Midnight Mass on Netflix

[wryter2000]

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.