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Mike Flanagan drops all the details for The Midnight Club season 2 after Netflix cancels series-Pierra Willix-Entertainment – Metro
‘We left so many story threads open’.
The Midnight Club creator Mike Flanagan has dropped details about the second season (Eike Schroter/ Netflix)
**Spoilers ahead!**
The Midnight Club creator Mike Flanagan has revealed what would have happened in the second season if it hadn’t been cancelled by Netflix, a move he says is ‘disappointing’.
Flanagan’s young adult horror series was based on a 1994 novel by Christopher Pike and was written to play out over several seasons, however it has now been cut short by the streaming service after it announced it would not be renewing the show.
Set in a hospice, it followed eight terminally ill young adults who form ‘The Midnight Club’ and meet up each night to tell each other scary stories.
They make a pact that the first of them to succumb to their disease will be responsible for communicating with the others beyond the grave and after that happens, bizarre occurrences begin.
Following the show’s cancellation, Flanagan, who has also created previous series The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass, said he was frustrated plans for a second season would not come together, but that he would reveal what would have played out.
‘I’m very disappointed that Netflix has decided not to pursue a second season of The Midnight Club,’ he wrote in a blog post that was published on Tumblr.
The series was set to play out over several seasons (Picture: Eike Schroter/ Netflix)
‘My biggest disappointment is that we left so many story threads open, holding them back for the hypothetical second season, which is always a gamble.
‘So I’m writing this blog as our official second season, so you can know what might have been, learn the fates of your favourite characters, and know the answers to those dangling story threads from the first season.’
In a lengthy post, he offered up ‘the answers to the unresolved mysteries of season 1 (along with our plans for season 2)’.
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Answering burning questions that had been left after the cliff-hanger finale, some of the storylines he addressed were the identity of Death, who Dr. Stanton really is, and how the second season was planned to have ended.
Some of the spoilers included that the janitor, played by Robert Longstreet, is really the spirit of Death and Heather Langenkamp’s Dr. Stanton is the daughter of the original Paragon cult leader who also wrote the cult journal Ilonka found in the first season.
Fans have been able to get some closure about the storylines (Picture: Eike Schroter/ Netflix)
He also provided answers about the Living Shadow, the Mirror Man, and the Cataract Woman which would have tied into the ending of the second season.
Part of the plans also included ending the follow-up season with Amesh, Natsuki, Kevin and Ilonka all dying from their illnesses and with Cheri telling a story to a Midnight Club full of kids at Briarcliffe.
‘Most of our original cast now would exist as stories, a story told to the next class of storytellers at the table, all of whom we will have met by the end of the season,’ he explained.
‘A story called The Midnight Club.’
Ending the post Flanagan said it was ‘a shame we won’t get to make it, but it would be a bigger shame if you guys simply had to live with the unanswered questions and the cliffhanger ending’.
‘I loved making this show, and I am so proud of the cast and crew. Particularly our cast, who attacked this story with incredible spirit and bravery each and every day,’ he added.
Hundreds of fans of the show have commented on the post and on Twitter, with one saying: ‘Thank you so much for writing what should have been. I really dislike [the] idea of cancelling shows, it feels like last chapters out of books being ripped out. so, thank you again for filling out blanks’.
‘Thank you for giving us some closure,’ another added.
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The news of the show’s cancellation also came as it was announced that Flanagan had signed an exclusive multi-year series deal with Amazon Studios.
Although there was speculation there was a chance The Midnight Club might be picked up by that streaming service, it now looks unlikely.
The Midnight Club is streaming on Netflix.
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