The Midnight Club axed after one season (original) (raw)

The Midnight Club axed after just one season and fans are ‘done’ with Netflix

Published December 2, 2022 2:52pm Updated December 2, 2022 2:53pm

The Midnight Club has been cancelled after one season (Picture: Netflix)

Mike Flanagan’s young adult horror series The Midnight Club has become the latest show to be cancelled by Netflix.

While it was written to play out over several seasons, unlike Flanagan’s previous stand-alone projects The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass, it has now been cut short after just one season.

Set in a hospice, the show followed eight terminally ill young adults who form ‘the Midnight Club’ and meet up each night to tell each other scary stories.

One night the group make a pact that the first one to succumb to their disease will be responsible for communicating with the others beyond the grave and after that happens, bizarre occurrences begin.

Although the streaming service hasn’t released a statement about dumping the series, it comes as Flanagan has signed an exclusive multi-year series deal with Amazon Studios.

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As part of the deal his Intrepid Pictures company with Trevor Macy, they will develop and produce projects to stream exclusively on Prime Video.

The series was not for the faint-of-heart (Picture: Eike Schroter/ Netflix)

However, it has not yet been indicated if Amazon might pick up The Midnight Club.

After premiering on October 7 the series’, which is based on a 1994 novel by Christopher Pike, viewing figures were considered weak, especially as it was released around the same time as the break-out hits Dahmer and The Watcher.

However it did manage to break the Guinness World Record for ‘most scripted jump scares in a single television episode’, with an impressive 21 jump scares in the very first episode.

It also ended on a cliffhanger, with Flanagan previously saying that: ‘It was very much designed to continue’.

Reactions to the news were mixed, with some saying they were upset by the show being done, but others said it didn’t measure up to Flanagan’s other series’.

did they really cancel the midnight club……… im done im so done

— nic â ð³ï¸âð FREE PALESTINE (@arcadiabaes) December 2, 2022

The Midnight Club is cancelled? I’M SO done with Netflix

— julia (@thewordsofjulia) December 2, 2022

honestly i did like the midnight club but if i had to compare it to hill house, bly manor and midnight mass- it’s not on the same level as those shows at all and it wasn’t as captivating so not really surprised it didn’t get another season

— mariam ðµð¸ (@bvtchlover) December 2, 2022

Not surprised, it was boring, mike Flanagan should continue make ghost series like the haunting of hill house and the haunting of Bly manor. Midnight mass and the midnight club was a let down.

— Max.Mad (@MaxMad286) December 2, 2022

The Midnight Club is the latest series to be cancelled by Netflix, after others like Fate: The Winx Saga, Archive 81 and Space Force were also confirmed to be ending.

However, fans of Flanagan will be able to see his series The Fall of the House of Usher, based on multiple works by Edgar Allan Poe, on Netflix.

It finished filming earlier this year.

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