Sat Sep 25, 2021, 06:11 PM
alittlelark (18,751 posts)
Midnight Mass on Netflix
7 episode mini-series.
It was amazing. I have never seen anything quite like it. It went DEEP on many levels. By the 4th episode I realized that there was a horror genre I generally dislike, but it was still amazing. I will be contemplating it for some time. Highly, highly recommended !!
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Author | Time | Post |
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alittlelark | Sep 2021 | OP |
Luciferous | Sep 2021 | #1 | |
Bristlecone | Sep 2021 | #2 | |
Ocelot II | Sep 2021 | #3 | |
Tom Yossarian Joad | Sep 2021 | #4 | |
JohnSJ | Sep 2021 | #5 | |
ColinC | Dec 2021 | #21 | |
Luciferous | Sep 2021 | #6 | |
Ocelot II | Sep 2021 | #7 | |
flying rabbit | Sep 2021 | #8 | |
wryter2000 | Sep 2021 | #10 | |
wryter2000 | Sep 2021 | #9 | |
nuxvomica | Sep 2021 | #11 | |
alittlelark | Sep 2021 | #12 | |
nuxvomica | Sep 2021 | #13 | |
alittlelark | Sep 2021 | #14 | |
wryter2000 | Nov 2021 | #16 | |
ColinC | Dec 2021 | #20 | |
doc03 | Oct 2021 | #15 | |
wryter2000 | Nov 2021 | #17 | |
ColinC | Dec 2021 | #19 | |
ColinC | Dec 2021 | #18 | |
wryter2000 | Dec 2021 | #23 | |
alittlelark | Dec 2021 | #22 | |
bif | Jan 2022 | #24 | |
KT2000 | Jan 2022 | #25 |
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 07:36 PM
Luciferous (5,741 posts)
1. Started it last night, I'm on episode 3 now.
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 10:44 PM
Bristlecone (9,470 posts)
2. It's on my Watch list. Now it will move up.
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 02:03 PM
Ocelot II (106,743 posts)
3. Saw 2 episodes last night - pretty creepy but thoughtful, well-done.
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 05:57 PM
Tom Yossarian Joad (18,657 posts)
4. Binged it yesterday.
WOW! Very well done.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 10:31 PM
JohnSJ (87,255 posts)
5. Trump was the vampire whose cult followed him without question to their demise
Response to JohnSJ (Reply #5)
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 12:44 AM
ColinC (7,265 posts)
21. I can't imagine Trump ever feeling bad about it though
...as a vampire let alone as a human. Assuming he's human
![]() He might be more of a "Bev" Digging a hole in the sand to survive despite knowing it is all over. |
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 07:17 AM
Luciferous (5,741 posts)
6. Finished it last night and I thought it was really good.
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 10:25 AM
Ocelot II (106,743 posts)
7. Finished it yesterday - like the OP I usually don't care much for the genre,
but this was very different, thought-provoking, well-acted and with a well-written script. And one of the awfullest characters, "Bev," I've seen in quite awhile.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 09:21 PM
flying rabbit (4,381 posts)
8. Very good.
Like a Stephen King novel with a more thought out ending (I do like SK). Recommend highly. It definitely went deep.
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Response to flying rabbit (Reply #8)
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 04:24 PM
wryter2000 (44,905 posts)
10. I like Steven King stories
Something about his writing bugs me, although I love his book on writing.
Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile are two of my very favorite movies. |
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 04:23 PM
wryter2000 (44,905 posts)
9. I'm watching it
I'll end up having to rewatch because I have the TV on while I'm doing other things. I like it very much.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Wed Sep 29, 2021, 05:53 PM
nuxvomica (11,408 posts)
11. I'm on epi 4 and it's engaging but badly written
There's some really great scenes but I think even the supernatural stuff is more realistic than the long stretches of people whining about their lives. One of the great rules about writing is "show, not tell". These people just run on telling and telling and telling about how they feel. Good writing is not so lazy, instead revealing more about a character's emotional state by the odd choice of a word, the subtle gesture, the pained look, conversations about ordinary things in which you realize both characters are really talking about something else, just like in real life, not this constant parade of couch sessions. It reminds me of similar overly padded series on Netflix, like The Haunting of Hill House, which I watched to its unsatisfying end, and The Haunting of Bly Manor, on which I bailed in the first episode. That said, Hamish Linklater is brilliant as the priest, with some great speeches, while the rest of the cast seems uninspired. But I do intend to keep going because I'm wondering what's really going on. I think as soon as a couch session starts, I can fast forward and miss nothing.
