-tinged series “The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bailey Manor” and “Midnight Mass” at Netflix, where they’re currently wrapping up their previous deal. Flanagan and Tracy still have another project in the works, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which will offer a modern re-telling of the eponymous Edgar Allan Poe story.
In a previous interview with TheWrap, Flanagan called that upcoming series “soaked in blood.” He said, “It’s crazy. It’s different from anything I’ve ever done, but in another direction. My favorite way to describe it to people is ‘Hill House’ is a kind of string quartet, And ‘Bally Manor’ is this delicate, beautiful piece of classical piano music, and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ is heavy metal. It’s rock ‘n’ roll.
“The Midnight Club” follows eight teens from the eponymous Midnight Club, who meet at Witching Hour in their hospice library under fireplace luminescence to bond over scary stories. As they share ghost stories to escape the reality of their terminal diagnoses, the group uncovers the building’s own mysterious history and searches for signs of the supernatural beyond. Set in 1994 at Brightcliff Manor, the show draws inspiration from Pike’s “Witch,” “Gimme a Kiss,” “Road to Nowhere,” “The Wicked Heart” and more.
The series stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Simone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Saurian Sapkota, Matt Biddell, Samantha Sloan, frequent Flanagan collaborator Zach Gilford and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” star Heather Langenkamp. Many of the show’s cast members made their acting debuts with the series, and Codd, Rigney, Furukawa and Sapkota were featured in “The Fall of the House of Usher” alongside Gilford, Sloan and previous Flanagan series stars Rahul Kohli and Henry Thomas. Will be done.
Those who watched “The Midnight Club” know that the thriller series ended on a cliffhanger with a major reveal. In the closing moments of episode 10, Dr. Georgina Stanton (Langkamp)—who had just reprimanded Elonka (Benson) for her dangerous involvement with the Shasta (Sloan) iteration of the mysterious Paragon—appears with a bald head (presumably ) and a neck tattoo of the cult’s half-filled hour symbol, leading to many questions about his loyalty.
Flanagan assured fans that answers would come in later installments, as the series was designed to be ongoing (as opposed to his three previous projects at the streamer). The producer stated that in the event of a cancellation, he would still let fans know about the story’s resolutions.
“I promised everyone at Comic-Con yesterday that I would put all the answers to the central mysteries on Twitter, which I will honor,” he previously told TheWrap. “But yeah, the show was designed to carry forward and we made a decision in the writers room not to reveal our two kind of big survival secrets to the show so that we’d have something to say in the second season.”