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Response to nuxvomica (Reply #11)
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 12:00 AM
alittlelark (18,751 posts)
12. For some of us those deeply personal revelations are profound.
Especially when we exist in a society that values the shallow and flashy - the planned and monetized......
This does not 'fit' into their Mold. |
Response to alittlelark (Reply #12)
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 05:17 PM
nuxvomica (11,408 posts)
13. Well I did finish watching and it was a good ending
But still the long whine sessions were just so inartful and overlong that I used the little 10-seconds-forward to get past them, and missed nothing. I think it's interesting that no one used the "v" word at all. What planet were these people living on? But that's an acceptable choice in storytelling, I guess. I also liked how people did not necessarily lose their humanity, that some personal ties remained. And Leeza's discovery, at the very end, was sadly appropriate and not glossed over. Overall, an engaging story, beautifully filmed, but could have used a lot less monologue, and better aging makeup, though that's also on the lighting crew. I have to hand it to the filmmakers for drawing so many parallels to today's social issues, which is not always easy to do in horror. So thanks for piquing my interest with your post. I might not have watched it otherwise.
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Response to nuxvomica (Reply #13)
Thu Sep 30, 2021, 07:08 PM
alittlelark (18,751 posts)
14. Some of us see reciprocal emotions as disturbing
In the times we are living in it is unfortunately 'normal'.
Those that see the value in reciprocity will see the value in the fillms. |
Response to nuxvomica (Reply #13)
Tue Nov 9, 2021, 04:09 PM
wryter2000 (44,905 posts)
16. I have to disagree
I usually dislike monologues, too. I find them pretentious and self-indulgent. But the very last one, for me, was deeply religious in a good way. (I'm devout agnostic Episcopalian.) Juxtaposed with the music and the character's death in real time and what the townspeople were doing at the time, it was incredibly moving.
In Hill House, the monologue where the male caretaker explains why he and his wife never stay in the house after dark, was also eloquent. I am a writer, published, and I agree about showing versus telling, but there was plenty of showing in this series. If the writers can pull off that kind of monologue, I say let them do it a few times. |
Response to wryter2000 (Reply #16)
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 12:41 AM
ColinC (7,265 posts)
20. And man did they pull it off!
Maybe I haven't been around as much as other people, but I don't think I've seen such impactful, moving and overall incredible writing in probably the entire 36 years I've been around.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Mon Oct 4, 2021, 04:18 PM
doc03 (32,987 posts)
15. I just finished this morning, very good program.
Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Tue Nov 9, 2021, 04:10 PM
wryter2000 (44,905 posts)
17. I've finished it now
I've never seen anything like that ending. It's haunted me for about a week and a half now. Still processing it.
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Response to wryter2000 (Reply #17)
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 12:37 AM
ColinC (7,265 posts)
19. I finished it last night and it actually woke me up in the middle of the night
Kept thinking about for like, 2 hours before I fell asleep. "What happens when you die" monologues will stay with me for life.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Sat Dec 4, 2021, 12:36 AM
ColinC (7,265 posts)
18. I can't stop rewatching the end scene.
This overall topic of life and death, dealing with our mortality and impulses, identity. Like man. I wasn't expecting that...
I'm looking forward to the next series The Midnight Club: Which will include a lot of the same cast in a completely different story. |
Response to ColinC (Reply #18)
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 12:49 PM
wryter2000 (44,905 posts)
23. I hope Linklater is in it
I loved him
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Fri Dec 10, 2021, 01:29 PM
alittlelark (18,751 posts)
22. The line of Joes character was amazing
'Typical' alcoholic misfit done in depth.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 10:08 AM
bif (20,989 posts)
24. I watched three episodes yesterday.
Very well done. It's just starting to get creepy. It's a slow build, but I can sense it's going to get pretty scary.
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Response to alittlelark (Original post)
Tue Jan 11, 2022, 10:01 PM
KT2000 (20,323 posts)
25. Best series ever
Have never had a show affect me like this because I have never seen a production that has been so blunt about religion, faith, compulsion, and addiction. The so-called monologues are packed with the mechanism of believing incongruities for the comfort of faith. The horror genre is nothing more than Jim Jones, Trump and so many other cult leaders.
This was a well-studied and likely experienced examination of self will and those who wish to ensnare it. I was amazed at Linklater's performance so in looking him up, saw he is experienced in Shakespeare. |